Speaking of Cakes...

I don't have a butt...yet.

I'm one of those individuals who just doesn't have the genes for it.  I come from a family of small hips and flat butts on both sides.  I've been trying for years to bulk this baby up and didn't discover until recently that my legs are too damn strong.  My quads and hamstrings get very bulky very fast and so alot of the standard butt exercises that I had been doing my leg muscles took over.  The last few weeks I've been testing out different exercises to see which one's isolate my glute muscles the most and the results are in and I am always so sore. 

*I did these exercises with either two 20lb. dumbbells or two 3lb. ankle weights*

1.  Straight leg deadlift 

This one works the very top of my hamstrings and the bottom of my butt

 2. Bulgarian split squat

 3. Crossover lunges

 4. Donkey Kicks

 5. Fire Hydrant

 6. One Leg Bridge

Good Sunday

Yesterday I think I worked out, but I'm not even sure anymore.  This morning however I woke up at 7, looked at my running shoes, got up, walked to the window, shut the blinds and went back to bed.  Clearly I'm not a motivator.  BUT when I got up again at 10 I suited up, grabbed my headphones and my husband and hustled down to the apartment complex gym which is the only place we get to workout together since we have memberships to different gyms, soon to be remedied when he graduates.  I digress.

Today's workout had to be a quickie because it is the Baha'i holy day of Riḍván so we had to get going to the festivities.

4/21/13 Speedy Workout
Cardio 
20 mins. elliptical at level 10 and Random

Arms/chest/back
3x15 dumbbell overhead press (15 lbs.)
3x15 single bicep curls (15 lbs.)
3x 15 dumbbell row (15 lbs.)
50 push-ups

Legs/butt
3x15 dumbbell squats (15 lbs. weights)
3x15 donkey kicks (3 lb. ankle weights)
3x15 kneeling single leg lifts (3 lb. ankle weights)
3x15 fire hydrant kicks (3 lb. ankle weights)

Abs
150 crunches
50 right oblique crunches
50 left oblique crunches
50 bicycle crunches
100 vertical leg crunches

Finished it off with a protein shake with vanilla almond milk, 1 handful of fresh strawberries and 1 handful of frozen strawberries (if you ever see strawberries on sale for cheap buy 'em, hull 'em and freeze 'em!)

Today's workout gear, so hot (-_-)