May 15 2012

Drop It Low – Booty Lifting Workout

Today we are going to fight gravity. We are going to fight cellulite. We are going to work our asses off. Literally.

All of my workouts help you to firm, tone and fight gravity, but this one is especially focusing on lifting your booty!

Worried that you can’t do some of the exercises? There’s a modification for you. Change the range of motion. Don’t go as low, don’t step as high. We all start at the beginning. As you get stronger, you will be able to do more. The trick is to start.

For all of the workouts, you can always find a way to do the full exercise, even if it looks extremely advanced. Simply modify it. Find a way to make the movement work for your body and get to it!

This workout is hard. It’s so hard that you may feel ravenous afterward. Remember to follow through with proper nutrition. When you have a goal in mind, a tough workout doesn’t justify a huge meal.

We all like to imagine that we can “work off” ice cream, french bread, a sugary frappuccino, or french fries. The fact is that the human body simply doesn’t work that way. Somewhere deep inside you know this is true. Haven’t you tried to work off foods like that in the past? Did it work?

When you have a goal, follow through with exercise and diet. Start with this workout. Feel the muscles tighten from the skin right down to the bone. Finish up with proper post workout nutrition. At the end of every workout, I always give a little insight into nutrition. Make sure to scroll all the way down to check it out!

xoxo ~ Cori

Drop It Low – Booty Lifting Workout

Drop It Low – Booty Lifting Workout

SONG: Ester Dean ft. Chris Brown – Drop It Low

SONG: Ester Dean ft. Chris Brown – Drop It Low

Workout Breakdown

	Time: Personal Best! As long as it takes.
	Workout Type: Rep challenge
	Workout Exercises: 5

Get your gear:

BANDS Get your bands here

Buy the same nutrition products as me:

	PROTEIN Get your protein here
	SUPER GREENS Get your super greens here
	Peanut Butter Get your PB2 here
	EGG WHITES Get your egg whites here
	Tea Get your tea here

There it is. I finished this workout in 27 minutes. I went through it exactly as described here. I also did a gym workout earlier in the day.

It doesn’t come easy for me, or for anyone. You don’t get what you wish for. You get what you work for. I have to put in a lot of work to make it happen. Now it’s your turn. Start with your own personal best and try to improve each week.

Post your scores! Post your time! Try to come up with a way to make the exercises even more challenging! Try to have better form than me!

My success comes from working very hard for it. I didn’t do any additional sets of this routine like I usually do because I also went to the gym and focused on my quads (front of my thighs).

I currently am supplementing some of my body weight workouts with additional gym workouts since I am preparing for upcoming competitions. So what was my gym workout today?

I also did 45 minutes of stairs with intervals, which is what I do for cardio every day. If you want some extra credit, try this weight workout in the gym too! You might want to try it on another day though, otherwise you may completely desecrate your legs and butt.

Follow Through

I like to post something about cardio and nutrition at the end of every post because it is important.

Cardio and nutrition are going to be two of the most important parts of achieving your results, no matter what what your goal is. You can not work off your nutritional decisions with exercise. What? You can’t eat a donut, then just do 2 hours of cardio and *poof* it will be like it never happened? That’s what I’m saying. Come on. No. You can’t.

Your body doesn’t work like a simple addition or subtraction problem. It is not calories in vs. calories out. What you eat has a chemical effect on your body. Even if you do cardio to ‘burn it off’ the chemical effect is still present. Different sugars have an affect. Different proteins have an effect. Different fats have an effect. When you take a vitamin, you understand that it has an effect in your body that cardio will not ‘work off,’ right? Food works the same way. Different foods have positive and negative chemical effects within our body. You can’t just work them off.

You have to unlock and unleash the body fat by working with your body in every aspect. Your body works in harmony like a symphony. When one instrument is off, the entire song doesn’t sound right. A good steady drumbeat can’t make up for a guitar that’s out of tune. 2 hours of cardio cannot make up for a donut. Or pizza. Or macaroni and cheese. Or wine and a baguette. Got it?

Cardio

I do a minimum of 45 minutes of stairs with intervals as cardio each and every day. When I’m trying to lose fat I usually do two separate 45 minute cardio sessions a day. Even while I have been recuperating from the car crash, I have still been able to do at least one session of my daily cardio. I love my cardio and I like to stay conditioned. I personally prefer to do a little more cardio than the average figure competitor, then also eat a little more. It takes more time and effort, but I feel the pay off is well worth it. The pay off is that I feel awesome. I feel energized by cardio. I love it.

Post Workout Nutrition

When I was trying to gain muscle I finished every workout with a protein shake, animal protein, and some complex and simple carbs. These are healthy choices for gaining or for performance. These are not the right choices for me for trying to lose fat, define and sculpt muscle. Trying to define and sculpt muscle is different from gaining muscle. This means I need to eat something different.

When I am trying to lose fat and sculpt muscle, I am much more strict with my diet. Only true food sources. No protein powder.

I finish up every workout with lean protein from true food sources (a little red meat, white chicken, white fish and egg whites are best) and some dark green veggies or Super Greens mixed with water only. Again, no protein powder. If you are a vegetarian you would most likely need to supplement with protein powder. If you are not, let me say again that true food sources work best for losing body fat.

Even when I am trying to lose fat, I still FEED my body.

Want more information about nutrition? Check out BPM.tv Nutrition 101.

You can also look at my current personal fat loss diet in order to get ideas on how to develop your own nutrition plan.

Cori Ann’s Prepping Fat Loss Diet:

You can click on the link to my fat loss diet to get details about what works for me, but here is the basic breakdown.

This is my meal plan while I am trying to lose fat and define muscle. My carbohydrates come from complex sources only and are kept to about 100 grams per day.

My sugar is kept at about 18 grams per day. That’s it. That is less than what is in one banana. That means fruit is not in my fat loss nutrition plan. My sugars come from minimal amounts that naturally occur in veggies and in the complex carbs I eat each day. No matter what your goal, I highly recommend you watch your sugar intake, even ‘healthy’ sugar like fruit, and moderate it to a minimum based on your own personal goals.

My protein is kept at about 250 grams per day and comes from high quality, organic, free range (or wild) lean animal sources. My fats are kept at about 40 grams per day and come from my protein and complex carbohydrate choices (not additional plant sources like olive oil, coconut, nuts, or avocado).

That equals about 1800 calories per day. I don’t drop it much lower than that.

I eat natural, organic, whole foods that I cook myself, or if possible I eat them raw. I drink 1 to 2 gallons of water and a couple cups of either coffee or tea. There is no mysterious, magical diet. If you want to lose bodyfat you need to eat a fair amount of lean protein and A LOT of green veggies at every meal. Period.

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Please share your thoughts and questions in the comments. Don’t be shy! Your comments may help to inspire another. Your questions may help someone else who has the exact same question, but is too shy to ask. I love hearing from you!

Try to come up with a way to make the exercises even more challenging! Try to have better form than me! Let’s inspire each other.

By Cori Ann Lentz • Workouts • 4 • Tags: Butt, Calves, Hams, Legs, Lunges, Press On: Thigh Trimming Exercises, Quads, Squats, Tighten & Lighten: Top Exercises for Your Glutes, Workout