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Originally Posted by daisysunshine
but I think you "achieve" the "long-lean" look just by how you carry yourself.
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I was thinking the same thing as I read this. When I think of lean....well, that's lean. But when I think of long, I don't think of elongated muscles; I think of more posture and grace or agility.
I don't like barre workouts. I've tried. I just don't like them. I like them for other people...just not for me. I do like ballet, Pilates, yoga, and a fusion of all of those though. Bulking means something different for everyone. To me it just means getting bigger. I like traditional weights and functional fitness with free weights (I absolutely love Tracie Long's workouts). I get non-aesthetic benefits from them, but they make me bigger and with no definition. Ballet and Pilates seem to make me smaller, and power yoga or body weight work gives me definition. So I go in phases, but over the course of a year or so, I do a mixture of everything.
Probably the best physical results I've ever gotten (probably) came after I had been doing a lifetime of running and traditional weights, then I discovered fusion type workouts and did them for a year or more (I got smaller over the course of that year), then I went through a phase of running, kickboxing, and power yoga.