EVEN if the gym is your "happy place," you can't expect incredible results without unpleasant work.
That's the message one fitness expert delivered as she walked viewers through her complete glute workout.
Fitness fanatic Makayla (@makaylaamerie) is a trainer, and on TikTok she provides an in-depth look at her daily gym routine.
nt video, she showed her 1.1million followers what it takes to get her robust, super-strong glutes.
"You want a butt where you can see the pump through your sweatpants?" Makayla asked her viewers.
To do so, she said, they'd need to turn leg day into an unpleasant experience.
"You really need to get comfy with the uncomfy," she said, setting up her workout space.
Makayla asked her fans, "How are we supposed to build a wagon of an a** if we're neglecting the exercises we hate?"
She started with one such terrible exercise" the goblet squat.
The fitness pro confessed she had "been a little b***h" in the gym recently, and avoided the butt-building exercises she dreaded.
Then, she thanked her followers for "holding me accountable today" as she sweated through the miserable reps.
"I'm not gonna cry," she promised her followers as she moved on to the next exercise.
She added lots of weight to an enormous barbell to prepare for a glute bridge exercise.
Makayla said it was key to getting a "dump truck" butt.
She gave her viewers encouragement, telling them just what to do when they tried the exercise themselves.
"Keep your core nice and engaged," she instructed. "Imagine me barking at you, aggressively, making a dang fool out of myself."
The trainer rewarded herself with a peek at her glutes beneath her sweatpants.
"Shall we see how the glute pump is looking?" she invited her fans.
Rolling down her sweats, she revealed her glutes encased in a pair of tight workout shorts.
"The girls are so juicy," said Makayla, looking satisfied.
As she moved on to a series of hamstring workouts, she used the "nice and slow" respite to talk to her viewers.
"This workout's stupid," she said. "It's stupid."
Makayla said the leg workout was a very difficult series of exercises, but assured them it would work.
As she finished with leg extensions and more hamstring work, she apologized to her viewers with good humor, but also commiserated.
"I woke up and was like, 'violence, violence, violence,'" she said in mock regret.