Hey!
You can do reverse flies, seated lateral raises, bent-over lateral raises. Mix it up on a balancing board, or decrease the weight and do more reps at a slower speed and make it buuuuuurn!
If you get too wobbly on a balancing board (like I do
) you can also buy one of those huge beachballs and balance on that (face-down). The trick is to have no center of gravity that your body can predict. If you have to balance, you're tricking your body out so that different muscles have to respond one after another to maintain balance. Your body won't know what you're doing, and it won't be able to relax or cheat in an area that you want to work.
Saviors - I just love reading and learning about this stuff! I was fat for so long in my life and one day I decided to change. It turned into a passionate hobby. People got sick of me always talking about fitness because my tongue couldn't wag fast enough when the subject was brought up, hee hee. I didn't want to bring it up in the forum, so I patiently waited for someone else to, heh.
It's one of those things that I think: Golly, I wish I would have started this sooner!
Ginger, think about supplements, too. Soy protein isolate would be good for a woman (methinks) because it also contains plant estrogens. DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) also helps women...my doctor (a woman) is taking this religiously because she still believes it's a miracle supplement that people need beginning in their mid-30s. If you want your muscles to get pumped up and to refuel after a good workout, you can try a Nitric-Oxide supp. These come in horse-tablets and contain L- aminos that allow your body to pump out nitric oxide (dilates the blood vessels in your muscles), delivering nutrients to your damaged muscle fibers. Get some green tea, too. It does wonders!
God bless.