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WEEK 2 – Stepping Into our Power!

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When we first started lifting weights, we feel empowered and alive! That’s what weight training does, it connects us to that primal part of us! I’ve known it for years, and I’m guessing you have too!

In a world where we are so often taken out of our power, weights re-ignite our confidence and help us to get grounded again. There’s something succinct, clean and basic in lifting a weight…and that’s how life is supposed to be lived.

This week, we step back into our power and dig deeper! We find our POWER WORDS to take with us throughout the day….5 simple words that best reflect our awesome strength, and we recite these to ourselves all day long! Present tense verbs: loving, kind, non-judgmental, caring, funny, honest, reliable, curious, forthright…you get the idea. What are your 5 POWER WORDS?

You’re likely sore, because no matter how much you’ve been training up to this point, I’ve likely given you different exercises than what you’ve been used to doing…this in itself will cause an upset in your chemistry, and you may wonder why you’re sore, and wonder if you were training properly in the first place.

The answer is likely, yes (unless you’ve had a lay-off and then you expect to be sore, yes?). Your sore body is all good…it means you’re training beyond your current level, and that’s good. That’s what we’re working toward here. We’re working at 70% intensity (12-15 reps) at this point.

Did you do your homework and count your calories from last week’s lesson? Are you getting familiar with our 30/40/30 spread of macro-nutrients? We’ll be building on our macro-nutrient education throughout the Challenge, because the athletic woman talks macro’s (NOT calories!). THIS is our new language – macro’s (versus calories). The video’s in your Cool Stuff Album!

This week’s support package will help you to step further into your power, both physically and mentally. In this starter Phase One, we’re building your machine inside and out, remember, so we’re going to continue to tighten our eating with high-quality foods that build shapely muscle and keep the fat at bay, while tightening our mental muscles even more! We are accessing the Woman Warrior within….she’s in there, and we’re going to help bring her into the light of day!

We also look at basic supplementation that won’t rob the piggy-bank, and some calorie basics…averages, really that women like us need to be aware of (remember, no cutting calories yet, ok? We’re cleaning up our food act only…any cutting too early in the Challenge won’t allow us to build shapely muscle, and we need to tend to that first! Patience!). And of course I’ll be offering my training tips and tidbits every step of the way…this week, breathe, drink, rest, zone in…and more!

Your Support Package for Week 2.

And remember to watch your Thinking in Food Groups video in your Real Training  portfolio! (VERY important lessons…the most important in the whole Challenge!). As well as our fresh upload for this week…!