Category: Fitness Women

You’ll find all the exercises in this articles organized by Movement Categories: Pulling, Squatting, In-line Pushing, Perpendicular Pushing, and Bending. Within these categories, exercises progress gradually from easiest to hardest. Difficulty isn’t adjusted by adding a weight (as on a machine or with free weights) but rather by changing the intensity of movements through leverage,…

Your first goal on this program will be to find the most difficult exercise that you can accomplish within each Movement Category for 12 reps. This is your initial evaluation. Once you know where to start, you can begin your first 4-week cycle.  For each Movement Category listed on the schedule in this article, attempt…

In a nationwide survey of nearly a thousand women from all fifty states, we found that “lack of motivation” was the second-biggest reason women do not work out (the first being “no time”—which my program conquers). Some said they needed a significant other to do it with them. Some said a group would motivate them.…

There’s a common misperception out there that bodyweight-exercise options are limited. Push-ups, Pull-ups, Sit-ups—and not much else. Hmmmm… Did I mention that there are 125 different exercises or variations in this chapter alone, with many more in You Are Your Own Gym? Other people think it’s impossible to work certain muscle groups with bodyweight exercises.…

From talking to women all over the country about their fitness goals and their workout practices, it seems to me that one of the greatest obstacles to having a lean, strong body is a woman’s reluctance to focus on her own needs. Between families and/or careers, many women are busier now than ever before. They…