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  Dear Warrior Women,

I can hardly wait to meet you all Thursday evening Feb.11 and begin this program.  This class has been developing inside me for years and years, perhaps since I was a girl.  I was a strange mix of ballet, pink, rainbow and unicorns and running with the boys, tree climbing, war paint and pretend bows and arrows.   

Isn’t it great to be a woman?  We are so complicated, undefined and ever changing, like the moon.

Because you are my “maiden” group, I wanted to share with you the ideas behind the program design of this class.  The Warrior Woman Workout is designed to be a four week program (monthly) and each week is a progression of the one before.  My goal is to keep you moving and extremely challenged and to pack as much in to one hour as we can, this class will move at a good clip.  I will use kettlebells, TRX and some other “fun” activities (sound like a Girl Scout meeting? It won’t feel like one).  Every week I will teach a progression on the KB’s. 

The workout program design for each week is very deliberate and linked to the metal focus of that week.  As we work (hard, very hard) I will be offering many visuals and ideas to connect your physical work with your mental focus.  Why?  Training is largely about re-patterning brain to body neural patterns.  We do this sub consciously all the time. I mean to bring the purpose and intention up to your conscious and present state.  I want you completely present – mind and body.  This will deliver much greater and lasting results.     

Week 1 - Air – breath, breathing for awareness, awakening, mental focus, endurance, power, recovery and complete relaxation.  

Week 2 - Water – flow, persistence, miniscule efforts add up to monumental changes, mountains melt to the sea, strongest of all elements is the softest,  in water there is life… and living…etc..

Week – 3 - Earth – grounding and drawing strength from what you feel, linking instinct an intuition (earth and sky).  

Week 4 - Fire – Burn away what no longer serves you -  fat, weakness,  negative thinking about your body, an attitude holds you back.   Fire week is intense – long intervals and heavy loads – the peak week.  

But wait!  There’s more!  We are energetic beings and our emotions/feelings greatly affect our physical state of being.  In my book, this can often be a key to why we can’t lose weight, why we have a chronic injury, and may be a factor in reaching higher levels of fitness.  I will introduce you to your various energetic centers and talk about what emotions, thoughts and physical maladies are connected to those places in our bodies.  

Here is what I would like to ask of each of you before we meet:

1. If you were an animal, what would you be?  Describe your animal (i.e. – ferocious, loyal, intelligent loving etc…)
2. If you were a color, what would it be?  Describe your color (bright, happy, moody, intense, etc)
3. If you were a flower, what would it be?

  E-mail me your answers to these three questions.

I sincerely look forward to meeting you all soon!  Please feel free to call me with any questions.

Sincerely,

Denise Palermo

650.520.8286