Name: Playbook - Hannah Bower - Week 1 Mindset: Setting the stage and managing expectations
Uploaded: 2023-12-12T00:44:18.726Z
Duration: 10 min
Description: Week 1 Mindset: Setting the stage and managing expectations

I love these videos. You both are so pure and make these challenges way easier.

Morgan

Excited to start this challenge again! It was definitely life changing for me the first time around!

Cynthia Contreras

That was excellent and informative feedback and preparation for this challenge ❤️

Janine Ducharme

This was the best thing to listen to ever. ❤️🙏🏻

Jillian

This is mostly what’s missing in the fitness industry 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Emily

Hi Hannah.

I was really excited to start this challenge as the goals of the challenge closely align with my own personal goals.

However life got tough, quickly. I am doing this challenge to prove to myself that I am capable of self love and deserving of all love.

I’ve followed you for years as unfortunately I can relate to too many of you traumas and hardship. Self love is not an easy task when healing from trauma. As I begin confronting my pain I am overwhelmed by so many emotions and fatigue. I want to follow your workouts but I have found that sometimes I need to what feels good for my body in the moment which is usually cardio. Endorphins have helped my emotions massively. I felt like a failure initially however however this is the first time I have felt motivated to heal.  I finally

Crystal

Love everything you guys said here. Listening to this again, for motivation to power though the rough week last week. I’m ready to try again!

Rilee

Love love love hearing when you and Michal share these important topics that so few speak and share about. Thank you!

Keri

I was here for the first challenge and I'm so glad I'm here for the second! One of my biggest takeaways from the first challenge was, "if you have time/energy to argue with yourself, you have time/energy to make yourself do it." Thank you for bringing us these challenges!

Makayla

Love this! I'm so glad to hear you say that this journey is full of ups and downs! I am the one who, when I have a down and I want to just let it go. I tell myself tho, don't let that determine the end goal or the rest of your life. So thank you!

Kristen

I’m behind a week because of my travels, but so excited to get started on this challenge! I’m really looking forward to getting back into a gym routine and feeling strong!

Ashley

Every second of this 😭💕 I’m excited for next weeks!

5 stars!  For realizing we are human and making sure we know that too!

I love the part of this motivation Monday that talks about the fact that there will be setbacks and the challenge is about taking small steps to better ourselves! Thanks for helping put this into perspective! It’s so easy to think everything will be better in 8 weeks after the challenge is over! But it’s about the journey not the result!!

Taylor Miller

So enlightening and motivating! I started off the challenge struggling and going back to my old ways of calorie counting (which I did not want to do) but I’m starting fresh today after watching this! Thank you for everything.

Samantha

This is exactly why I love this challenge and you guys. For me personally it’s crazy how much pressure I am taking off of myself learning I don’t have to be perfect. I’m not going to lie watching this video and not just being extreme and go balls to the wall or drop weight quickly gives me anxiety. I’ve always tried to lose weight quickly but I have always burned out and gained weight and burned out exercising.  I’m really trying to create better habits especially my relationship with food and all or nothing.  How did you learn to change your relationship with food?

Elissa

This is why I love you both so much!!! Life keeps on living but the goal is to not give up on ourselves! ❤

Aerin

You guys are so sweet! I’m excited to start this! Last time I got kidney stones right when it started and wasn’t able to really participate. So I’m ready to do this one!

Hallie

Thank you for being you. As always, you continue to help me find my perseverance, and press through some of the hardest times of my life. I have continued to tell my friends how you are my idol. I am eager to get started on this journey for the next eight weeks and continue to create healthier habits.

Tristian

Virginia DelBondio

Thanks ladies. I needed that. I’m super hard on myself and when I miss a workout it puts me in such a garbage mood and the cycle begins. I’ve made breaking this cycle a priority for me.

Cricket

I am so excited to be a part of this challenge. I really want to work on my mental presence in the gym. Also, I REALLY want to create a sustainable gym habit and healthy mindset. I continue to compare myself to how much I lifted/weighed/what I looked like when I was a student athlete. I’m 25 now, and I want to move into this next phase of my wellness with an appreciation for what my body does now instead of comparing to my former self. Thanks for an amazing community!

Taylor

Tessa

Love that y’all are setting people up for success with this mindset ❤️

Rhiannon

Now that is how you start a challenge off! So excited to be starting something that feels so realistic!

Monique

Literal tears 😭😭👏🏻 I needed this today!

Arianne

Kayla Lennon

I really needed this pep talk, I am very much a perfectionist and give up easy when things don’t go as planned, but I am on this journey and will not give up ❤️

Kellie

Thank you for this!! I really needed to hear this.

Hannah

I love how real you both are. I greatly appreciate the fact that you embrace life and allow the ups and downs to happen without harping on yourself. That is encouraging.

Oriana Branson

Im excited to start this lifestyle change this year and get my body and mindset reset!

Sharlene

I cannot lie. When you guys said people throw in the towel when they reach a setback, I thought you were personally talking about me. 😭😬 Here’s to a change where we push on even if we go through a set back!

Kaley

Tiffany

This is so true and such a great starting foundation!! Let’s do it!!!

Elli

The reason why I joined this challenge is exactly this! I love the way this isn’t set to be an all or nothing thing and I truly want this lifestyle for myself !

Emma

Michelle Canales

And this is why I love falling yall, always keeping it realistic.

Kassandra Soto

Kirsten

I love your pep talks! I had a flat workout today and as I was stretching on my cool down I was listening to your first mindset and it took the pressure off myself for not having 100% energy this morning! Your talks are great reminders !

Meaghan

This was surprisingly nice to hear. I tend to be very hard on myself and don’t cut myself brakes which I need too. Thank you for helping my mentality push through 🤗

Jennifer

Thanks Hannah and Michel! Great start to the week!

I really enjoyed this introduction to this challenge. Thank you for being real & emphasizing it’s normal to make mistakes. We are all human and it’s so easy to make a mistake and want to throw the towel in. Especially when the scale doesn’t move! I’m going to be more focused on the non-scale victories during this challenge.

Lexi Lou Williams

Needed this! I’m tired of yoyoing with my health. Last challenge I had some things come up and threw in the towel instead of picking back up. My biggest goal this challenge is to get rid of this all of nothing mindset when it comes to working out and eating right. My mentality about a healthy lifestyle is what I am excited to see flourish over these next 8 weeks. And get stinger of course! 💪🏼

Rylee

I LOVE how it literally felt like I was sitting with you two having this conversation. I even got a little teary. I just want to take a step towards being healthy, mentally and physically. This is just what I needed to hear. Thank you ♥️

Anonymous

Really looking forward to these next few weeks and seeing how everyone does! Also excited to have this platform to hold me accountable.

Tess Creatura

I am so excited for this challenge! I did the 1st one but this one came at a perfect time. I took a promotion for my job but it meant moving to a whole new city and my whole routine has been off so I am excited to get into my new gym and work on myself physically but also mentally with all these new changes in my life!

Hayley

Love the honesty from you guys! Thank you for sharing and being so open about everything. I love the goals behind this program and I’m very excited for the mindset change!

Brynn

Dang. Mindset number one of the challenge speaking right to my heart.❤️ I needed this reminder. I was just thinking about how I have nothing standing in the way right now with being on break from grad school. But also knowing I’m working 60+ hours a week (to pay for that grad school lol).. failure it a part of it. I’m going to embrace the failure and work through it. 

So excited for this

I love how realistic you both are and how you are trying to truly set everyone up for success. Virtually you are meeting every single person where they’re at and I think that is so incredible. I know this challenge hasn’t even started yet, but even being part of the community, I know this is going to be a life changing 8 weeks. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Janine

You guys are incredible and so uplifting! I am so pumped to get this started and going!

Welcome to the second diet culture detox challenge! 

Now I’m sure your expectation for this first video is for us to hype you up, build up, and set fire to the motivation that brought you here.

Well… not exactly 😅

While our entire focus this next 8 weeks will be to build you up, keep you going, and to cheer you on, we KNOW the most important thing we can do is set you up for LONG-TERM success.

And the way we do that is we need to manage expectations and change how we think the next 8 weeks will go.

Because we are imperfect humans living in an imperfect world, we will have an imperfect journey.

Read that again: your journey will be imperfect. The sooner you accept and lean into the learning curve of change, the easier it is to make changes.

If we are to truly help you build a sustainable and enjoyable lifestyle with fitness, that means we need to first and foremost teach you that your journey is going to be filled with mistakes, setbacks, and challenges.

It will not be easy. Just because you’ve decided and are ready to make the changes you know you need to, there will be ups and downs along the way.

This is a really good thing.

It is precisely the downs, challenges, and setbacks that make you who you are and teach you the lifelong skills of managing a healthy relationship with fitness.

So WHEN things get challenging, that’s EXACTLY where you should be, and what you should be working through. 

The struggle is the point, and we will he here to help you through them.

Week 1 Mindset: Setting the stage and managing expectations

Tammy

It was great! Exited to start the challenge/workouts :)

Andrea

Valinda

Releasing January 3rd for the Diet Culture Detox Challenge!

Great explanation and demos of the movements! Lots of useful information.

Kellie Rongey

Amazing explanation. Youre a great teacher

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Ashley Powell

I really appreciate the “just get movement in” because I do not go to the gym, but I stress myself out with the equipment I have and not being able to meet the exercise requirement

Jessica

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Decided to run this program back! I had an itch to lift heavy and thought this would be the PERFECT program. Cannot wait to see my #’s at the end of these 8 weeks🙌🏽🔥. 

Starting Stats:
- Squat: 155lbs x3
-DL: 185lbs x3, 225lbs x1
-Shoulder Press: 40lbs x3
-push ups: 21 reps
-EMOM: 16reps

Cleo

Paige

Brandon

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The body weight conditioning circuit is something SERIOUS. The ultimate burner! 🔥 🔥 🔥

Great workout and just what I needed.  Never disappointed 🫶🏻

Kaitlyn

W1/D1: Legs and Core Get Stronger 3.0

Opted for regular bench instead of DB chest press. I was just playing around with weight and ended up surprising myself! I was able to hit 125 lbs x 1 🥹🙌🏽. My max is 135, so I’m super pleased.

Never in my life would I have thought I would row 50lb DB X10, so safe to say this mama if feeling pretty strong.💪🏽

Caroline

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Veronique

W1/D3 Bicep and Tricep Get Stronger 3.0

The conditioning circuit was brutal but amazing!  🥵

The circuit was so much fun! 

I was able to DL 195 x 4reps! 🥹🙌🏽
Feeling strong already. Perfect way to end the first week.

The conditioning portion made me feel so good. Great ending to the workout

W1/D4 Shoulders Glutes and Core Get Stronger 3.0

Full of good information! Thank you for taking time to share 💕

Britt

That was very informative and a lot to take in but excellent information to reflect on

Consistency has been my huge hurdle; putting myself down because I did 3 workouts instead of 4 for the week for example, and feeling like I was lazy in doing so when life threw me curve balls that week. Thank you for this, for reminding us all of finding the why and to persevere. ❤️

Week 1 Mindset: Setting the stage and managing expectations

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