Welcome to our eight week program where we combine Pilates-inspired movements and strength training exercises to improve our deep core strength, muscle tone, flexibility, and overall health and fitness. The program is divided into two different phases to ensure we are achieving progressive overload and challenging our bodies over the course of eight weeks. Weeks 1-4: Foundational Building Focus: introducing more challenging variations of Pilates, inspired and traditional strength exercises to further develop strength, stability and coordination to build off of the future weeks. Progression: increase reps gradually each week within the given rep range. For example, if the rep range is 12 reps aim for 10 reps in week, one, 11 reps in week, two and 12 reps in week, three. By week, four, maintain the higher rep count, or increase the weight or resistance to continue challenging your muscles. Weeks 5-8: Advanced Progression Focus: introducing more challenging variations of our Pilates, inspired and traditional strength exercises to further develop strength, stability, and coordination. Progression: continue increasing reps, intensity, or weight to ensure we are achieving progressive overload. If you’re comfortable with the higher rep range, consider increasing the weight resistance to provide a greater challenge to your muscles. You will notice there are only five workouts for weeks one through four and five workouts for weeks five through eight. This is because you will be repeating these workouts over the course of eight weeks while your intensity, your reps and or your weights. Once you progress through the first four weeks, we will then change up the movements by moving you to more advanced versions of, the movements you saw in the first phase. Progressive overload still applies the second half of this program. Continue challenging your weight, your reps, or your intensity.