Workouts to Keep You Strong, Fit, and Consistent, Even When Life Happens
Sustainable Home Workouts That Sustain You
Do We Really Need to "Do it All"?
Nope :) Especially when life is crazy!!
There is a fitness option for everyone, regardless of the life season or circumstance.
You're perfectly positioned to find a more fitting amount of exercise that serves your body and quality of life more by not running yourself into the ground trying to do more than you actually need.
Never mind the fact that most of us just don't have the bandwidth to keep trying to keep up with all the things.
Wherever you are on your fitness journey, the answer is the same: achievable, bite sized actions that are clear and easy to follow, and that give you the peace of mind that you're doing enough for the same results. You don't deserve to feel bad because you fell short of some standard that's actually pretty meaningless. Here at Equipped with Strength, we believe everyone should try to find their minimal effective dose, with room for growth (as life allows).
Imagine: 20% effort, 80% of the results.
Life changes, and fitness needs to work FOR you, not the other way around. So let's find a sustainable option to maintain your consistency and progress.
Julie wanted to strengthen her body to alleviate pain and lose weight
EWS Pilot Member (now renewed)
"Before joining, I was frustrated because I had a few injuries that held me back. My routine needed to change. I don’t want to have to rely on anyone to care for me because I’m weak and out of shape.
The workouts are super easy to fit in since you can workout from home and you only need (at most) 30 minutes.
If I hadn't jumped on board I reckon I’d still be struggling with weight and fatigue. Instead, I'm feeling stronger than I have in several years, and I’d like to stay this way for as long as possible."
Could This Be Your New Fitness Family?
Here's why we think you'll love Equipped for Strength
Smart Workouts
There's too much noise and too much to do. You won't have that feeling here. We obsess about getting you wins. In fact, our whole approach is focused on engineering your success. First step: workouts you'll do.
Time & Energy Conscious
We give you enough to get you consistent again. We design your workouts, and give you super time-saving ways to do them. Because they are workouts you'll be able to do, you'll naturally feel become more consistent.
Peace of Mind
What you can do, even if it's less than what you want to do, is enough. We believe, even the smallest effort is valuable, because otherwise we live in a constant state of failure. You can't always control outcome, but effort?
Lori Was Tired of Chasing Goals & Never Feeling Enough
EWS Pilot Member (now renewed)
Benefits of Joining Us
1. You Know It's Enough
The fitness industry has corrupted our perception of what is enough. For real people, doing one or two full body workouts a week is enough to make progress. But what the industry has taught us is this all or nothing idea. Either you go to the gym five days a week or just give up all together, because you failed. To us, this is a massive injustice because there are so many physical and mental benefits to doing a lower frequency of strength training, especially when life gets crazy, as you age, and just for gaining a sense of relief that "I'm doing enough". The approach in Equipped with Strength is centered on creating a minimum goal of doing one workout per week. Immediately, it primes you to feel more confident in your ability to do what you set out to do. Plus, you might actually find you make more progress doing less.
2. More Time to Enjoy Life
Fitness goals change over the years. Our bodies change, circumstances change, and many of us want to focus our energy on remaining self-sufficient and capable for our quality of life. But, in a results-obsessed world, there are few paths that give you any chance of enjoying the journey, because we've all been trained to seek more by doing more. That leaves little time or mental energy to allow fitness to fuel your life. Here at Equipped with Strength, we believe the journey is of greater value than whether you reach the destination. We want you to be strong and capable for real life, and not spend your time worrying about the next fitness goal. We'll support that, but our members prefer the feeling of appreciating where they're at and what they can do (in fitness and life), without it hinging on "am I there yet?".
3. Your Life, Your Fitness
Almost every single fitness product or service is offering you "get your best body", or lose weight, but they offer you a path that's not realistically sustainable. They're all based, again, on the notions that more is better, that you must keep doing that level, and if you're not doing what they say, you're missing the benefits. What happens if you have an injury? What if you're postpartum? What if you're unable to train at that frequency or intensity? Maybe you need to train at a pace that serve you better. They often have very black and white views about what works and what's best. It feels like every detail matters; either you do it "this exact way" or it's pointless. You need a realistic path that matches your real life, so your fitness and well-being can be sustained, so they can sustain you. The details become the enemy of the good, when it's the big picture that matters more.
When I started a full-time PhD program, my gym availability dwindled, sometimes only getting in 1 or 2 workouts per week. When looked at my training logs, I realized that somehow, I was still managing to get stronger, even though I wasn’t working out as often. I also feel great and am not nearly as beaten down physically and psychologically as I was when I trained all the time. I think this goes to show that a consistent little bit is way better than nothing at all.
Travis Pollen
Personal Trainer
I was constantly getting myself stressed to the hilt about not making my 3-4 workouts a week, especially since getting a new job that required longer commutes. So now I aim for one main workout a week, and maybe a small workout during the week. Since I've been doing that, it's been much better. As long as I get my one workout in, somehow then not all is lost.
Barbara Kane
Finance Manager
Our Simple Solution
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One Main Workout Per Week
We want to simplify your life by giving you a clear, stress-free path to success. To eliminate the pressure to do more, we're giving you one main workout each week, directions on how to do it, and a Plan B for how to do it if/when life happens. You have one weekly goal: to at least do that workout once.
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Delivered 3 Ways
Are you someone who prefers a written plan? Or someone who refers to follow along on video? Or a simple summary video? Well, we have everyone covered! In this series we are delivering your weekly workout 3 ways: Long video, short video, and PDF training log.
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Flexible & Scalable
Few weeks or months are identical, and neither should your workout plan. It's normal and expected that you'll have ebbs and flows with training, and we want you to become more confident in modulating it accordingly... without guilt if you need to do less! We guide you through some ways to increase or decrease workout frequency and intensity so you can maintain consistency through all life's interruptions.
Post Partum, Jordan had to start from scratch (and from home):
EWS Pilot Member (also staying on)
"I'd had my first child and that was quite a drastic change. I had always consistently exercised up to the pregnancy, but during it, I was not feeling up to doing anything. I was looking for a way to gradually get back into things.
I love not having to think about it, because you get pre-made workouts. You don't need to use up limited energy and brainpower. Now, I've been consistently doing something, which is a lot better than before. I'm trying to look at it that way instead of comparing to what was before.
Had I not started EWS, I would've continued to struggle with consistency because I didn't really know what to do to get things going from scratch."
Meet Your Coach
Marianne Kane, RN turned ACSM Certified Personal Trainer, is Owner of Equipped with Strength. In the last decade she has been on a mission to encourage others through struggles and challenges by sharing her own, and using small, attainable action steps to engineer success. She was named in Shape's Top 10 YouTube Workout Channels as her short and effective workouts reach millions of people around the world. She wants people like you to know that it's okay to do less than what you feel you "should do" or "have to". You don't have to do anything that isn't fitting with your life. There's a minimum effective dose, and it feels pretty amazing to find it.