POWER PUMP

Sore abs from class!?  Good for us.  That building of muscle through weight training is so important for us to reach our goals or to maintain what we've already achieved. 

That said,  we have a few announcements concerning Power Pump.  Based on feedback from our current attendees, our Wednesday afternoon class will now meet at 3:00.  We'll have a great weight work out early in the day to get you home that much more quickly or you now have the option of double dipping by sticking around for Power Flo Yoga  (also a weight lifting class, trust me!) at the 4:15 time slot.  We also will hold Power Pump during our 8:15 Friday morning Instructor's Choice this week. 

We always have a great group of people at class but there are still some ladies that have an ingrained fear for weight training.  See below:

If dieting and cardio aren’t giving you the weight loss and fitness level you want, try lifting weights, advises Tyeese Gaines, M.D., of NBC News’s The Grio.
You may gain weight as you build muscle initially when you start lifting weights, but as your metabolism speeds up you’re likely to shed pounds and inches from your waistline.
“Women think that cardio is everything and that it makes you really skinny,” says Diane Williams, a New York personal trainer. “[But] if your goal is to lose weight, it’s always been weight training for me … The best women’s bodies I’ve seen, lift weights. [With cardio], you don’t have that firmness that you can get with weight training.”
Williams adds that many women wrongly believe that lifting weights will cause them to “bulk up.”
“Traditional lifting won’t bulk you up,” she says. “It’s hard for women to get bulky. Ninety-nine percent of us don’t have the testosterone needed for that.”
“Lifting” also should be broadly defined. Dumbell curls are great, but you can also do squats with or without added weights, and pushups are a type of weightlifting — only you are lifting your own body weight.