All you need to get “athlean” is a pair of light and heavy dumbbells (generally in the 5-10 lb and 12-20 lb range respectively for most women), a piece of tubing, a stability ball, and a step. What you’ll most likely notice right away is that you already have a bunch of this stuff (just might have to give them a little dusting first!). Anything you don’t have can be purchased pretty inexpensively at any local sporting goods store (or even subbed out for some common household items for a “no cost” way to get started!)

We designed Athlean-XX for Women to be flexible so that you could follow it not just for 90 days, but for a lifetime.  When you first start out, you’ll follow the beginning modifications and you can increase weight and incorporate advanced modifications as you get stronger!  It’s a true lifestyle makeover!

Scientifically speaking, you may have heard of the male chromosome and the female chromosomes that differentiate men and women. Women are normally XX and men are normally XY. Don’t let the slight change in one letter fool you though, as it accounts for the major differences in the way women and men store fat and develop lean muscle. So, when it comes to weight loss and fitness, there need to be different strategies to get each to their goals the fastest. ATHLEAN-XX addresses this and gives you a program made especially for women! Suddenly, looking great in your “genes” has an entirely new meaning!

The best part about the Athlean-XX for Women meal plan is how flexible it is!  You’ve got three options.  (1) Follow the 90-day meal plan exactly. (2) Pick and choose the meals from it that you like or that work for your body. (3) Make up your own meal plan using the lists of healthy lean proteins, starchy carbs, fibrous carbs and healthy fats that we provide in the nutrition booklet.  This flexibility ensures our meal plan can literally work for anyone!

While the only two guarantees in life are death and taxes, we comfortably stake our reputation on your ability to lose permanent pounds with Athlean-XX…for two reasons. First, by putting your body into the “XX” Zone, we will be turning your once crawling metabolism into a fat burning furnace that will allow you to become a calorie burning machine even when you’re resting! Second, once you have completed the 90-day program and you’re going looking hotter than you even did in high school (and having more fun than ever in doing it) you’ll be so addicted to the breakthrough new way to train that is Athlean-XX that your fitness will finally become part of your life, and you’ll never want to quit!

Definitely! With any fitness program a key question needs to be: “Can I do this for the rest of my life?” It’s one thing to train 60-90 minutes every day for 3 months. But, can you sustain that forever?  Probably not. But I bet you can you make time for 30 minute workouts 5 times per week, as we do in the Athlean-XX for Women program!  There’s another problem with these long, marathon workouts that are 60 minutes per day or more.  They put you into the overtraining zone – where metabolism can slow, muscle tone can’t grow, injury can occur and results tend to stall.  In Athlean-XX for Women, we bump up the intensity but cut the workout time in half (to just 30  minutes) and make sure to give your body rest days for recovery!  Not to mention, you’re husband won’t be doing this workout to build up his muscles (like he may have been with P90X)!  Work out smarter, not longer, with a workout tailored to you as a woman…and you can see double the results in half the time.