No, but I'd recommend starting with the Band & Bodyweight or Dumbbell programme if you're a total beginner - this will give you better results in the long run if you choose to move onto the Barbell programme.

This all depends on what we mean by results.

Feeling energised, empowered and strong - within the first week or two.

Building muscle and bone density - this takes months and years.  The important thing is getting started - they don't build on their own, but Strength Essentials takes the thinking work out of it, so the sooner you can the start, the better.

In short, no.

Every single exercise comes with a video tutorial full of coaching points so you can watch it again and again and get better and better at the movements.

But, exercising to music and following along to each exercise in real time isn't a feature of this programme, because it's important to go at your own pace if you want to build true strength and keep good technique.

Strength training is built up of movement patterns, and in order to get better at these movement patterns, we need to repeat them.

Whilst every session progresses, and the 2-3 sessions you'll do each week are different to each other, we need to repeat them and progress them if we want to see improvement.

To avoid boredom, each month there is a full programme change - progressing on the sessions you did in the previous month, and introducing some new movements and adaptations.

There are lots of changes within each programme so you're not just doing the same things all the time, but it's important to know that building muscle, strength and bone density requires repetition.

We're aiming for progress, but I never expect perfection.  Life happens, and that's okay.

If you can average either 2 or 3 sessions per week, you will notice yourself gaining strength and fitness.

If you can only manage 1 session per week, you will still build fitness but at a slower rate.

It's entirely up to you what you feel is realistic, and what you can commit to.

Not really.

You'll recognise some of the exercises and the movements, but you'll not be doing as many Reps as possible or moving in time to music.

In fact, if you're able to do more than 10-15 Reps of one movement, I'll be encouraging you to make the movement harder.

Doing a high number of repetitions is great for muscular endurance, but we're looking to build muscle, strength and bone, so the focus will be different.

Everything within Strength Essentials is done at your own pace, and it's up to you what you're comfortable doing.

You are free to avoid or adapt movements wherever you need to, and you can message me before signing up to chat about what this could look like and whether it's right for you.

It's important to note that whilst I'm always on hand to answer questions, Strength Essentials does not come with a 1:1 coaching element to it, so some women do decide to do a few months of 1:1 coaching first to build a foundation - you can find out more about that here.