GIRL POWER WEEK 2026

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Girl Power Week is Back!

In March 2018 DAREBEE first launched Girl Power Week, a week-long challenge designed to “inspire women of all ages to take a ninja-like approach to fitness and rediscover the warrior within.” The original Girl Power Week featured seven brand new difficulty level four workouts celebrating brave and powerful women.

Many DAREBEEs loved the old DAREBEE Theme Weeks. So we’ve decided to bring Girl Power Week back for 2026.

Q: Why Girl Power Week?

A: We chose Girl Power Week to coincide with the week leading up to and including International Women’s Day on March 8th. In a realm too often dominated by men and male imagery, DAREBEE has always sought to create workouts in which women and girls could see themselves, feel included, and feel empowered to try challenging routines and work to be the best versions of themselves. We want to honour that legacy of inclusivity, equality, and empowerment with Girl Power Week 2026.

Q: Is Girl Power Week just for girls?

A: Not at all! While this special themed week does highlight the power of girls and women, everyone is welcome to participate in Girl Power Week. We recognize that women are not the only group to have been marginalized within and excluded from fitness spaces; but at DAREBEE, fitness belongs to everyone. No matter your gender identity, you are welcome here and you’re welcome to participate in this special challenge!

Q: Sounds good! How does Girl Power Week work?

A: This year we’re expanding Girl Power Week to include four different tracks:

The Power of the Tempest: This track features the original seven Girl Power Week workouts: a challenging mix of strength, cardio, combat, and metcon workouts that will really put you through your paces. The Power of the Tempest invites you to channel your inner warrior, taming the emotional tempest to find mental clarity and become the calm in the eye of the storm, ready and able to channel your energy into physical power to conquer these tough workouts.

The Power of Positivity: If your joints (or your downstairs neighbours) don’t allow you to engage in high impact activities these days, this track might be for you. The Power of Positivity is the most accessible of the four Girl Power Week tracks. We’ve included only standing, low impact exercises. Which means all of these workouts are rated difficulty level one. But don’t let that rating fool you! These workouts will still get your heart rate up, help you build full-body strength, and challenge both your balance and coordination. The Power of Positivity is about saying no to limiting beliefs and yes to yourself, showing up with what you’ve got and working always to be your best version of yourself.

The Power of Time: There’s never enough of this most precious resource, is there? Between work, kids, elder care, maintaining a home, commuting… the list of demands on our time goes on and on. How do you squeeze in a workout when the world is pulling you in umpteen different directions at once? Girl Power Week has got you covered with its Power of Time track. This track features six bodyweight workouts and one dumbbell workout that will really put you through your paces, all in ten minutes or less. The Power of Time demonstrates that a workout doesn’t need to be epic in length to be epic in effect. Ten minutes (or less) is all you need to get in a solid workout that will help you build the strength, stamina, and courage to face the rest of your busy day.

The Power of Breath: This track is the counterpoint to the Power of Time. When the world around us is chaotic, often the best way to nurture and strengthen ourselves is to slow down. The Power of Breath is your ticket to doing so with seven brand new yoga workouts that invite you to step away from the rat race and find strength in mindfulness and the quiet, calm, steady flow of your breath. But make no mistake: while we’re taking things slowly in the Power of Breath, we haven’t made these workouts easy. This track features a nice reward at the end of the week, but we’ll put you through your paces first with some challenging poses and powerful holds in the earlier workouts.

Each day of the week we’ll be posting the workouts for that day—one from each track—right here in this thread. Choose the one that best speaks to where you’re at in your fitness journey that day and complete that workout. Then come back here to tell us how you did and to cheer on your fellow powerful DAREBEEs. You may choose to follow the same track throughout the week, or mix things up and complete workouts from different tracks on different days. At the end of the week we’ll have a special badge you can claim if you conquered the Girl Power Week challenge by completing one of the workouts each day.

Girl Power Week 2026 runs from March 2-8.
Each day’s workouts will be posted here by 4:00 PM UTC the day before their day in the challenge. (e.g.: The workouts for March 2 will be posted by 4:00 PM UTC on March 1.) So you’ll be able to get a sneak peak at what’s coming up, so you can plan for which workout you want to complete the next day (or—depending on your time zone--later that day).

Are you brave enough to face the Girl Power Week challenge?
Yeah! You are! Choose from the workouts below (one each day), and show yourself what you've got.



Girl Power Week Final Meditation:

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The Power of Community:

DAREBEE’s Girl Power Week 2026 is an international effort brought to you by DAREBEEs and friends from: the United States of America (@Syrius), the United Kingdom/Greece (@neilarey and the DAREBEE Team), the Netherlands (@Maegaranthelas), the United Kingdom/the Netherlands (David Gallows), the United Kingdom (Troyificus), Italy/Germany (@Anek), Germany (@sleep_twitch), the United States/Canada (Nancy Moss), France (@PetiteSheWolf), and the United Kingdom/Canada (@Laura Rainbow Dragon).

We hope you enjoy this special community event, and that participating in it makes you feel empowered.
 
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I did Inner Fire.

Again, hard, very hard.

Form definitely wasn't perfect, but I pushed myself through all three sets.

My first level five workout though!!!
 
Bard from Canada
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GIRL POWER WEEK - WORKOUTS FOR DAY 4

The Power of the Tempest: Grit & Grace


The Power of Positivity: Not Perfect


The Power of Time: Power 18


The Power of Breath: Float


Choose one of the above workouts to complete on March 5. (Click on the image to be taken to the full workout page.) Then come back here to let us know how you did. As always, questions about any of the workouts are welcome, right here in this thread.
 

Encina

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"La mayor encina fue bellota chiquitina. The greatest oak was once a tiny acorn."
The Power of Breath, Day 3 - Done :v:

I wasn’t able to lift both my feet in Pendant Pose, but I did feel it in my spine and hip flexors—and most importantly, I had fun trying. I ended up rolling backward a couple of times. :tears:
 

Jaga

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Girl Power Week, day 3:
The Power of the Tempest: The Maid of Tarth, lv III
The Power of Breath: Inner Fire, lv III

Thank you @Laura Rainbow Dragon for those yoga workouts, added them to my favorites. I bought some yoga blocks a while ago, but I never used them because I didn’t really know how and couldn’t find the motivation to look into it. I’ll definitely be coming back to Inner Fire more than once and try to be better with the last sequence.
 

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Day 3:
Level 1 of all the paths!
Maid Of Tarth done with kneeling push-ups and shoulder taps, and my arms were still really mad at how many push-ups that were :tears:
And Inner Fire was attempted. It did not look good, it did not feel like my body was in any way prepared for any of this xD
Except for the second sequence, that seemed wholly competent by comparison :haha:
I enjoyed attempting it though! No damage was done, just discovered a lot of new points to work on :p
 

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Day 4 - Finished
The Power of the Tempest: Grit & Grace (HIIT version with no rest - LVL 2 + EC)
The Power of Positivity: Not Perfect (HIIT version with no rest - LVL 3 + EC)
The Power of Time: Power 18 (HIIT version with no rest - EC)
Now I go and shovel 7800 ft² of snow before it warms up and turns to ice tomorrow. :strong:
 

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Girl power week day 4
This morning at 5.30 i did it in this order:
  1. not perfect level 1 rest 1 minute
  2. power 18
  3. grit & grace level 1 rest 1 minute
  4. float level 1
Today phrase is:
Remenber how you were yesterday, think about how you would like to be tomorrow.
Train from today, give the best you can, you will see that you will no longer be same as yesterday, but you will become the same as tomorrow.
Good training, see you tomorrow!
 
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Girl Power Week, Day 3:

I Showed Up - Level I :v:
Inner Fire - Level III :v:

I managed to lift both feet in pendant pose with my hands on my cork blocks at their lowest height (3")!
I tried for EC on one set. No joy there yet. But this was the first time I've been able to get both feet off the ground from only the 3" height. (Previously I've only achieved lift off from the medium height, which is 5¾".) Also I think this is the first time I've been able to hold both feet off the ground for more than a fraction of a second without cramping in my calves. All of my push-ups and hanging knee raises are paying off!
 
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GIRL POWER WEEK - WORKOUTS FOR DAY 5

The Power of the Tempest: Tough Cookie


The Power of Positivity: Perseverance


The Power of Time: Blink


The Power of Breath: Bend, Don't Break


Choose one of the above workouts to complete on March 6. (Click on the image to be taken to the full workout page.) Then come back here to let us know how you did. As always, questions about any of the workouts are welcome, right here in this thread.
 
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I chose float today. Can't do pose 6 and 11 properly but I will practice.
:approve:

Any poses that help to improve hip flexor mobility should help to make sugarcane (pose #6) and dancer (pose #11) more accessible. Poses like half bow, tiger, kneeling lunges, and bridge all have a similar shape without the need to balance on one leg. It's much easier to work on the flexibility component in these poses. Then, once your flexibility is improved, it becomes much easier to reach back for the leg in balancing poses like sugarcane and dancer.
 

Encina

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Day 4 of The Power of Breath - Done :v:

Today, I felt my big toe working really hard to maintain balance, especially when coming in and out of Half Moon. On the other hand, I surprised myself by holding Sugarcane without wobbling, although it was in a rather contorted and ungraceful way :sweat:
 

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Day 4:
Despite a day of low energy I finally felt capable of exercise in the evening, all paths walked.
I actually enjoyed all of these workout a lot!
I did notice that Float went a lot better on my right leg than on my leg.
The right one was just loosened by my physiotherapist this morning, so it seems my balance issues are in part from my muscles being too tight!
 

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Accidentally started with Blink but moved about halfway to Power 18, went with lighter weights because I was scared for my head with the triceps but I think it's going to become a favourite... but for now I can't feel most of my arms:flat:
 
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