A full-body workout with only one dumbbell

Oh boy, happy Sunday before Election Day! What a time for us all. I’m glad you’re here and taking care of yourself during an exhausting and high-stress season. If you’re in New York City, I hope you’re planning to pop out to cheer on the marathon runners this morning! (Maybe you’re even running yourself? OMG wow, if so.) Aside from possibly Halloween, marathon day is the single best day to be in New York City, so take advantage.

Welcome back to Workout of the Week, my weekly premium post for paid subscribers. If you’re new here, this is a workout mainly focused on resistance training, with a nice warmup and cooldown, and the idea is that you can do the whole thing, or if you have less time or energy than that, you can trim things down by:

• Skipping the warmup

• Skipping the cooldown

• Skipping one or two of the three rounds of the resistance-training circuit

Make it work for you. If you’d like to repeat this workout a time or two throughout the week (or for a few weeks, maybe adding a bit of weight as you feel able), great.

This week, grab a single medium-to-heavy weight (or a medium-to-heavy household item), a mat, and some water. Also: In case you’re inspired by those incredible marathoners to try your hand at running, I’m throwing in a movement designed to support just that.

And: If you aren’t yet a paid subscriber, I gathered a bunch of other movement ideas that might help you manage whatever roller coaster this week has in store for us, in the free post linked below. But if you’ve been thinking about upgrading, I’d be so grateful for your support! Paid subscriptions help make this project possible (and will help me keep it going in the future) — both these video workouts and the other guidance and ideas I provide throughout the newsletter. Thanks in advance <3

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