GIRL POWER WEEK 2026

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.

Day​	Power of the Tempest​	Power of Positivity​	Power of Time​	Power of Breath​
Day 1 (March 2)	Paragon	Courage to Change	Minute On, Minute Off	Greet the Day
Day 2 (March 3)	Genesis	Made With Love	7-Minute Legs	Star Power
Day 3 (March 4)	The Maid of Tarth	I Showed Up	Cardio Pump	Inner Fire
Day 4 (March 5)	Grit & Grace	Not Perfect	Power 18	Float
Day 5 (March 6)	Tough Cookie	Perseverance	Blink	Bend, Don't Break
Day 6 (March 7)	Onna Bugeisha	I Am Enough	Lean Legs	Take Flight
Day 7 (March 8)	Virago	I Am in Charge	10-Minute Streamline	Deep

Girl Power Week Final Meditation:

Dutch | English | French | German | Italian​

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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.

 

[AgileGrrl]

Day 5 - Finished
The Power of Positivity: Perseverance (HIIT w/ no rest between sets - LVL 3 + EC)
The Power of Time: Blink (LVL 1)

Wanted to do Tough Cookie, but I can only do knee planks right now and no matter how much I tried, I could not adapt what was asked to something I could do, so had to abandon the workout.
Tomorrow is another day.

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Wanted to do Tough Cookie, but I can only do knee planks right now and no matter how much I tried, I could not adapt what was asked to something I could do, so had to abandon the workout.

That is a tough one to figure out modifications for if one is doing kneeling planks.

For the first exercise, my suggestion would be to do it from a box position. So the knee-in will look like this: https://pocketyoga.com/pose/TableKneeToForehead . Plank step-outs and leg raises can be done with one knee down, or converted to box exercises as well, in which case the leg lift becomes: https://pocketyoga.com/pose/TableLegUp and the step-out is just extending one leg and tapping it out to the side.

The knees down modification works for all of the other exercises (although, for the side plank leg lifts, it would only be one knee down).

 

[eeek]

For Day 4:
The Power of Positivity - Not Perfect

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Girl Power Week, Day 4:

Float - Level III

No double EC for me tonight, although I tried. I can manage the transition into half moon without touching my hand down, and I can float sugarcane if I start from a stable position, but transitioning from half moon into sugarcane I needed to touch down.

 

[Diego1978]

This morning at 5.30 i did it in this order:

1. blink level 1
2. perseverance level 1 rest 1 minute
3. tough cookie level 1 rest 1 minute
4. bend, don't break level 1

Today phrase is:
Living is training, by training we prepare ourselves to face life better.
We will welcome all challenges with joy and overcome them with serenity.

Good training, see you tomorrow!

 

[neilarey]

Day 5
The Power of Breath: Bend, Don't Break

For this event, I am doing the yoga workouts @Laura Rainbow Dragon has created since it's SO OUT of my comfort zone - I don't even see my comfort zone from here It wasn't so bad today, tough, 10 out 10, would recommend

 

[eeek]

For Day 5:
The Power of Positivity - Not Perfect
The Power of Breath - Bend, Don't Break

 

[PetiteSheWolf]

Continued daily, mostly our @Laura Rainbow Dragon 's yoga except yesterday because this valkyrie doesn't know how to use her wings quite well enough yet to do all this balance, LOL!

 

[SevenDeadlyExes]

Day 5: Oath of Perseverance

 

[Maegaranthelas]

Day 5 - Finished
The Power of Positivity: Perseverance (HIIT w/ no rest between sets - LVL 3 + EC)
The Power of Time: Blink (LVL 1)

Wanted to do Tough Cookie, but I can only do knee planks right now and no matter how much I tried, I could not adapt what was asked to something I could do, so had to abandon the workout.
Tomorrow is another day.

I have really bad shoulders and have been increasing their stability by doing plank workouts like these at the stairs =)
You can chose a step height where the movements feel challenging but possible and get better at them that way!

 

[TopNotch]

Today was the Power of the Tempest with Tough Cookie because, well, you know... planks!

 

[NightWolf714]

Managed to scrap through level one of Not Perfect workout before bed. Hoping to get today's closer to my wakeup time than bedtime, lol.

 

[THew8]

Day 5 - The Power of Time - Blink - Completed

**I had fun with the double heel clicks**

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

I have really bad shoulders and have been increasing their stability by doing plank workouts like these at the stairs =)
You can chose a step height where the movements feel challenging but possible and get better at them that way!

I often forget about stairs options. (I haven't lived any place with usable indoor stairs in many years.) But this is a great idea! Especially since, with stairs, you can make smaller adjustments for how much or how little help you need on any given day, compared to the leap from kneeling to full planks.

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

GIRL POWER WEEK - WORKOUTS FOR DAY 6​

The Power of the Tempest: Onna Bugeisha


The Power of Positivity: I Am Enough


The Power of Time: Lean Legs


The Power of Breath: Take Flight


Choose one of the above workouts to complete on March 7. (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.

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Continued daily, mostly our @Laura Rainbow Dragon 's yoga except yesterday because this valkyrie doesn't know how to use her wings quite well enough yet to do all this balance, LOL!

Standing balances are an area in which practitioners are often stumped re: how to modify the poses to make them more accessible. I think people tend to think that if they're not doing the full, idealized form of the pose, they're not doing the pose at all. But this is not true.

Consider a baby: It crawls for a long time before it can walk. Then, one day, it uses a piece of furniture to pull itself to its feet. Oh, my! What is this new orientation? It tries bouncing on its legs a little bit to check things out. Eventually it shifts more weight onto one leg than the other. More and more and more and more until, eventually, it lifts one foot off the ground entirely! Whoa! Now I can put this foot down someplace else! The baby starts to walk. It shifts from its death-grip on the coffee table to holding a parent's hand. Eventually it learns to let go and stand on its own two feet.

The truth is: if you can stand, you are balancing! If you can stand without holding on to anything, you're doing even better! Feet directly beneath your hips is the most stable. You can challenge your balance more, and prepare for learning one-legged standing balances, by moving your feet closer together. Then you start to shift your weight, a little at a time, until, eventually, you are able to lift one foot entirely.

Usually we teach tree pose first, because it is a nice gentle progression: bring the feet closer together, lighten the load on one foot until only the toes touch the ground, bring the sole of that foot to touch your ankle, when you're ready, lift the foot a little higher up your leg. All work is done with the palms pressed together at heart centre until you can comfortably stand like this with the sole of your lifted foot pressing against your inner thigh. Then you increase the difficulty even more by lifting your arms up overhead. Once this pose is mastered, you can make tree even more challenging by tilting your torso over to one side. Whoa!

Most of the poses in Float are more challenging than tree pose because they incorporate a tilted torso. Any time we take our upper body out of a strict vertical alignment we increase the difficulty level, because now we're having to deal with weight that's further away from our centre of gravity, no longer stacked above the leg that's supporting it. (Remember lever experiments in grade school science class?) In sugarcane pose we are tipped over, twisted sideways, and in a backbend! That's a lot! But we can modify these poses in the same ways: keeping both feet on the ground and simply lightening the load on one, holding onto something for support* if we need to, and/or adding the torso tilt gradually.

* If you are using a support assist in balancing poses, try not to lean against it too hard or use a death grip. Just as we shift our weight gradually from standing firmly on two feet to balancing on only one, we want to rely on that external support less and less until, eventually, we can let go of it entirely.

You will be flying soon enough, lupine Valkyrie!

 

[aku-chan]

Continuing to walk the Tempest path with 3 sets of Tough Cookie.

 

[Encina]

Day 5 of The Power of Breath - Done

I held Camel Pose better than I expected

 

[Germanamazon]

I suck at yoga, bend don't break position 3 isn't possible, but dang I tried.

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

I suck at yoga, bend don't break position 3 isn't possible, but dang I tried.

A great modification for camel pose is to tuck your toes. This lifts your heels up significantly, so you don't have as far to reach.
You can also simply repeat supported camel.

 

[XiaoHua]

Day 5 Positivity: Perserverance-done!

 

[AislingTree]

Day 5: Bend, Don't Break complete!

 

[AquaMarie]

Day 5 - The Power of Positivity! Perseverance lvl 1 with EC complete. Have a good one, Bees!

 

[AgileGrrl]

That is a tough one to figure out modifications for if one is doing kneeling planks.

For the first exercise, my suggestion would be to do it from a box position. So the knee-in will look like this: https://pocketyoga.com/pose/TableKneeToForehead . Plank step-outs and leg raises can be done with one knee down, or converted to box exercises as well, in which case the leg lift becomes: https://pocketyoga.com/pose/TableLegUp and the step-out is just extending one leg and tapping it out to the side.

The knees down modification works for all of the other exercises (although, for the side plank leg lifts, it would only be one knee down).

Thanks for that info and the website link. I've bookmarked it so I can go back and use it as a reference for other workouts too.

 

[lineatatime]

Day 5

• Blink Workout (The Power of Time) - Level I

 

[Sólveig]

Just announcing I'm doing the Power of Time. I'm going through a rut at this moment, so short stuff if my help. Went though everything so far daily, but I haven't gotten myself to sit down and log.

 

[Princess Sarena Rose]

I played catch up today, because I missed a workout yesterday.

Float - my new favourite yoga routine. I took a screenshot of it to keep handy so I can do it regularly. It makes me feel like I'm flying like wonder woman, and it's great for a homebrew dancer to practice balance and stability along with movement.

Bend, don't break - temporarily helped ease my oncoming migraine a bit. Also a good one.

Between the two, I am now all caught up

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

Girl Power Week, Day 5:

Bend, Don't Break - Level III

EC done later after a break. (Had to take Shelby out for her bedtime walk. And a good thing it was we didn't wait any longer. Rain came in while we were out, accompanied by distant thunder, and we had to cut our walk short to make it back home before the storm hit our neighbourhood.)

 

[AgileGrrl]

Day 6 - Finished
The Power of Positivity: I Am Enough (LVL 3 + EC - no rest HIIT)
The Power of Time: Lean Legs (EC - no rest HIIT)

Didn't have as much time I usually do, so I could only do 2/4 if I wanted to finish my own scheduled P&Cs.

 

[Mishmisha]

Ah, I forgot to log it here, but for their respective days I've done Made With Love, Star Power; I Showed Up; Not Perfect; Perseverance, Blink, and Bend, Don't Break.

 

[Diego1978]

Girl week power day 6
This morning at 5.30 I did it in this order:

1. onna bugeisha level 1 rest 1 minute
2. I am enough level 1 rest 1 minute
3. lean legs rest 1 minute
4. take flight

Today phrase is:
Until today you have always followed those people who always find a reason not to train.
Don't allow youself to be like them anymore.
You will see that when they see your great results, they will follow you.

Good training, see you tomorrow!

 

[neilarey]

Day 6!
The Power of Breath: Take Flight

 

[TopNotch]

Back to the Power of Positivity with I am Enough

 

[SevenDeadlyExes]

Day 6: The Power of Positivity
I am Enough!

 

[Maegaranthelas]

Day 5:
I forgot to post it here, but I did all of them again!
Some challenges in Bend, Don't Break but again, that just shows more areas I could improve in
and yes, all my planks were done at the stairs. Only on the 2nd step though, that's definitely progress!

 

[NightWolf714]

Day 5 done!
Perseverance and Blink both Lv 1
And went back to do I Showed Up Lv 1 like I wanted to do. ^_^

 

[Jaga]

Girl Power Week day 5:
Power of the Tempest: Tough Cookie, lv III



Girl Power Week day 6:
Power of the Tempest: Onna-Bugeisha, lv II
Power of Breath: Take flight

 

[AquaMarie]

Day 6 - The Power of Positivity! I Am Enough lvl 1 with EC complete. See y'all tomorrow!

 

[Laura Rainbow Dragon]

GIRL POWER WEEK - WORKOUTS FOR DAY 7​

The Power of the Tempest: Virago


The Power of Positivity: I Am In Charge


The Power of Time: 10-Minute Streamline


The Power of Breath: Deep


Here they are! Our final workouts for Girl Power Week 2026! Choose one of the above workouts to complete on March 8. (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.

When you've completed your final workout for the week, don't forget to head on over to your profile page to claim your special Girl Power Week challenge badge. (Scroll right to the bottom of the page and tick the appropriate check box.)

 

[THew8]

Day 6: The Power of Breath: Take Flight Completed

I loved this!

 

[aku-chan]

A bit of a failure on the Path of the Tempest today, Onna-Bugeisha was a bit too tough for me, but hopefully an attempt still counts!

 

[Maegaranthelas]

Day 6:
That was a fun day! All workouts completed. Or at least made a very good go at
Onna-Bugeisha is so mean in the best kind of way xD Even on the steps 30 push-ups is a lot of push-ups!
But I am so proud of how well I did on the Squat + front kick combos. In fact, even just my kicks were much improved since last I remember doing many of them.

And Take Flight has given my a lot I can work on, thank you so much for the detailed descriptions of where we're supposed to feel things and why, Laura!
I ended up discovering that trying to put my actual knees on my triceps was really painful, but I can rest the flat bits just below the kneecap on them no problem!
Probably isn't quite what you're 'supposed' to do, but it definitely lets me train my wrist strength and stability. I can get my left toe off of the blocks!
I consider this day a massive success, I really outperformed my expectations. Worth feeling sweaty, tired, and hungry for

 

[XiaoHua]

Still miserably ill but I got through day 6- power of positivity: I am Enough
Once again, thanks for having something that's doable even on your worst days!!

 

[Encina]

Day 6 of The Power of Breath - Done

With the help of two blocks—one under my feet and one under my head just in case—I managed to hold Crow pose for two to five seconds.

Funny thing, I’ve always tried this pose with a block under my head to feel more confident shifting my weight forward, but for some reason, I never thought about placing one under my feet. It really helps you take flight!

 

[AislingTree]

Day 6: Take Flight, complete! Really enjoying this week.

 

[lineatatime]

Day 6

• I Am Enough Workout (The Power of Positivity) - Level I

 

[eeek]

For Day 6:
The Power of Positivity - I Am Enough
The Power of Time - Lean Legs

 

[Princess Sarena Rose]

I did take flight! I couldn't do it very long, but ... I held crow pose like maybe a fraction of a second, which is in my case a world breaking record for crow pose (never did it before)! Go girl power week, this girl is powering up!

 

[GhostStory]

Still progressing on the Path of Positivity! I completed Perseverance in the morning & I Am Enough in the evening. Looking forward to crossing the finish line with the final workout tomorrow!

 

[AgileGrrl]

Day 7 - Finished
The Power of Positivity: I Am In Charge (LVL 3 + EC -no rest HIIT version)
The Power of Time: 10-Minute Streamline (+EC)
The Power of Breath: Deep

My knees have no stability for lunges, so had to switch to 12" step-ups in 10-min Streamline. Virago is way outside of my wheelhouse with a high chance of injury on a few of those exercises if I attempted them, so I tried the Power of Breath instead. I know! I was shocked too. I got through all of them (yeah!), and totally rocked the corpse pose.
Thank you @Laura Rainbow Dragon and everyone else involved in putting this fantastic challenge together.