Hey, hey, beautiful human. Can I steal five minutes of your time? I have something super important to share with you, but I promise I'll be really quick. You're listening to my weekly bonus episode of Embrace Your Real with me, Julie Labbetter. I'm about to give you a quick tip for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving your authentic self. Stay tuned. If you're ready to embrace a real, let's get it.

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Hello and welcome back to another episode on the Embrace Real podcast.

I'm so grateful that you're here.

Whether you're getting your steps in, you're driving to work, you're folding laundry, thanks for hanging out with me today. In today's

episode, this was actually inspired by a question that I got from a subscriber inside the

moment with Julie community. And I love this question because I know so many of us have probably

wondered the exact same thing, especially if you're newer to strength training or if you're just coming back to

it and you like kind of forgot what you learned previously. Maybe that was, you know, prior to having

kids and you've just been in a season of, you know, maybe three, five, 10 years, whatever it is,

of getting back to it that you've been out of the loop and now you're getting back into it. But the

question that came in was, okay, so I have a newbie question. I'm hoping

someone can answer. When I'm doing my workout, I feel it in my muscles, but there's no burn when I'm

done. I've only had a few days in the last six weeks where I've actually felt sore afterward.

Does that mean that I need to increase my weights or rep? And this is such a good question. And so in today's episode, we're going to be breaking it

all down because there really is a common belief out there that if you're not sore after your

workout, it didn't work. But the truth is, soreness does not actually equal success. And so that's

exactly what we're going to be diving into in today's episode. But before we dive in, I want to share this review. It comes from Jojo Castillo. She gave a five-star review and said fun and real talk. I learned something new during every episode, from understanding macros to

building a consistent lifestyle with my fitness journey. Julie keeps it real and raw, no filters,

and straight to the point. Thank you so much for this review. I really, really appreciate it.

And thank you so much for taking time out of your day to send in this review. I really, really appreciate it. And thank you so much for taking time

out of your day to send in this review. Again, if you could scoge over to Apple Podcasts and

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