“It took me two or three years before I picked up a weight”—a trainer shares the exact weekly workout routine that helped her fall in love with strength training

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Welcome to Workout Diaries, a series where we ask expert trainers to talk us through what a week of exercise looks like for them, helping you figure out how to develop and maintain an effective workout routine.

Cassidy Kmetz is a certified personal trainer based in Miami, Florida. She’s renowned for her strength training programmes for women, with a following of more than half a million across Instagram and TikTok.