Introduction of Kacy Duke's Book - The Show It, Love It Workout

My personal journey through I Do

I have always lived a very physical life. I ran track and competed in aerobic dance competitions. I trained as a dance therapist and later worked as a Nike Body Elite personal trainer. But ironically, it wasn’t until relatively recently that I really lived through my body like an athlete. Athletes aren’t out there pounding themselves into the ground 100% 365 days a year (like I was trying to do). They stop and go and let their training wax and wane with life’s rhythm and flow. It took some episodes of burn out and injury, but I eventually learned that taking your body to its highest heights means regularly laying low and allowing all that hard work to sink in. Today, I won’t hesitate to take a whole week off when I need to. Sure, I may be a little soft around the edges when I return, but believe me, I get back into the game faster and stronger than if I hadn’t have taken the rest.

The result: I’ve been able to stay in top shape throughout two decades of constant challenge and change. Despite childbirth, divorce, career changes, knee surgery, 9/11, partial hysterectomy, and everything else, both good and bad, that life has thrown my way, my body is still rocking and rolling and ready for what’s next.

All it takes is saying, I Do.

Your Journey Starts Now

Now I invite you to turn the pages and start your own journey through the Show It Love system. Begin with an open heart and mind. Be honest with, but also kind to, yourself. Chances are you’re coming into this book already having tried (and maybe not been very successful with) other programs. Like many of my clients, you may be unhappy, dissatisfied, or maybe even angry with your body. Maybe working out hasn’t been very fun, let alone joyful, for you in the past. I’m going to do my best to change all that. I’ll give you 100%. But you have to be right there with me giving 100% right back. That’s how successful relationships work.

A lot of what you’re about to read may also seem strange to you. Throughout my life, I have drawn inspiration from powerful goddesses like Isis (the goddess of love and healing) and Aurora (goddess of the dawn). Despite popular notions of the word “goddess,” these women weren’t just some eye candy. They were brilliant. They were together. And they were seriously bad! I’ll share their stories with you throughout the book, as well as other morsels of ancient healing techniques in the form of meditations and herbal tinctures. Don’t get nervous. I’m not trying to change anybody’s religion. And I’m not all about some new age, woo-woo hocus-pocus. Experience has simply taught me that we can draw a lot of wisdom from ancient cultures, which in many cases had it more together than we do in modern life!


Even the exercises will be remarkably different from anything you’ve tried before. In the spirit of those strong, powerful goddesses, I created the Woman Warrior exercise sequences—flowing movements that raise your heart rate while pumping and elongating your muscles for heightened mind-body awareness and beautifully etched body lines.

Each Woman Warrior move is designed to allow you to appreciate where your body is right now and where it can go in the future. The three Woman Warrior sequences in I Am, I Can, and I Do are total body workouts that function like Pilates or the sets of strength training and endurance poses trainers teach in many gyms.

The difference: They are specifically designed for women’s bodies, to show the grace and strength within. I encourage you to seek the gifts of each goddess, whether determination, victory, courage, fertility, or power, to embrace your workouts and fully develop your strength, balance, poise, and posture. With centuries of wisdom and power on your side, there’s nowhere to go but up. Now let’s begin your fitness quest.