Redefining Strength Podcast
You train hard. You try to eat well. You stay disciplined. And yet progress slows. Energy drops. Fat loss stalls.
The Redefining Strength Podcast is for women who work hard on their health… but still feel like their body isn’t responding the way it used to.
Hosted by Cori Lefkowith, founder of Redefining Strength, this show helps you understand what’s actually happening inside your body — and what to do about it.
Cori is the creator of the STRONG System, used by over 10,000 women around the world to transform their bodies and build results that last.
Through real coaching insights and conversations with leading experts in women’s health, metabolism, and behavior change...each episode breaks down the science in a way that actually applies to real life.
Because the answer isn’t working harder. It’s learning how to work smarter so your effort finally creates the strength, energy, and confidence you’ve been chasing.
If you’re ready to stop starting over and start building a body you can count on, this podcast will help you get there.
Redefining Strength Podcast
FHP 318 - STOP Cheating Yourself
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I think often in our workouts in an attempt to do more or that harder variation and last the entire interval of work, we CHEAT ourselves out of the full benefit of moves.
We don’t try to work muscles as hard as we can. We actually just try to survive the time we are “supposed” to work in the follow along.
And this leads to us CHEATING on moves.
Letting our hands shift out in front of us as we do mountain climbers. Letting our butt go up in the air as we hold a plank.
Not sinking as low or jumping as high in that squat jump.
We are focused on doing more over maximizing the movement.
And that can even lead to us thinking we’ve earned harder variations than we have because we can seemingly “do” them, but it can also lead to us thinking things are easier than they are.
But we are never above the basics. And often if you think something is too easy?
You really need to assess how well you’re doing it!
Here are some things I think it is really key we do at times to assess if we are really maximizing our results from each training session.
- Focus on what you feel working.
- Take ego out of it and at times, go lighter. Do an easier move. Optimize your form.
- Shorten intervals of work or add in rest and see if you can get better quality.
- Stop focusing on just doing more for results. Wasted volume honestly is not only wasted time but hampering your results.
