Redefining Strength Podcast

PODCAST: Struggling With Your Age? These 5 Tips Will Help I’ll admit, there is nothing I hate more than when someone asks my age on a photo…because I know their goal is to give themselves as an excuse as to why they can’t look that way. They’ll say no they’re just curious or whatever, but I know…because I’ve done it myself. And I get it. There are new challenges we face as we get older. Changes we...

Often when we talk about creating a lifestyle with our diet, we act like we’re going to do one thing for the rest of our life. Which is interesting because we don’t just do exactly the same workouts forever. Heck, if you look at your current lifestyle it probably isn’t exactly the same as it was just even last season. I know personally my schedule and even activity level slightly shifts from Summe...

So often we are our own worst enemies. Not intentionally but we are. We’ve all been guilty of this…fighting the process. We start a program but we keep trying to do things we’ve always done. We keep fighting against the new changes. We find reasons NOT to do them or to keep doing some of the “safe” things we’ve always done. Why? I’ve asked myself this multiple times. Why do I struggle to embrace c...

It’s a Monday. A new month. A New Year. We tell ourselves we’re “starting over” yet again. But we aren’t starting over. We’re just moving forward. Life doesn’t stop. Doesn’t pause…unless you’re dead…. Everything we’ve done prior is still there and still impacts our current situation. Starting over hints at a clean slate. But that isn’t the case. I mention this because so often we sort of dig ourse...

What drives us to make a change? Pain. Pain is an incredibly powerful motivator. And by pain I mean also often FEAR. It’s an odd thing, but we humans are truly more driven by pain than by gain. We may want a specific outcome, a specific positive… But we are most likely to actually make a change toward that goal when there is pain not just something to be gained. The idea of a six pack, the idea of...

Did the chicken or the egg come first? The question really is…does it ultimately matter? This thought occurred to me because of the cycle I see often going on when it comes to being frustrated by a lack of results from our hard work… Being brutally honest, often we’ve created our current situation, one we don’t like, because of improper dieting and workout practices. You can try to say you’ve work...

If you want to reach the highest level, you need to be obsessed. Obsession really just means you’re willing to do what others won’t even when you don’t want to. And yea sure, there is a dark side to obsession…honestly, like most things in life, there is a downside to them. But I truly do believe we feared being called “obsessed” for our actions when those that would call us that are always people...

So often the easy decision is just repeating the same habits and routines and patterns that haven’t moved us forward. If we’re feeling challenged and uncomfortable often that means we are on the right track. That we are doing what we need to do. If you’ve encountered times recently where you’ve wanted to give up… DON’T! Remind yourself of these things as you move into 2022 and plan to rock those r...

New Year, Same old you Well I’m about to give you a dose of reality. It’s a new year…but it’s still the same old YOU. So often I know we go in feeling like everything is just going to change because it’s this magical new year. And then…well…nothing does. Because we are still us. We’re still looking at the same thing from the same angle. We’re still expecting dramatic results while often falling ba...

I HATE Goal Setting I’ve honestly never been a huge fan of traditional goal setting as I feel like it can make us very rigid in our thinking. And the second we feel like we won’t hit a goal, we stop trying. Or we realize halfway through our goals aren’t…well, aren’t what we really need or want to accomplish so we give up on doing anything. Or we then don’t hold ourselves accountable toward the goa...

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” We all nod in agreement when we hear this. We all know change requires change. Yet for some reason, all too often we keep doing more of the same. And not only repeating the same habits, but often literally trying to do MORE of them!!! So we are doing the thing that isn’t working and doing more...

There will ALWAYS be ups and downs. That includes cycles in our leanness. I do NOT stay one weight, one exact leanness all year around. Have the ups and downs gotten smaller over the years? YUP! But that is due to constantly learning, creating that new set point and finding a BALANCE aka focusing more on consistency. It’s from the YEARS adding up. The longer we are at the weight we want to be at,...

We are what we tell ourselves we are. I wrote that line above and sat here for a bit really thinking on that because so much of who and what I've believed I am has changed massively over the years. And much by CHOICE. Many of you have heard me tell the story of starting my first blog and how I refused to take photos of myself or be on video. I wanted to write stuff. Not be a "person.&quo...

I’ve gotten a ton of questions about eating out and traveling and sticking with your macros.  It’s funny how much we LOOOOOVE to overcomplicate this situation. That’s why I wanted to chat through some strategies to help you stay on track even when you travel, especially if you’re traveling frequently for work. Because we have to remember that it isn’t necessarily perfection but that accountability...

I don’t know about you all, but I love Ted Lasso. In the episode Ryan and I were watching last night, he talked about people underestimating him his entire life. And how he didn’t understand it, but then saw a quote by Walt Whitman “Be curious not judgmental.” After seeing that quote, he realized that everyone was judging and no one was curious and that is why they constantly underestimated him. I...

The Best Training Schedule In The History Of The World I often get asked what the best training schedule is. And I’m generally getting asked because we are worried we aren’t doing enough. We definitely have the mindset of more is better. If we aren’t spending enough time in the gym, we can’t get results. But often this mindset is what holds us back. We design for the “ideal” over designing for wha...

I’d love to tell you there was a way to be happy 24/7. But that’s just not the reality of being human. Negative emotions are a part of life and a VALUABLE part at that. I think too often we just try to avoid or ignore them, but they are going to be there regardless. And actually often the more we “fight them” over owning up to them, the more they hold us back and drag us down. I saw a great equati...

It's YOUR Choice Things in our life are going to happen. Things outside of our control. There’s no denying that. But we also have to stop blaming these events for our successes or our failures and realize that ultimately we are in control. And this is actually a good thing. Yes, it stinks accepting full control because it also means you’re responsible for your failures, BUT it also gives you...

Am I Too Old? Are there changes that happen as we get older? 100%! But so often we blame our age for things within our power to change. We also blame our age for issues we’ve ALLOWED to actually build up over time. Improper dieting practices. A lack of a proper warm up…. Things we thought we could get away with when we were younger. That we thought “worked?” Well…let’s put it this way….just becaus...

So we’re entering the time of year that well…we often slack a bit on those healthy habits. We get busy. There are tons of work things and family events… Let’s face it…often the holidays are when our motivation fades and often our healthy habits fall by the wayside. But I think part of the reason why we ultimately lose progress so we feel we have to start over in the new year is because we’re holdi...

Funny how any time there is a blip or bump in the road toward results we feel like we’re failing. But we often ignore the fact that technically we can only suffer a setback because we’ve moved forward. And trust me…I get it. It’s frustrating when you’re working hard and things don’t work out. It’s hard when you’ve emotionally and physically invested in something for it to not only not move you for...

If you look at comments on different exercise posts, you can honestly start to believe that EVERY move is bad for you and super dangerous.  But I think too often we simply demonize moves over learning how to use them properly. Don’t get me wrong, there is risk with every move we include. But honestly there is risk doing any movement in life.  And it really isn’t that moves themselves are bad…it’s...

You know that downward spiral of negativity that can happen? Where one bad thing happens, maybe even something minor, and then stuff just seems to be piling on. And yes, while bad things are happening, you let your MINDSET only make things worse? We let ourselves begin to spiral. We begin to mentally tell ourselves… “Life sucks.” “I’m not good at anything.” “I hate everything and it’s a horrible,...

Overcorrecting...  You know when you've done too much of something so in an attempt to "correct" the situation you almost go overboard the other way? Yaaaa we've all been guilty of it when it comes to our diet...and even our workouts.... We go on vacation. Eat "too much" on a weekend day.... So to "make up" for the overindulgence, we seek out a cleanse or tr...

Results aren’t owned. They’re rented. And rent is due every freaking day. It’s due in the form of those habits. Because we can never stop doing what made us “better.” I know we want our cake and to eat it to, but you don’t get something for nothing. Results are truly earned. Earned by those boring, tedious habits you have to do day in and day out. The hard stuff you don’t want to do. I bring this...