Redefining Strength Blog
FHP 412 – Someone Always Has it Easier
Guess what? Someone always has it easier than you. And someone always has it harder than you. But also guess what? It doesn't MATTER IN THE FREAKING SLIGHTEST. All you can ever do is work based on your situation, your needs, your goals, your lucky breaks and horrible...
Don’t Skip This BICEP EXERCISE
We don’t cheat intentionally, but it is easy at times to let momentum help us out. I see this happening a lot on bicep curls. And while isolation exercises like bicep curls are key if you have a stubborn area and want to create better muscle hypertrophy or growth, if...
Target Your LOWER ABS – The Best Lower Ab Exercise You Aren’t Doing
Now my favorite comment I get any time I post anything to work the lower abs is… “You don’t have lower ab muscles.” And that’s true. There is no specific lower ab muscle. But you CAN target that lower portion of your rectus abdominis to a greater extent with specific...
Lose Weight And Keep It Off FOREVER! Try These 3 Tips
The faster we want to see results, often the more we set ourselves up for long term failure. Because we ultimately implement habits and routines that simply aren’t sustainable. And by trying to rush our results we also often create metabolic adaptations and hormonal...
FHP 409 – Starting From Scratch
I’m telling you this as an incredibly stubborn, at times very pigheaded, person that definitely likes to learn by doing…and failing. However, over time, as much as I value those learning experiences, I’ve come to realize it’s ok to want a little “cheat code” to get...
The Right Way To Get A Strong Lower Back (4 exercises)
Many of us have thought to ourselves, “My lower back is so weak” when we’ve been suffering from lower back aches and pains. We feel it during ab movements or deadlifts and think that we feel it because we need to strengthen it. But what if the problem isn’t that your...
The Worst Diet For Fat Loss – Why Intuitive Eating Doesn’t Work For Fat Loss
I was in a discussion about weight loss with a couple of people and one of my clients was listening in. One person said that they believe the best way to lose weight is to listen to your body and eat intuitively. When my client and I walked away, she said to me… “What...
The Most Underrated BODYWEIGHT Leg Exercise
Too often we only think about progressing movements to build muscle by adding loads. However, you can build muscle by creating progression in other ways especially if you don’t have any tools at your disposal. If it challenges you, it will change you. So if you’re...
My Most Hated Video – Stop Exercise Shaming!
You know why there are so many different perspectives out there in fitness? Because there are a ton of different things that can work based on your needs and goals. Are some of them a bit far out there and only work for those rare few? Yup. But as my husband was told...
