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Inside the Program: Why You're Doing Everything Right and Getting Nothing Back
Inside the Program: Why You're Doing Everything Right and Getting Nothing Back
Four reasons your body won't budge. One is probably yours.
Doing everything right and getting nowhere? It's one of these four walls. Sometimes all four.
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If you’ve been training, eating reasonably well, actually trying, and your body is not budging — this episode is the diagnostic.
There are four walls that women with mileage (and the receipts to prove it) keep slamming into when they seek powerful physique transformation:
under-fueling,
under-loading,
under-recovering,
and over-doing cardio.
Every one of these obstacles has a fix. Pick the one you know — in your gut — you’re bumping against hardest.
Improve upon that one for seven days. See what your body says. It will show you.
Here’s what’s running in the Training Lab right now:
Week 3 of the Back, Glute & Hamstring Cycle (paid)
Interactive workout app with set/rep logging, protein tracker, deload protocol
Subscriber chat for Week 3 cues and form questions
Posterior chain training PDF (password-protected for subscribers)
We’re at the midpoint of the cycle — two weeks of strategic loading still to come, then a deload, then the next cycle launches in June. Annual subscriptions include both.
Your subscription keeps the lights on at Save Our Paws — the Romanian rescue I run that pulls dogs off the kill list and gets them to families. Every paid subscription puts another dog on the plane.
Get Inside the Training Lab
Your pal,
Michellealso on Instagram
P.S.
If you missed Sunday’s protein deep-dive over on my Substack, that’s the place to start on Wall 1 → “Most women over 40 are eating half the protein they need.” The math hits different when you actually do it on your own plate.
P.P.S.
Eve is everywhere. Eve is most of you. Eve is sometimes me. Be nice to Eve, frendos. She’s trying.
Even more…
The new Deep Kimchi Training Labs app — paid subscribers only
Previous podcast episode: The Protein Memo Nobody Sent You→
https://deepkimchi.substack.com/p/the-protein-memo-nobody-sent-you
New on Substack — Most Women Eat Half the Protein They Need →
https://deepkimchi.substack.com/p/most-women-40-eat-half-the-protein
Share Deep Kimchi
A portion of every paid subscription supports Save Our Paws, an animal rescue in Romania.
Subscribe at https://deepkimchi.substack.com/subscribe
Subscribe now
About Deep Kimchi:
Evidence-based strength training and nutrition for women in midlife. No fluff. No pink dumbbells. No recycled advice from someone who’s never had a hot flash. Just programming that accounts for your biology and respects your intelligence.
Michelle Burleson is a bestselling author, coach, former D1 athlete, and taekwondo black belt specializing in women’s midlife strength and nutrition at DeepKimchi.Substack.Com.
Get full access to Deep Kimchi at deepkimchi.substack.com/subscribe
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Inside the Program: Why You're Doing Everything Right and Getting Nothing Back
Four reasons your body won't budge. One is probably yours.
Doing everything right and getting nowhere? It's one of these four walls. Sometimes all four.
--
If you’ve been training, eating reasonably well, actually trying, and your body is not budging — this episode is the diagnostic.
There are four walls that women with mileage (and the receipts to prove it) keep slamming into when they seek powerful physique transformation:
under-fueling,
under-loading,
under-recovering,
and over-doing cardio.
Every one of these obstacles has a fix. Pick the one you know — in your gut — you’re bumping against hardest.
Improve upon that one for seven days. See what your body says. It will show you.
Here’s what’s running in the Training Lab right now:
Week 3 of the Back, Glute & Hamstring Cycle (paid)
Interactive workout app with set/rep logging, protein tracker, deload protocol
Subscriber chat for Week 3 cues and form questions
Posterior chain training PDF (password-protected for subscribers)
We’re at the midpoint of the cycle — two weeks of strategic loading still to come, then a deload, then the next cycle launches in June. Annual subscriptions include both.
Your subscription keeps the lights on at Save Our Paws — the Romanian rescue I run that pulls dogs off the kill list and gets them to families. Every paid subscription puts another dog on the plane.
Get Inside the Training Lab
Your pal,
Michellealso on Instagram
P.S.
If you missed Sunday’s protein deep-dive over on my Substack, that’s the place to start on Wall 1 → “Most women over 40 are eating half the protein they need.” The math hits different when you actually do it on your own plate.
P.P.S.
Eve is everywhere. Eve is most of you. Eve is sometimes me. Be nice to Eve, frendos. She’s trying.
Even more…
The new Deep Kimchi Training Labs app — paid subscribers only
Previous podcast episode: The Protein Memo Nobody Sent You→
https://deepkimchi.substack.com/p/the-protein-memo-nobody-sent-you
New on Substack — Most Women Eat Half the Protein They Need →
https://deepkimchi.substack.com/p/most-women-40-eat-half-the-protein
Share Deep Kimchi
A portion of every paid subscription supports Save Our Paws, an animal rescue in Romania.
Subscribe at https://deepkimchi.substack.com/subscribe
Subscribe now
About Deep Kimchi:
Evidence-based strength training and nutrition for women in midlife. No fluff. No pink dumbbells. No recycled advice from someone who’s never had a hot flash. Just programming that accounts for your biology and respects your intelligence.
Michelle Burleson is a bestselling author, coach, former D1 athlete, and taekwondo black belt specializing in women’s midlife strength and nutrition at DeepKimchi.Substack.Com.
Get full access to Deep Kimchi at deepkimchi.substack.com/subscribe