Strength + Self

Just because a certain meal plan or macro ratio worked before, doesn’t necessarily mean it will again. You need to remember where you were during those other times in your life. How much exercise you were doing and the amount of muscle you had. Hormones, other stress factors, lifestyle, nutrition, consistency, habits…

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This episode shares 3 important tools to implement in order to help you understand where you are and where you need to be for your successful goal achievement.

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If we feel sore after a workout, then chances are we did our best to get the gainz. This episode shares 9 ways that you can likely ensure you feel the burn or DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) after any session.

Hint: there’s some sarcasm attached to this! But it’s the truth we need to hear.

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Many of my clients comes with an attached with a goal of weight loss - and that’s very understandable. That’s what we do at CFL Coaching.

It’s not easy. And it takes a long time. And there are a lot of side effects that come with being in a caloric deficit. I call them red flags.

This episode shares the ‘not so pretty’ (but honest!) truth about what happens in a caloric deficit. This isn’t always going to be the case for everyone, but it happens, and we try to reduce and eliminate that as much as possible.

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Flexible dieting and IIFYM are not the same thing. My unpopular opinion is that IIFYM (if it fits your macros) is part of the diet culture. I break down the difference between these two approaches to nutrition, and which one I believe can often times be superior to improving someone’s relationship with food (and therefore likely to support body composition changes like losing fat and gaining muscle.)

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To better understand effective reps, we need to first understand what hypertrophy is. Then we need to understand the difference between fatigue and hypertrophy. Once we know the difference, we need to focus so intently on every single rep within the sets and move our body and muscles in a way that encourages hypertrophy to make every single rep more effective.

All of this is broken down in this episode.

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It’s not the fat that’s stubborn to come off, it’s that you’re stubborn to make changes/sacrifices in your life to actually get that weight to come off. Sharing 5 lifestyle tips that can be improved upon in order to get those 5 (or 10) pounds off, plus 2 extra free resources for you.

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Guesstimating your macros should be accurate, but chances are you aren’t doing it correctly. Sharing 4 common errors that I help clients overcome and improve upon so they can have a social life that aligns with their goals as well.

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Sharing my personal experience (challenges and growth) that came with my weight gain during competition prep (December 2020 to April 2021.) Including 4 big things I learned during this time to help break my own glass ceiling when it comes to overcoming the mindfck of seeing the scale number increase.

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I really believe that competition prep has been over glorified and over glamorized. Although there are so many great aspects that come along with it, it’s not all about looking shredded and feeling great. And in all honesty, I think it’s really boring. So this is my insight as to why I believe prep is boring.

This episode is also on my IGTV!

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To change our physique (muscle shape and size) we need to force hypertrophy onto the muscles. We do that with progressive overload. But too much can result in junk training. So how do we know what’s enough and what’s too much?

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My Macros+ nutrition tracking: CourtneyU