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.
Inspired by Stephen Covey's "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", Cori emphasizes the importance of consistency over perfection with actions and mindset shifts in achieving health and fitness goals.
Cori discusses the concept of the "flat tire situation" in health and fitness journeys, where a single setback can lead to a spiral of negative behaviors and guilt. Discover the importance of recognizing these patterns with three tactics to help you recover more quickly from setbacks and self sabotage.
Go from being a lone wolf surviving to thriving with the help from your pack! Learn strategies for overcoming ego - accepting support and perspectives from others.
With summer quickly approaching, are you ready!? Find out what habits you can start doing today that will lead to that shredded summer body and even continue throughout summer!
You've heard the phrase "fake it till you make it." That's not what we will be covering... Instead, we will be going over "Act As If." It's not about faking the person you want to become but actually acting as if you already are that person! Learn about embracing discomfort, setting identity-driven habit goals, creating minimums to maintain momentum and taking full ownership of your journey to become the best version of yourself!
Feel like you are putting in the time, effort and dedication towards your workouts but just aren't getting the results you want? Find out why!
We've all been there... the struggle of knowing what to do but failing to implement it, often due to seeking quick fixes or new plans instead of acting on existing knowledge. Assess your current situation, focus on one small actionable change, and celebrate the success of daily habits you can do consistently.
You've been doing the same things and yet, you're not losing weight. Change requires change! Here's why that's so important...
Learn tips how you can be more mindful with your eating to get the results you want!
Maintaining the same habits without change can hinder progress. Learn how self-assessment and adjustments throughout the journey are important to continue seeing results. You need to be able to adapt routines to match evolving lifestyles. What once may have worked for your lifestyle, might now be holding you back! Change requires change! It's time to step out of your comfort zone to achieve the results you want!
So you want to see more ab definition… You want to achieve that elusive “six pack”... Well, here are 10 annoying nutrition tips to help you get there! But a word of warning to get abs, you can’t be concerned with sustainability. That comes later. This isn’t the time to focus on how you can work in your cocktails or your favorite desserts as much as I’m all about balance long-term. Because what we do to achieve a goal, is NOT what we do to maintain it. But to reach a level of leanness you’ve neve...
Sometimes you have to slow down to be able to speed up towards reaching those goals! Learn how taking a moment to pause between thought and action can help override automatic patterns and lead to more intentional decisions. Being more intentional with your daily habits can lead up to big results that last!
Ten reasons why you may not be seeing the results you desire in your health and fitness journey!
I "SHOULD" be in better shape. SHOULD That one word often sabotages the mindset changes we need to make and habit actions we need to take. “I “should” be further along.” Only makes us frustrated and feel broken and like a failure. It doesn’t help us learn or want to make more changes. “I “should” workout 6 days a week.” “I “should” track my macros.” Ideals are fabulous. But if you can’t do them? We often do NOTHING. We need to, as one of my fabulous coaches says “Stop SHOULDING all over ourselve...
Uncover the importance of creating a sustainable health and fitness routine that fits one's current life stage and priorities. While realizing the significance of starting small, understanding one's deeper motivations, and making incremental changes that lead to long-term success is the first place to start!
Unrealistic expectations can lead to frustration and emotional sabotage! While we can set goals, we cannot control the exact rate of progress. Instead, focus on controllable actions such as diet, exercise, and sleep routines to help drive success. By setting realistic expectations based on actions within our control, we can build momentum and ultimately achieve our desired outcomes.
The changes we least want to make are the ones we need the most. And often we already know the answer to the question of “What diet changes do I need to make to see results?”…we just need to be REMINDED of what to do. We need to be reminded to take our ego out of the equation and go back to basics. Any eating We need to be reminded to Suck It Up Buttercup and do the hard habits that lead to results. That’s why I’m going to start by telling you the change you need to make the most but will most w...
This Redefining Strength Podcast episode focuses on the importance of silencing the inner critic to succeed in health and fitness journeys. The conversation covers practical strategies for recognizing and managing self-critical thoughts, such as treating oneself with the same kindness as a friend, identifying patterns of negative thinking, and using self-compassion mantras. The episode aims to help individuals shift their perspective, embrace their progress, and maintain motivation by fostering ...
You want to burn fat while building muscle? Great! Here are 7 steps to adjust your diet and workouts to focus on body recomposition… Yes, you can achieve changes in both your muscle mass and fat mass at the same time. And this ideally should be where your focus is if you want to look and feel your best. But this is a slow process. So stop searching for a fad diet or quick fix.
Struggling with failure? You’re not alone! This episode breaks down why failure isn’t the opposite of success—it’s part of the journey. Learn how to shift your mindset, recognize roadblocks you may be creating, and turn setbacks into learning opportunities that push you forward.
Don’t fight your lazy—use it to your advantage! Lean into that creature of habit to learn and develop new, sustainable habits!
I wanted to lose fat and get ab definition for the longest time and struggled hard. I blamed it on willpower. My love of food. My genetics. But I realized it was a really lack of experience in understanding in how fat loss works. That's why I want to share 10 years of fat loss advice in under 10 minutes!
Struggling to build lasting habits? Think of habits as rocks on a field—The Habit Rock Pile-some big, some small. If you overload yourself, you’ll never make it across to the finish line. Learn how to stack habits in the right way for long-term success!
Weights are not the only way to progress your workouts and build strength and muscle. And the more advanced an exerciser you are, the more you have to even turn to other forms of progression in our workouts to keep seeing results. These tips are helpful too when training at home or traveling to help you create that challenge to build. So whether you’re finding yourself stuck at the loads you’re currently using, don’t have heavier weights available or simply need to challenge yourself through the...
We are what we repeatedly do. If we want to reach our goals, we need to implement new habits daily. But creating new habits isn’t as simple as learning something new. It’s first becoming CONSCIOUS of daily habits we’re doing that are so comfortable we don’t even realize we are doing them to unlearn AS we also learn the new routines. This process is hard and it’s why so often we don’t make the changes we need or stick with the new habits for long. That’s why I want to share 15 habit hacks I wish ...
“It’s not my workouts. It’s my diet.” I struggled to make the nutritional changes I needed to see the fat loss and muscle definition I wanted for the longest time. I tried to out exercise my diet. But you can’t. At least not for long. And the more we try to, the more we sabotage our long-term success. Not to mention the more we make it harder and harder to lose the weight and stay lean as we get older. So as much as we may try, there is no way around making changes to our diet if we want to see ...
The places we want to lose from first are often the LAST to go. And in the process of losing fat, they often look WORSE before they look better because areas around them shrink as they stay EXACTLY THE SAME. This makes losing belly fat even more frustrating on top of the fact that the area is scientifically more stubborn! Yup…I say scientifically more stubborn because the lack of blood flow and the breakdown of alpha and beta fat cells in the area, make this area very hard to lose from. Not to m...
Your Blueprint for 2025
In this episode, we're going to look at why you need to embrace being DIScomfortable.
1% changes can lead to BIG Improvements!
