Women Strength Society

You said you want to be in the best shape of your life. Then the week got busy, the snacking crept in, and you told yourself it was fine. Sound familiar?We share the gap between the goals women say out loud and the actions that actually back them up. Fair warning, this one comes with a bit of spice and a lot of honesty.IN THIS EPISODE WE CHAT:What makes a goal genuinely ambitious (and why most women underestimate the one they just set for themselves)The client at the end of her fat loss phase who knew better, and the pattern in her food diary that explained the whole weekThe role your coach should play in your transformation journey - and it's not to be your cheerleader.What signing up for an Ironman without a road bike has taught Yannick about delusional goalsThe proof you should be seeing week to week, and why more reps at the same weight isn't itThe language that gives away your resistance before you even notice it yourselfWhy some goals exist purely so you can find out whether you actually want the life behind themREADY TO GO ALL IN AND BECOME YOUR STRONGEST, FITTEST, AND HOTTEST SELF?🔥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠​Apply for Private 1-1 Female Physique Coaching →⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Fully personalized training & nutrition, check-ins & weekly data reviews, video form feedback, and direct private coach access. For women who want a complete physique transformation and the highest level of individualization, told exactly what to do every step of the way.

Elite shape in 90 days. Ambitious? Yes. Delusional? But only if you go in winging it. We walk through exactly how we'd set up a 90 day push, from the week one testing to the aggressive deficit, the 15,000 steps, and the two unsexy skills that remove about 95% of the problems most women run intoIN THIS EPISODE WE CHAT:Why 90 days won't build the body, but it can reveal the one you've been building for yearsThe full week one assessment we run before touching a single macro (and why "here are your macros and your plan" is the lazy version)What your heart rate at low intensity is quietly telling you about your carb toleranceWhy we go aggressively from the get-go on a short timeline, and why we'd never do that on a longer fat loss phaseThe one macro number we set from your target body weight instead of your current oneThe conversation I'd have with the people closest to me before day one (and who doesn't get an explanation at all)The thing I had scheduled in my calendar during bikini prep that most people would find strangeWhy your initial protocol is guaranteed to change, and what we adjust first when the scale stallsREADY TO GO ALL IN AND BECOME YOUR STRONGEST, FITTEST, AND HOTTEST SELF?🔥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠​Apply for Private 1-1 Female Physique Coaching →⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Fully personalized training & nutrition, check-ins & weekly data reviews, video form feedback, and direct private coach access. For women who want a complete physique transformation and the highest level of individualization, told exactly what to do every step of the way.

You lost the 5kg. Then you found them again. And again. Meanwhile the photos from last year look exactly like the photos from this year, even though you're lifting four times a week, tracking, walking, sleeping. We're pulling apart the cut-and-rebound trap: why your effort hasn't been wasted, and why it also hasn't been good enough.IN THIS EPISODE WE CHAT:The two things that are both true at once: your last few years weren't wasted, and what you were doing still wasn't good enoughWhy "I'm in a fat loss phase" tells you almost nothing about whether you'll actually get resultsThe five phases your body has to move through, and the four most women have never heard ofWhat we spotted in a client who'd already done cuts, builds, and years with other coaches, and still wasn't thereThe question you should be asking your coach (and why staying quiet keeps you stuck)Why the phase you think you need next is usually the wrong oneThe "I'll go back to normal after this" belief that quietly undoes every transformationREADY TO GO ALL IN AND BECOME YOUR STRONGEST, FITTEST, AND HOTTEST SELF?🔥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠​Apply for Private 1-1 Female Physique Coaching →⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Fully personalized training & nutrition, check-ins & weekly data reviews, video form feedback, and direct private coach access. For women who want a complete physique transformation and the highest level of individualization, told exactly what to do every step of the way.

There's an entire industry built around the things you do, and almost nothing on the thing that lets any of it actually work. Recovery is the glue, and no, it's not just sleep. We pull apart the three pillars of recovery, why your tracker might be making things worse, and the uncomfortable question we ask women who are already doing everything right.IN THIS EPISODE WE CHAT:Why recovery is the glue that holds every result you're chasing together (and why nobody's selling it to you)The sleep number we treat as non-negotiable, and what we actually see on trackers when we onboard new womenWhat a fat loss phase and a building phase each look like when sleep isn't there (neither goes the way you'd expect)The reason your recovery tracker might be doing more harm than goodThe rugby study that changed how we look at effort, and what it means for your next sessionHow to talk yourself into a couple more reps mid-set by changing something that has nothing to do with your musclesCold plunge, red light, compression boots, supplements: where they honestly rank, and the one thing they can never replaceThe question we ask clients that some coaches would call a red flag (we think it's the healthiest question you can ask yourself)READY TO GO ALL IN AND BECOME YOUR STRONGEST, FITTEST, AND HOTTEST SELF?🔥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠​Apply for Private 1-1 Female Physique Coaching →⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Fully personalized training & nutrition, check-ins & weekly data reviews, video form feedback, and direct private coach access. For women who want a complete physique transformation and the highest level of individualization, told exactly what to do every step of the way.

Nobody in this industry wants to say this out loud, because it doesn't sell: You can't have the pizza, the happy hour and the jaw-dropping transformation at the same time. We're pulling apart what eating out does to your fat loss phase, your scale, your motivation and your data. And what happens when you finally learn to say no.IN THIS EPISODE WE CHAT:Why the "you never have to give anything up" promise is a plague on the fitness industry (and who it actually serves)The salt and scale pattern that quietly eats five days out of every single weekWhat restaurant kitchens are optimising for, and it is definitely not your waistlineWhy loose nutrition rules create more food obsession than strict ones, not lessThe one thing you can only learn about your body during a phase of full accuracyThe client who lost 15kg in a year, and the change that showed up in her business insteadThe comparison nobody makes when they call this way of living miserableREADY TO GO ALL IN AND BECOME YOUR STRONGEST, FITTEST, AND HOTTEST SELF?🔥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠​Apply for Private 1-1 Female Physique Coaching →⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Fully personalized training & nutrition, check-ins & weekly data reviews, video form feedback, and direct private coach access. For women who want a complete physique transformation and the highest level of individualization, told exactly what to do every step of the way.

We're making the case that nutrition was never your bottleneck, why consistency on its own proves nothing, and the uncomfortable numbers behind how many women actually have the muscle they think they're hiding. IN THIS EPISODE WE CHAT:Why training sits above nutrition in the hierarchy (and the one point we openly disagreed on)The years I spent 99% focused on food, standing in grocery aisles reading ingredient lists, while the real problem sat somewhere else entirelyThe spectrum test that shows you where your training actually sits, when everyone around you does lessOut of 500+ women we've coached, how many genuinely had the muscle they thought was hiding under the fluffThe pull-up check that tells you in about 30 seconds whether muscle mass is your limiting factorWhy taking every set to failure left Yannick weaker and heavierThe one number that proves your training is working, and why "it felt hard" is not itREADY TO GO ALL IN AND BECOME YOUR STRONGEST, FITTEST, AND HOTTEST SELF?🔥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠​Apply for Private 1-1 Female Physique Coaching →⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Fully personalized training & nutrition, check-ins & weekly data reviews, video form feedback, and direct private coach access. For women who want a complete physique transformation and the highest level of individualization, told exactly what to do every step of the way.

After coaching hundreds of women, we can usually work out within minutes which one you are, and it's not vibes, it's data.We're pulling apart the three things we look at to decide whether you'll build that lean, defined, athletic look, or spend another three years looking exactly the same.IN THIS EPISODE WE CHAT:The three buckets we scan the moment a woman comes to us, and why none of it is guessworkWhy 20 years in the gym can still leave you at beginner strength, and what most coaches won't say out loudThe breakfast hill we will die on, and the research on what happens when your deficit lands around your trainingWhat the scale going up half a kilo actually means, and why panicking there sends you straight back to the body you already haveThe numbers the woman who looks like she lifts can recite from memory, including what they were 12 months agoThe one thing we spotted in a new client's training log that showed us she'd progress before she'd even finished week oneWhy "I've tried everything" is the sentence that ends your transformation

Almost 30 kilos added to her back squat. In a deficit. And she hit the PB in the last week of her fat loss phase, the week that's supposed to break you. Most women lean out, watch their strength tank, and accept it as the price of getting lean. Eva didn't. This week we pull apart exactly how her training was built, block by block.IN THIS EPISODE WE CHAT:The strength numbers we test at the very start, and what it means if you're sitting below themWhy her programme had less volume than she was used to (never more than three sets per exercise) and why that made her stronger, not weakerWhat we did when a medical intervention derailed her first block and left her body inflamedThe cardio protocol we reach for to bring inflammation down, and the exact heart rate it lives atWhy we keep reps on the lower side in a fat loss phase, and what that has to do with keeping the muscle you already builtThe block by block progression that built up to a 72.5kg one rep maxThe uncomfortable truth about "every woman should build first," and why we don't buy itThe thing Eva did outside the gym that made all of it possibleREADY TO GO ALL IN AND BECOME YOUR STRONGEST, FITTEST, AND HOTTEST SELF?🔥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠​Apply for Private 1-1 Female Physique Coaching →⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Fully personalized training & nutrition, check-ins & weekly data reviews, video form feedback, and direct private coach access. For women who want a complete physique transformation and the highest level of individualization, told exactly what to do every step of the way.

There's one question we ask every woman before she works with us, and the answer (or the silence) tells us everything. Most women who say they "just need to lose the fluff" have no idea whether there's anything underneath to reveal. If you've tried every macro split, every calorie range, and your shape still hasn't changed, this one's for you.IN THIS EPISODE WE CHAT:The question we put on every consultation form, and why the silence that follows tells us more than any answer ever couldWhy "I just need to lose the layer of fat" is usually a red flag, not a planWhat losing weight actually gets you when there's no muscle underneath (it's not the look you're picturing)The women everyone points to as proof you don't need to lift heavy, and what's really going on in their trainingMultivitamin, creatine, collagen, ashwagandha... and no idea what your 10 rep max is. Why that stack is missing the forest for the treesWhy following a structured program with progressive overload built in still isn't enough (the piece you have to own)The case for getting stronger that has nothing to do with how you look in the mirrorREADY TO GO ALL IN AND BECOME YOUR STRONGEST, FITTEST, AND HOTTEST SELF?🔥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠​Apply for Private 1-1 Female Physique Coaching →⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Fully personalized training & nutrition, check-ins & weekly data reviews, video form feedback, and direct private coach access. For women who want a complete physique transformation and the highest level of individualization, told exactly what to do every step of the way.

You're lifting heavier than you were in January. So why does your body look the same? Spoiler: adding weight to the bar isn't progressive overload if your execution changed underneath it. Yannick and I break down exactly how we'd rebuild your training, from your first phase to the strength numbers you should actually be hitting in a year. Tactical, and a little uncomfortable.IN THIS EPISODE WE CHAT:Why a training program that changes every four weeks feels like progress and isn'tThe tempo detail we fix first, and why "overcooked spaghetti" reps quietly cancel your overloadWhat happened when I put my January back squat next to my December oneWhy we start most women on two sets per movement The two splits we use with almost every woman, and the one we'd never write for youThe cardio test 99% of women have never done, and what it reveals about your metabolic stateThe exact strength numbers you should be adding in 12 months, so you can check yourselfREADY TO GO ALL IN AND BECOME YOUR STRONGEST, FITTEST, AND HOTTEST SELF?🔥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠​Apply for Private 1-1 Female Physique Coaching →⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Fully personalized training & nutrition, check-ins & weekly data reviews, video form feedback, and direct private coach access. For women who want a complete physique transformation and the highest level of individualization, told exactly what to do every step of the way.