# Tara Laferrara

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141: The Bikini Body Trap: Your Body Doesn't Have a Seasonal Deadline

If you grew up in the Pinterest and early Facebook era, you probably learned early that summer meant one thing: getting your body ready for it. It all starts with restrictive diets in April, punishing workouts, and a whole lot of self-criticism in front of the mirror.  Most millennial women nev ...

140: Bouncing Back Myth, Invisible Grief & Identity Shift of Badass Moms with Jenna Kennedy

The identity shift that comes with motherhood is one of the least talked about transitions a woman will ever go through. Research shows it rivals puberty and menopause in the scale of psychological and neurological change it triggers in a woman's brain and body. For high-achieving women, that s ...

139: Training Through Your Cycle: The Smart Way to Stay Consistent

A ⁠2025 study⁠ out of McMaster University found that your body builds muscle the same whether you're in your follicular phase or your luteal phase. Your muscles, it turns out, do not care what your cycle tracker says. So why are so many women losing their consistency, skipping workouts, and reb ...

138: Why Under-Eating Protein Is the Reason Your Body Isn't Changing with JJ Virgin

Your body will literally overeat to hunt for protein it is not getting. It is called the protein leverage hypothesis, and it means your hunger is not a willpower problem. It is a signal that something is missing. So no, you are not broken. You are not lazy. Your body is doing exactly what it is ...

Episode 137: Stop Training to Shrink, Start Training for the Woman You'll Be at 70

Okay, real question: how do you want to feel at 70? Not look but feel. Because the second you start training through that lens, everything about fitness shifts, and suddenly the goal isn't a smaller body anymore. It's a body that actually works. Here's the thing nobody in the fitness industry w ...

155: Sarah Bomer, RD: Nutrition for Women — The Myths Keeping You Confused, Underfed, and Overthinking Food

For women who strength train, nutrition is the thing everyone has an opinion on and almost nobody explains clearly. The information is loud, it is contradictory, and a lot of it is coming from people who spent a week getting a certification online. The result is food noise — the constant mental ...

156: How Overtraining Impacts Muscle Growth and Fat Loss

For way too long, I thought training more meant training better. Six or seven days a week, sometimes twice a day, because if I wasn’t pushing my limits, was I even making progress? I see this all the time now. People grinding through back-to-back workouts, ignoring the signals their bodies are ...

159: Erica Lowery: Strength Training for Women — The Plyometric and Isometric Tools Most Programs Are Missing

For women who strength train consistently and feel like something is still missing, it is probably not the program or the effort. The tools that elite collegiate strength coaches use with their athletes — plyometrics, isometrics, contrast training, tempo work — are almost never included in gener ...

Episode 438: Tara LaFerrara: Why Quitting Alcohol Is Your Secret Weapon for Better Fitness

Is alcohol consumption holding back your fitness progress? in this Fitness Friday episode on the Habits and Hustle Podcast, I talk with Tara LaFerrara and she gets brutally honest! We discuss why alcohol, even in moderate amounts, negatively affects everything from sleep quality to body composit ...

Episode 436: Tara LaFerrara: Why Strength Training Beats Cardio for Women's Long-Term Health

Are cardio workouts or strength training better for women? Fitness coach Tara settles this ongoing debate in this Fitness Friday episode on the Habits and Hustle Podcast.  We discuss why cardio, despite its mental clarity benefits, can lead to increased hunger and calorie consumption, while str ...