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The Beyond Body Show

The Beyond Body Show

Jen Rudy 57 Episodes Oct 14, 2026

The Beyond Body Show helps ambitious women build a strong, fit, balanced, and capable body to reach their fullest potential. It releases new episodes every Wednesday covering fitness, training, mindset, and nutrition. The show aims to transform listeners' relationship with health and wellness and help them make progress on their journey. Host Jen Rudy also offers 1:1 coaching, with more information available on her Instagram or website.

Episodes

Is alcohol really that bad for your progress?
Is alcohol really that bad for your progress? Oct 14, 2026 24:56 In this episode of the Beyond Body Show, Jen breaks down what alcohol actually does to your fat loss, recovery and body composition, without telling you what to do with your weekends. She explains why your body puts fat burning and muscle protein synthesis on pause while the liver processes alcohol, why alcohol calories are easy to underestimate, and how even low doses disrupt the deep sleep where
Periods, Cycle Syncing, and Staying On Track in Your Luteal Phase
Periods, Cycle Syncing, and Staying On Track in Your Luteal Phase Oct 7, 2026 30:53 Jen breaks down the four phases of the menstrual cycle and why the luteal phase in particular tends to derail consistency for so many women. She explains the real physiology behind luteal-phase hunger, cravings, and mood shifts (rising BMR, dropping serotonin), covers PMDD and why under-eating makes it worse, and debunks popular cycle-syncing advice by looking at what the research actually says ab
Understanding Progressive Overload & How to Apply It
Understanding Progressive Overload & How to Apply It Sep 30, 2026 51:53 In this episode, Jen breaks down progressive overload (the single most important principle for actually changing your physique), and why so many consistent gym-goers still don't see results. She explains why group fitness classes and unstructured workouts often fail to build real strength (no consistent movements, minimal rest, constantly varying stimulus), and walks through the specific levers yo
Resilience, Auto-Regulation, and How to Stay Consistent When Life Gets Hard
Resilience, Auto-Regulation, and How to Stay Consistent When Life Gets Hard Sep 23, 2026 34:55 Hard seasons are inevitable. Losing your training routine because of them doesn't have to be. In this episode Jen breaks down one of the most undervalued conversations in fitness — what to actually do with your training when life takes everything you have. Whether you're in the middle of grief, burnout, a relationship falling apart, or a season where just getting through the day feels like enough
Aesthetic Goals, Health Goals, and How To Hold Both Without Losing Your Mind
Aesthetic Goals, Health Goals, and How To Hold Both Without Losing Your Mind Sep 16, 2026 24:38 In this episode, Jen tackles the tension between wanting aesthetic results and not wanting your body to run your life. She breaks down the "values ladder," a framework for structuring your health and fitness goals so your physique isn't the thing driving the bus. She covers why negativity bias skews how you see your own progress, why daily wins matter more than daily mirror checks, and how to buil
Why You Know What To Do But Still Don't Do It
Why You Know What To Do But Still Don't Do It Sep 2, 2026 30:23 Ever wonder why you can plan the "perfect" week every Sunday and still end up off track a few days later? Jen tackles that exact question in this episode, names the "behavior-intention gap" and explains why it has nothing to do with willpower. This one's for the woman who's already healed her relationship with food and fitness and is ready to chase the next 20%: more strength, more definition, mor
Understanding Fat Loss for the Neurodivergent/ADHD Brain
Understanding Fat Loss for the Neurodivergent/ADHD Brain Aug 26, 2026 55:22 Why does fat loss feel so much harder for some women than others, even with the exact same plan? In this episode, Jen digs into the connection between neurodivergence, ADHD, and consistency, breaking down why dopamine regulation, executive dysfunction, and rejection sensitive dysphoria make the standard "just follow the plan" advice almost impossible to sustain. She shares the exact systems she bu
Jen's Bodybuilding Journey
Jen's Bodybuilding Journey Aug 19, 2026 48:19 What does it actually take to compete in bodybuilding, and what does it cost? In this episode, Jen tells her full competition story for the first time, from backstage with pneumonia to years of restrictive dieting, food intolerances, and injuries that came from chasing a physique she thought would fix everything. She unpacks the difference between real discipline and what she calls "discipline wit
You Can't Fake This: Chasing Discomfort & Building Main Character Energy
You Can't Fake This: Chasing Discomfort & Building Main Character Energy Aug 12, 2026 46:23 In this episode, Jen unpacks why performative confidence always has a ceiling, and why real confidence is built through the gap between who you say you are and how you actually show up. She breaks down discomfort as a mechanism for change, why resistance is usually a sign you're right at the edge of a breakthrough, and shares her own "pile of laundry" analogy for spotting the difference between pr
Reverse Dieting & the Fear of Eating More Food
Reverse Dieting & the Fear of Eating More Food Aug 5, 2026 28:16 What happens when you understand exactly why you should eat more, but your body still panics the moment you try? In this episode, Jen answers a DM from a listener describing that exact fear, and uses it to explain the deeply wired brain patterns behind why increasing your calories can feel dangerous even when it isn't. She covers the truth about scale weight fluctuations, the difference between wh
Extreme Ownership
Extreme Ownership Jul 29, 2026 25:09 Two women can have the exact same schedule, the same hormones, the same struggles, and get completely different results. In this episode, Jen explains why the difference almost always comes down to ownership, not willpower, not genetics, not even motivation. She walks through the concept of extreme ownership borrowed from leadership frameworks, the crucial difference between ownership and punishin
The Calorie Deficit, Cardio & Fat Loss Episode Nobody Ever Gave You
The Calorie Deficit, Cardio & Fat Loss Episode Nobody Ever Gave You Jul 22, 2026 41:44 Calorie deficits aren't complicated, but most women have been taught to approach them in a way that works against them. In this episode, Jen unpacks how your body really burns energy (hint: your workout is a much smaller piece of it than you think), why the "fat burning zone" on cardio machines isn't the hack it's marketed as, and why so many women end up exhausted, under-recovered, and stuck desp

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