Denise R.

Denise had never trained with weights. We spent the first two weeks of FOUNDATION on three things only: the hinge, the split squat, and getting off the floor. She has arthritis in her right knee, so every deep-knee movement got swapped for a trap bar and a box, and the split squat range got cut until it stopped talking back.

She quit in week five. She emailed me to say the loads were too small for it to be worth her time. I sent her back her own week-one video and she spotted the difference in her hinge before I said a word. She came back two days later, finished the block, and took her trap bar deadlift from 75 pounds (34 kg) to 135 (61 kg).