The numbers
moved.
Three athletes from the current roster. Names anonymized to initials at their request. Numbers pulled from their app logs. No before/after photos — body-comp shots are easy to fake; the kg next to a date stamp isn’t.
“I came in with a 142.5 squat after seven years of self-coached drift. Three blocks later it was 175. The reason wasn’t volume — it was that the volume was right.”
“Body-comp was the goal but the lifts were the worry. We didn’t lose them. Down 7 kg, every comp lift the same or stronger. The food log was the unsexy half — that was where the work happened.”
“Coach wouldn’t let me touch a 1RM until block four. I argued the first three blocks. He was right; I was wrong. The 1RM was 32.5 kg higher than the spreadsheet predicted at week one.”
