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Alex is 24.In the spring he coached a high school baseball team. Through the summer he ran his own travel team.Around al...
09/03/2026

Alex is 24.

In the spring he coached a high school baseball team. Through the summer he ran his own travel team.

Around all of that he was working as an EMT and in dialysis.

There was not much space left in a week like that. There would not be at any age.

A year ago today he joined anyway.

Nobody with a week like that would have been blamed for waiting for a quieter year.

We're glad he didn't.

Last month his EMT shifts moved to twelve-hour days, four of them in a row, up in Boulder Canyon.

That's usually where somebody quietly stops coming.

He trains on the few days off he has left.

On the days he doesn't have off, he's here at 5:30 in the morning, before the shift starts.

That's what a year of structure actually buys you. When the schedule breaks, you rebuild it instead of stopping.

He's the person I point at when somebody tells me they're too busy.

Spring baseball comes back around in a few months, and he'll work that one out too.

One year, Alex. Congrats!

We have a lot of women in this gym who are in perimenopause or menopause right now.None of them are on a menopause progr...
09/02/2026

We have a lot of women in this gym who are in perimenopause or menopause right now.

None of them are on a menopause program, because there isn't one.

They lift heavy two or three days a week. They eat more protein than they used to. They eat enough food to fuel it.

Their coach decides when it gets heavier, based on what they lifted the week before.

That's the whole thing.

The training isn't unusual. What's unusual is that almost every one of them spent years being told it wasn't for her.

If you're in this stage of life, you don't need a different program.

You need the normal one, and somebody to show you how to do it.

Around menopause your estrogen drops, and a few things change at once.Your body starts putting more fat around your midd...
08/31/2026

Around menopause your estrogen drops, and a few things change at once.

Your body starts putting more fat around your middle.

Your bones start breaking down faster than they rebuild.

And holding onto muscle gets harder than it used to be.

Almost everything you get told to do about it is a version of less.

Eat less. Lift lighter. Do more cardio.

The three things that actually work are lifting heavy, enough protein, and enough food.

Most women we meet are doing none of the three, and every one of them was following good advice.

08/28/2026

Every former athlete I meet is good at the same half of this.

They know how to work. Nobody has to teach them to push, or to show up when it is unpleasant, or to finish something they started. That half is already built and it never really goes away.

The half that goes missing is being coached.

At 22 somebody else ran your training. They decided how hard today was, which weeks were heavy and which ones you backed off, and you executed. You never had to make those calls, so you never learned how.

Then that person went away, and what you kept was the memory of the plan. So that's what you run. A plan written for somebody two decades younger, by somebody who is no longer in the room.

Ryan went looking for the missing half. He trained alone first and could not hold himself to it or write himself a plan. Then he tried group classes, where the coaching he found was written for the athlete he used to be. He kept getting hurt, and he had no idea how to come back from it.

He is 44 and he is stronger now than he has ever been in his life. He was never short on hard. What changed is that somebody looked at the 44-year-old in front of them and coached that person.

Being told to sit still for ninety seconds is a small thing. Letting somebody else decide it, after twenty years of deciding everything yourself, took him three months.

A year ago, Jenn knocked on our door on a day nobody was here.She could have left it at that.Instead she called and left...
08/27/2026

A year ago, Jenn knocked on our door on a day nobody was here.

She could have left it at that.

Instead she called and left a voicemail, we called her back, and we have thought about that phone call a lot this week.

We were a young gym then. She had no particular reason to take a chance on us.

She did it anyway.

The year that followed did not go easy on her.

She trained through a hip and a hamstring bad enough that people would watch her stand up and ask if she was okay.

Plenty of people would have stopped there.

In the spring, her whole goal for the next three months was to be able to do hamstring exercises again.

Then summer came and her mornings stopped being her own.

She had trained at the same time every week since she started, and with the kids home that time stopped working.

So she took whatever sessions were open instead, at hours she did not particularly want.

One week that meant a Saturday.

She trained the same number of times anyway.

Sitting across from her on Monday, talking about the hip, she said:

"I forget how bad it was."

She is one of the strongest women in this gym now.

Somewhere in that year Jenn also became a pillar of this place.

She learns everybody's name.

Nobody knows who else is in their session until they walk through the door, and you can watch people spot her and get happier about the next hour.

New people stop feeling new around her faster than we could ever manage on our own.

In July the members voted her Co-Member of the Year, and nobody was surprised.

We cannot imagine this gym without her now, and it started with a voicemail we are very glad we returned.

One year, Jenn. Proud of you.

Thirteen people hit a milestone with us this month.Julie and Stephanie are at one month. Nothing's built yet, so every s...
08/26/2026

Thirteen people hit a milestone with us this month.

Julie and Stephanie are at one month. Nothing's built yet, so every session is still a decision.

Chris, Lenore, Rita and Ty are at three months. Somewhere in there the negotiating stopped.

Natan, Kimberley and Holly are at six. Half a year is long enough that something already got in the way. It didn't stop them.

Carolyn, Elisa and Maria are at nine, and this is the first time we've ever recognised nine months.

It's the one nobody talks about and it's the most interesting stage there is. By nine months the novelty is gone and so is the fast early progress. Nobody is still doing it for the reason they started.

Carolyn and Elisa both said they want to be ready to climb the Manitou Incline.

Neither of them walked in here for that.

Maria's proudest thing from the last three months was a number. Eighty-plus workouts completed.

And Jenn is at a year. Every season, every holiday, and the anniversary of the day she walked in.

Congratulations to all thirteen of you.

Every one of those four things was correct at 22.They worked because something else was absorbing the cost. A coach mana...
08/24/2026

Every one of those four things was correct at 22.

They worked because something else was absorbing the cost. A coach managed your total load. Somebody watched you train twice a week. An off-season existed. And you had a body that turned a rolled ankle into a Tuesday inconvenience.

Take all of that away and the instincts don't change. Nobody sat you down at 30 and told you the inputs had.

Here's where most people go wrong trying to fix it. They treat these like four separate bad habits and correct them one at a time. Take more rest. Stop chasing soreness. Stop training through the thing.

That isn't what broke. What broke is that somebody used to make these calls for you, and now nobody does.

At 22 you didn't decide which session was the hard one. You didn't decide how much rest to take or when to back off. Somebody ran your total load across the week and you executed it. That's why the instincts worked. They were never yours to manage in the first place.

A good coach is still doing that job. Deciding what today looks like based on what your body actually did on Monday, not what it did twenty years ago.

If you change one thing this year, change who's making the calls. Find someone whose job it is to write the plan and watch you run it.

You were always good at the executing part. That hasn't gone anywhere either.

08/21/2026

Physical therapy is built to get you out of pain. That's the job, and it does it well.

But "out of pain" and "strong" are two different finish lines, and almost nobody gets walked to the second one.

Here's what actually rebuilds a joint. You load it, in a range it can handle today, and you add a little every week.

A small amount of load, applied consistently, for longer than feels necessary.

It works because of blood flow and progressive load. People miss it because it looks unimpressive from the outside.

If you're stuck, here's the one thing to try this week. Pick the movement you miss most. Find the version of it you can do today with no sharp pain, and do that. Add a little next week.

That's the whole method.

It took me ten years to find that out. It should not take you that long.

After an injury, the hardest thing to rebuild is usually belief.Alex was handed a story that his best days were behind h...
08/19/2026

After an injury, the hardest thing to rebuild is usually belief.

Alex was handed a story that his best days were behind him. He decided not to believe it, and then he backed that up week after week, long after most would have called it good enough.

The strength came back because he kept showing up for it. That part is on him.

That's the whole thing right there.

Proud of you, Alex.

Rest was never going to fix a joint that's been stiff for years.It calms things down, but it doesn't rebuild the strengt...
08/17/2026

Rest was never going to fix a joint that's been stiff for years.

It calms things down, but it doesn't rebuild the strength the joint lost, so the pain keeps coming back the moment you load it.

The way out is the opposite: more movement, not less. You rebuild the area through a range it can handle, a little at a time, and you keep blood flowing to it.

Getting out of pain and staying out of pain turn out to be the same work.

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