Client results

They were told to stop lifting. They didn’t.

Real lifters, real injuries, real numbers. Every result here came from training through recovery, not waiting it out.

Quinn lifting
Quinn · Powerlifter · distal bicep rupture

585 lb deadlift, 14 months after surgery

Before: Tore his bicep off the bone pulling 600. After surgery he was facing a long road and a lot of people telling him to be careful forever.

  1. Sep 2025: bench 225 for 8, “maybe easier than prior to injury”
  2. Jan 2026: 535 lb squat PR
  3. Apr 2026: 545, then 565, his heaviest deadlifts since the injury
  4. May 2026: 585 lb deadlift and a 535 squat
“Everything we have done in the past year was for these moments. I was prepared, we’ve built up properly, trusted and leaned into the process. I KNEW I could do it.”
Quinn
Aleisha lifting
Aleisha · 2.5 years of chronic back pain

Zero back pain in 6 months

Before: Two and a half years of back pain that never fully went away, and a job that loaded her back every shift.

  1. Nov 2025: first pain-free set of stairs
  2. Jan 2026: bench press PR
  3. Apr 2026: deadlifts after a heavy work day, zero back pain
  4. May 2026: a solid set of 250 lb deadlifts, pain-free
“Dan, you have done what I thought was impossible. I have zero back pain.”
Aleisha
Diana lifting
Diana · Weightlifter · chronic back pain

Back to snatching, cleaning and snowboarding

Before: A multi-year history of chronic back pain, and a fear of re-injury that followed her into every session.

  1. Mar 2026: 200 lb box squat with zero pain
  2. Mar 2026: 18 hours and 34 miles of snowboarding, pain-free
  3. Apr 2026: first snatch in 10 months
  4. Jun 2026: 130 clean, 100 snatch and a 200+ trap bar deadlift
“I feel strong. Yesterday I did full-range back squat, three sets of three at 155. Zero pain, zero issue.”
Diana
Kieran lifting
Kieran · Former paratrooper · knee pain

585 lb deadlift

Before: Years of paratrooping left his knees too banged up to squat or deadlift without pain.

  1. Nov 2025: deadlift and rowing PRs
  2. Dec 2025: knees handling more weight and volume than before
  3. Feb 2026: front squats and push presses his knees used to reject
  4. Now: pulling 585
“My knees are handling more weight and volume than before and it’s cool to see the change.”
Kieran
Evan lifting
Evan · Multiple lumbar compression fractures

Discharged from the pain clinic

Before: Told his lifting days were over. Stuck in a cycle of injections and pain clinic visits.

  1. Week 1: no pain while working out
  2. Month 2: back felt good all week
  3. Month 2: “definitely getting stronger”
  4. Month 6: back to lifting, and off the pain clinic’s list
“The only thing I wanted was to be pain-free, right? And that’s what it gave me.”
Evan
Godefroy lifting
Godefroy · Olympic weightlifter · recurring back flare-ups

100 kg clean and jerk

Before: Flare-ups used to cost him four or more weeks before he could hold a bar again.

  1. Dec 2025: back on the bar at 25 to 30 kg
  2. Mar 2026: 81 kg clean and jerk
  3. Jun 2026: 95 kg clean and jerk
  4. Jul 2026: 100 kg front squat and clean and jerk
“It’s the first summer since 2022 where I don’t have any irritations, any flare-ups and/or the need to scale down working out because of a back problem.”
Godefroy
Paul lifting
Paul · Powerlifter · back and hip injuries

601 lb deadlift

Before: Multiple back and hip injuries, and a squat that twisted out of the hole under load.

  1. Couldn’t squat without pain or twisting out of the bottom
  2. Rebuilt his squat with strength-first rehab
  3. Back to competitive powerlifting
  4. 601 lb deadlift
“This process has me beating the other powerlifters at my meets. They keep asking how I train this hard with my injury history, and I’m hitting numbers I only ever dreamed of.”
Paul

More from the people doing the work

Real clients, shared with their permission. Every injury and every timeline is different.

“The training today felt the closest to what I remember training feeling like, before all the injuries.”
Melissa
“Surprised about how good I felt playing volleyball yesterday. I was so happy to not be limited by back pain.”
Sandra
“All exercises feel better, smoother, more stable. Core feels like it’s waking up. Back feels a lot better, less tight, way less pain.”
Dragos
“I feel like I’ve made some pretty good improvements. It’s pretty much night and day since the start.”
Tavian
“Waking up every morning not feeling stiff, going into lifts with less anxiety, and looking forward to just lifting heavier.”
Lewis
“I feel much better, I feel my strength and stamina returning.”
Axel

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