Discipline without integration is just a faster way to run in the wrong direction.
A training method for people who already have discipline. What they don't have yet is a body that matches the rest of their life.
You're not lazy. You're fragmented.
You run a business, a career or a household well. You show up for other people. But your training and eating keep restarting every Monday, and each restart ends in the same place. Standard fitness advice assumes a simple life and a simple brain, and yours is neither. Maybe you're wired with ADHD, maybe you carry three jobs' worth of responsibilities, maybe your path has never been a straight line.
The problem usually isn't effort. Your self-image has a set point, like a thermostat. Push past it and something pulls you back to "normal." So the method changes two things at once: the training that changes your body, and the identity that decides what your body keeps returning to. Change only one and the other drags it back.
Rules, not motivation.
- The plan is decided before the week starts. What you lift, what you eat and what you do on a bad day are written down in advance, so a hard Tuesday doesn't get to renegotiate them.
- Weekly averages, never single weigh-ins. Your weight swings two to five pounds a day from water and food. One number is noise. The trend is the signal.
- A missed day is data, not failure. It tells you what in the plan doesn't fit your life yet. You adjust the plan, not your opinion of yourself.
- Progress is checked against the record. The log, the averages and the lifts decide whether it's working, not how you feel on a given morning.
- No macro gimmicks or medical claims. If something needs a doctor, see one.
Eight weeks, written down before you start.
Each plan is a PDF you download the moment you pay: eight weeks laid out week by week, every exercise with sets, reps, tempo and rest, the rule for adding weight each week, substitutions for the equipment you don't have, and the compliance page: Plan A, Plan B for the week life blows up, and the three questions you answer every night. No login, no app, no subscription.
Upper / Lower
The program most people should run first. Two upper days, two lower days, every muscle twice a week, and a rule for adding weight that doesn't need you to feel strong that day.
Push / Pull / Legs
Every muscle every third day. An A week and a B week so no session repeats within the week, and a cap of 60 minutes so volume never becomes a second job.
Full Body
Three days, one session, no decisions. The plan for shift work, young kids and a life that doesn't leave five evenings free. The least you can do that still works.
Bodyweight
No gym, no excuse. Leverage is your load: every movement has a ladder from easy to one-arm, and the plan tells you which rung you're on each week.
The Conjugate Method
The method, not a template. Each session runs both growth signals at once: one anchor set to real failure, then the pump work that most programs make you choose between. Six days, one priority muscle per day, week four lighter by design.
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This is a return, not a start.
I coached strength and conditioning from 2006 to 2013 and owned CrossFit Costa Mesa from 2008 to 2012. I learned the Olympic lifts from Mike Burgener, worked closely with Dan John and with Mark Twight at Gym Jones, and built a return-to-performance protocol with a former New England Patriots physical therapist. Since then I've trained through pipeline welding, night shifts and a law-enforcement schedule, the same constraints most people reading this live with.
I run every protocol on myself first. More on who I am is on the About page.