Priyansh N.

Priya came to me after ten years of group classes and no barbell. We started LEAN at four sessions a week and capped every top set at 8 RPE. Her first block was 4×5 @8 RPE · 180s · 30X1 on the squat and she told me it felt too light. It wasn’t. She held the tempo and the numbers moved without her forcing them.

Weeks four and five stalled. She lost a week to a work trip and came back convinced she’d undone the whole block. We dropped her to three sessions, kept the top sets where they were, and the scale started moving again nine days later. She finished at 157 pounds with a deadlift of 205 (93 kg), which is 70 pounds (32 kg) more than she pulled in week one.