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Phase 1: The Adaptive Workout Coach

Published

June 2026

Adaptive Training began operating as an active training coach.

The immediate objective was fat loss while maintaining strength, with a long-term goal of reaching sub-10% body fat.

The operating environment was intentionally realistic.

Training had to work around:

  • a demanding full-time job
  • inconsistent lunch windows
  • toddler care
  • an incoming newborn
  • disrupted sleep
  • short training windows
  • changing recovery
  • home-gym equipment
  • occasional aches and movement limitations

Instead of designing training around ideal circumstances, Adaptive Training began adapting training to the circumstances available that day.

Typical workouts became short strength-conditioning circuits using kettlebells, dumbbells, barbells, bodyweight movements, a bike, and walking.

Sessions commonly lasted 15–30 minutes.

When necessary, they became shorter.

This established one of Adaptive Training's earliest principles:

The training prescription must adapt to real life rather than requiring real life to adapt to the training prescription.