Approach
How a programme at REZA unfolds
Six steps. You go through the first four once, at the start. The last two keep repeating for as long as you train, and that's exactly the difference between a programme and coaching.
The steps
- 01
Intake
The first conversation is only briefly about your goal. That's usually told in two sentences. The rest of the time is about what surrounds it: what your week looks like, how much you actually sleep, what you've tried before and at what point that stalled. What history your body carries, which complaints keep coming back, and what you used to be able to do that you can't anymore.
That last part usually delivers the most information. Someone who has started three times before and stopped three times in the same month doesn't need a new schedule, but a different setup.
- 02
Analysis
Before a plan is made, we establish where you stand. That happens across four areas: how you move, what you can handle, what your baseline figures are, and what your context allows.
Movement analysis shows which exercises make sense right now and which variation suits your build best. Capacity determines how much volume we start with, because starting at the level you want to reach in six months is the fastest way to quit again. Baseline figures are the numbers we measure against later. And context, your schedule, determines how much of all this is realistic.
- 03
Plan
On that basis comes a programme with a build-up over several months. It sets out not just what you do this week, but where it's heading and when the load increases. Lighter weeks are planned in advance.
Where relevant, nutrition and recovery are part of the same plan. Someone training four times a week on 1,400 kilocalories doesn't have a training problem.
- 04
Coaching
Every session happens together with your trainer. Technique is corrected the moment something goes wrong, not afterwards, weights are judged set by set, and when an exercise doesn't feel right that day, something else is chosen on the spot.
This is the part that can't be replaced by an app or a schedule. What happens in the session determines whether the plan on paper actually gets carried out.
- 05
Measuring
At set moments, we establish what's changed. Training data shows whether the load is actually increasing. Depending on your goal, that's supplemented with body composition measurements or functional tests.
This is deliberately its own step. Without measurement, progress is a feeling, and feeling is exactly where people go wrong: in a week of poor sleep a session feels heavy even while the weights went up.
- 06
Adjusting
The measurements determine what happens next. If things go as expected, the plan continues. If too little happens, we work out why: too little stimulus, too little recovery, too little food, or too little actually carried out. Each of those four calls for a different fix, and telling them apart is half the work.
A programme left unchanged for three months is a programme no one has looked at.
What to expect
The first conversation is free of commitment and costs you nothing. You don't need to prepare anything, though it helps if you know what your week looks like on average.
If it turns out REZA isn't the right choice for you, you'll hear that in that conversation. Someone who thrives mainly in a group is in the wrong place here, and it's better to establish that upfront.