Powerlifting
Dami Adeyemi
Head Coach, Strength · Miami, FL
“The programme is not the hard part. Showing up on the days you do not want to is the whole sport.”
8 yrs
Coaching
340+
Athletes coached
2
Programmes authored
The Community
Meet the people behind the discipline.
The coaches who write the programmes train on them. The athletes here were chosen for their consistency, not their genetics.
Endurance
Amina Bello
Coach, Conditioning & Recovery · Orlando, FL
“Everyone wants the intervals. Almost nobody wants the base that makes the intervals work.”
6 yrs
Coaching
2:48
Marathon PB
2
Programmes authored
Bodybuilding
Tobi Okonkwo
Coach, Physique · Port Harcourt, NG
“Autoregulation is not a fancy word for going easy. It is a fancy word for being honest.”
9 yrs
Coaching
510+
Athletes coached
2
Programmes authored
Olympic Weightlifting
Chidera Nwosu
CHISSELED Athlete · Enugu, NG
“I did not get strong because I was talented. I got strong because I did not stop.”
4 yrs
Training
88kg
Clean & jerk
63kg
Bodyweight
Stories
The ordinary kind of progress.
Powerlifting · Miami, FL
Dami Adeyemi
Head Coach, Strength
“The programme is not the hard part. Showing up on the days you do not want to is the whole sport.”
Fifteen years under a bar, eight of them coaching other people to get under it properly. Dami wrote Foundation 12 after watching too many beginners run advanced programmes and quit inside a month. His argument is that the first year should be boring, and that people who accept this end up stronger by year three than people who do not.
- Coaching
- 8 yrs
- Athletes coached
- 340+
- Programmes authored
- 2
Endurance · Orlando, FL
Amina Bello
Coach, Conditioning & Recovery
“Everyone wants the intervals. Almost nobody wants the base that makes the intervals work.”
A former 1500m runner who moved into coaching after an injury that took eighteen months to resolve properly. That experience shapes everything she writes — Reset 4 exists because she needed it and nothing like it existed. She is the person on the team most likely to tell an athlete to do less.
- Coaching
- 6 yrs
- Marathon PB
- 2:48
- Programmes authored
- 2
Bodybuilding · Port Harcourt, NG
Tobi Okonkwo
Coach, Physique
“Autoregulation is not a fancy word for going easy. It is a fancy word for being honest.”
Tobi built the autoregulated volume model behind Hypertrophy Block after years of watching fixed spreadsheets fail the moment life interfered. His programmes read your logged effort and adapt, which means a bad week costs you a week instead of a block.
- Coaching
- 9 yrs
- Athletes coached
- 510+
- Programmes authored
- 2
Olympic Weightlifting · Enugu, NG
Chidera Nwosu
CHISSELED Athlete
“I did not get strong because I was talented. I got strong because I did not stop.”
Chidera started training at twenty-six with no athletic background, in a gym with one usable barbell. Four years later she competes nationally. She is on this page not because of the numbers but because her progression is the ordinary kind — slow, consistent, and available to anyone willing to do it.
- Training
- 4 yrs
- Clean & jerk
- 88kg
- Bodyweight
- 63kg
Journal
Written by the same people.
Training
The Case for Boring Training
The programmes that work are almost never the programmes that look interesting. Here is why the boring one wins, and what that means for how you should spend your first two years.
Dami Adeyemi · 7 min
Nutrition
Protein: What Actually Matters
Timing windows, absorption limits, complete versus incomplete. Most of the protein conversation is noise around one number that does almost all of the work.
CHISSELED Nutrition · 6 min
Recovery
Sleep Is a Training Variable
You cannot programme around a sleep debt. Treating rest as the fourth training day changes what the other three are worth.
Amina Bello · 5 min