This article outlines a basic and minimal equipment, yet extremely effective, full body strength program. It is just two days per week, and uses equipment that can be purchased for $30 or less.

Something I say often is that it is actually quite easy to create a hard workout, but much more difficult to create an appropriately challenging workout, within the context of a broader program design, consistently over time. Doing 45 minutes of burpees would be unbelievably hard, but also probably not effective for anything other than mental toughness. So, while we definitely want our EVOLVE Strong workouts to be challenging, we don’t want them to just be hard for the sake of hard.

Instead, we want our EVOLVE Strong classes to be effective, and to be unique in a way that fills a gap in today’s group fitness environment. In this article, I want to break down our guiding principles and thought process behind our workout design, and give an example from January 2022.

We found by creating bolder lines between physical therapy and strength training that we have been able to improve what we value most: results for you. By doing this, we’ve found that we are able to support you with the plan, tools, resources, and education that are best for you right now. We still maintain a comprehensive, long term focus, but we are able to take that journey one step at a time, in the right order, with fewer wrong turns.

This article outlines a basic and minimal equipment, yet extremely effective, full body strength program. It is just two days per week, and uses equipment that can be purchased for $30 or less.