It seems like every time we turn around someone is asking us this question. The answer is hard because it depends on where you are in your workout, your overall fitness journey, how well you ate and slept over the past 24 hours, and what injuries you've had. Yet in every one of these cases is the same answer: More than you think you can today. "But I have an injury!" "But my knees are bone-on-bone!" "But I don't want to get bulky!" "But—" Stop. It's the same answer in ANY case, but each one depends on those cases. Whatever you think you can do for your working sets, go a little heavier. See if you can put yourself out of breath, or go for a heavier weight without pain, heavy enough to feel like you are overcoming the person you were yesterday. The movement will add fluid to your knee and will help improve it over time. The weight will get you over the borderline lie that you're somehow fragile. The attempt will show you something closer to what your limits actually are. You came to the gym to grow, to forge your body into something other than you have settled for in the past. That's why we call it the forge. So do not waste your money and our time avoiding your potential and defining yourself by what other people have said about you. The gym is a space built specifically for that purpose: to spend every moment building a better version of yourself. So, there's your answer. Go a little heavier.

@Krista Kelly won the Mega Quest twelve week program which eventually became the Hero’s Journey program, one of our major body transformation programs. Over that 12 weeks I watched her go from practically immobile to in pain but capable. Now, one year later she has gone on hikes, and has changed so so much from the day I met he— keeping off a massive body composition change in that time. Congratulations Krista. You’re really crushing it!!

To see all the growth, strength, and gains you all are about to make

Hey everyone! Let’s show our support for @Kaitlyn Luther for her surgery this week! She will be back soon, but I know we all hope she recovers fast and well ♥️

@Macey Kodama @Gavin Matthews @Kate Cruikshank @Kaitlyn Luther @Daisy M Crump @Tyler Hollis