The gym and the chair

Ren's position, stated often enough that members quote it back at her, is that strength is the part you keep and that the format is nearly irrelevant. This pairing is her evidence.

Lena had assumed she would be the one giving advice. What actually happened is that Wilf, who has never been in a gym, has the better adherence record of the two by a distance, because his session is eight minutes long and requires a chair and cannot be defeated by a bad week. Lena has had two long lay-offs. Wilf has had none.

She has since rebuilt her own worst-week plan around his, and the routine is written up at eight minutes and a chair. Wilf, for his part, has started doing one thing that is genuinely difficult each week, which was Lena's only real contribution and which he grumbles about weekly.