Karthik M. · 32
Product manager, Gachibowli
From no pull-ups to a 140 kg deadlift
Goal: Build strength after years at a desk · Strength + one conditioning class a week
- Deadlift
- 60 → 140 kg
- Pull-ups
- 0 → 9
- Body fat
- -7%
The coaching is the difference. My lifts went up and my technique finally feels solid — I stopped guessing what to do every session.
Karthik joined after a decade of on-and-off gym memberships that never stuck. The first eight weeks were deliberately unexciting: three full-body sessions, the same five movements, small weight jumps each week.
By month four he had added a weekly conditioning class, and by month nine he was pulling more than double his starting deadlift — with a training log that shows only two missed weeks all year.
