Methodology / Step 05
The assessment is not a one-time event. We re-run the relevant pieces of it on a regular cadence so the program keeps reflecting your current body, not the one you had three months ago.
You are not the same after a few months of training. Ranges of motion change. Loading positions that used to feel impossible feel routine. Compensations that were the limiter at week one are no longer the limiter at week twelve. If the program does not change with the body, the program goes stale, and the work starts producing less than it should.
I do not re-run the whole first assessment every time. We re-test the patterns where you started with the most restriction or the most missing capacity, and we re-test the patterns we have been actively training. That gives us a clear picture of what is moving, what is not, and where the next round of work should land.
The cadence depends on the client. Some patterns get re-checked every few weeks because we are actively pushing on them. Others get re-checked monthly. The full reassessment usually runs roughly every quarter, with smaller re-checks built into our regular sessions in between.
It prevents the most common failure mode in coaching: getting a few months in, plateauing, and having no honest way to tell whether the plateau is real, whether the program needs to evolve, or whether something has changed in the body that the program is not respecting. The reassessment gives both of us the answer.
The full reassessment usually runs roughly every quarter. Smaller pattern-by-pattern re-checks happen more often and are built into our regular sessions.
No. Reassessment is part of coaching. It is built into the cadence, not an add-on.
Bring it up immediately. We do not wait for the scheduled reassessment to address something that just changed. The cadence is the default; the program is responsive to whatever is actually happening.