FUNDAMENTAL WORKOUTS
CLIENT STORY
HE LOST 27 KG WITHOUT BEING HOME.
"Six months ago, that hike would have been completely out of the question."
— Martin D.
37
AGE
Cable technician
OCCUPATION
14 months
TIME
27 kg
WEIGHT LOST
01
Meet Martin
Martin is over two metres tall, and he'd trained on and off for years.
Then Covid took the motivation with it. Two years passed without a single session. Getting started again turned out to be much harder than stopping had been.
A back injury at work in May 2024 didn't help.
By that summer he'd found his way back to the gym on his own. But the food was still random — often a slice of bread and whatever turned up — and the training kept stalling in the same place. Years of the same 5×5, hitting the same plateau.
And his work makes all of it harder. He's a cable technician: weeks on, weeks off, much of it abroad and at sea.
He started in January 2025 at 120 kg. The target he set himself was 105.
02
The challenge
The plan had to work in places it was never designed for.
England in February. Sweden, then a ship. Three weeks in Singapore, where the hotel gym had no air conditioning in 35 degrees. The United States, twice. Twelve-hour night shifts. Airports, buffets, and a galley that serves what it serves.
A ship's gym that was a treadmill, a bike, a bench and a few dumbbells — and then closed halfway through the trip when the work started.
Four separate rounds of illness at sea.
And a Christmas spent working on a ship, with every temptation laid out and his form already poor. He came home in January six kilos heavier.
ROUTINE AT HOME
LEAVE FOR WORK
EAT WHAT'S SERVED
LOSE THE THREAD
START AGAIN
03
We kept it simple
We built a plan that travelled
Low-carb by default when there was no way to weigh anything
Programs rebuilt around whatever the ship's gym actually had
Squats taken off a bench press rig when there was no squat rack
Weekly check-ins that followed him across time zones
Training, nutrition and accountability — all in one app.
14 months later
27 kg down.
Most of it from a hotel room.
The log says 120 → 92.5.
He asked for 105 kg. He finished at 92.5
Under 100 for the first time he can remember
The sugar cravings that used to run him — gone
313 kilometres of hiking in January alone
His actual weight log, Jan 2025 – Mar 2026.
In June he climbed Norway's second-highest mountain. Six months earlier, he wouldn't have made the trailhead.
"I look at photos from January, and it's a different guy I'm looking at."
Lost 27 kg
Cravings gone
Climbed Glittertinden
Martin D.
Looking back
Martin took over himself in March.
He knows what a bad trip costs now. He had one over Christmas, six kilos of it, and he knew exactly how to get it back off. That's the difference between a setback and a relapse.
He leaves with the thing that actually matters: he can do this anywhere. In a hotel. On a ship. In a galley queue in the middle of the Atlantic.
His last message:
RESULTS AT A GLANCE
Lost 27 kg
From 120 to 92.5 kg
Beat his goal
Asked for 105, finished lower
313 km Hiking
Hiking in January alone
Trains anywhere
Ships, hotels, airports
05
"I've got shoes to wear out."