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When I program a workout, I have 4 people in mind. 

The first is one obvious (it’s me!). Then there’s the 20th fittest person I know, the fittest person I know, and someone who has just started.

All of these people have names and faces, but you don’t get to know that bit.

Mentally running each of these lovely people through the workout often gets it about right. 

And yes, I actually imagine them doing the workout. I can see where it bites, where it’s not challenging enough, and where it gets too much. (In this movie, I usually get time-capped)

Each of these filters often lead to adjustments to things like workload, the time cap, and even how fun the workout is. 

And then, it’s done. But not really. 

There is this one last filter which I probably shouldn’t admit to paying attention to, but I find myself adjusting for all the time. 

There is this weird, intangible group-flow thing going on which is hard to explain.

It’s just a feeling. 

As the weeks go on, as a group we are all on this mystical wave of momentum together. It’s like we find a group-hum that we all participate in. An energy, pulling us forward, up and down from one day to the next. 

This is where a scientifically perfect workout can get tossed aside because it’s just not what we need to see on Wodify that day. 

As I said, weird (and probably nonsense). But yet, it’s there.

And so you have it, the Bua Quality Control system before the thing gets packaged and shipped. 

This is one of the many reasons we have never outsourced our programming. Every day since 2012 has been programmed by us, for us, keeping us in our flow.

In other entries, I will talk about what happens before I get to this QC stage of the programming, and how I make sure the movies I am running in my head of these individuals is as accurate as possible.