My name is Brenda Abbott's. I am 54. I train at Fort Worth Strength and Conditioning.

When the gym opened, that made a huge difference in having the one-on-one with a coach, being here with the coach,

getting the specific direction on your lifts is invaluable. And so I kind of preach that a lot because starting where he wasn't

there every time and I wasn't in a gym setting where I was getting the one-on-one coaching. Now that I am,

it's invaluable. So I've watched my everything in my NLP has gone up so much. I mean, it's just been crazy how my forms better, my lifts are better, the weight's better,

and I've exceeded everything that I thought that I could already do in the weight-wise for me at my age.

Before I started with the lifting, starting strength, I was cross fit, so I did six years of

CrossFit. Prior to that, really it was just going to the gym, a 24-hour fitness or any of those

in working out. But I've always been active all my life, physically active, but never much a runner,

and that was one of the reasons that I came to

Darren because I have a misalignment in my left knee. So even in CrossFit, I never ran. So I

was modified the workouts and I used to wear a brace that would help kind of push the Patella

back in a neutral position for squatting and step-ups, anything I did

in CrossFit. So when we started the starting strength method, I was using the knee brace

and then kind of on my own, I said, you know, I'm squatting differently, it feels better,

I'm not going to use the brace and...

Oh, bummer. I haven't used it since.

But my legs are stronger, so those muscles now are built up around the knee to help

support the knee, and it's just been crazy.

And I think one of the keys to that, and for a lot of lifters, a lot of trainees, or a lot of my patients, I think one of the keys to

patellofemoral anterior knee type pain is that, you know, we drove the deadlift through the roof.

I mean, we drove your deadlift strength, getting your hamstring stronger, getting your posterior

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