Questions
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Fit and format
1 Is Doctor of Strength online or in person?
Doctor of Strength is fully online. Training is delivered through the Everfit app, check-ins are weekly and remote, and calls happen by video, so the program works wherever you live and travel in the United States.
2 Who is Foundation 90 for?
Foundation 90 is for men roughly 45 to 65 who still train, still compete at something, and keep losing weeks to the same shoulder, knee, ankle or back. It is not a physique program, and it is not for anyone in an acute medical situation.
3 How much time does Foundation 90 take each week?
Foundation 90 asks for three training sessions a week of 45 to 60 minutes each, plus one weekly check-in. Every phase has a travel version for a hotel gym with forty minutes, a rack and two dumbbells.
4 I'm 60 and still lifting. Is this realistic for me?
Yes. Men in their fifties and sixties who still lift are the profile Foundation 90 is built around. The program works around your current training and your recovery instead of asking you to stop either one.
5 How is Doctor of Strength different from a personal trainer?
A typical personal trainer is not trained to read imaging or manage an injury inside your program. At Doctor of Strength your sessions are written with a clinician's read of your history and records, so your joints, training, sleep, nutrition and bloodwork are handled as one integrated plan.
6 Who writes the training?
Dr. LaMar Sheppard, DC, a chiropractor licensed in California, writes the sessions himself, so the person programming your squat is the person who has read your history and knows which knee has been complaining.
7 How is progress tracked?
Strength is tracked across your primary lifts session by session, and you log what you did in the Everfit app as you go. The weekly check-in is where the plan changes. A flare-up is treated as information that changes what you do that week, not a reason to stop.
8 How often does the program change?
The program is updated monthly, and adjusted sooner when your body or your schedule requires it, based on what comes up in your weekly check-in. Adjustments are written by hand rather than generated from a template.
9 Do I need a particular gym?
No. Sessions are written for the equipment you actually have, with sets, reps and loads spelled out, so there is no guesswork when you walk into the gym.
Price and the 90-Day Standard
1 What does Foundation 90 cost?
Foundation 90 pricing is covered on the free 15-minute call with Dr. LaMar Sheppard, once he knows whether the program fits your situation. There are paid-in-full and monthly options, and The Baseline assessment is credited in full against it if you start Foundation 90 within 30 days.
2 Is there a money-back guarantee?
No. If you log at least 85% of your programmed sessions, submit at least 11 weekly check-ins within 90 days, and still have not reached your goal, you receive an additional 60 days at no charge.
3 What does The Baseline cost?
It costs $497 for clients in California and $697 elsewhere. The difference is a written summary prepared for your own physician, who decides on any imaging or treatment outside California.
4 Is The Baseline credited against Foundation 90?
Yes. If you start Foundation 90 within thirty days, the full cost of The Baseline is credited against it, whether you pay in full or monthly. Not sure yet? Book a free 15-minute call first.
Licensing, imaging and medical
1 Is Foundation 90 medical treatment?
No. Foundation 90 is coaching led by a licensed chiropractor, not medical treatment. Decisions to order imaging, prescribe or treat stay with your own physician, and Dr. Sheppard can prepare a written summary for them when your case calls for it.
2 Can I join if I don't live in California?
Yes. Dr. LaMar Sheppard is licensed in California, and clients elsewhere in the United States join the same program. Outside California the Baseline is $697 rather than $497 and includes a written summary for your own physician.
3 Do I need imaging or bloodwork before I start?
No. Bring whatever imaging and bloodwork you already have and it is read before your Baseline consult. If you have none, you leave with the specific markers to ask your own physician for at your next blood panel.
4 Do you prescribe testosterone or peptides?
No. Doctor of Strength does not prescribe. Foundation 90 helps you get the right testing, reads it alongside your training and recovery, and points you toward a licensed physician where it is warranted. Prescribing decisions stay with that physician.
Getting started
1 How do I get started with Doctor of Strength?
Every client starts with a free 15-minute call with Dr. LaMar Sheppard. He asks about your main fitness goal and your biggest struggle, then proposes a game plan: the free 14-day challenge, The Baseline assessment or the Foundation 90 program. You decide from there.
2 Is the first call a sales pitch?
No. On the free 15-minute call, Dr. LaMar Sheppard asks about your main fitness goal and your biggest struggle, then proposes a game plan, which might be the free 14-day challenge, The Baseline or Foundation 90. If none of them is right for you, he will say so and point you toward what is.
3 What is the free 14-day challenge?
The free 14-day challenge is two weeks of workouts, a meal plan and accountability from Doctor of Strength. It is a low-commitment way to try the approach before you book a call.
4 What is The Baseline?
The Baseline is a sixty-minute remote assessment with Dr. LaMar Sheppard, DC, followed by a written report within five business days. Any imaging and bloodwork you already have is read before the call.
5 What is in the written Baseline Report?
The report names your primary limiter and explains it, ranks the secondary contributors, records your starting numbers and sets out what has to change in what order. It also lists the markers to request on your next blood panel, and a fifteen-minute follow-up walks through it.
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