As a relative beginner of your program I would like to make a few suggestions as to how the program is designed . I recently purchased Foundation One and have been working my way through the program for the past two months. I really love the philosophy of balance strength and injury prevention of the joints. What attracted me to the program were these principles. I wanted to strengthen my joints and avoid injuries as I have had many of them over the past 20 years of weightlifting and bodywork. However, what I found initially confusing and somewhat dismaying, was how the workouts were broken out. Immediately it seems I only had access to half of what would've been suggested to do over the course of a week. That being the stretch series, handstands and thoracic bridge.
I have been working through the program and I am about halfway through Foundation One, but I am now experiencing some joint issues. Going through the forums I see many suggestions of doing stretch series and handstands series to help me with these issues. My question is, why would these elements not have been part of Foundation One in the first place? I would rather have not gone as deep in Foundation but have had more of a balanced approach from the start. Why does foundation one not include the elements of handstand, thoracic bridge and the various stretch elements in it? The obvious answer is to make more of a profit. I would happily have Foundation depth much shallower and had a very shallow intro to all of the elements from the get-go. My suggestion would be to include all the elements but not go as deep initially. You could have multiple steps that cover everything from ground up in all elements. That would eliminate a lot of the confusion to a beginner who walks into this and see is that they don't have access all these different elements and discover this as a giant financial investment right from the beginning (in order to approach the journey correctly.)
Overall I feel the initial set up can be quite confusing. And I mean this in regards to how many sessions I should do per week, intensity level, and built-in rest - such as the mastery templates. I felt that after I was doing the program for a while I had to dig fairly deeply into the program content to find that I should've been doing De-load week's and should've been doing various excercise splits rather than simply working my way through upper body, lower body, core sessions.
My overall suggestion would be to break the whole program down to simply levels one through infinity if necessary. But include ALL the elements in each level. This would illuminate a lot of confusion and you guys would not lose the profits of your business. I don't mean that in a negative way I understand this is a business but I would imagine if people are satisfied, balanced and injury free they will continue on with the program for years.
Would love to hear feedback from every anyone and everyone. thank you.