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Physique wasn’t among my objectives when I signed up with Mikki; I simply wanted to be able to sit, walk, sleep, and live a normal life. Mikki was my last-ditch attempt to avoid major surgery for a degenerative spinal condition by which I was being progressively debilitated. I couldn’t squat-lift a broomstick without twisting my hips, and the doctors had warned me to avoid axial loading of any kind; how could I anticipate that twenty months later I would be powering through squat sets with ‘two plates’ (225 lbs), safely, symmetrically, and begging for more? — Joe Harvey