Engine Builder — Session 3: Test
Riley AnderssonAug 24, 2026
Head Coach — Strength
Riley writes Kinetic's barbell programming and coaches the Engine Builder block. Twelve years in strength and conditioning, most of it spent talking people out of the exciting lifts and back into the boring ones that actually work.
A proper warm-up is a skill you build, not five minutes of filler before the real workout starts.
Judging one session tells you very little — here's how to step back and read the week as a whole.