Welcome to Pauline Trains Pauline—where I am my own teacher and coach myself through my training life.

Here I share the evolution of my leg training. After decades of training and multiple hamstring and adductor injuries, I could no longer rely on the barbell squats and deadlifts I had loved for years.

I began experimenting with ways to purposely reduce my strength advantage so I could still overload my body: various bench squats, resistance bands, instability, unilateral training, step-ups, pistol-squat variations, front squats, higher repetitions, longer sets and different ranges of motion.

This is my training journey—not an instruction for exactly how you should train. I am documenting how I keep finding ways forward, adapting to the body I have today and continuing to train!