Ground Control by Form.verk
Your day may be sedentary. Your goals are not.
Ground Control is a 12 week biomechanics focused coaching programme for people who spend much of the day sitting, but whose training and hobbies still demand mobility, strength and physical capacity.
It is built for those who keep losing momentum because recurring pain, restricted movement or an old injury continues to stall their progress.
Six founding places. $1,200 for 12 weeks.
The pattern
You train. You sit. The same problem keeps returning.
Most people arriving here have already done the sensible things. The limitation still comes back.
In the gym
Your lower back takes over during squats, hinges or leg training, and you feel it long before your legs are finished.
Week to week
Hip restriction keeps changing which exercises feel available to you, so the programme you wrote keeps quietly rewriting itself.
The old injury
Something from years ago is no longer acute, and it still shapes what you are willing to load and how you set up for it.
The short fix
Deloading, stretching and swapping exercises help for a while. Then the same limitation returns in the same place.
The pattern
Progress keeps stopping and restarting, even though motivation was never the thing that was missing.
The honest caveat
Sitting is rarely the whole story, and recurring problems do not all share one biomechanical explanation. That is what an assessment is for.
The result
Over 12 weeks, you will measurably improve the movement and training markers connected to your recurring problem so you can return to consistent gym progress without repeatedly working around the same limitation.
Markers are agreed with you at the start, and reassessed formally at days 30, 60 and 90.
The method
Everything is built as one system.
Ground Control starts with how you currently stand, move and train. Your corrective work and gym programme are then built as one system.
The aim is to restore access to movement, strengthen it, and carry it into the training that matters to you, rather than handing you a temporary mobility routine beside an unrelated workout.
Three part progression
Reorient. Occupy. Integrate.
Each stage earns the next.
Reorient
Find a better starting position.
Your assessment identifies the movement options your current pattern restricts. The first stage restores access to the positions that are missing for you.
Occupy
Build the side you cannot fully access.
You learn to shift into and use positions your body currently avoids, then begin carrying that option into more demanding movement.
Integrate
Use both sides without losing either option.
The final stage brings those options into movement and training so the change can hold under the demands of your normal programme.
Progression is based on reassessment, not simply the calendar. Corrective work and gym programming remain integrated throughout.
What is included
A coaching system, described plainly.
- A full remote posture and movement assessment using three standing photographs and a guided self assessment.
- A private 60 minute results and programme design call after the assessment has been reviewed.
- One integrated corrective and gym programme built around your goals, history, equipment and findings.
- A 45 minute coaching call every two weeks.
- Messaging support during Form.verk working hours, with replies within one business day.
- Exercise form review under a reasonable use policy, using short clips of the lift in question.
- Programme updates as your response and reassessments require them.
- Formal reassessment at the beginning and around days 30, 60 and 90.
Messaging hours
Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm Thailand time. Messages are answered within one business day.
Coaching calls
A 60 minute results and programme design call to begin, then 45 minutes every two weeks, booked around your schedule.
Reassessment
Formal reassessment at the beginning and around days 30, 60 and 90, against markers agreed with you.
How the remote assessment works
Six steps from application to programme.
- Apply and complete a 30 minute fit call.
- If accepted, submit three posture photographs and videos of the guided self assessment.
- I review the material before meeting with you.
- Discuss the findings, goals and training structure on a 60 minute results call.
- Receive the integrated corrective and gym programme.
- Train, receive support and reassess progress across the 12 weeks.
The coach
Who you would be working with
I am Josh, founder of Form.verk. For years, I dealt with recurring lower back pain that repeatedly interrupted my training. I later sustained a neck injury that further affected how I could train. It was only afterwards, while trying to understand why problems kept appearing in different areas, that I discovered one side of my pelvis sat both higher and farther forward than the other. That lateral pelvic tilt and uneven pelvic position became the first visible clue to a broader full body postural asymmetry extending through my hips, ribcage, shoulders and neck.
That discovery led me into biomechanics. I wanted to understand the relationships between different areas of the body and learn how to choose exercises from what an assessment showed, rather than treating each painful area as an isolated problem.
I began treating my own case as I would a client. I assessed range of motion, recorded a baseline, tested each exercise against the change it produced and rebuilt my gym work around the movement I was trying to restore. Today I lift four times a week, boulder regularly and have not had another lower back injury in several years. I still assess the restrictions that remain, which keeps the process honest.
Ground Control grew from that approach. Every plan begins with assessment, progress is checked through measurable changes and corrective work develops into the gym programme itself. If your presentation falls outside what remote coaching can responsibly support, I will tell you and recommend the appropriate next step.
How the process holds itself accountable
Progress should be visible.
Every programme decision begins with what the assessment finds. Progress is then checked against the markers agreed at the start.
Assessment determines exercise selection
What you are given follows from what was found, and the reasoning is shown to you.
Corrective work flows into loaded training
The positional work is carried into the gym programme rather than sitting beside it.
Reassessment makes progress visible
Formal reassessment at the beginning and around days 30, 60 and 90, against markers agreed with you.
Form review shows what is actually happening
Video review checks how the plan is being performed, and not only how it was written.
Client case studies and testimonials.
The conditional guarantee
If your markers have not measurably improved by day 90, I keep coaching you at no additional cost.
Complete the full programme, follow the agreed plan and submit your check ins and reassessments. If the movement and training markers we agree at the beginning have not measurably improved by day 90, I will continue coaching you at no additional cost until they do, or until reassessment indicates that another form of support would be more appropriate.
Full participation conditions are provided before enrolment. This is a promise of measurable improvement for a suitable and participating client. It is not a promise to cure every cause of pain or injury.
Founding investment
Ground Control is available to six founding clients.
$1,200
For 12 weeks
Or three monthly payments of $400.
Apply to find out whether the programme is appropriate for your goals and current situation.
Ground Control depends on assessment material, consistent participation and regular reassessment. The application and fit call confirm whether the process suits your goals and current situation before any payment is taken.
The six place limit is the real capacity of the first intake.
Questions
Before you apply
Is Ground Control physiotherapy?
No. Ground Control is biomechanics focused coaching and performance support. It assesses how you move, identifies limitations and builds training around them. It does not provide a medical diagnosis and it does not replace necessary medical care. Where a problem needs clinical assessment or hands on treatment, you will be referred.
Can I apply if I am not a man?
Yes. Form.verk speaks primarily to men who sit and lift, because that is who most of the content is written for. Anyone for whom the programme is suitable may apply, and suitability is decided through the application and the fit call.
Do I need access to a gym?
Your programme is built around the equipment you actually have, which is confirmed during the application and intake. Most people on this programme train in a gym, and the loaded stages work best with access to one.
What if I have a diagnosed injury?
Mention it on the application. Some answers trigger a manual review before any call is offered, which is a safety step rather than a rejection. Recent trauma, planned surgery, rapidly worsening symptoms and several other presentations need medical assessment before remote coaching is appropriate, and you will be told that directly.
How much time will the programme require?
The programme is built around the training time you already have. Corrective work is designed to sit inside your existing sessions rather than becoming a second workout. Add a 45 minute coaching call every two weeks, and reassessment at the beginning and around days 30, 60 and 90.
What happens after I apply?
Your application is reviewed for suitability. If Ground Control looks appropriate, you are invited to book a 30 minute fit call. If something in your answers needs closer review first, you will hear back within one business day.
Why is there a fit call before payment?
Because it protects both of us. The call covers what has been affecting your training, what you want to change and whether this process fits what you need. It is a conversation, not an assessment, and there is no obligation to join at the end of it.
What does the guarantee cover?
If you complete the programme, follow the agreed plan and submit your check ins and reassessments, and the markers we agreed at the beginning have not measurably improved by day 90, coaching continues at no additional cost until they do, or until reassessment shows that another form of support would suit you better. Full conditions are provided before you enrol.
Can I pay monthly?
Yes. The programme is USD $1,200 in full, or three monthly payments of $400.
What time zone is coaching delivered from?
Messaging hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm Thailand time, and messages are answered within one business day. Calls are booked around your schedule.
Stop rebuilding your training around the same limitation.
Applications are reviewed for suitability before a fit call is offered.
Legal
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Who is responsible for your information
The data controller is Joshua Aarons, trading as Form.verk.
Correspondence address: Warners Cottage, Nutfield Marsh Road, Redhill, Surrey RH1 4EU, United Kingdom
Contact: coaching@form-verk.com
What information is collected
Application information. Your name, email address, preferred contact method and handle, confirmation that you are at least 18, your country and time zone, a description of the movement or training problem you want help with, how long it has affected you, what you have already tried, your goals, your current training and sitting pattern, your answers about participation and availability, your answers to the brief safety screen and any explanation you choose to add, your answer about the investment, and anything else you choose to tell me.
Communications. Messages you send by email, Instagram or WhatsApp, and notes taken during your fit call.
Coaching assessment information. If you are accepted, posture photographs, videos of the guided self assessment, detailed health and injury history, reassessment results and training records.
Payment information. Records of invoices and payments. Card and bank details are handled by the payment provider and are never seen or stored by Form.verk.
Why each category is used
Application information is used to decide whether Ground Control may be suitable for you, to contact you about your application, and to prepare for a fit call.
Communications are used to answer you and to deliver coaching.
Coaching assessment information is used to build and adjust your programme and to measure change across the 12 weeks.
Payment information is used to take payment and to meet accounting and tax obligations.
The legal grounds used
For applications and coaching generally, the ground is contract, covering both an existing contract and steps taken at your request before entering one.
For health and movement information, which is a special category of personal data, the condition relied on is your explicit consent. You give that consent on the application form, and coaching cannot be assessed or delivered without it.
For accounting and tax records, the ground is legal obligation.
Who else is involved
Google Workspace hosts the application form, the response records and the Form.verk email account.
Cloudflare hosts this website.
PayPal processes payments for accepted clients.
Your information is not sold, and it is not shared for advertising.
How long information is kept
Unsuccessful or withdrawn applications: 90 days, then deleted.
Accepted client records, contracts and payment records: 7 years from the end of our working relationship, after which they are deleted. This matches the period accounting and tax records must be kept.
Withdrawing your consent
You can withdraw your consent to the use of your health and movement information at any time by emailing coaching@form-verk.com. Withdrawal will not affect processing that has already taken place. If you withdraw consent while coaching is underway, coaching cannot continue, because the assessment depends on that information.
Your rights
Where the law applies, you have the right to ask for a copy of your information, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, to restrict or object to how it is used, and to receive it in a portable format. To exercise any of these, email coaching@form-verk.com.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the United Kingdom supervisory authority, at ico.org.uk.
Automated decisions
Suitability decisions are made personally by me. No application outcome is decided automatically on the basis of your health information. The only automatic step is that applicants under 18 are told immediately that Ground Control is available to adults.
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Legal
Coaching Terms
How terms are agreed
Complete coaching terms are provided to you in writing and accepted before any payment is taken. They are sent after your fit call, if Ground Control is suitable for you and a place is offered.
Those terms set out the scope of coaching, the exact conditions of the result guarantee, participation requirements, payment dates, cancellation, refunds and pauses, missed call handling, the reasonable use policy for form review, and the limits of remote coaching including when referral applies.
Applying places you under no obligation, and no agreement is formed by using this website.
Scope
Ground Control is biomechanics focused coaching and performance support. It does not provide a medical diagnosis, it does not treat injury or disease, and it does not replace necessary medical care. Where a presentation sits outside remote coaching, referral to an appropriate professional is part of the process.