I'm Ryan Booth. I started coaching in the mid-90s and never stopped. What began as a young lifter's obsession became a career studying how the human body actually gets stronger — not how the internet says it should.
I train post-injury clients, first-time lifters, and long-time athletes out of Kitsilano, Vancouver West Side, and Downtown. The common thread is simple. Everyone who walks through the door wants to be stronger a decade from now than they are today.
No templates. No hype. Just anatomy, structure, and a coach who's been under the bar as long as you've been thinking about it.
The method that rebuilt me — then rebuilt my clients.
Years into coaching, I ended up on the wrong side of a cervical spine surgery. Standard programming wasn't going to bring me back. So I built what would. Heavy weeks to reload the tissue. Moderate weeks to let the joints and connective structures catch up. Two waves, undulating, patient — engineered instead of improvised.
That system became the ILU Method. It's what put me back under the bar, and it's what every client trains inside of today. It's the reason physicians refer patients here instead of a generic gym floor.
Pain-free strength isn't a slogan. It's the whole point.
Coaching philosophy
- Anatomy first. Programs second. Ego last.
- Every rep watched. Every cue earned.
- Joint health is not a warmup — it's the training.
- The best program is the one you can still run in ten years.
Read the whole system
The ILU Method is now a book — thirty years of coaching, one recovery, and every rep of the system in one place.
Get the book