Asked before, answered straight.

4 training sessions a week, about an hour each, and as short as 45 minutes on a day that can’t hold an hour, plus a weekly call (capped at 45 minutes and usually shorter) and a Sunday check-in of about 10 minutes. Call it 4 to 5 hours a week, most of it scheduled around your week. If you can't find that, neither of us should pretend this is going to work.

No. And this is not a polite marketing no. The plan is built on normal food, ordering rules for any restaurant or drive-thru in America, and weekly math that absorbs a birthday dinner or a 10 p.m. drive-thru run without derailing. The extreme version wouldn’t survive 26 weeks of a real life, and 26 weeks is the whole point.

You should, and this isn’t about discipline; you’ve got more than most. But the week is engineered against you: the hours, the sleep debt, the seat, the food you eat when you can. That’s not a willpower problem, it’s a systems problem, and a system built around the week you actually have is what fixes it. This isn’t a crutch; it’s you upgrading your own system. The entire program graduates you into running yourself, and there’s a live test to prove it happened.

You’ve probably already tried; that’s usually why people end up here. An app or a cheap online coach sells you access; nobody’s accountable for your outcome, which is why it bills you forever and is built for you to stay. This is a 26-week transformation program, not a subscription: a scan-verified result, a guarantee behind it, and a graduation date on the calendar. Price it against the thing it buys back: the energy to actually be there for your family at the end of the day, and the shape to be the example your kids copy. Not a monthly app. One of those bills forever. This one ends: with the body, and the skill to keep it for the rest of your life.

Make every scheduled coaching call (at the cadence set for your phase; rescheduling with reasonable notice counts), hold at least 80% workout compliance in the coaching app, measured across the whole program, and submit your weekly check-in — including the Sunday photo or digital-edition screenshot of your Operator’s Log entry and your food log, logged in the app at least five days of that week — missing no more than two across the program. Do that, and if after 26 weeks you haven’t lost 10 lbs of fat and gained 5 lbs of muscle (scan-verified), or you don’t pass the self-coaching test, I coach you free, week-for-week, until you do. Plain-language summary; your signed Monarch agreement governs.

Fully remote, anywhere in the U.S. You need gym access or, at home, adjustable dumbbells and a bench (travel weeks run on a dumbbell or bodyweight track), a smartphone for the coaching app, and a scale. Everything else (programming, check-ins, form review, calls) runs through the app and a weekly video call.

The first five clients. They pay full price (no discount, ever) and receive founding value that expires when the five seats fill: Monarch Maintenance included, with the $67/mo fee waived, and a founding rate locked at today’s prices on re-enrollment, the Partner Add-On and Maintenance, through their first re-enrollment and for up to eighteen months after the benefits vest. Founding terms aren’t offered in California. After the five, clients buy the standard offer. The roster itself is capped at 10 active clients: one coach, deliberately. Full terms on the Strategy Session.

Two different things. You get real exit windows: a cooling-off period after signing, then an agreement-specific 45- or 20-day window where you can walk away owing only for the days the program was available to you. What I don't do is a money-back guarantee on results, because refunds train people to bail when it gets hard; instead the guarantee keeps me working free until the result lands. Full detail: Cancellation & Refunds.

No. The supplement plan is five evidence-supported basics (creatine, whey, D3, fish oil, magnesium) and you can buy them anywhere. Disclosure, up front: I'm an affiliate for Prestige Labs and ICON Meals. For Prestige, my links apply Monarch pricing automatically at checkout; for ICON Meals, the code SEANCONNICK takes 10% off. The recommendations don't change either way; the links and the code just make them cheaper.

For a returning lifter, yes, and it’s the entire reason this program only takes people who’ve trained before. Muscle memory is real physiology: rebuilding tissue you’ve built before is dramatically faster than building it new. A true beginner can’t; someone who trained seriously once and has since let it slide can. The guarantee floor is scan-verified for exactly that reason: the number has to survive a scan, not a mirror.

Beginners who’ve never trained. "I need to lose 80 lbs" cases: you deserve a program built for that, and this isn’t it. And price-shoppers: if the decision comes down to price, we’d both be settling. This is priced like the transformation it is, not a monthly app.

You graduate with your own maintenance playbook, your Operator’s Log of 26 weeks of your own coaching decisions, and a passed competency test: the skill to run yourself for the rest of your life. No forced subscription. An optional light-touch maintenance tier exists if you want a safety net later, but the stated goal is that you don’t need one.