Hi Joey! Thank you for your time on our Zoom call. Can you please direct me in the area of exercises that would benefit myself and my goals. Thank you kindly! Sheri

Joey and all- I have a question. My neck is A MESS. It is painful and STIFF. Today for example I had an ultrasound on my leg and had to be on my belly. I had my head to the left for about 10 min. Trying to turn it to the right took about a full 60 seconds. I do have a bulging cervical disc and some evidence of my cervical spine straightening too much.

I've been reading that side sleeping with shoulders close together due to gravity can lead to shortening adaptations of the pecs- that daily stretching cant really help since the muscle fibers have truly changed. It was recommended to wear a comfortable brace that keeps the shoulders back (a bra-like thing) or to really try to sleep on your back even with a short oblong pillow aligned with your spine so that the pecs get a gentle sustained stretch for as long as your sleeping in that position- hopefully for hours if you can stay put. 

My question for Joey is- if you have shortened pecs which i think i do- is it counterproductve to do strength training moves of the chest? Wouldnt they make the problem worse? A neurologist said to me that no amount of back stregthening will help forward arm posture until you re-lengthen the pecs. 

Should I skip chest and instead focus on stretching the chest and continue to do back movements on Chest and Back day?? 

Hi, I’m a beginner with no experience, last year I had back surgery. So I don’t know where to start, is it ok to do any movement, very doubtful. Back injury happened in Gym. 

Hello Joey,

Happy New Year!!  

I’ve been using your naked beauty program for a few years now and it has worked for me but since I’ve moved to Florida in 2022, work has been crazy and I let myself go a bit.  My ideal weight is 130 pounds and I’m at 135 now and my cellulite problem has increased at age 53 to the point where I refuse to go the beach because I feel terrible wearing a bathing suit.   

I would like to start again and fully commit myself to an exercise program dedicated only to cellulite reduction.  I know you can help me! 

Could you please recommend an exercise program that will help eliminate the horrible cellulite. The original program years ago was about $40 but I’m ready to pay more for something that will get me results. 

I can’t live in Florida and not go to the beach. Please help!!  I appreciate you and Thank you!! 

Sincerely,

Iris 

Hello Joey,    I need some help navigating your programs. I purchased the Total Family Access ( I think ) and I don't fully understand how to follow along with your workouts day by day. I went through the 5 day course but I am not clear as to what to do after that or is this particular course what I get to repeat over and over? Is it $19/month for just that course plus all the other random things, or will there be more constructed week courses every month? I'm confused. I have navigated around to different workouts and favorited them, but everything is so random. I'm not very clear on where to go and what to pick. I have been able to just choose the ones that are available for me, but sometimes I don't have the proper equipment yet at the time to do some of those, so I look for another one, and I end up spending a bit more time than I wanted to trying to figure out what I'm doing for exercise that morning. I really like your workouts and would love some sort of structure to follow, to get me going with this.
Please advise as to what need to do, what I paid for and if you have some direction for me here. Thank you so much, I appreciate you. Katie

Hi everyone! I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Annie. I found Joey's SYMULAST program waaaay back in 2012 (or something) and I really got results. Then things went crazy in my life and I forgot about it all. Fast forward to 2026 and YouTube showed me one of Joey's videos and I though - well huh- I bought that program! But I didnt remember the name of it, or the old email that I got it with. 

I finally found my receipt and was brought back into the world of Joey Atlas- except now, instead of just wanting smoother legs, I am in perimenopause, and have spent the last 10 years sick from a combination of undiagnosed and untreated Lyme (now treated) that had lead to early onset (teens/20's) arthritis for which I've now had 4 lower leg surgeries (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) all of which had complications, including a medical mistake injury of my sciatic nerve and probably permanent weakness in my right foot, a bunch of hardware in my left foot, and the best prize of them all- complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) which has the lovely honor of being the most painful chronic disease in the world. I spent solid months around a level 9 and lost a ton of weight and muscle because I could barely eat. Luckily, it is in remission, and MUCH treated by physical activity and re-forming neural connections between the injured limb and the brain. 

With all that I also experienced extreme and prologed injury from the medications I was prescribed for all of this and spent much of 2024 and 2025 housebound and at the worst bedbound. 

After stopping one of these meds in Nov 2025 and another of them this October I've had the best 3 months of the last decade. I had been reconditioning with very gentle movement practices but I KNOW I need muscle mass. I am a trained personal trainer (though I never followed that route). I have, in the past, run 3 marathons, did years of crossfit and then orange theory. 

But the wear, tear, and cortisol associated with the modalities I used to do are just a big NO NO now! I want nothing to do with them. I want peaceful, mindful strength training that addresses not only the cosmetic muscles but the tendons, ligaments, supporting muscles and fascia all working together, as they always should have!

I paid for the $19 promo for total access and I am SO GLAD I did! Joey's style is exactly what I needed to add to my life and at this point in my life. The workouts feel so amazing to my battered, injured, and deconditioned body I cant even tell you! Sometimes I moan it feels so good to be training with resistance and mindfulness. 

Very long story- thanks for reading and happy to be here! Thanks for your legit programming Joey.