Bloodwork should come at intake and on that schedule, not once. The physician needs a defined handoff. The coach should not be a group or a rotating inbox, and the data should do more than fill a dashboard. Anything that is missing two of those is a plan, not a program.
The checklist
1. Diagnostics with a retest date. Ask what is tested at intake and when it is tested again. Month 0, 6, and 12 is the standard Executive Health Edge uses. A program with one panel and no retest cannot prove it did anything.
2. A physician with a defined lane. Not whether a doctor is involved, but how. The right structure: coaches act on lifestyle-responsive markers (training, nutrition, sleep, stress) and present every adjustment as coaching informed by data. Anything hormonal, pharmaceutical, or lab-dependent goes to a physician by written handoff. Ask to have the handoff described. If it cannot be, it does not exist.
3. One coach, 1:1. The person who reads your data every day should be the same person for the whole program. Group calls, community Slack channels, and rotating coaches are cheaper to run and are sold as “support.” They are not accountability.
4. Wearable and scale data that changes the day. WHOOP or Oura recovery, resting heart rate, sleep, and weight trend from a smart scale. The test is whether a poor recovery score changes that day’s session intensity. If the wearable is a dashboard the coach glances at, it is decoration.
5. Travel built in. Every training week should have a hotel-gym and bodyweight variant with the same movement patterns and progression tracking. Nutrition on the road should collapse to a protein floor and a calorie ceiling. Travel weeks count.
6. Accountability in days. A response to every logged workout. A message the day you do not log. A Monday report and a Friday report. A program whose accountability is a weekly form has outsourced the hard part to you.
Nice to have, not essential
Biological age analysis, sleep coaching, grocery and supplement planning, an app with a recipe library. Useful, and Executive Health Edge includes them, but they are not what separates a program from a plan.
What Executive Health Edge does on each of the six
A 75+ biomarker panel at month 0, 6, and 12. A program physician for the hormonal, pharmaceutical, and lab-dependent lane, by written handoff. One dedicated coach, selected and trained by Zac Armstrong, for the full twelve months. WHOOP or Oura plus a Withings scale, provided, feeding every session decision. A travel variant of every week. Monday analysis report, Friday check-in report, daily responses, same-day outreach when a client goes quiet.
This page is coaching information, not medical advice. Questions about medication, hormones, or peptides go to the program physician.