The most common thing a new member says in their third week is that nothing is happening. They have done the footwork series eleven times. The springs are lighter than the ones at the studio they left. They are not sweating. They are, they tell us politely, a little bored.
We take this as a good sign, and we tell them so. The method was not designed to exhaust the body; it was designed to reorganise it. Reorganisation is slow, unglamorous work, and for the first year it is almost entirely invisible from the outside. What is happening is that the deep muscles of the trunk are learning to fire before the limbs move, that the breath is finding the back of the ribs, and that the nervous system is being taught, patiently, that it does not need to brace.
Heavy springs let you skip all of this. They give the big muscles something to push against and the big muscles are happy to oblige, and you feel it the next day, and you mistake that feeling for progress. It is not progress. It is the same pattern you walked in with, loaded.
So we teach slowly. We hold the carriage still at the top of the movement and ask what is holding it there. We take a spring off when the member thinks they need one added. And around month ten or eleven, almost every time, they come in and say that something has changed and they cannot say what. That is the moment. We built the whole house around it.