This is where it gets concrete: Manuel presents the full training roadmap for the eight weeks – the three-way split with pushing exercises on Monday, legs and glutes on Wednesday, pulling exercises on Friday, plus the shared core session on Sunday at 10 am. You will learn why nutrition stays the same on training days and rest days ("muscles grow at rest"), how at least 50 grams of carbohydrates per meal and three hours between meals keep your blood sugar stable – and why the roughly two kilos of the first week are not fat but pure energy in your muscle stores. Manuel also shares his own habits: lemon and salt water in the morning, a protein shake stirred into the oats, creatine in the coffee.

Your blood work looks unremarkable – and you still feel drained? That is exactly where the first live Q & A session starts. Participants describe their own cases, and it quickly becomes clear how hard it is to establish a deficiency cleanly in the first place – a folate deficiency, say, or a vitamin D3 deficiency. Manuel explains what matters in a blood test and when targeted supplementation makes sense. He also answers questions on carbohydrates, coping with stress and physical capacity – and clears up the usual nutrition myths.

Why do you reach for the chocolate in the evening even though you know better? In the second seminar Manuel goes deep into the connection between stress, nutrition and mental health. At the centre of it sits the reward system in the brain, the nucleus accumbens: under sustained stress and with too little dopamine production it is simply neglected – and goes looking for a quick reward somewhere else. You will also learn how blood sugar and carbohydrates steer your eating behaviour, why cravings are rarely a question of willpower, and how to hold your energy level steady across the whole day.

In the second Q & A session Manuel answers a wide range of health questions about nutrition and its effect on the body. The one problem running through almost all of them: uncertainty about carbohydrates, and the fear of them. That fear is exactly what leaves many people short on nutrients – and ends in emotional eating. The session also covers diets and weight problems, chronic complaints, cortisol and the role of emotional health.

The third seminar takes the wider view: Manuel looks at the deep changes in our society and what they do to nutrition, energy balance and health. His diagnosis: a great many people live permanently in survival mode – and stress, overload and physical complaints follow. He sets out how, over the years, that can turn into insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and the familiar diseases of affluence, and answers the nutrition questions from the community. Once you have understood that chain, you also understand why Road to Power starts with energy and not with the scale.

The third Q & A session clears up current confusion and misinformation about nutrition. The central topic is the misunderstanding around real protein requirements – and the role of animal fats. Manuel shows how flawed information from industry has distorted the picture of healthy eating for decades; margarine and the egg are the classic examples. He also answers questions on carbohydrates, hormones, coping with stress and the link between nutrient deficiency and energy supply.

In the fourth seminar Manuel turns to widespread health myths. Many chronic complaints – from supposed autoimmune conditions to metabolic problems – are diagnosed or treated incorrectly, because the body is too rarely understood as the complex but regenerating organism it is. Manuel shows why real recovery takes time and how emotional strain, inflammation and excess weight are connected. Once you know how they fit together, you stop fighting symptoms and start working on causes.

The fourth Q & A session runs straight through the most common everyday questions. Why do wrists or shoulders hurt during push-ups, and what helps? How do carbohydrates connect to nutrient uptake and energy balance, and how much sugar is actually in typical foods? Manuel puts unusual blood sugar readings and sleep problems into context, explains the psychological effect of cortisol and the close link between nutrition and emotional health. The concrete cases from the community make it clear how individual the answers end up being.