The UB program offers a premier physical strength and conditioning course aimed at bettering eating lifestyles, strength, stamina and overall health.  UB instructors teach how to improve quality of lives by transforming both minds and bodies forever.

Unfortunately, some people lose sight of what type of program this is, oftentimes finding themselves not progressing anymore toward their goals.  These are not poor students necessarily.  In fact, they just need some advice on how to maximize their potential in the course.  To illustrate my point and, thus, to help them get back on track, the following list likens the program to a semester of a college lab course: 

• To register for a semester class, like chemistry lab for instance, people must pay tuition and not expect to receive a prorated bill for missing classes due to business trips or vacations.  People should expect the same at UB. 
• People who are consistently late to lab sessions usually miss key information given at the beginning of class.  Similarly, consistently tardy UB students miss the opportunity to properly warm-up and stretch, decreasing performance and possibly increasing the risk of injury.
• Each lab student should read the experiment and write pre-lab plans before class so that they are fully prepared.  Likewise, UB transformers should formulate workout game plans before class starts.  For instance, people should know what specific exercises they plan to execute and what weight settings they plan to use.
• Lab participants must do their homework.  Likewise, body transformers must do their food journal homework.
• Unprepared lab participants, those without proper supplies and pre-lab write-ups, are usually sent away, missing the lab.  UB people should always come to class with the proper supplies and food journal.
• Students must complete each experiment to receive credit for the course.  Similarly, to maximize caloric expenditure, both partners should try to stay for the whole workout period.
• If people have to miss labs, they are usually required to perform make-up sessions.  Similarly, making up an exercise class is always a great idea to continue progressing.
• Everyone does the same lab experiments at the same time, making leading classes easier for the instructor to help people and correct any mistakes.  For the lab to run efficiently and to enhance group unity, any type of maverick attitudes or actions must be eliminated for both safety and consistent results.  When working out, UB expects everyone to follow the prescribed program, not necessarily something new that people might have read in, for instance, workout magazines.  They should check with the instructor first before trying a new type of workout or food plan.
• Usually in a lab, everyone is partnered with someone, promoting teamwork and a sense of helping others.  Both partners have to do their parts to finish the experiments.  Likewise, workout partners should help each other by, for example, counting reps, preparing weights for exercises, spotting to help prevent any type of accidents, and motivating each other.  Any type of egocentric attitude does not survive very long at UB.  People who enroll only to help themselves quickly realize that this program is about teamwork, not individualism.  Stated differently, UB expects everyone in a class to help others when necessary.
• A lab instructor always discourages poor attitudes and talking back in class.  The same is true at UB.  People should not have poor attitudes when in class, as this usually negatively affects the whole class, chipping away at group unity, weighing down the quality of the course.  Truthfully, the group is better off without people who have poor dispositions.
• In a lab, people are usually always taking notes.  The same should be true in a UB class.
• Just like lab instructors assign grades, UB instructors categorize people into mental grade lists based on people's efforts and attitudes.  What grade do you think that your instructors would give you?

Perhaps seeing a UB class in terms of a college course will help people understand why the program, which has worked for many years, is structured the way it is.  UB stresses teamwork, deterring rebellion and poor attitudes.  This is the only way that the program should work and will continue to exist.  In addition, although some people may have never taken a college lab course, I hope that they are perceptive enough to follow the parallel between the devotion required to pass one and the dedication needed to benefit from a UB "semester."  Only pupils who are eager to follow the rules and maximize their efforts will benefit from the course through-and-through.