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Short articles on starting again.

Most fitness advice is about how to begin. These pieces are about the bit after that: what to do once life has interrupted, how to fit training around a normal week, and what counts on a bad day. No transformations, no hype.

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Keep Starting

  • What counts on a bad dayTen minutes is not an hour and nobody needs to pretend otherwise. What the WHO says about some against none, and how to give a bad day a smaller version of the plan.
  • The second-day problemOne missed session is not the problem. The story you tell yourself on Tuesday is. What a UCL habit study says about a single miss, and how to keep the next session ordinary.
  • The gap between goesAfter a break, your capacity has gone backwards but your standard has not. Why restarting feels harder than starting, and what counts as a return.