You ever have one of those days?
Alarm doesn’t go off.
You spill coffee on the one shirt you actually like.
Your kid tells you about a “small” project that’s due… today.
The dog throws up in the hallway.
Your inbox looks like it reproduced overnight.
Traffic is awful. Amazon delivers everyone else’s packages except yours.
You finally crawl into bed and think,
“Perfect… and I still have to go to the gym tomorrow.”
Believe it or not—that’s exactly when your workouts matter most.
I was just talking to someone who really wants to get started here.
They’ve got a few friends who train at Pratt and they’re dying to join them. Super motivated, really excited… but a couple of things popped up that made their schedule crazier than usual.
So right now, the plan is:
“It’s just not the right time. I’ll start after the New Year.”
Here’s the problem with that: the New Year is about six weeks away.
If this person started now and only came in 2 days per week, that’s 12 workouts between now and January.
Twelve chances to:
- Prove to themselves that they can get to the gym, even when life is hectic
- Find two days and times that actually work in real life, not just on paper
- Build the confidence that “I can do this, even when my schedule is crazy”
That proof is everything.
Because a lot of the time, when life gets nuts, we start to feel like we’re not in control of anything. Work, kids, holidays, random emergencies—they all pull at you.
There are very few things more important to protect than your health and fitness.
So here’s what I want this email to do for you:
- Protect your training schedule with everything you’ve got.
Crazy work schedule? Sick kids? Holiday shopping? Travel? Do everything you can to keep some version of your plan.
- Dropping days is okay. Dropping to zero is not.
If you usually come 3 days per week and life gets wild, come 2.
If 2 is all you can manage, great.
Even 1 is infinitely better than 0.
We can always help you make up sessions later. What we want to avoid is disappearing for weeks at a time.
- Let your workout be the one thing you do control.
When everything else feels chaotic, being able to say “I still showed up for myself” is huge—for your body and your brain.
Your future self will never look back and say,
“I really regret staying consistent with my workouts during that crazy season.”
But they might look back and wish you hadn’t waited for the “perfect time” that never actually showed up.
So when everything goes wrong, and you’re lying in bed thinking,
“And I still have to go to the gym tomorrow…”
I want you to smile a little and change it to:
“And I still get to go to the gym tomorrow.”
We’ll be here—especially when life is chaos.