Low-motivation day protocol

You don't feel like it today. Good — I have a protocol for exactly this, and it's my favourite one.

We do not skip. We shrink. Today's session was 35 minutes; it is now 12. Same shoes, smaller promise. Timer on, and when it rings you are done — and the streak, which is the actual asset here, survives untouched.

Here's why this works: motivation is weather, but a streak is climate. You don't protect a streak with heroic days. You protect it with tiny days you refuse to miss.

And if something hurts — really hurts, not just effort — we stop, full stop, and you talk to a professional. I'm a buddy, not a doctor, and buddies don't let buddies train through injuries.

Twelve minutes. Shoes on. I'll handle the rest.