How to successfully navigate our yearly workout flop era

I almost canceled school today because Henry Kissinger died and I assume everyone was up all night partying. But because I’m a good little girl and had already written most of this newsletter, I’m going to send it anyway.

The time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s is everyone’s flop era [workout version]. If you’ve ever been a regular gym-goer, it’s truly staggering how much gyms empty out this time of year. My hope, of course, is that you are progressively overloading your excitement and anticipation for PLATESLAM, December 15-17, especially since it affords you such a lenient interpretation of the term “PR.” (It would be the perfect time to ring the changes and do something not in your program, for instance!) But if you are going to find yourself unavoidably detained in the next few weeks, or simply out of gas, you are far from alone.

One reader asked this past week in the LIFTOFF chat of the Liftcord what they should do during holiday travel if they aren’t resourced to keep doing the workouts as scheduled. There is no imperative to do anything; you will always get back to where you were, as long as you go back to showing up. The only thing that changes is how long it will take to get back to where you were. The less you do in your intervening time off, the longer it will take.

If you do absolutely nothing but body-meld into the couch for two weeks: It will take the longest.

If you go for occasional walks and stretch sometimes, perhaps engage in a family game throwing around the old pigskin: It will take slightly less long.