I crush all my fitness goals!

Crushing is a sprinter's verb, and most fitness is not a sprint. It's outlasting. Being the person still turning up in March, when the January crowd has thinned and the place is quiet again.

Goals get crushed in a week and abandoned in three. The ones that hold are smaller than they look written down: three sessions instead of four, a walk on the day you'd have written off entirely.

Keep the swagger, though. Something in a body responds to being addressed with confidence rather than suspicion. Just point it at the boring Tuesday sessions, since that's where the crushing actually happens, quietly and with nobody watching.