Strength Is Borrowed Time
All things are in a state of change, and you yourself are in ceaseless transformation.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 9.19
Muscle is not a possession you acquire and keep. It is a rate — a balance between what you ask of the body and what it decides to hold onto.
That sounds bleak and isn't. It means the door is never closed. What went away in a hard year comes back in a consistent one.
Today's challenge: If you've had time off, come back at half of what you left at, without apology.