Keeping your training going through the school holidays

Half term arrives and the routine that took you three months to build falls over in a week. Every parent at bootcamp knows the feeling, and most of us have written off a summer or two.

A few things that work, from members who train around school runs and childcare.

Train first thing

Morning sessions exist partly for this. If you train first thing, nothing that happens later in the day can cancel it. It is the only slot nobody else can claim.

Aim lower rather than stopping

Two sessions a week instead of three is fine for a holiday. The people who come back in September are the ones who kept something going, not the ones who waited for the perfect week to restart.

Team up with somebody

Split the childcare with another parent and take a session each. That is accountability and free babysitting in one arrangement, and it works better than willpower.

And when it slips anyway

It will, some weeks. The whole point of a group with fixed times is that you can pick it back up without explaining yourself. Book in for the Monday and carry on.