https://leavethesofa.com/Getting off the sofa when you have not moved in a while: what the first step costs, what actually happens in a first session, how to go alone, and how to come back after missing one.Hugoenhttps://leavethesofa.com/posts/twenty-minutes-counts/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0200https://leavethesofa.com/posts/twenty-minutes-counts/<p>Twenty minutes is enough to be worth doing. It is not enough to meet any published guideline, and this post is not going to pretend otherwise. Those two statements are both true and most writing on this subject picks one and hides the other.</p>https://leavethesofa.com/posts/first-step-week-one/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0200https://leavethesofa.com/posts/first-step-week-one/<p>Week one is not training. Nothing you do in the next seven days will make you fitter in any way you would notice, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling a programme.</p> <p>Week one is a test of the mechanism. You are finding out whether you can get out of the building on a specific evening at a specific time, and then do it again. That is the whole objective. Everything about how hard the session is, how long it lasts, and what it consists of is subordinate to that, and most first attempts fail because they get it the other way round — an ambitious session on a day that was never going to work.</p>