The comeback rarely looks like a movie montage. It looks like doing the same dull thing for months.

A return is built out of repetition, and repetition has no shape worth filming. The same exercises, the same hour, the same small gain that is invisible day to day and obvious across a season. Expecting it to feel like progress is what makes people stop, because that feeling is reserved for the beginning and the end. The middle is the dull thing, and the dull thing is what works.

Set up the next six weeks so the dull thing is as easy as possible to do. Same time of day, kit already packed, nothing left to decide. Protect the number of repetitions rather than the intensity.