I thought it was a consolation prize.
Better than nothing. A compromise. What you do when real training isn’t possible.
But it ended up being the turning point I didn’t expect.
I’m 42 now and I feel stronger now than I did in my 20s and 30s. And I have the best relationship with exercise I’ve ever had in my life.
So much so that I built an entire strength training program around it. GLOW10 is built on 10-minute sessions, six days a week. Not occasionally. Not when you can fit in a longer one. Short, purposeful, daily. That’s the whole model.
Here’s what I didn’t see coming when I made the switch:
💛 Recovery is so much better. You’re not hammering the same muscles session after session, so there’s way less soreness and way more capacity to show up again tomorrow.
💛 Movement as medicine works better with daily doses. Ten minutes every day is a higher frequency dose than one long session twice a week. Your body responds to that.
💛 Focus goes up when the window is short. There’s no faffing. No wasted reps. Ten minutes forces intention in a way a 45-minute session just doesn’t.
💛 Your body gets variety. Different moves, different loads, different feels across the week. This is huge for managing pain, stiff joints, and the kind of stiffness that creeps in on long desk days.
💛 Overuse injuries become less of a thing. You’re not grinding the same patterns over and over. Your body gets to recover and rotate.
💛 Habits need frequency, not duration. Showing up for 10 minutes six days a week builds the neural groove that makes this stick. Long sessions twice a week don’t do that the same way.