When my schedule keeps changing, I want to keep training anyway, so it is not the first thing dropped whenever things get busy.
Khi lịch làm việc của tôi thay đổi liên tục, tôi muốn vẫn giữ được việc tập, để nó không phải là thứ đầu tiên bị bỏ mỗi khi bận.
Job context
- Who
- Someone whose working hours are not fixed
- When
- Weekly, as the schedule shifts
- Trigger
- A month with only three sessions
- Situation
- Every programme assumes a regular schedule
- Constraints
- Next week is unknown
5 Pains
Every programme needs a fixed schedule
HighThree sessions a week on named days.
Root cause: Programmes are written for people with regular weeks
Missing one session derails the programme
HighWith no idea where to resume.
Root cause: Programmes are designed as rigid sequences
The gym is closed when they are free
HighFree at eleven at night.
Root cause: Opening hours follow the majority's needs
Too little sleep makes training ineffective
MediumAnd more training makes it worse.
Root cause: Recovery depends on sleep the schedule does not allow
Cannot compare themselves with people on regular schedules
MediumSo they always feel behind.
Root cause: Every progress measure assumes steady frequency
5 Desired Outcomes
Have a way to train that does not need a fixed schedule
FunctionalMiss a session without breaking the programme
FunctionalTrain at the hours they are actually free
FunctionalTrain in line with how much they have recovered
FunctionalNot feel permanently behind
Emotional
5 Existing Solutions
A solution is not the same thing as a product, a customer can hire a behaviour or a workaround too.
Train at home with simple equipment
BehaviourRemoves the opening-hours constraint and the environment that sustains the habit.
Choose a gym open around the clock
ProductSolves the hours, and there are very few.
Train briefly, several times a day
WorkaroundFits a fragmented day, and no programme is written this way.
Abandon the programme and train ad hoc
WorkaroundAdapts to any schedule, losing the deliberate progression.
Prioritise sleep over the session
BehaviourThe right call more often than people think, against the feeling of guilt.
2 Opportunity Gaps
Training programmes are written for people with regular weeks, while those who struggle most to sustain training are the ones whose schedules move, and nobody writes for them.
Why existing solutions fail: A programme with a clear sequence is easy to sell and easy to follow, while one that survives a fragmented schedule is hard to describe and looks like no plan at all, so the market produces only the first kind.
Potential opportunity: Programmes organised by priority rather than by weekday: whatever time exists today goes to the most important thing that fits it.
Training and recovery belong to two different worlds, one has coaches and programmes, the other has nobody, although the result depends equally on both.
Why existing solutions fail: Nobody can sell sleep, so the whole industry concentrates on the part that sells, and trainees are told to add volume precisely when what they lack is recovery.
Potential opportunity: Adjusting session volume against last night's sleep, treating recovery as an input rather than as a footnote.