August 26, 2026

January 1st gets the credit, but let’s be honest about what January looks like here: it’s 65 degrees, the patio season is just starting, and motivation is genuinely easy to find. September is the one that actually tests you. You have just survived four straight months of 105-plus degree heat, your schedule is about to fill back up with school, work, sports, and everything else that got quietly paused in July, and somehow you are supposed to come out of all of that with your fitness habits intact.