It's science. Your brain is trained to react to immediate threats. A lion. A fire. Skipping a Wednesday workout is not an immediate threat. Your brain doesn't care.
It's called present bias. Thankfully, Nobel Prize-winning economists found a way to trick your brain into action:
Immediate stakes.
A.K.A. put your money where your mouth is.
If skipping workouts costs you real money — today, not someday — you won't skip.
If you want a streak and a notification that says "Way to go champ" there are hundreds of apps for that.
They have great ratings.
This one just charges you when you skip.
And it works.