Raff's Brain #241: Hot Yoga Problems - If Your Fitbit Didn’t Track It, Did HOT YOGA Even Happen?

Monday is not the enemy. It didn’t choose to become the beginning of the workweek, and Rob Raffety believes it deserves slightly more respect.

In this episode of Hot Yoga Problems, Rob celebrates the promise of a fresh start while acknowledging the familiar reality that most Monday commitments begin collapsing almost immediately. The diet slips, the exercise plan gets negotiated, eight hours of sleep becomes a fantasy, and the supposedly clean slate starts collecting stains.

Then comes the real crisis: Rob forgets his Fitbit before hot yoga.

Without the device tracking his heart rate, calories, and exercise, Rob is forced to confront one of the defining philosophical questions of our time: If a workout isn’t recorded, does it still count?

The missing Fitbit nearly triggers an all-or-nothing spiral in which one small mistake becomes permission to abandon the entire week. Instead, Rob steps back, recognizes the absurdity, and searches for a more useful interpretation. The mistake happened because he was trying to do something responsible—and now it may force him to learn something he otherwise never would have investigated.

Along the way, Rob questions whether showing up is truly the hardest part of yoga, reflects on the strange pursuit of online attention, and embraces persistence for its own sake.

Episode highlights:

• Defending Monday from generations of unfair criticism
• Why new weeks inspire commitments we rarely maintain
• Forgetting a Fitbit and immediately questioning reality
• The dangerous momentum of incremental negativity
• How one mistake becomes an excuse to give up
• The difference between showing up and surviving the yoga itself
• Finding useful lessons inside frustrating situations
• Continuing to create even when the response is underwhelming
• Adopting a simple new philosophy: “Cur Non?”—“Why not?”

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