The Lifeboat Drill · Strength you can actually keep

Twelve strength sessions with a physician. Ready the minute you decide.

Twelve recorded workouts, waiting for you the second you join. Ten minutes of strength, taught at three levels, for thirty in all. One small thing you put in place each session. And the real questions women ask, answered by an obesity medicine physician. You can press play on the first one five minutes from now.

The Strength

Ten minutes, taught at three levelsRun them back to back for thirty in all. Start where you are. Stay through all three and you have banked the full thirty.

The Implementation

One piece, put in place each sessionA concrete thing you actually do, not more to know. Twelve of them running in your real life by the end.

The Answers

The real questions, answeredEvery session ends where the live room used to. The questions women actually ask, answered by a physician, built right in.

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Twelve physician-led sessions, for the price most places charge for a folder of PDFs.

Six months of access. You start today.

Yours the minute you joinAt your pace

Recorded sessions

Levels every workout

6 mo

Full access

$97

No application

From women who ran it

What they said after

I felt myself getting stronger with just two workouts a week. Like I'm finally doing what my body needed all along.

Dr. Megan Zeien

I used to not believe I could do strength training. Now I believe I can exercise and I love it.

Dr. Daisy Estrada

Build muscle, use the hunger scale. Now my clothes are loose and I weigh what my license says.

Dr. Beverly Joyce

I'm no longer hostage to my thoughts about food, and I can trust and honor my body.

Dr. Andrea Strathman

I keep signing up over and over again. It's an investment that's paid back exponentially.

Michelle Beam

I impulse joined and haven't regretted a second of it.

Dalal Taha

Best decision ever. I love that it feels real.

Jennie W. Eckstrom

I overthought and judged myself for needing help. Clear signs it was exactly right for me.

Jean Aukerman Vickers

I invested in me, and I'm 10,000x grateful I put myself first.

Vilmaris Quinones

The slow path is the one that changes everything.

Brooke Buckley

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Two minutes with me before you decide

Dr. Ali Novitsky with her older brother Chris — My big brother and me

Why this exists

I built this for my brother first.

I love my older brother. Fiercely. He is one of the smartest, most remarkable people I know. He is an ICU physician, and he has saved more lives than he could ever count.

He is also an athlete. A few years ago he injured himself in Norway and needed bilateral patellar tendon repairs. Both knees. Since then, being the athlete he has always been has been hard. And that landed on top of one of the most brutal stretches medicine has handed any of us. So he reached out. Because I know him, I knew that meant business.

So I built him something he could actually run. A short strength routine to rehab his knees, the kind he could do right there at work, between everything else. A chair. A few minutes. Movements that meet a body where it is and build from there. Nothing elaborate. Elaborate was never going to survive his week. It was never going to survive yours either.

Dr. Ali Novitsky reflecting — I kept turning it over

Then I kept reflecting.

For weeks. If my brother, with everything he knows, needed something this simple to get back to himself, then so do a lot of people. Quietly. Without ever saying it out loud.

And maybe that is you. Maybe you haven't started working with me because some part of you is sure you wouldn't be able to keep up.

Dr. Ali Novitsky, grateful and inspired — If he was struggling, others were too

I guarantee you can do this.

That is the whole reason the workout is built the way it is. You press play whenever it fits. The first ten minutes, we use a chair. The next ten, we take the chair away. The last ten, we combine the movements.

You can do ten. You can do twenty. You can do all thirty. Every one of those is a complete workout. There is no version of this where you fall behind.

Then I help you put one thing in place. One concrete piece, every session, until twelve are running in your life. And the questions you would have asked me out loud are answered inside every session.

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How it runs

The shape of it

You join once. Everything opens the same day. You go at the pace your real life allows.

Twelve sessions, all recorded. Watch them in order or jump to the one you need. Rewatch as many times as you want.
Six months of full access, from the day you join. Long enough to build the habit and do the whole thing twice, on the weeks you have more and the weeks you have less.
Ten minutes, or twenty, or thirty. Every version is a complete workout. Nothing to keep up with and no way to fall behind.
No live calls, no room full of strangers. Just you and the work, at your own level, on your own schedule.
After six months your access closes. By then the drill is yours, not the platform's. That is the whole point.

Add it up

Why this is not a hard decision

Here is everything that comes with it, and what each piece would cost you if you went and assembled it somewhere else.

Twelve physician-designed strength sessionsThree levels every workout. Built by an obesity medicine physician, not a template.

$360

The twelve-part implementation trackOne concrete thing put in place each session. Twelve running in your life by the end.

$180

The perimenopause and hormones sessionWhat is changing, why the old strategies stopped working, and what to do instead.

$150

The nervous-system and stress-regulation sessionsThe physiology no one explained, and how to settle your own system in real time.

$150

Nutrition without the trackingThe protein floor and eating by hunger and fullness. No weighing, no rules, no restarting Monday.

$120

Six months of on-demand accessWatch, rewatch, and come back to it on the weeks that come apart.

$90

What it would cost you elsewhere

$1,050

Your price todayOne payment. No application. Cancel-proof, because there is nothing to cancel.

$97

The honest comparison is simple. One visit with a physician who does this all day, or twelve sessions you keep for six months.

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Session by session

The twelve sessions

The strength changes and builds. So does the implementation: one concrete thing you put in place every session, twelve by the end. Here is the whole thing, start to finish.

One · The Basics

What a lifeboat drill actually is

Why a tiny, repeatable strength minimum beats the elaborate plan you never finish. The whole idea, in one short segment.

Why muscle is the organ of longevity

The lifespan case for strength, in plain language. What you are building in those ten minutes, and why it matters more every year.

Protein, without the math headache

The simple protein floor, why it matters more right now, and how to hit it on a chaotic day without weighing anything.

Two · Eating and the Body

Eating by hunger and fullness, not rules

The G.O.A.L.S. approach to nutrition. How to eat well without tracking, restricting, or starting over every Monday.

Perimenopause: what is changing

The metabolic and hormonal changes, why the strategies that used to work stopped, and what to do instead. The session most women have been waiting for.

Strength and the scale

Why measurable strength is the number to watch, how to keep muscle even while eating less, and what real progress looks like when the scale will not cooperate.

Three · The Nervous System

The stress physiology no one explained

Why you can be doing everything right and still feel wired and depleted. What chronic stress is doing under the hood, and the first lever to pull.

Sleep, the multiplier

Why sleep quietly decides your strength, your hunger, and your mood, and the small levers that still move it in a disrupted week.

Regulation is a skill, not a personality

How to settle your own system in real time, and what to do about being the steadiest person in a house full of people who lean on you.

Four · The Lifeboat

Focus on what you can control

On the days everything feels out of your hands, this is the one input that still is. Where to put your ten minutes so the rest of the day has a floor under it.

What you keep when life gets hard

The true minimum. The few things you never drop, no matter the travel, the sick kid, or the week that comes apart. This is the heart of the whole drill.

The next best decision

How to carry this forward, where you go from here, and the quiet move from someone who keeps starting to someone who runs the drill.

The Novitsky family — The people I do this for

Simple terms

Nothing to lose. Everything to gain.

No hoops, no fine print. Here is the whole deal.

Six months of full access. Start the minute you join.
No application. Just $97.
Full refund within the first 7 days.

I believe you can do this. That isn't a slogan. I watched it bring my brother back.

In their words

I felt myself getting stronger with just two workouts a week. Like I'm finally doing what my body needed all along.

Dr. Megan Zeien

I used to not believe I could do strength training. Now I believe I can exercise and I love it.

Dr. Daisy Estrada

Open now

Twelve sessions. Six months. The minimum that keeps the boat upright.

Twelve physician-led sessions, for the price most places charge for a folder of PDFs.

You start today · $97 · six months of access

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