The Lifeboat Drill — Transform · July

Transform · Your July

July is about connection over content.

Here's what's shifting inside Transform this month, and the drill at the center of it.

Dr. Ali Novitsky, Lifeboat Drill in progress
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The Strength
Ten minutes, taught at three levels Run back to back for thirty minutes in all. Start where you are. Stay through all three and you've banked the full thirty.
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The Implementation
One implementation segment Fifteen minutes where we put the day's piece in place together. By the end, twelve things implemented.
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The Questions
A chance to ask me anything Then I stick around to answer whatever you want answered, live, while we're together.

The drill begins Monday, June 29.

You're Already In

Nothing to sign up for. Nothing to buy.

This is part of your Transform July. The calls are already on your calendar. The replays post after every session. And you'll be added to the drill group automatically, right alongside the new women joining us for the month. Just be there.

In July, Here's What's Changing

This month, we choose connection over content.

A few things are shifting inside Transform for July. All of it points the same way: less material to wade through, more time actually together.

The Focus

Connection over content

July is built around being together, not adding to your plate. The drill is the through-line, and the room is the point.

The Platform

Skool moves to the Fit Co app

We're leaving Skool. Everything you had there now lives in the Fit Co app, in one place. One login, all of it.

The Live Calls

A new July schedule

Your current call schedule is paused for the month. In its place: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for the twelve drill sessions, plus two weekend sessions (time and date to be announced). Sixteen hours of live time with me in all. Replays included, always.

The Topics

Ten-minute, back-to-basics recordings

Short recorded topics, ten minutes each, taking us back to the foundations. Ready whenever you are.

Dr. Ali Novitsky with her older brother Chris
My big brother and me. I love this man more than I can say.

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.

Chris, ICU physician and athlete
Chris. ICU physician, lifelong athlete.

So I built him something he could actually run.

I designed 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 it wasn't only him. The feedback from the group was overwhelming, all of you asking for the same thing: back to basics, something simple, more time together. That is what built this.

Maybe that is you too. Maybe some part of you is sure you wouldn't be able to keep up.

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

I guarantee you can do this.

That is the whole reason the workout is built the way it is. You join me live, or on replay. 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 implemented by the end of the month. And then I stay, for as long as you have questions.

You're already in. Replays post after every session.

The shape of it

Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I go live at 7:00am Eastern. About an hour, three parts.

  • Twelve workouts, all of July. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, June 29 through July 31, live at 7am Eastern.
  • Plus our two weekend days. Sixteen hours of live time with me across the month, the drill sessions and our weekends together.
  • Replays after every session. Posted in the Fit Co app. Do the workout on your own time, or with your family on the floor next to you.
  • A catch-up week, July 20–26. No new workouts. Time to finish anything you missed, plus a live check-in from me.
  • You're added automatically. The calls land on your calendar, and you'll be dropped into the drill group, right alongside the new women joining for July.

The twelve sessions

The strength changes and builds. So does the implementation: one concrete thing we put in place together every session, twelve by the end. Here's the full map, start to finish.

Week One · The Basics
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Mon · Jun 29
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.
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Wed · Jul 1
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.
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Fri · Jul 3
Protein, without the math headache
The simple protein floor, why it matters more right now, and how to hit it on a chaotic summer day without weighing anything.
Week Two · Eating & The Body
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Mon · Jul 6
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.
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Wed · Jul 8
Perimenopause: what's changing
The metabolic and hormonal shifts, why the strategies that used to work stopped, and what to do instead. The session most of you have been waiting for.
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Fri · Jul 10
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 won't cooperate.
Week Three · The Nervous System
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Mon · Jul 13
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.
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Wed · Jul 15
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 summer house.
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Fri · Jul 17
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.
Catch-Up Week · Jul 20–26

No new workouts. Finish anything you missed, plus a live check-in from me. The window to complete all twelve is closing. Get the reps in.

Week Four · The Lifeboat
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Mon · Jul 27
Doing it as a family
Three people on the same floor, three levels at once. How the whole household runs the drill together, and why your kids belong in it.
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Wed · Jul 29
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.
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Fri · Jul 31
The next best decision
How to carry this past July, where you go from here, and the quiet shift from someone who keeps starting to someone who runs the drill.
The Novitsky family on a boat
Our family. The whole boat.

Bring The Whole Boat

Do it on your own. Or with your family on the floor.

The chair progression is exactly why this works for a whole household at once. Your kid takes the first ten minutes. Your partner stays for twenty. You run all thirty. Three people, three levels, one floor.

The summer I took my own family back out on the water, I kept thinking about this. The person who carries everyone else deserves to feel strong too. Start with yourself. Let them follow.

The Novitsky family
The people I do all of this for.

The Whole Point

More of us, in one room, doing the simple thing together.

That is what July is for. Not more to manage. Just more time, more connection, the basics done side by side.

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

Your July

The whole month of July. Twelve workouts. The minimum that keeps the boat upright.

If you do one thing for yourself this summer, this is it.

We start Monday, June 29. Live with me three mornings a week, plus our weekends.

You're already in. The calls are on your calendar, replays post after each session, and you'll be added to the drill group automatically.

The Lifeboat Drill is the proprietary program of Dr. Ali Novitsky and The Fit Collective®.

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