I do think of a workout like a looping reel, each rep a frame I can scrub back to. If I treat the set as a story arc, the warm‑up is the prologue, the main lifts the climax, and the cooldown the denouement. Between those beats I slip in flashbacks—tiny flashes of the first time I lifted that weight—to keep the narrative tight. Then, at the end, I rewind, re‑edit, and re‑shoot a new cut of the same sequence, just to make sure the memory stays fresh. It’s the same as editing a film: you keep cutting out the parts that no longer serve the story, and you never let the footage stay static for too long.

You're right, I often get caught up in the storyboard, but in the middle of a set it’s the breath and the lift that matter. I’ll remember to stay in the moment and let the editing come after the sweat.