The job is supposed to pay for the life. Not eat it.

Who this was built for

Is this you?

• Are you a scaffolder, pipefitter, welder or millwright? Twelve-hour shifts on a clock you didn't pick. Would you like to finish a hitch without feeling like the hitch finished you?
• You're an operator coming off a stretch of nights. The first two days off go to becoming a person again, and you never get them back.
• Do you eat every meal in a camp kitchen line? Same steam table, every day of the hitch. Would you like to walk that line without a scale, without a special order, and without your phone out in front of the crew?
• Do you drive in from Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie or Cold Lake? No camp story, just the highway twice a hitch in the dark. Nobody writes for you. These do.
• Is the camp gym three broken treadmills and somebody in a stringer on the only bench? Would you like a session that works with whatever is actually in the room, in thirty minutes?
• Do you lose Day 1 to the couch, Day 2 to errands, and find the tank on Day 3? By then it's nearly over. Every plan you've bought started on Day 1.
• Your back and knees are already talking to you. You've done the arithmetic on however many hitches you've got left, and you didn't love the answer.
• Are you flat? Not sick. Just nothing in the tank. Two years of it, and it came on so slowly you can't name the month it started.
• You walk in your own front door and feel like a visitor. The house ran fine without you. There's no slot for you in it.
• Are you a woman on the patch? Reading one more thing written as if every worker is a man with a wife at home.
• You go home to nobody. No partner, no kids, a place that's been cold since you left. That's its own kind of hard and nobody mentions it.
• Have you bought this sort of thing before and watched it die? Then you're exactly who I wrote it for. I did the same. Five times.

Nodded at even one? Keep reading.

The rest of this page is about what's actually beating you. It isn't your character.

The arithmetic nobody outside the gate does

Your shift is twelve hours. Your day is fifteen.

Ask anybody out here what their shift is and they'll say twelve.

Ask what their day is and they'll say nineteen.

It's about fourteen or fifteen, door to door. Twelve on the tools. Forty-five minutes to an hour each way. Pre-shift and post-shift on top.

And the fact that it feels like nineteen is the whole point.

Nobody outside the fence counts the commute. Or the tailboard. Or the dry room.

So every plan you've ever bought was priced against the wrong number.

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The back half of a hitch

Nobody who hasn't done a hitch knows about the back half of one.

Day one you're fine. Day four you're managing.

Day nine on a fourteen. Day five on a seven. Day three on a four-and-three.

That's when something quietly gives out.

Every meal has been institutional salt and grease since you got here. You would commit crimes for a vegetable that hasn't been boiled into submission.

The alarm goes and there's a two-second gap where you genuinely consider what would happen if you didn't.

That is the day every program you have ever bought went in the bin.

Not because you're weak. Because it had no instruction for the back half.

It assumed your Monday would look like your Monday.

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The camp kitchen isn't the problem

The food is right there. It's free and it's endless.

Everybody's going back for seconds. Nobody's weighing anything.

You've done twelve hours in minus thirty and the tray is warm.

You are not going to out-willpower that. Nobody is.

The camp kitchen isn't the problem. Having no plan for it is the problem.

And the drive-in half isn't easier. It's just quieter.

You get home at nine at night, open your own fridge, and find condiments.

71.4% of the fly-in fly-out workers surveyed were overweight or obese, against 67% of the general adult population. Asare and colleagues, International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2022. A real gap, and a modest one — four points. You already knew you were heavier. What nobody ever explained is why the line and the twelve beat you specifically.

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You're not lazy. You're desynchronized.

Your body runs on an internal clock. It decides when you're sharp and when you're finished.

It does not care what the schedule says. It does not care what your foreman needs.

Days one hitch. Nights the next. Two flips inside one hitch if you're unlucky.

Fighting that with coffee and stubbornness is arguing with gravity.

You can yell at gravity all you want. It isn't going to negotiate.

On shift, those same workers averaged 6.3 hours of sleep, and 46.3% called it good quality. Off shift: 7.5 hours and 78.2%. Asare and colleagues, 2022. On hitch, fewer than half get sleep they'd call decent. At home, four in five do. That gap is not your discipline. That gap is the hitch — and a thing that can be measured is a thing that can be planned for.

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Day 3 is where your days off die

Here's the shape. You'll recognise all of it.

Day 1 — gone. Travel, the patch hangover, the sleep debt you brought home in the truck.

Day 2 — errands. The pile. Other people's expectations.

Day 3 — finally something in the tank.

And this is exactly where every plan you've bought dies, because every one of them assumed you'd start on Day 1.

Then the last day arrives with the go-back sitting on it, and a fight about nothing.

Days off. Money in the account. And you couldn't tell anybody what you did with most of them.

Your hitch	Days off	Lost to landing	Actually usable
4/3	3	1	2
6/6	6	2	4
7/7	7	2	5
14/7	7	2	5
14/14	14	2–3	11–12
21/7	7	2	5 — one week to land, live and leave

You've probably never seen that written down before.

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And the enemy has a witness

This part isn't me talking.

Researchers at the University of Alberta asked camp workers to describe life behind the gates.

The word they reached for most often was "prison." Not the researchers' word. The workers' own.

Isolated, and somehow never alone. Three hundred kilometres from anyone who loves you, and you can hear the person next door breathe.

Meanwhile the lodge brochure is selling a modern fitness centre, elevated food options and an Xbox room.

Put the brochure next to the back half of a hitch and the brochure loses.

And a union president — the one category of outsider on this page you'd actually trust — has a name for bad schedules.

He calls them "family killers."

Jan Noster, Construction Maintenance and Allied Workers, via Discourse Media. Camp findings: Dorow and colleagues, University of Alberta, via The Globe and Mail.

The enemy is the clock. Not you, not your crew, and not the camp.

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Now run that for every hitch you've got left

There's somebody on every crew out here.

Nobody plans that. It happens one hitch at a time.

And here's the question underneath this whole page. The one you've never said out loud.

The job is supposed to pay for the life. Not eat it.

Why this works when trying harder didn't

Built on the On/Off Method — two modes, because you live two lives

One set of rules cannot cover both halves of your year. So there are two, and a changeover in each direction.

This is the part every other program gets wrong before it prints page one.

They give you one plan and ask you to run it every day.

You don't have every day. You have two completely different lives, stapled together.

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On Mode Hold the line

You're on hitch. Somebody else owns your clock, your food and your bed.

The job here is not to build anything. The job is to arrive at your days off with something left.

Every procedure tagged On Mode is built to survive the back half of a hitch, a camp kitchen line, and thirty minutes with whatever equipment is in the room.

Off Mode Build

You're home. This is the only half where you own your own time.

So this is where everything actually gets built. Food you chose. Training that progresses. Recovery. A life.

Off Mode is written to start on Day 3, because Day 3 is when you actually have a tank. Not Day 1.

The Switch The changeover

Two days every hitch. The day you leave, and the day you go back.

Most people have no plan for either one. They show up and hope.

Then they wonder why the first days home feel strange and the last night goes sideways.

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That's the whole mechanism. Two modes and a changeover.

Every procedure in all five books carries a tag, so you always know which one you're running today.

Run On Mode work on your days off and you'll hold when you should be building.

Run Off Mode work in the back half of a hitch and you'll break.

That single mistake is the most common way this method gets misused, and it's why the tag sits on every procedure in the series.

Inside the books

Sleep, and the two flips nobody trained you for

The Sleep Mastery Protocol — book, interior pages, audiobook and app

• You should go to bed earlier, right? Wrong. That's advice for somebody with a nine-to-five, not somebody who just came off nights and is trying to sleep while the sun comes up. — Sleep, Ch 1
• Four inputs run the whole thing. Light, timing, room, fuel. You already control all four, every day, whether you realize it or not. — Sleep, Ch 1
• Find your sleep killer in about four minutes. A short self-check that tells you which of the four is actually beating you, so you stop fixing the wrong one. — Sleep, Ch 2
• Night shift: four steps. Day shift: three. With clock times attached, not "cut back on caffeine." — Sleep, Ch 3
• Flipping days to nights in the middle of a hitch. The one everybody handles by staying up thirty-six hours and wrecking themselves. There's a better way and it's written out step by step. — Sleep, Ch 3
• The northern daylight problem. Sun up at four, down at eleven. In December, the opposite. Both are handled. — Sleep, Ch 3
• Fix your sleep room in ten minutes. Two completely different builds — one for a camp room, one for your own bedroom with a house awake around it. — Sleep, Ch 4
• What to do on the bus or in a shared truck, because the ride is part of the light procedure and almost nobody treats it that way. — Sleep, Ch 3
• Sharing a room with somebody on the opposite shift. It's in there. So is what to do when the room is genuinely beyond fixing. — Sleep, Ch 4

And the one that isn't optional: what a night shift does to a drive home on the 63, and why it's in Chapter 7 instead of buried at the back.

Fair enough

Cut the sales talk and show me some actual pages

Four passages, lifted straight out of the books, unedited. Judge the writing instead of the promises.

Interior pages — the tables, the procedures and the schedule rows
Shown: The Sleep Mastery Protocol

That's the voice of all five. No hype, no shame, no "crush it." Just the thing to do, and when to run it.

Before you decide you've heard this before

Seven things you've already tried. Here's exactly why each one died.

I'm not going to pretend you've been sitting on your hands. You've tried to fix this. So did I, for about ten years.

• A regular meal plan. Written by somebody with a Sunday, a grocery list and a working kitchen. You've got a steam table and a whole hitch. What's different: one plate template that works in the line, in the truck, and in your own kitchen.
• The tracking app with the food scale. Try weighing chicken in a line of three hundred people and see how that goes for you. What's different: palm, fist, thumb, and a ten-second check. No arithmetic, no phone out in front of the crew.
• A gym program off the internet. Assumes a rack, a Wednesday, and a body that isn't deep into the back half of a hitch. What's different: two different training jobs. Hold on hitch, build at home, and one question about what's actually in the room.
• Sleeping pills and gummies from the gas station. They knock you out. They don't move the clock, and the clock is the actual problem. What's different: four inputs with times attached, and two separate room builds — camp and home.
• Whatever's advertised on the radio for men who feel flat. Sold on a story the clinic data doesn't actually support. What's different: Drive tells you to go get bloodwork and exactly what to ask for. It points you at a doctor, not a bottle.
• "I'll start properly next days off." The most common one out here. It moves the plan to a version of you who is also going to be wrecked. What's different: Off Mode is written to start on Day 3, because Day 3 is when you actually have a tank.
• Nothing. Just pushing through. Costs the most, because it quietly teaches you the problem is your character. What's different: the problem was never your character. It's a plan built for a life you don't live.

You don't have to believe me. You have to run it for three hitches.

If it hasn't earned its place in your kit, you get the money back and you keep everything.

What lands in your inbox, in about a minute

What you actually get

Book · Audiobook · The Hitch Fit App — and the field card, one page, further down
Shown: The Days Off Mastery Protocol

Five books

76 chapters · every procedure tagged by mode · all six schedules · camp and drive-in

Body. Sleep. Drive. Days Off. Hitch to Home.

Each one is a complete Protocol on its own. Together they're one method running across your whole year.

Read on a phone, a tablet, a laptop, or print the pages you want for your kit bag.

Five audiobooks

Included. Not an upsell. Not a separate price.

Each book read start to finish. Not a summary.

Half of you will use this format and not the other one. The bus. The truck cab on the drive in. The dry room.

Download before you fly out. Works with no signal at all.

Five field cards

One page each · Print them · Fold them · Kit bag

The five procedures you'll run most often, lifted out of the books and onto five single pages.

Paper doesn't need a signal or a battery. They're in the app as well, but the version that survives the back half of a hitch is the one folded in your pocket.

The full set is further down the page. Buy one Protocol, you get that Protocol's card.

The Hitch Fit App

Free for 120 days — the whole guarantee window. Then $27 a month.

The mode toggle is the first thing on the screen
Shown: the Sleep Protocol view, on a 7/7, day 3 of nights

Set your hitch once. It knows whether today is On Mode, Off Mode, or one of your two changeover days — before you've even opened it.

It carries the procedures on site and off, in your pocket, offline in camp.

Here's why it's free for exactly 120 days.

The book teaches the method once, on a day off, on the couch.

Then you're deep in the back half, wrecked, and the book is three hundred kilometres away in a drawer.

So the app is free for the entire time you're deciding whether this works.

Three full hitches is the guarantee. Here's what that is in days.

Your hitch	Three full hitches
4/3	21 days
6/6	36 days
7/7	42 days
14/7	63 days
14/14	84 days
21/7	84 days — the longest there is

The guarantee's outer window is 120 days.

So the app runs to the day, with thirty-six days spare on the longest roster there is.

You will never be asked to pay for it before you know whether it works. There is no gap in that offer and there isn't meant to be.

After that it's $27 a month, and you can stop it whenever you like.

The books and the audiobooks are yours to keep either way. Those don't expire.

Twenty-seven dollars, against what the patch already spends

Less than a dollar a day · Roughly a large double-double and a breakfast sandwich on the way to the bus

I'm not going to insult you by pretending $27 is nothing. It's a number and you should look at it. There's a table further down that puts it next to a trainer, a supplement stack and every fitness app on the shelf, so I won't do it twice.

Here's the part that table can't show you.

Every one of those things is aimed at one of the five.

The supplement stack is aimed at your drive, and it's aimed badly.

The trainer and the fitness app are aimed at your body, on a schedule neither of them understands.

Nothing you currently pay for is aimed at your sleep, your days off, or what's left of you when the shift ends.

And not one of them knows which half of your year you're standing in today.

That's the whole job the app does. It's the only thing in your pocket that knows the difference between a Tuesday and day three of nights.

Cancel any time. The method still works on paper — that's why the books are yours to keep.

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What you don't get

• No supplement stack to buy on the back end. Where something is worth taking, the book says so and tells you to ask a pharmacist. That's the whole of it.
• No meal delivery, no equipment list, no gear. Every procedure works with what's already in front of you. The only thing to print is five single pages, and only if you want to.
• One payment for the books, the audiobooks and the cards — yours to keep. The app is free for 120 days, then $27 a month, and you can cancel it in the app whenever you like.
• No promises about your body, your sleep, your drive or your relationship. Nobody honest can make one, and I'm not going to start on the page where I'm asking for your money.

What it's worth against

I'm not going to compare this to another book

Comparing books is what people do when the only thing they're selling is a book.

Here's what I'll compare it to instead. Real prices, the honest end of each one.

What it costs	And what it still can't do
$90an hour	A personal trainer. You can afford one. They still can't meet you at the camp gym at nine at night in the back half of a hitch.
$80a year, min.	A fitness or nutrition app subscription, billed annually. $240 if you pay monthly. Forever. And every one of them assumes you get a Tuesday. Yours is in the price, once.
$220a month	A supplement stack bought off the radio, for a problem nobody has actually tested you for.
2 daysevery hitch	Lost to landing. On a 7-and-7 that's a third of your days off, twenty-six times a year.
Yearsof hitches	Stacking up quietly. And the person twenty-five years deep who shows up to collect.

$197 is one night out on your first days off. Or a tank and a bit in the truck.

$297 is one night out on your first days off. Or a tank and a bit in the truck.

$67 is a round of drinks and the taxi home.

And unlike the supplement stack, this one doesn't come back next month.

P.S.

You made it to the bottom of a long page. That's more patience than the tool crib line on a turnaround, so here's the short version for the skimmers.

You're not undisciplined. You're running a one-mode plan on a two-mode life.

Five Protocols: Body, Sleep, Drive, Days Off, Hitch to Home. Every procedure tagged for on hitch or days off.

$67 for one. $197 for all five until October 10, then $297. Books, audiobooks, field cards and the app either way. Three full hitches to try it, full refund, keep everything.

$67 for one. $297 for all five. Books, audiobooks, field cards and the app either way. Three full hitches to try it, full refund, keep everything.

Double P.S.

Still reading? Alright. Here's what I'd tell you standing in the dry room waiting on a ride.

If you only ever do three things out of all five books, do these three.

Protein first, every meal. Get light in your eyes at the right end of your shift. Pick one thing your days off are actually for, before you land.

Free, all three, and about a minute between them. You'll notice a difference this hitch.

That's not a sales line. Every one of those is in the books, and they're in there for the hitches when you won't have it in you to run the rest.

Triple P.S.

Okay. What do you need — a signed affidavit? A ride to the bus? Somebody to write your two safety observations for the week?

Look. Worst case: you spend the money and run it for three hitches.

It doesn't earn its spot. You email one address. We refund you. And you keep everything.

You're out precisely nothing, and you got five audiobooks for the drive in and five cards for the kit bag.

Best case: it's your last hitch, whenever that lands, and you're still in one piece.

Hit the button. Then go put something useful in the truck kit.

Join The Founding Crew — $197 Get The Complete System — $297

5 books · 5 audiobooks · 5 field cards · App free 120 days, then $27/mo, cancel anytime · Full refund inside three hitches, keep everything

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