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I just checked with our studio and I guess they didn’t plan on ordering sweatshirts this year. I really bummed as mine from last year is my favorite. It’s so comfortable. Has anyone heard of they will be sold on website or through their own studio?

my studio sucks at brag boards, so i’m just gonna brag about myself.

300 classes in a little under 2 years!!! 🥳 and somewhere along the way i ended up hitting the ultra marathon this month too. genuinely one of my biggest life accomplishments and i’m really fucking proud. go me!!! 🧡🔥!!!

Sorry if this has already been asked but what’s up with the Apple Watch feature we now can use? I went on my OTF App and tried to just connect my watch but it’s asking to connect to the OTbeat link. So it basically wants to connect to the little arm band everyone uses?

I bought an arm band when I started a year in a half ago and after a few uses I decided to just use my Apple Watch Ultra 2. I felt it was more accurate and it connected with my health app and Strava. So I don’t even know where the arm band is.

Anyways, I thought it would be cool to be able to see my zones on the TV’s if Apple Watch was now integrated but if I need the arm band to connect it or something I guess I don’t need to mess with it.

I’d always been athletic, but was in a toxic and unstable relationship that sapped my energy, confidence, and sense of self. After a break-up last summer, I finally started to emerge from a nearly year long depression. I signed up for a promotional OTF trial and was immediately hooked.

Therapy and dieting have significantly contributed to this growth, but I’m happy to be back to myself. I feel comfortable in my skin for the first time in years. Even more than the physical gains, I can even see how much my environment has improved! From abruptly moving back home with my parents to living on my own again. Looking forward to my continued growth as I start to love myself again.

Pictures are from May, June, and today. NYC based member here — if anyone needs motivation! Signed up for a half marathon yesterday to celebrate the end of Marathon Month where I totaled 60.2 miles!!

Thank you OTF for being a part of my healing.

For those of you who have done a Hyrox, did you feel like the Hyrox classes help?? I signed up doubles and am mid in fitness. Not for 24 weeks so I’m hopeful 🤞🏻🤞🏻 give me the good bad and ugly

My studio and the others in the region play the same zero-cadence rap playlist at the highest level possible. I can't take it anymore. I tried wearing my Bluetooth earbuds and playing my own music, but had to do so at a high volume and could still hear studio music. Any suggestions for literally drowning out the music??? I don't care if I can hear the coach or not. Thx.

I bought a used HR monitor, haven't had issues with it except i can't get it to connect to the app on my phone. The ladies at the front desk have been trying to help. Their latest advice was to restart my phone, which didn't work. Next thing they want me to try is to let the monitor battery fully die and then charge it back up and see if that helps it connect.

Anyone have this issue and any tips to fix it? Also, do I really need it to be connected to my app? what is the benefit? I can see all my workouts already on the app. just not sure what else its needed for on there.

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My studio is doing DriTri next month, outside of the studio.

They’re putting the rowers and benches in the parking lot, and then we’re going to run around a water conservation area for our 5k.

In anticipation of the DriTri, I decided to run outside yesterday on a flat surface, and I was *BEAT* immediately. Like, out of breath, sore, tired, all sorts of messed up after 15 seconds. But in studio on a treadmill? I was doing 15% at 5.3 MPH no problem for a one-minute all out on repeat.

What gives? I’ve asked other people and they say the treadmill is way worse than road running, but I feel like the moving treadmill is propelling me forward.

I ask because this is my first DriTri and the coaches have said no one has ever taken longer than an hour to complete their heat, but at the pace I did running outside, just the 5k portion will take me 55 minutes to complete! Never mind the rower and body weight portion.

I just joined Orangetheory and completed my first two classes! I’m currently wearing New Balance shoes, but after these two classes I can confidently say they are 100% not the ones 😭😭

I’m realizing I probably need something better suited for OTF, especially for the mix of treadmill + floor exercises.

What shoes do you guys swear by for OTF? Looking for something that works well for both running and strength/floor work. I’d love to hear your reccs!

The Glendale studio in Denver has been my home studio since 2014. I've taken well over a thousand classes there, and quite honestly most of the friendships I have in Denver trace back to that place, directly or indirectly.

Including this one.

A little over ten years ago a coach very intentionally and strategically partnered me up with this smoke show of a woman (he "had a feeling" and vetted it with her first) during a partner workout. It wasn't until the class was over and we were stretching in the weight area that I finally made my move to strike up a conversation with, "so, what do you do?" That dynamite of an opener was effective enough I suppose, as neither of us really stopped talking after that.

Fast forward 10 years, and yesterday I proposed to her on that exact spot on the floor.

A lot of life has happened in that 10 years, and although Glendale is still my home studio, I haven't attended a class there in about 6 years, as I've moved to a northern suburb and there's a studio about 2 minutes from my home (shoutout Broomfield) as opposed to a 40-minute drive to Glendale.

All this is to say that I'm not known to the current Glendale studio staff, but I'm now completely indebted to Coach Hannah and Caitlyn. I emailed the studio cold about three weeks ago with a genuinely strange request from a guy who had not walked through their door in six years. Their reply was a resounding "yes, we have to make this work!"

They committed. They played along with a story I made up to get my now fiancée in the door (we were in the area, I needed to sign some "updated paperwork at the home studio") and turned the whole studio over fast after the last class of the day so the space would be ready. They kept up the bit, hunting for the updated forms while I introduced myself, which gave me the opening to show my then-girlfriend some "new equipment" on the floor. They built a playlist of songs that mean something to the two of us and cued it up at exactly the right moment.

She said yes.

They bought red and orange roses and a bottle of champagne with their own money for two people they had never met. They let my sister in early before we got there to set up some additional items and hide to sneakily take photos. And they even drew up a Brag Board sign that read "First comes Orangetheory, then comes Marriage" and spread rose petals in the lobby afterward.

What got me was how happy they were to do it. This was not a favor they tolerated. They were so genuinely excited, start to finish, and it made the whole thing so, so much better than the version I had planned in my head.

Hannah and Caitlyn are part of our story permanently now, and they absolutely exemplify what the OTF community has meant to me for the last twelve years. The workout is great, but man, the people are even better!

I can't thank them both enough!

In the years I've been at OTF, the coach for each class has been posted weeks or months in advance. Our SM recently started posting them on Sunday for the upcoming week, and this week, they are not posted at all. Is this normal in other places? She says it doesn't matter who the coach is, so we don't need to know.

Anyone else's studio have this yet? If so, how much is? I heard it would be $99.

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Hi everyone!

I used to do Orange Theory religiously a few years ago, then ultimately stopped (and candidly… stopped working out generally) but I’m ready to get back into it.

Is there anything that’s changed in the last 3 years I should know? Will my old heart rate monitor still work? I feel like I’ve forgotten how it all works.

I also maybe need some motivation… 😅 I’m 50lbs heavier than I was the last time, so I know it’s going to kick my butt.

ETA: I also just noticed both my local studios I used to go to rarely offer 3G anymore, just on the weekends. Is this a more widespread trend to?

Orangetheory has been such a game changer for me! The first image is from early may, the second early july, the 3rd is August 13th and the 4th is today. I'm over the moon and still going!

Happy Sunday - there's a new week of work ahead of us!

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What does your studio use for In Body Scans? Ours just uses a Bootleg Hume scale. Before that it was a basic scale from TJ Maxx or something.

When I (41 F) was leaving class today, a woman turned to me and said “you’re so strong!” I have not been feeling particularly great about my body composition lately and it really shifted my perspective. That’s all ☺️

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Bought in May because I lost mine, but now I'm moving somewhere with no OTFs (wahhh) so I'm selling my HRM. If you live in NYC, can pick up from me tomorrow, or I can ship if you cover the cost. Please let me know ASAP! (I had someone who wanted to buy it for over a week, agreed to pick up yesterday, and then completely ghosted me, so I'm trying to sell it quickly because I leave Tuesday!)

So I used to change shoes, but it was kind of a pain in the butt. I thought I could find a shoe that could do it all, but I don’t think there is one,any thoughts?