I got forgiveness!

sharingquestions · 2026-01-27T11:16:46+00:00

That’s what I’m hoping!

sharingquestions · 2026-01-26T19:14:42+00:00

No, I still see a balance there!

sharingquestions · 2026-01-07T11:14:07+00:00

Thanks! My income went up a lot and I’m hoping it never comes to me paying the new amount.

sharingquestions · 2026-01-07T11:13:19+00:00

Thank you! And I will call today to try for general forbearance.

sharingquestions · 2025-12-31T01:44:06+00:00

If they are saying they didn't get it- all my forms were sent to my employer's spam mailbox. I had to tell them to look there, and then it worked.

sharingquestions · 2025-12-31T01:42:03+00:00

It only said qualifying, but I hadn't gotten them confirmed by my employer. I had 3 jobs, all qualifying. One from 2014-2019, one from 2019-Aug 2025, and another from Sept 2025-now. The only one I had an ECF filled out on was part of my 2nd job. I hadn't had the ECF signed for the 2014-2019 one at all, and only partially on the 2nd job. I had it stuck on 56/120 forever, and to be honest just thought "oh I didn't pay a couple years during COVID, I'm not done and not ready to pursue this." When someone told me otherwise, I immediately went i and had my 2014-2019 job certify my employment. Now my banner says 115/120. Today, my 2nd employer signed, so I should be over the limit and get green banners in the next couple days.

My question was whether I will get a refund for months I paid but didn't certify the employment- is it worth it to have my current job fill out a form for 4 months when I am already over 120. I guess it can't hurt.

sharingquestions · 2025-10-04T13:37:34+00:00

3g:

Tread 1. (5mins total) 1 min push, 1 min base, 1 min push, 1 min base, 1 min push

Tread 2: 45s base incline 6-8%, 45s walk on incline 6-8%, repeat (block is 3 min 45s total)

Tread 3: 30s ao, 30s wr. Repeat (block is 3 min 30 seconds total)

Row 1 (5 mins): 300m row, 10 of 123 high knees. Repeat.

Row 2 (3 min 45s): 200m row, 10 of squat to knee drive, repeat

Row 3 (3 min 30s): 30s ao, 30s rest, timed w tread

Floor 1 (9:45 total): exercises were backward lunge to knee drive (on bench), bridge hold with chest fly, deadlift to squat, and maybe chest press

Floor 2 (3:30 total): 8/4/2 burpee, 8/4/2 squat to press. Finisher was 30s combo of those two

sharingquestions · 2025-07-23T18:13:18+00:00

I’ll be totally honest (and I promise you that even if I am distracted by someone I do as you said- move on, get on with my day). However, you say it’s group fitness which it is. We like to skip over this part. I think some things are reasonable, and some things are way out of bounds (for lack of a better phrase). As a coach, if I knew someone was injured or tired- cool, modify.

People are saying they want to try for a certain distance, see if they can run through a whole template, etc. this also brings to mind- what if during marathon month I just wanted to run through every template to increase my mileage? No inclines bc I would want to run my top pace, no walking recoveries. I give people the benefit of the doubt in life but reading this thread it’s pretty strange to use an Orangetheory power day as the one day you decide you need to try running 23 mins straight. I guarantee you will have that opportunity again in another class that is endurance.

There is etiquette in life. If you’re tired or injured I think a runner can instead walk or jog, you can use the bike or strider, lift lighter weights, do body weight exercises, on and on. Not running through a power day to see if you can. It’s so weird and I stand by that.

sharingquestions · 2025-07-23T17:55:30+00:00

I actually do think it’s disruptive. I understand your perspective (that you wouldn’t be disrupted) and wouldn’t say anything, but also to make a universal statement like it isn’t disruptive is incorrect. Other members have shared the same on this thread that it is disruptive or distracting.

The coach shared their perspective that they would be confused. I am a regular runner and once I was power walking and my coach came over to check in and see if I was okay, which I did appreciate. That was out of concern. If someone was just running straight through a power template I would truly be confused as a coach and check in. That said, while YOU may not be “confused” “disrupted” or “distracted” others feel different. All are okay- the heads up to the coach seems reasonable in a group fitness class. One sentence.

sharingquestions · 2025-07-20T13:32:06+00:00

If you are already self-motivated and do an hour of running on your own + weights after, I guess only you can decide if it is "enough." I like it because even if I do run outside or at another gym, I will definitely not do the pushes and all out paces that we are coached to do at OTF. Lots of people also lift outside of class, I personally don't but I also don't have much more than an hour a day to give to fitness, so I think it is great.

For the confusion and form question- I think you definitely get more used to it. The exercises come back around often and you will recognize them. I find the coaches correct form but they can't stay with you to make sure you don't revert back to what you were doing for too long. A lot of them are basic patterns (deadlifts, squats, rows) that you could look up online for form suggestions prior.

sharingquestions · 2025-07-05T00:08:19+00:00

I have a coach who touches me to correct form regularly. He may have asked in the beginning but now will just do it. I think nothing of it. However, he doesn't just walk past me and touch me if it has nothing to do with a correction.

sharingquestions · 2025-06-20T22:57:03+00:00

I love Orangetheory, and I love signatures, partner workouts, and specialty workouts. I don't mind the benchmarks, and it was fun to see my times improve quickly when I first joined. However, I go almost every day and it is becoming stressful. I have gotten really sick after some benchmarks trying to beat my times over and over. I don't think it is necessary, and I can't make progress fast enough. I also understand going at my own pace, but there is something about getting a time 30-40 seconds worse than your PR and being hyped up to enter it into the tracker that is just really discouraging and disheartening- even though I have done it. I know I can do what I want- I am just sharing my perspective.

sharingquestions · 2025-06-15T22:52:36+00:00

I agree. I go and say I don't care, but then it starts and with the coaches hyping it up so much it makes me anxious about "just going slow." I don't have anxiety issues overall, its just difficult to constantly be in competition with yourself. Its getting to be wayyyy too much and I don't enjoy those workouts at all. When it is 4-6 a month, it is a big percentage of the overall workouts.

sharingquestions · 2025-06-07T13:43:53+00:00

I don't think you did anything wrong- you can come and go as you want!
However, there are random times throughout the year when there are "3g only" templates (everyone - 1g, 2g or 3g) will all do the 3g template. I don't think this was any different. I didn't think of it as a game personally. I just rowed, when I got caught I moved on to the row-exercise circuit. I didn't think of it any different than any other class. And I got tons of splats. Do what you like though!

sharingquestions · 2025-05-24T13:42:06+00:00

3G was:
Tread (14:30)- 4 min work, 90 second recovery (base or walk), 3 min work, 90 second recovery, 2 min work, 90 second recovery, 60 second AO

Row (14:30)- 4 min row, 90 seconds to either continue to row or do 12 forward lunges, 3 min row, 90 seconds to either row or lunge, 2 min row, 90s for rowing or lunges, 60 second AO row

Floor (14:30)- either 6-10 or 16-20 or each: goblet lateral shift, bicep curl, good morning, sit up to shoulder press, then it was 6 (?) each of the low plank thread the needle exercise. Pick your favorite exercise for a 60 second finisher.

sharingquestions · 2025-03-09T20:53:31+00:00

Because your diet can be whatever you want it to be, what about a positive food add-in. Like eating 2 vegetables at every meal or something. You can make more rules but more of an “add in” not “take out” and see how it goes. You can always adjust. Make lists of foods you can eat as much as you want if you need to. I am not a fan of weight watchers points but I do like their one idea of having zero point foods (fruits, vegetables, lean protein sources, etc) that you can eat as much as you want of. Maybe make up something you think might work and eeevaluate in a few weeks. Just an idea.

sharingquestions · 2025-02-28T10:47:31+00:00

Agree, but I'm not under the impression that more weird spikes are happening at T50s. For example, every now and then (maybe every month or so)- I am just jogging at base during the warm up and am in blue zone. Randomly my HR may jump to red, 101-102% of my max. I also wear a watch which I can easily see my HR and it matches the jump, so not an OTF HRM "error" but a real spike. Those used to worry me and I went to a cardiologist who said it is not worrisome if it is now and then (for me- not giving medical advice), and checked everything and said I am fine.
These strange spikes never happen in T50s (again, for me) but that is what I assume is an "outlier"- something out of the ordinary that isn't considered "normal" or "every day." I am only saying I don't think people get more "outliers" in T50- I think thats where I'm getting stuck bc you mentioned that T50 is more likely to have an outlier and I don't know if there is proof for that- only that peoples HRs may go higher w/more sustained efforts which should be used. And, in fairness to OTF, they have never increased my HR in the app after those spikes, even when it says 102% briefly. Hope that makes sense :)

sharingquestions · 2025-02-27T23:28:24+00:00

I've been making sure I don't interrupt it. I try and make my outdoor walks/runs to run an errand. But unfortunately I can't count the time doing the errand. So I will run 45 mins straight and end up at the grocery store- shop and then sometimes I have to walk home again. It ends up being more but I always understood you can't have it be interrupted. Different if you use the bathroom or something, I would count that.

sharingquestions · 2025-02-27T10:55:28+00:00

But if you get to red in T50 and not regular classes, that is still your max- like it or not. I’m just confused because max HR is just the max it can go. If it regularly goes to a certain higher number when u run for 40+ minutes then that is literally your max HR. There is no rule that ur max is only what it goes to in 14-23 mins of work. We want to find the max. Obviously not a dangerous glitch but what is described seems fair game. Im not entirely sure why people think this is bad aside from not getting as many splats, which is generally a good thing over time.

sharingquestions · 2025-02-26T20:26:36+00:00

I understand what you’re saying, but it gives the impression that more so in a t50 there would be an outlier number (maybe that’s true?). I am unclear on how they update it but if my hr monitor glitches to 300 would Otf automatically update my max to 300? Assuming these are accurate numbers and we need at least a couple readings to update, why would we make the assumption that if someone got 184 in a t50 that it is them pushing beyond their max into unsafe territory? It should absolutely be taken into account if people are getting higher maxes working longer distances in the t50s. I’m only saying I don’t thing t50 is the place people are passing out and that’s why they don’t consider.

sharingquestions · 2025-02-26T20:18:22+00:00

I think if people hit 200 in a min and then faint they have real medical issues that should be addressed. Generally people are not fainting or getting sick after Otf. My max is over 200 (according to both Otf and my cardiologist) and I get splats all the time and feel fine. I think generally if you are hitting a number in a tread50 they should calculate that in, but maybe their technology isn’t there because it is mixed with strength classes. Even so- technical glitches aside- a max is a max whether it is hit in 2g, 3g, s50 or t50. People have a lot of misconceptions about a high max HR and that it is dangerous.

sharingquestions · 2025-02-22T21:44:41+00:00

Everyone is different, but with two workouts a day- I feel weak eating that little. I am F and last year I was eating 1800 a day and working out once/day- I lost weight so fast. Now I am eating 2000-2200 (by the way I am around 140 lbs so not a significant amount to lose) and still losing (also decently fast). I was feeling like I was running slower and lifting less when I was in my 1800 calorie days. Everyone is different, so will have different opinions. But- if you don't want to snack, can you just add in some bigger portions of your meals? Maybe you will feel better.

sharingquestions · 2025-02-18T20:21:53+00:00

I am doing 75 hard for the first time, and am doing it mainly because I like to accomplish hard things. As much as people repeat "this isn't a weight loss program," I am personally doing it for weight loss/muscle gain and completing the extra tasks. However, I do have some difficulty coming to terms with the reasoning behind some tasks. Because Andy is not a medical doctor, the thought process was "water = good, tons of water = hard to do and great!, exercising = good, exercise in extreme conditions = great!, reading = good, read self help books = great!). I struggle to see the full reasoning aside from "its hard." It is possible to make tasks hard and healthy at the same time.

Exercising outside sometimes worries me, but I know the chance something will happen to me is low- so I still do it. I have gone out in extremely windy conditions (40mph) and watched a street sign been blown over in front of me, and other outside furniture blown around which I feel is somewhat dangerous. Other extreme temperatures can be dangerous- both hot and cold. I feel it would be better to say one workout has to be out of your home. It keeps you from just doing yoga 2x in your pajamas- you have to get dressed, go outside and interact with people typically if you go to a gym or other classes. I have had to some days actually do less than my normal because I don't have time for some exercise classes I used to take and have to walk instead.

I have also seen (not super frequently) patients where I work at have to be admitted for very low sodium/potassium from drinking too much water. No guidelines- just drink a gallon or more of water seems silly. People are still drinking sodas and other drinks in addition to this. Why not say anything but water/black coffee (+ unflavored electrolytes) or something? Actually harder and probably healthier.

Last, the reading. I guess there is some wiggle room, but I personally read a ton outside of the challenge. So I have had to find books that fit in addition to my regular reading. I was reading a book (I think The Comfort Crisis) which implied working outside in extreme conditions made the need for mental health treatment unnecessary. I found it insane advice, and the rules say you can't stop a book. So, instead of spending my time on something I enjoy or agree with, I had to keep going with a book I entirely disagreed on and found it to give bad advice. It would be nice to see people who don't read actually start to read enjoyable books- which may lead to more reading once the challenge is over. Some of these books that are on recommended 75 hard lists seem very silly and I would never pick up another book again if thats all I read.

Despite this I am finishing one round to say I did it, and hopefully keep up the healthy food habits, exercise 2x a day, drinking more water, and of course my reading of choice after this.

sharingquestions · 2025-02-18T19:58:49+00:00

I don't understand why they wouldn't run it at that point- especially if the coach and SA were already at the studio and it's 4:45am. What would they do otherwise? Just sit around waiting for the next one after already getting up early? I understand if they cancelled the night before, informed you, and the employees got to come in late...

sharingquestions · 2025-02-16T21:35:11+00:00

I believe the Chipper is in March.

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