Well, it is Monday and although we had the day off from work there was no way we would not workout. Tiffany and I did go to a much later session than usual. On a normal weekday, we are either scheduled for a 5am or 5:15am session. Today, we worked out at 8:15am and the ORANGETHEORY FITNESS studio was full.
That was perfect, because today's template is a Tornado. Tornado workouts are set up like in a 3G (three groups) format, with a group on the treadmilss, one on the rowers, and the other group on the floor, then you just keep rotating with the Coach managing and cueing you through out the session just like any normal workout. The template is set up with short blocks with anywhere from 4 minutes, 3 minutes, 2 minutes, 90 seconds, 1 minute.
Tiffany and I usually start at the rowers to ensure we end up at the treadmill during the third stop at the treads and ultimately finish at the treads. There are some studios that may go rower, tread, floor but for the most part it's rower, floor, tread.
For today's Tornado, it started out at 4.5 minutes then went down .5 minutes after each round.
We went to workout at our home studio OTF NONA NORTH and we got to workout for what I like to call him "The Energizer" Coach Thomas. He is the Regional Coach of nine studios under the franchise owning group, so we rarely get a chance to workout for him these days.
It was our first workout of 2023, I'm about to start my ninth year as a member of Orangetheory in February and Tiffany will be starting her eigth later on the year.
I had a rough workout, because all my aches and pains including the breathing issues was rough, but I expected that and still burned about 690 calories and did well with my weight selections. This past Saturday, I had an amazing workout, so it's been one great workout and one not so great the next. I can live with that until I'm all the way back to where I was a couple of years ago. I feel like this is the year I finally get back to normal.
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