I’m coming up on 7 months of working out at home (side note: how have we been in safer at home for almost 7 months?!?). Since the first week of working out at home, I’ve been using the official Orangetheory at Home videos that are posted on their app and YouTube channel. For a while, I have also been doing 1 workout on Zoom a week with one of my OTF coaches. This routine has been great for me and I’m still so happy that I have been able to keep up my routine while at home. But this past week, I changed things up a bit.
I’ll start with my Friday workout because that was the one that was the same. That was still my Zoom workout. We had it a bit earlier than normal to fit with our coach’s schedule, but it wasn’t too early. It was just as hard as always, and possibly a little harder because my body was a little sore from the night before and I didn’t do as much stretching as I should have done before the workout. But it was still amazing and one of the highlights of my week!
For my Monday workout, I did a workout that was on Instagram Live! The coach doing the workout was actually my normal Monday coach from OTF, so that was even more amazing for me! This was not exactly like my old Mondays, but it was the closest I’ve had in a long time. I loved getting to work out with Coach Brendon and having his motivation the entire time.
The Instagram Live workout was done through the FitOn app account. I hadn’t used FitOn before for my home workouts, but Brendon was now a part of them and he had some video workouts available on the app. So after doing the workout on Monday, I downloaded the app so I could test it out on Wednesday.
All the workouts on the app are free, which is awesome. And there are a lot of different types of workouts and coaches that are on it. But I was mainly focused this past week on the workouts that Brendon had on there. On Wednesday I did the workouts that are OTF ones on the app and on Saturday I did the workouts that Brendon did but wasn’t OTF specific.
I say “workouts” when talking about what I did on a single day because the videos were a bit short. For example, there was a cardio one that was about 25 minutes and then an upper body strength one that was about 20 minutes. So I did both those videos to get a full workout in. I didn’t explore the app too much so I don’t know if other types of workouts or other coaches have longer workouts. I’ll probably look into it a bit more this week.
But I did love the workouts that I did. It was really nice that Brendon does the workout in the video with you. Even though the coaches at OTF when you are in the studio aren’t doing the workout with you, they are constantly coaching you and encouraging you. And Brendon did that in the videos just like he would do in the studio. That’s something I loved about the Dri-Tri at home workout I did too. The official OTF workouts are normally a little coaching at the start of each block and then it’s the workout screen with all the exercises since they aren’t necessarily timed (so not everyone is doing the same number of rounds and aren’t on the same exercise at the same time).
I also used my jump rope again this week. I only did it once, after my Saturday workout, but that was still something considering the break I had taken from it recently. I had to ease into getting back to the jump rope and I made the intervals a bit easier for me, but it was still tough and I was sweating hard!
I’m not sure what I’ll be doing for my workouts this week. I might do more FitOn workouts. I might do some of the official OTF workouts. But I am happy that I have some more options now that I know I like so I can mix things up more than I have been doing.
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