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We Have a Heart: The “Why” Behind Our Heart Rate Monitors

How else can you prove you’re improving? Think of your heart rate monitor as your built-in coach, telling you when you need to push, or when you should scale back and recover.

What Your Heart Rate Is Telling You

Walk into an Orangetheory class, and you’ll see multiple flashing colors on a large screen. This is our heart rate monitoring technology at work, capturing the unique heart rates of nearly one million members worldwide. But what do these pretty colors actually mean to you?

Nothing ordinary about it: Here’s how to conquer the DriTri during the pandemic.

Jeremy Whitehead, an Orangetheory coach in Albany, N.Y., calls the DriTri “the ultimate benchmark event. You try to get your best time, then six months later you try to beat yourself. A select few members are in there to be competitive, but the main goal is to be competitive with yourself.”

5 Simple Ways to Overcome Your Gym Anxiety

Gym anxiety, or “gymtimidation,” refers to being worried, intimidated, or embarrassed while exercising in public. Push past your fears with these tips.

Reach SMART Fitness Goals With This 4-Step Fall Action Plan

Fall is the perfect time to reset your routine. Here’s how to set SMART fitness goals and create an effective action plan, according to experts.

Rethinking Results: Strength Training Builds More Than Muscles

A consistent fitness routine can help you gain everything from a stronger heart and more confidence to better mental health and sleep.

Stay Consistent This Summer With These 5 Fitness Tips

Consistency is the key to reach your health and fitness goals. Here are five tips to help keep your workouts on track during hectic summer months.

Reignite Your Health and Happiness Goals This Summer

We’re at the midway point of the year, which means now’s the time to reset on your resolutions and get a head start on 2024.

The Secret to Getting Healthy? Hit the Sheets.

How, with a healthy diet and committed workout routine, does the risk of chronic disease appear? What’s wrong with this equation? The not-so-obvious problem that’s facing people today is simply a lack of shuteye.

Highway to Hell Week: Inside Orangetheory’s Iconic Workout

Orangetheory members flood studios during Hell Week, a series of hair-raising, spine-chilling, blood-curdling workouts that get their hearts pumping like never before. Why is this fitness challenge so popular? Take a look behind the scenes.

7 Stretches to Do at Your Desk

Have you noticed that the more you stretch, the better you feel? Taking a few minutes to stretch every day will help you alleviate stress and post-workout soreness. Here are some of our favorites.

An Unusual Workout Buddy

OTF Member Katherine doesn’t let diabetes stop her from getting her Splat Points in. She’s in great paws, knowing her furry friend, Blaze, is ready to save her life if her glucose levels drop during a workout.

The Meaning of Living All Out

The benefits of exercise go far beyond weight loss, and our members prove it.

Change Your Mind, Change Your Body: Hack Your Brain to Nail Your Next Personal Record

Trouble staying motivated? It happens. Here’s 7 tips from the experts to stick to your exercise routine during those moments you feel like throwing in the sweat towel.

How our bodies and minds respond to stress, and ways we can reduce it and stay healthy

Let’s just state the obvious here and get it out of the way: The world is a much weirder place than it was six months ago. With all the uncertainty of COVID-19 — lost jobs, closed businesses and schools, political strife that’s overtaking the serious and straightforward concerns about health, ongoing when-will-this-end?

Are You a Victim of the ‘Chasing Skinny’ Movement?

Orangetheory Fitness is not about counting calories and losing weight. It’s a workout program structured to fuel your body with the exercise multivitamin to help you achieve a longer, healthier life.

Over 50? How Exercise Can Add Quality Years to Your Life

Let’s be honest, starting a new fitness routine at any age can be intimidating. But because Orangetheory was created with all ages and fitness levels in mind, rest assured it’s never too late to reap those anti-aging benefits from this science-backed workout.

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