What’s up, fellow Obsessives?

Hope all you Dri-Triers had a good Dri-Tri weekend and were able to apply some tips from last week’s newsletter on your way to a great time.

Hard to believe, but we’re just over a month out from Hell Week!

Let the countdown begin …

One of the best things we love about Orangetheory is that it’s so data-driven.

The heart rate monitors, rowers and treadmills track whatever we do each time we step into the studio. The information they produce not only allows us to know how we’re doing at that exact moment, but over our entire OTF journey.

I personally can’t get enough.

So much so that I built my own tracker to supplement the official app.

Yes, I’m a numbers nerd.

But I also like diving a bit deeper.

Here’s why I built my own tracker on the Notion platform:

When I walk out of class or get the automated email, I know how many splat points I got or what my peak heart rate was. But I can’t really spot trends. With my tracker, I can look at how my fitness has improved each year, which coaches push me the hardest and even which time of day I’m most ready to work.

The tracker allows me to easily look up a time or achievement I’d like to beat. I also schedule out all my workouts in the tracker and know it’ll be a bad feeling if I have to go in there and erase the record because I didn’t show up that day.

I often write down notes about that day’s workout. Was I performing on a full night’s sleep? Dealing with nagging knee soreness? Working out at an unfamiliar station because I got there late? The notes help me connect the dots between my performance and real life.

The official app highlights my PRs too, but this one only records the ones that I participate in. I can also easily look to see how long it took me to go from class 200 to 300 and whether it was shorter or longer than the time it took me to go from 100 to 200. I can also easily see how many classes I’ve been to in the current month, year or even all-time without waiting for that annoying day lag that comes with the app.

Give me all the dopamine! Logging the workout when I sit down at my desk for the day extends the feeling I have when I’m walking to my car in the parking lot. Scrolling past all those wins is a reminder that all the hard work each morning is paying off.

Do you track your OTF workouts in a similar way? I’d love to hear how you do it, whether it’s Notion, Excel, an old-fashioned journal or something else I don’t even know about.

And if you’d like to get access to the tracker I’ve built, it’s up on the Notion marketplace or you can buy it here for with an exclusive OTF Obsessed discount.

Let me know what you think!

One of your fellow readers wrote to me two weeks ago wanting to know about weighted vests and using them at OTF. I honestly have no idea and I’m still waiting to hear from anyone who does! Hit me up at [email protected] with your thoughts and recommendations!

🏋 Press and Squat Signature Workout (Tuesday) I don’t really remember this one, but according to the Orangetheory Reddit, it’s a “run/row on the tread and rower. Different combos of presses and squats on the floor.”

• Congrats to Michelle, who broke her target Dri-Tri time of 50 minutes and clocked in at 48:39 last weekend!

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