Regarding the Orangetheory vids: She’s doing Orangetheory because of the smart watch integration that they use for their proprietary ”method”. During an Orangetheory class, you connect your smart watch (you can use your own or purchase a branded wrist monitor) to their big screens in the workout room. Then, during the workout itself, your smart watch talks to their screen and converts your minutes of activity at 60% or 80% or something into “Splat Points.” It’s kind of like an analog to Weight Watchers in that it over-complicates via oversimplification. Those splat points are how you measure the success of your workout and there is usually a goal or something for you to meet for each workout. There is a leaderboard which is useless because fatties like Anna with overworked organs are always going to appear to be working out much harder than actually fit gym-goers.
But this way, she can post more shots of her Apple watch and brag about how she closed her rings while paying for the privilege of almost dying of a heart attack for 50 minutes once a week.
I have taken several classes with OT in the past and I can say that they really try to make them fun. The music is loud, the trainers are high-energy, and there is a ton of variety in the workouts so you don’t get bored. Personally, I’d rather go outside than pay through the nose for a gym experience, even one as sparkly as OT. But it’s not the worst gym, imo, if you have the money for their memberships. Of course, all of this is completely irrelevant because Anna will never go to another OT class and that’s for the best because truly she’s going to explode her heart if she tempts fate like that. Remember how her heart rate climbed to dangerous levels on a flat trail for moms and strollers? Yeah.