I’ve continually teased a post regarding some major changes in my fitness/wellness routine, so here we are! If you’ve been keeping tabs the past few months, I quit Orangetheory (OTF) in November and was trying to figure out a new plan that was sustainable both budget and health-wise. Like anything, I’m sure there will be some tweaks and adjustments along the way, but after stressing over my self-imposed “fitness crisis,” here’s where we’re at…
Why I quit OTF
I’m going to address this first because it comes up a lot, which makes sense because I was a very vocal supporter of the workout since I started about a year and a half ago! (Remember this post?) I’ve had a weak core and back pain for the past few years and knew I needed to do a better job addressing that discomfort since it affects me on a daily basis. I’d heard great things about pilates and after doing a two week trial at Flow last May, decided to get an unlimited monthly membership which was about $50 less than my OTF membership. I kept this up till the fall but hated consistently paying $250 a month on fitness–it was an especially tough pill to swallow during busier weeks when I couldn’t even make it to a Flow class. My back had also been acting up on the rower and that’s a third of the designed OTF workout. I would sometimes modify with the bike but love rowing so would push myself to do it and end up in a lot of pain before and after class. My new job + the holidays made it a good time to drop OTF, so I switched over to just having my Flow membership (they’re a yoga studio but have a few pilates + HITT classes, which are what i take the majority of the time). However, I do still highly recommend OTF–it served me so well and I’d definitely still take a class here or there!
