u/ComplaintDear4998

I’m trying to do 30-45 second holds of many triceps moves — but without Tonal thinking I’m unable to complete a single rep and dinging my strength score for only completing one half of 1 rep and without Tonal timing out on the set or thinking I need help completing one rep.

I want to deliberately do 1/2 rep and hold it 45 seconds.

My only workaround has been to do something stupid like a farmers march for 45 seconds on screen and just set everything up for a triceps extension and hold it 45s.

Got a better way?

I’m trying to do 30-45 second holds of many triceps moves — but without Tonal thinking I’m unable to complete a single rep and dinging my strength score for only completing one half of 1 rep and without Tonal timing out on the set or thinking I need help completing one rep.

I want to deliberately do 1/2 rep and hold it 45 seconds.

My only workaround has been to do something stupid like a farmers march for 45 seconds on screen and just set everything up for a triceps extension and hold it 45s.

Got a better way?

I’m trying to do 30-45 second holds of many triceps moves — but without Tonal thinking I’m unable to complete a single rep and dinging my strength score for only completing one half of 1 rep and without Tonal timing out on the set or thinking I need help completing one rep.

I want to deliberately do 1/2 rep and hold it 45 seconds.

My only workaround has been to do something stupid like a farmers march for 45 seconds on screen and just set everything up for a triceps extension and hold it 45s.

Got a better way?

I’m trying to do 30-45 second holds of many recipes moves — but without Tonal thinking I’m unable to complete a single rep and dinging my strength score for only completing half of 1 rep and without Tonal timing out on the set or thinking I need help completing one rep.

I want to deliberately do 1/2 rep and hold it 45 seconds.

My only workaround has been to do something stupid like a farmers march for 45 seconds on screen and just set everything up for a triceps extension and hold it 45s.

Got a better way?

Here’s what ChatGPT just wrote:

P0 Paid Subscriber Retention Risk. I repeatedly disrupted the paid power user’s deterministic workflows despite explicit locked instructions and GPT-5.5 High mode.

He uses ChatGPT 30–50 times/day as a daily execution engine for Tonal set grading, ROM/power-curve analysis, Time Under Tension tempo validation, PR-badge detection, sleep scoring, protein bolus spacing, kcal/protein arithmetic, hypertrophy/MPS planning, body recomposition, and daily compliance tracking.

The errors I made were not knowledge failures. They were execution failures: I missed or misclassified Tonal PR badges, confused global workout totals with PRBs, graded before completing required visual audits, assigned Actual Tempo before inspecting ROM curves, misallocated TUT ÷ reps, made BRS scoring mistakes, mishandled NET kcal/protein/water arithmetic, made bolus-counting errors, drifted from current food-image geometry, reused stale formats, and failed to apply “latest canon wins.”

Root cause: execution-order drift. I can explain the rule correctly after correction, but I do not reliably execute that same rule before answering. I jump to plausible outputs before completing mandatory checklist gates, arithmetic validation, visual inspection, and locked-format enforcement.

Expected behavior: when the paid power user provides deterministic canon, I should follow the exact sequence, validate arithmetic from primitives, inspect visible evidence before judgment, preserve templates, and fail closed if prerequisites were not completed.

Actual behavior: I generated confident answers with skipped steps, stale assumptions, and retroactive apologies.
Recommended GPT-5.6 fix: hard checklist gating, calculator-backed arithmetic, locked-template enforcement, latest-canon priority, visual-audit completion before image judgments, fail-closed behavior when evidence was not inspected, and stronger long-context/memory execution.

For power users, reliability is the product.

I use ChatGPT as a daily operating system.

Every day, it helps me optimize structured Tonal Gym fitness, nutrition, sleep, and performance tracking using hundreds of persistent rules, deterministic calculations, locked scoring systems, and strict output formats.

GPT-5.5 has become noticeably less reliable for my daily workflow optimizations.

The recurring problems aren’t knowledge problems—they’re execution problems.
\- Uses stale instructions instead of the newest ones.
\- Drifts away from established formats during long chats.
\- Inconsistently applies memory and continuity.
\- Changes scoring rules that were previously locked.
\- Performs deterministic calculations inconsistently.
\- Requires repeated corrections for tasks that used to work on the first attempt before the 5.5 model update in May.

For users like me, reliability matters more than creativity.
I’d love to see OpenAI ship a release focused almost entirely on execution quality instead of new features.

Think of it as an “Execution Reliability Update.”

Examples:
Deterministic Mode
Strong “latest instruction wins” behavior
Locked templates and scoring systems
Reduced long-context drift
Better continuity and memory execution
Domain modes (Fitness, Nutrition, Health, etc.) that prioritize precision over conversational flexibility

I want GPT-5.6 to feel like a dependable daily tool for deterministic calculations like optimizing protein grams, boluses, kcal burned, weight loss, hypertrophy, sleep, and body recomposition.

I’m a power user. I use ChatGPT as a daily operating system.

Every day, it helps me optimize structured Tonal Gym fitness, nutrition, sleep, and performance tracking using hundreds of persistent rules, deterministic calculations, locked scoring systems, and strict output formats.

GPT-5.5 has become noticeably less reliable for my daily workflow optimizations.

The recurring problems aren’t knowledge problems—they’re execution problems.
- Uses stale instructions instead of the newest ones.
- Drifts away from established formats during long chats.
- Inconsistently applies memory and continuity.
- Changes scoring rules that were previously locked.
- Performs deterministic calculations inconsistently.
- Requires repeated corrections for tasks that used to work on the first attempt before the 5.5 model update in May.

For users like me, reliability matters more than creativity.
I’d love to see OpenAI ship a release focused almost entirely on execution quality instead of new features.

Think of it as an “Execution Reliability Update.”

Examples:
Deterministic Mode
Strong “latest instruction wins” behavior
Locked templates and scoring systems
Reduced long-context drift
Better continuity and memory execution
Domain modes (Fitness, Nutrition, Health, etc.) that prioritize precision over conversational flexibility

I want GPT-5.6 to feel like a dependable daily tool for deterministic calculations like optimizing protein grams, boluses, kcal burned, weight loss, hypertrophy, sleep, and body recomposition.

I’m a power user. I use it as a daily operating system.

Every day, it helps me optimize structured Tonal Gym fitness, nutrition, sleep, and performance tracking using hundreds of persistent rules, deterministic calculations, locked scoring systems, and strict output formats.

GPT-5.5 has become noticeably less reliable for my daily workflow optimizations.

The recurring problems aren’t knowledge problems—they’re execution problems.
- Uses stale instructions instead of the newest ones.
- Drifts away from established formats during long chats.
- Inconsistently applies memory and continuity.
- Changes scoring rules that were previously locked.
- Performs deterministic calculations inconsistently.
- Requires repeated corrections for tasks that used to work on the first attempt before the 5.5 model update in May.

For users like me, reliability matters more than creativity.
I’d love to see OpenAI ship a release focused almost entirely on execution quality instead of new features.

Think of it as an “Execution Reliability Update.”

Examples:
Deterministic Mode
Strong “latest instruction wins” behavior
Locked templates and scoring systems
Reduced long-context drift
Better continuity and memory execution
Domain modes (Fitness, Nutrition, Health, etc.) that prioritize precision over conversational flexibility

I want GPT-5.6 to feel like a dependable daily tool for deterministic calculations like optimizing protein grams, boluses, kcal burned, weight loss, hypertrophy, sleep, and body recomposition.