u/GoBeyondPower

Weekly Giveaway: Frequent Flyer

Weekly Giveaway: Frequent Flyer

VOLTRA was built to travel. Some of you took that personally.

Over three years we've seen it train in hotel rooms, stadiums, open fields, ships, campsites, and, somehow, one very cramped economy seat.

For week two of our anniversary giveaways, show us where your VOLTRA has been. See the rest of our anniversary rewards and take your Anniversary Spin here.

You don’t need to be a certified globetrotter. One trip and one great photo is enough.

To enter, comment with:

  • Where: Every place you've trained with your VOLTRA.
  • Proof: Your own photos or short videos from those locations. Scenery earns bonus points.
  • Story (optional): Your most memorable stop and why VOLTRA came along.

Transport alone doesn't count. VOLTRA has to come out of the bag and get in on the action. Only safe, permitted training locations qualify, so the economy seat stays a legend and not a category. No need to try and top it.

Home Gyms Count Too

Most of the year, your VOLTRA lives in the garage. We want the one weekend it didn't, along with the units that crossed borders and the ones that found one very good view.

Fifteen Winners, Two Categories

  • 5× Most Traveled: One AlumaCore Bar each
  • 10× Best Travel Photo: 5,000 Power Credits each

Each entry can win in one category only. Winners announced in 5 days.

With your permission, selected photos and journeys may be featured on Beyond Power channels.

u/GoBeyondPower — 14 days ago

Beyond+ Android update is live. Here's what's new.

We've shipped a pretty substantial update to Beyond+ on Android. The biggest change is Sessions, plus a few training and QoL improvements.

  • Sessions: Build complete workouts with multiple exercises, sets, and training modes, then run the whole session from start to finish. We've also added session editing, workout data uploads, and QR import/sharing. 
  • Quick Setup + Drop Sets: Quick Setup has been redesigned, and you can now generate Drop Sets using either percentage-based or fixed weight changes. Less rebuilding between sets. 
  • Smart Pin: Dial in your weight faster with quick access to your go-to loads. Save, select, edit, or switch between your preferred weights while training.
  • Cable Health Check (Beta): Photograph your VOLTRA cable inside the on-screen guide for a condition assessment. It's still in beta, so we'll continue improving it based on usage and feedback.

 

Sessions is the big one. Beyond+ has been useful for setting up an exercise; this makes it useful for the whole workout.

Update to the latest Android version and give it a run. Bugs, feedback, and questionable training decisions all welcome in the comments.

u/GoBeyondPower — 1 month ago

Weekly Giveaway: This Thread Is Now a VOLTRA Beginner's Search History

Every VOLTRA user was a beginner once. Paralyzed by mount choices, staring at the modes, or fully expecting to be unrecognizable after a few mesocycles.

You came here for back training inspo. Before you knew it, you ended up three hours deep in pulley ratios, resistance curves, and why 100 lb on a VOLTRA feels so much more menacing than 100 lb on a good ol' cable stack. Somewhere between "how do I install this" and "how do I mount this to a tow hitch" is where most of us live now.

How to Enter

Post a search. Anything you're looking up now, looked up when you started, or wanted to know before you ordered. Owners, long-timers, and people still deciding, time to bust out your headscratchers.

For example:

  • "voltra deadlift setup reddit"
  • "voltra rowing machine ab roller"
  • "double the weight pulley hack voltra"
  • "voltra crazy doms?"

See a search you can answer? Jump into the replies with something helpful, clear, or funny. You can post a search, answer one, or do both.

Prizes

We’ll select 8 winners, with each receiving 10,000 Power Credits:

  • 5 Best Searches: For the most specific, most unhinged beginner searches.
  • 3 Best Search Results: For the most helpful, clear, or entertaining replies.

Winners will be announced in 5 days.

Post a search, answer one, or do both. Incognito mode optional.

reddit.com
u/GoBeyondPower — 1 month ago

Weekly Giveaway: Write a 1-Star Review for Your Favorite VOLTRA Feature

Ever love a feature so much you loathe it?

Eccentric overload forces you to work harder when you could have coasted. Inverse chains is heavy before you even got going. Isokinetic won't let you rush anything.

This week: pick your favorite feature, and write it the 1-star review it deserves.

Make us laugh, keep it clever, and let your creativity run wild.

How to Enter

Drop a comment below with:

  • Your Favorite Feature:
  • Your 1-Star Review:

(Need an idea? "1 star for Eccentric Mode. Added 20% overload on Tuesday, and on Thursday I needed help putting on a seatbelt.")

Prizes

We’re giving 10,000 Power Credits each to the 6 funniest and most creative reviews in the comments.

Winners announced in 5 days.

Your VOLTRA is sitting right there, illiterate and unbothered. Ruin it.

From the Last Few Weeks:

reddit.com
u/GoBeyondPower — 1 month ago

Weekly Giveaway: Give Your Old Gear a Second Life

Which piece of your gear has the least use per dollar? 

You can probably name it fast. A pin-stack unit whose stack tops out too light. A GHD you use a few times a year. A Smith machine you stopped loading. Something bought for a goal you no longer have.

This week, let's try to bring back that piece of gear. Two ways in, depending on which side of the problem you're on.

If You Have a VOLTRA: Show Us the Revival

Take the piece that stopped earning its floor space and add VOLTRA to the mix. Comment with:

  • What the gear is, and roughly how long it sat unused
  • How you rigged VOLTRA to it
  • What it does now that it couldn't do before

Photos or video help. A clear description works fine. Multiple entries welcome.

People here have already been doing this:

If You Don't Have a VOLTRA Yet: Tell Us What You're Stuck With

Name the piece of gear that isn't pulling its weight and what you wish it did. One line is enough. Then the owners here take a swing at it.

Maybe there's a way to zhuzh it up so it earns its place again. Or maybe the best thing to do is to sell it.

Prizes 

  • 30,000 Power Credits: best revival. The setup that gets the most out of the least.
  • 3 x 20,000 Power Credits: best answers. Whoever gives a stuck person a setup that actually works.
  • 3 x 10,000 Power Credits: best problems. The ones that pull the thread open.

Always remember to practice safe mounting, old frames deserve a second look before you load them.

Multiple entries are welcome. Winners announced in 5 days.

Decide your gear's fate.

reddit.com
u/GoBeyondPower — 2 months ago

Beyond Care is live: accidental damage coverage, what happens to your extended warranty

Beyond Care replaces Extended Warranty as our coverage plan. Full details on the site, short version here:

What it covers

  • Everything the Standard Warranty covers, plus accidental damage from handling (drops, impacts, spills)
  • Cable and battery replacement at no additional cost, subject to health thresholds and inspection, with no preset limit while the plan is active
  • Approved repairs at no service fee and no deductible
  • Two-way shipping on approved repairs

Pricing

Beyond Care is an annual subscription. You prepay an initial term, then it renews yearly.

  • 1-Year Plan: $99 within 90 days of purchasing your VOLTRA
  • 3-Year Plan: $199 within 90 days of purchasing your VOLTRA
  • Annual Renewal: $199/year after your initial term

Cancel anytime from your Beyond Power account, and your current coverage stays active through the term you already paid for.

If you already have Extended Warranty. Your plan upgrades to Beyond Care automatically for the rest of your current term. You pay nothing and you have accidental damage coverage as of today. You can also buy a 1 or 3 year plan at launch pricing during the window.

If you own a VOLTRA and never bought EW. The launch pricing is available to you through November 18, at the same pricing as new buyers. Devices more than 90 days past purchase go through a quick verification: serial number, device report, photos.

Coverage is tied to the machine, not the owner, so it survives a resale. Available in the US, UK, and EU for now.

VOLTRA doesn't need babysitting during hard sessions. Beyond Care means you can go for the PR without doing repair math.

Questions? Let us know in the comments.

u/GoBeyondPower — 2 months ago

Weekly Giveaway: Build Your Mounts Rushmore

Every VOLTRA owner has a mount they’d defend in a fistfight, and one they’d quietly leave behind in a move.

JW at Garage Hypertrophy ranked our mounts in his video, Which Voltra Mount Should You Buy?, now it's your turn.

How to enter:

  1. Rank your mounts S / A / B / C / D / F. Official, third-party, and DIY all count.
  2. Add a line of reasoning if you want. Your top four are your Mount Rushmore.

Example:

  • S: Adaptive Bar Mount, goes on, stays on, no notes.
  • A: Rotator Add On
  • B: Strap Mount, solid build, straps shorter than I’d like.
  • C: Sliding Rack Mount
  • Dumpster-bound: Travel Platform. Great if you travel by semi-truck.

Reasons are optional. But you know this sub and our team live for spicy takes.

Think someone else's list is absolute nonsense? Fight it out in the comments.

Prizes & Rules:

10 winners will score 10,000 Power Credits each!

Selection: Picked on upvotes, honesty, and hot takes we can’t argue with.

Winners announced in 5 days.

Need more inspiration before making your list? Check out some community favorites:

u/GoBeyondPower — 2 months ago

Weekly Giveaway: Roast My Setup!

Think your setup is a masterpiece? Let Reddit be the judge.

Skip the polished gym tours. This week, we want to see your real everyday training space: the good, the bad, and the questionable gear choices.

No VOLTRA? No problem. Whether you have a massive garage gym, a rack squeezed into a spare room, or just a few dumbbells in the corner. If it’s where you train, it counts. You might think your layout is genius… until someone spots that one detail you’ve been blind to for months.

How to Enter:

  1. Post a photo of your current training space. (Bonus points if you tell us one thing you love and one thing you want to improve.)
  2. Join the roast: Hit the comments and roast at least one other member's setup. (Keep it fun, keep it friendly, we're not looking to start fights here)

The Prizes:

Most Roast-Worthy Setup

  • 1 Grand Prize: 50,000 Power Credits ($500 value)
  • 3 Runners-Up: 20,000 Power Credits each

Best Roast Comment

  • 5 Winners: 10,000 Power Credits each

Bonus: Everyone with a valid entry gets Power Credits just for stepping into the arena.

Got roasted? Take your credits, upgrade your setup, and come back stronger.

Winners will be announced in 5 days. Let the roasting begin!

Want more setup inspiration? Check out some of our past community highlights.

reddit.com
u/GoBeyondPower — 2 months ago

[Weekly Giveaway] Fix My Setup: The Home Gym Compromises We All Make

The more time you spend with your setup, the more you want to push it.

You swap out old attachments, test new anchor heights, and try to squeeze every last bit of versatility out of your space. But as you upgrade, the new setup puzzles start creeping in. Maybe your cable line rubs your forearms half the time during flies, or your horizontal row pulls at an awkward angle that throws off your line of pull. Or maybe a pulldown setup feels amazing, until you realize switching back to benching means pulling three pins, moving two brackets, and losing ten minutes of momentum.

Building a home gym is a constant cycle of tinkering, testing, and making trade-offs.

Whether you’re right in the middle of solving one of these setup headaches, or you’ve already figured out a clever fix that made your workouts smoother — this week is all about sharing what works and what needs help.

How to Enter

Pick whichever side you're on this week:

The Setup Challenge

Got a setup problem you're trying to figure out? Drop 1 photo or short clip of your setup in the comments, and tell us in 2–3 short sentences:

  1. What are you trying to accomplish?
  2. What's giving you trouble? (e.g., cable travel, anchor positioning, slow exercise swaps)

The Community Fix

Already solved a tricky setup problem, or got a clever idea for someone else? Reply to another member’s post with your tips, mounting ideas, or attachment hacks (photos of your own fix are a huge bonus!).

Prizes

  • 6 Main Winners (3 Challengers + 3 Solvers). Each picks a Beyond Power Tote Bag + ONE Mount of Choice, or takes 20,000 Power Credits instead.
  • Participation Bonus: Everyone who drops a valid entry gets Power Credits as a thank you!

Winners will be announced in 5 days.

Missed Previous Weeks? Catch up on what everyone else has been building:

reddit.com
u/GoBeyondPower — 2 months ago

[Weekly Giveaway] HomeGymCon 2026: You Train Alone All Year. This Weekend You Don't.

Fifty-one weeks a year, this is a solo sport. Cold rubber at 5am, the same playlist, a rack you built yourself, nobody around to see the set that finally went up clean.

Then for one weekend in Louisville, thousands of people doing that exact same thing walk into the same room. Floor packed with unreleased prototypes and vendors who actually let you load the thing up. If you've had this circled since January, this thread is yours.

We don't have a booth this year. Our partners have VOLTRA units integrated across several booths on the floor, and honestly, we'd rather spend this weekend seeing what you're seeing. 

You don't need to own a VOLTRA to enter.

Floor Entries

You're already twenty thousand steps in with a phone full of photos. Post them:

  • The rack setup or cable build that made you stop mid-aisle
  • Knurling worth arguing about, or unannounced prototypes
  • Heavy reps, floor madness, and raw, shaky vertical video—we'll take it all

Spot the VOLTRA (Bonus Entry): Find a unit on the floor and show us how it's hooked up. First time on one? Say what you actually thought—what surprised you, how the resistance felt, or what you'd change. Blunt is welcome. Unflattering is a-okay.

Couch Crew

Most of this community isn't in Louisville, because flights and hotels are a commitment. But your gym already exists because of people like this—somebody posted their basement setup at 11pm and you screenshotted it. This weekend just moves that indoors with a real-life crowd.

So put in your request:

  • A booth, attachment, or piece you want someone to walk over and look at
  • The burning question you'd ask a vendor face-to-face

(No promises every request gets picked up, but this crowd tends to come through for each other—and your entry counts either way!)

Prizes

  • 3 Floor Winners: Squat Harness V4 + Mount of your choice + Beyond Power Tote
  • 3 Couch Crew Winners: AlumaCore Bar + Beyond Power Tote
  • EVERYONE WINS: Every valid entry gets Power Credits!

(Winners posted in 5 days. Go make the rest of us jealous!)

reddit.com
u/GoBeyondPower — 3 months ago

Firmware 2.0 Beta — Tell us what you think

Firmware 2.0 Beta has been out for a bit — we want the honest version.

How did DTR, Sled Pull, Mountain Profile, and the 230 lb max resistance update perform for you? What surprised you? What worked well? What needs improvement?

No feedback is too small — a detail, a feature request, or something that felt a little off all helps us make VOLTRA better.

Share your thoughts here:

Feedback Form

As a small thank-you, 10 respondents will receive 1,000 Power Credits.

Thanks for helping us catch the things we missed.

u/GoBeyondPower — 3 months ago

Weekly Giveaway: In Leg Day We Believe (Belt Squat, Round 2)

Six months ago we asked to see your belt squat setups. What came back: horse stall mats, a mount bolted to something that was technically a rack, and at least one build our product team screenshotted and has, as far as we know, never deleted.

A lot of you have joined since then. Several of you have been quietly upgrading your rigs and telling nobody. Round 2 starts today.

On the number, since it always comes up. Load is one variable. What that load is doing through the range is the other one, and that second variable is where this sub loves to tinker with. There are people here who have turned a belt squat rig into the worst forty minutes of their week without going anywhere near the top of the range. We're a little scared of you.

How to Enter

Photo or short clip of your belt squat setup in action, plus two lines:

  • The Hardware. Platform, mount, belt, and whatever you fabricated at 11pm on a Sunday to make it work.
  • The Software. Good ol' Weight mode, Chains, Eccentric Overload, or a custom curve you built and then immediately regretted. Give us the setting, not just the weight.

Brand new builds and version 2.0s of your original entry both count. If you entered in round 1, come back and show us what changed. Redemption arcs welcome.

What You Can Win
Five winners. Each picks one Mount plus one Bar from the FusionCore, AlumaCore or Carbon Bar series, or takes 30,000 Power Credits instead.

Winners announced in 5 days

Comment here, or make a separate post with "Belt Squat 2.0" in the title.

Need some inspiration? Check out the creative setups from our first Belt Squat Week here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeyondPower/comments/1qwmq9a/weekly_giveaway_share_your_belt_squat_setup/

Calling all squat saints, quad quakers, hamstring heretics, and glute gurus. The congregation is assembled. Show us your rig.

u/GoBeyondPower — 3 months ago

[Weekly Giveaway] Meme Week: Cook Us

This week's entry requirement is one meme. That's it.

Roast our accessory drop schedule, your own form, the cable, the app, whatever gets the community laughing. We can take it, and honestly some of it we deserve.

How to Enter

  1. Make an original VOLTRA meme. Workouts, setups, struggles, wins, or us.
  2. Post it with [memes] in the title, or just drop it in the comments.

Prizes

  • Top meme: Premium Carabiner Pack + 1 Brorange FusionCore Bar
  • 3 winners: 1 FusionCore Bar each (Brorange or Silver, winner’s choice)
  • 5 winners: 10,000 Power Credits each

Winners announced in 5 days. If your meme is at our expense, that counts in your favor.

Need some inspiration? Check out some of our previous community challenges:

reddit.com
u/GoBeyondPower — 3 months ago

This could have been a product launch: VOLTRA Firmware 2.0 Beta is open

Most of the tech you own is built to age out: obsolete by design, clearing the shelf for next year's model. Firmware 2.0 is the opposite bet: the biggest update we've ever engineered, landing on the VOLTRA already in your gym.

VOLTRA has always been built with you, not just for you. The heavy setups, the weird rigs, the feature requests that turned into features: that back-and-forth is what keeps raising what this hardware can do, and Firmware 2.0 is the next round of it. We'd like to keep that going for a long time.

What's in the beta

230 lb max resistance

We're raising the ceiling from 200 lb / 90 kg to 230 lb / 104 kg across supported training functions, giving you more headroom for heavy strength work and demanding cable setups. 

The number is the easy part. Holding it steady, at exactly the weight you set, on every rep, is where it gets hard. Getting there safely meant more precise control across the entire system: motor output, power delivery, thermal management, and the safety limits watching over all of it. The same hardware, taken further than we originally shipped it. 

A note: like any motor-driven system, higher sustained load draws more battery per session, the same way 150 lb already runs down faster than 60 lb today. 

DTR (Dynamic Tension Response)

DTR improves VOLTRA's response during ballistic and explosive movements, tracking rapid cable motion so resistance stays smooth and consistent through each rep. 

To enable DTR, go to:

Settings > Advanced > User Mode > Sport Mode > DTR

A one-time calibration is required before your first DTR session.

Mountain (inspired by LzrJ)

A new resistance profile under Weight Training. Resistance peaks in the middle of the range and eases off at the start and finish, matching movements where your strength curve does the same: biceps curls, leg extensions, leg curls, chest flies. Within Weight Training, you'll choose one of Chains, Inverse Chains, or Mountain per setup.

Eccentric / Chains / Inverse Chains percentage control

Adjust the percentage on these profiles directly, so dialing in advanced resistance curves is faster and more precise.

Sled Pull

Sled-drag resistance without the sled, the turf lane, or the floor space. Load it heavier than most real sleds, and with no rope to reset between efforts, you can run longer continuous sets and build endurance right in the hinge.

Home Layout

Arrange training functions the way you actually use them.

To customize your home screen, go to:

Settings > General > Home Layout

How to join

Click [Join the beta] and submit your VOLTRA I serial number. We're collecting eligible devices now, with the beta rollout expected to begin gradually this weekend.

If you run into any issues, contact beta@beyond-power.com or leave a comment below.

u/GoBeyondPower — 3 months ago

Beyond Cortex beta: put an AI agent to work on your VOLTRA training.

We're opening a beta for Beyond Cortex. It enables an AI agent to tap into your authorized training data and write things back like session plans and custom resistance curves. If you've ever wanted to get further under the hood than Beyond+ currently lets you, this is for you.

Here's what your agent can do with Beyond Cortex:

Understand Your Training

Read your training history and turn it into something you can use: what's trending up, where you've stalled, how your volume is tracking. Ask for a read on your last week or last 30 days and you get patterns from your own numbers, not a generic take.

Build a Session

Turn a training goal into a full VOLTRA session, using your own training rather than a template. A back day around circuits and drop sets, a lighter deload week, whatever you're working toward.

Shape a Resistance Curve

Design a VOLTRA-ready resistance curve for a specific movement or muscle group, so you can load a lift the way you want it loaded.

Control Your VOLTRA

When you're ready to train, it can set training modes and adjust supported settings on your unit, so the session you designed is queued up and ready to go.

Build Your Own Tools 

You can also build on it directly. Whether you're building a coaching dashboard, a custom training assistant, or a personal workflow, Beyond Cortex gives your tools a structured way to work with VOLTRA and Beyond+.

The first three don't need your VOLTRA connected, so you can work from anywhere.

What's in the beta:

  • VOLTRA Skills: the instructions that teach an AI agent how to work with VOLTRA correctly, so it knows what it can do and how. This is what makes an agent useful the moment you point it at your training.
  • VOLTRA CLI: the command-line tool the agent (or you) uses to do the actual work.
  • Your API key: you generate it in Beyond+ to get access.

How to Get In

Open the latest version of Beyond+, look for the Beyond Cortex banner to request beta access and generate your API key. 

Then tell us what you make, or what breaks. Both help. We'll be in the comments.

u/GoBeyondPower — 3 months ago

Weekly Giveaway: Beyond+ Android's had three weeks now, how's it actually holding up?

Three weeks ago Beyond+ Android went live. Should be long enough for some of you to get real sessions on it. We want honest takes from everyone, iOS and Android.

To sweeten the deal, we're putting 75,000 Power Credits on the line for 5 winners who drop the most valuable, brutal, or entertaining entries.

Drop whatever's useful:

  • Android: how's live tracking mid-set? Post a screenshot, a clean log, or the thing that's bugging you.
  • iOS: you've been on this app a while longer: what's the one change that'd make your training better?
  • Everyone: smallest quality-of-life tweak that'd help you right now? (Sessions and Twin Mode are already on the Android roadmap, so aimsmaller than those.)

Giveaway Rules:

Screenshots and screen recordings beat paragraphs. A weird glitch or a flawless session summary both count.

  • Prize: 5 winners, 15,000 Power Credits each
  • Selection: Based on a mix of upvotes and overall value to the community (best advice, best bug catch, or cleanest log)
  • Timeline: Winners announced in 5 days.

Let's hear it.

reddit.com
u/GoBeyondPower — 3 months ago

[Weekly Giveaway] VOLTRA on the Loose: Show Us Your Outdoor Setups

Summer weekends are for road trips, campfires, fishing days, and lake houses. Training shouldn't be the thing you leave at home.

If you packed your unit for a trip, strapped it to a tree at the campsite, or ran a session on the deck in the sun, we want to see it. Show us where your VOLTRA ended up this season.

Tell us:

  • The Spot: Where'd you set up? Park, campsite, backyard, dock, patio. Photo, video, or just describe it.
  • The Loadout: How'd you rig it? Strap Mount, DIY Dock, or something you built yourself.
  • The Session: What did you train out there, and how'd it feel working out under open sky?

How to Enter:

  • Share your setup in the comments, or create a post with [On the Loose] in the title
  • Keep it brief—a quick photo or video goes a long way in explaining a killer setup.

Giveaway Details:

  • Prize: 5 winners, 15,000 Power Credits each
  • Selection: Based on a combination of upvotes and ingenuity
  • Timeline: Winners announced in 5 days

For inspiration, revisit some of these community favorites:

reddit.com
u/GoBeyondPower — 4 months ago

[Weekly Giveaway] ELI5: A weight that can change how it fights you

Think of whatever you've trained with: a dumbbell, a barbell, a loaded cable stack, a machine. They all run on the same rule. The number you pick is the number you're stuck with. Every rep, start to finish, and it never reacts to what you're doing.

VOLTRA can break that rule. It can change what the weight does to you mid-rep: push back harder, ease off when you're stuck, or fight you more the faster you move.

Two things we want from you:

  1. Explain what it's like to someone who's never lifted. A kid, your neighbor, your least gym-curious friend. We don't want a list of settings, just one simple explanation of why you'd want a weight that doesn't sit there at a single, constant number at the whim of gravity.
  2. Then tell us what it gets you. Maybe no part of a rep ever gets to be easy, or you can finally go all-out on your own, or you squeeze more out of a shorter session.

Two rules:

  • No naming modes or training science speak. "Eccentric", "variable resistance", "hypertrophy" stay at the door. We want the everyday version.
  • Keep it kid-simple. If a 5-year-old wouldn't get it, simplify it.

Drop your ELI5 in the comments. 6 winners, 10,000 Power Credits each, picked for the clearest and most creative explanation. Announced in 5 days.

Need some inspiration? Check out some past posts:

reddit.com
u/GoBeyondPower — 4 months ago