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Anyone else have trouble getting this number up? No matter how hard I push with my legs, my watts never go above like 150 ish.

Right after Thanksgiving in 2025, I joined OTF with a premier, unlimited classes membership. Whatever concern or reservations I had about doing high intensity interval training quickly faded once I started going to classes literally every other day for the next 10 months, all the way up to late August 2026. I attended 153 classes in just about 300 days, and average of going to OTF once every other day. I burned 88,000 cal. I went from 18% body fat and 86% muscle mass down to 13.8% body fat and 91.1% muscle mass.

Sometime in early August, working out and or life caused me to have a seriously strained shoulder/rotator cuff and I stopped going to OTF, saw an orthopedic specialist, had x-rays taken, and they came back negative, and started physical therapy on my rotator cuff area. While I occasionally miss working out and the overall positive feeling that OTF provides, part of me doesn’t miss it and feels like maybe I should walk away at this time. Looking at my stats and percentages and body composition, I don’t think there’s much more body fat to lose, much more muscle mass to gain on a very lean and athletic 183 pound frame and therefore, not many more goals to set. I am open to anyone’s suggestions who might have felt the same way at some point during their OTF experience. Thank you.

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My studio is getting new treadmills, and selling the old ones. I would need to take it apart to get it into my house. Has anyone had success with disassembling the treadmill then setting it up? Thanks in advance!

I just finished my very first class and I really enjoyed it! I'm not a very active person at all - usually I play rec sports once or twice a week, like pickleball and kickball/dodgeball, and that's about the extent of my activity level. I'm looking to lose weight and just generally get in better shape. Unfortunately my schedule doesn't allow me to attend any of the Strength 50 classes, which I know would help me lose weight the best.

So I'm wondering - would Signature 60 still be effective, once or twice a week? I know diet/calorie deficit plays a huge roll too, and SOME workout is definitely better than nothing. I guess I just want some encouragement in feeling like even if I can't take classes 5 days a week, Signature 60 will do something for me lol

I bought my OTConnect Beat 5 months ago, and for the past month it has consistently been losing my heart rate while rowing, and sometimes losing my heart rate on the floor. I stop rowing, fiddle with it a little, and 20 seconds later my heart rate shoots up from grey/blue to the more accurate orange/red. Different coaches tell me different things - put it on your tricep, inner bicep, rub water on your skin before putting it on, you’re overestimating your heart rate (bullshit), etc. It works totally fine on the treads. Anyone run into this issue before, and does anyone have a fix? I’d really hate to have to buy a new one so quickly.