 Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Sonali and six months ago from today I was sitting in this chair and I was feeling like shit about myself. And I decided to take matters into my own hands, finally get off my lazy ass and go to Orange Theory and I ended up signing up for the class and I've been doing it for six months now. So I wanted to do a video kind of just like answering all your questions about Orange Theory and also talking about the investments of Orange Theory as well as some of the issues that I overcame during my Orange Theory journey. So let's get into it. So for anyone who doesn't know what Orange Theory Fitness is, it's pretty much all over the country. I don't know if it's all over the world, but definitely all over the country. It is a one hour workout and you can either start on the treadmill or the rower and most of the classes will have like half a treadmill workout and then a floor workout which is like weights and then the rower combined. The best thing about these classes obviously is that you have a coach and they tell you exactly what you need to be doing and if you have knee problems and you can't do a certain workout on the floor, they will give you an optional workout. So it's nice because it's really not intimidating talking to them because obviously they're there to help you. So I will be honest, I haven't tried too many workout classes so I can't really compare that many. I've tried Pure Bar and that kicked my ass but this was when I was like in high school and I hated working out which I still do but you know I like literally would not go. I would refuse to go and then I've tried cycling but I'm pretty sure I tried it at my college gym so it wasn't like a the real thing like soul cycle or anything like that. But other than that I haven't really like worked out. I did cheerleading in high school but we didn't even condition it that often because I was mainly sideline cheer and so yeah I have been pretty lazy all my life. I hate working out but if you watched the video that I filmed six months ago in this chair then you would know why I decided to like just kind of bite the bullet and start working out and just bettering my body and my health. The thing that makes Orange Theory stand out to me is that you buy a heart rate monitor and you can actually see your progress through the class. So at the end of the class you see your stats and basically you see this chart and it goes from red, orange, green, blue, and then gray. So don't quote me on this because I don't really know but you could probably easily google it. So the orange and red is like when you feel like you're about to die when you're working out well mainly the red. The orange is like okay you're challenging yourself, you're doing you know good but like keep pushing and then the green is like like you're just chilling you're maybe like walking on the treadmill you don't really feel your heart like beating out of your chest. The blue is probably the time like that you just start your workout you're just getting into it kind of a thing and then the gray I don't know what the gray is I guess like just like when your heart rate is just not in all the other categories. So the orange and red if you get a minute in the orange you get a splat point if you get a minute in the red you get a splat point so that is another part of your stats is the amount of splat points you get and you're supposed to get at least 12 splat points per class of orange theory and I always get almost double or more. I honestly don't even know if like getting more is like better or you know doesn't even affect it but you definitely need 12 splat points so you pretty much get all your splat points on the treadmill at least for me some people don't but that's how it goes for me. So during your workout you'll see this big screen I'm pretty sure they call it an OT beat screen if I'm not mistaken but you will see all of your stats up there and if you have a heart rate monitor your name will be in a box and then that box will either be red orange green blue or gray. So it's kind of cool you can see like where your heart rate is and if you need to push yourself harder if you need to like dial it down a little bit and it's really helpful for me because sometimes I'm in the orange and I feel like I'm about to die but then I'm like okay no I can get in the red and I should be in the red so I'm gonna push myself a little bit more. I really really like to see those results and sometimes my heart rate monitor like I don't know glitches and like goes to gray for like a long period of the workout and it makes me so frustrated because I just I want to leave because I'm like okay well if I'm not seeing my results like what's the point but I mean I know that's a bad mentality. Okay so that's pretty much the stats of orange theory I hope I explain that well enough but like I said you can easily google it if I didn't. Another thing that I really like about orange theory is you can go at your own pace so I started off as a power walker that's what they call it's power walker jogger and then runner. I started off as a power walker and I went like three miles per hour I'm pretty sure. The coaches encouraged me not pushed me but encouraged me to just kind of like increase it a little bit every single time and now I am a jogger I think well kind of I mostly jog but sometimes when I like really get out of breath I just have to power walk but I feel like that's like any normal human. Even though you can go at your own pace it is kind of like nice to be in a room with all these other fit people because you kind of just want to get up to their level so you push yourself a little harder. I remember this one time there was this like you know older woman going faster than me and I was just like okay no I'm literally like 23 years old I can do this so I sped up my treadmill a little bit and pushed myself and obviously people are actually competitive to your face but it's just like that internal push for yourself. So now I want to talk about the investments that I made for Orange Theory. The class itself is a big investment it is I want to say I pay 140 a month it could be 150 but I know that I got it at a really good rate I can't remember why. I think they were having like some type of like sale or something but I would definitely recommend trying to get it when they have like a good deal and they have like different deals every single month so maybe just wait it out a couple more weeks if they have a better deal but I'm pretty sure it can go all the way up to like 170 per month. Let's say I'm paying 140 a month I usually go three times per week so divide that by 12 and that is pretty much almost $12 per class so that's not horrible if you're going three times per week and I also do have the unlimited I think the one below my plan is eight classes per month and I think that might be like a hundred dollars so yes Orange Theory is a big investment but I'm really really glad I did it and I am doing it. The next investment is the heart rate monitor so this is kind of just like a band like an Apple Watch but I actually wear mine up here I used to wear it down here but it just like did not work well so I'm wearing it up here now and that costed me I think I want to say like a hundred something dollars and I think there was a cheaper one that you could wear like around your chest but I feel like that would be like annoying to wear when you're working out so I went ahead and invested in the arm band just because I feel like that would feel more comfortable and now I think in February if I'm not mistaken they're rolling out the Apple Watch app for Orange Theory so I think you can now use your Apple Watch as a heart rate monitor so if you already have an Apple Watch I don't think you need to buy a heart rate monitor because it's hopefully going to connect with their screens there's honestly a good amount of people that don't buy the heart rate monitor and just use their Apple Watch but like I said for me it is just so rewarding seeing the colors change and your stats up on the screen so I really recommend buying the heart rate monitor I know it's an investment up front but like if you're going to do it for a really long time then it's definitely well worth it the next investment I had to make was new running shoes I had Black Ultra Boost I think I got these like sophomore year of college so maybe like three years ago two years ago and they just like weren't doing it for me and apparently they're like really good workout shoes but I don't know I had just had really really freaking bad shin splints and like knee problems and all that shit and they were just not doing it for me so my coach recommended I get new shoes so I went and picked up some Mizuno's and those were like around 100 something dollars maybe 130 or something but yeah there's another investment and obviously not everyone has to buy new shoes but I definitely thought this investment was so worth it because I've never had running shoes before and literally half the class of Oris Theory is running and I had really really bad shin splints once I got my shoes I still had a bit of shin splints but they kind of like went away after some time now with my running shoes I don't get shin splints pretty much at all I mean I can feel that my shins are kind of like sore after but it's not like while I'm running it just hurt so bad when I didn't have them so I'm very glad I bought those this next investment is also optional but you can also buy some new workout clothes I've definitely noticed that wearing tighter clothes to orange theory makes me want to like do better because there are mirrors in the room so if you look at yourself you're like okay like I need to just do this for myself and if you're wearing baggy clothes I feel like it just doesn't really give you that much motivation but if you don't want to spend crazy amounts of money my biggest tip is going to a thrift store and looking at the workout section because some people throw away like lululemon stuff and really good brands I know I found my favorite lululemon top and I have like two really really good Nike tops that I got from thrift store and they're like eight dollars out of the thrift store it is insane how much the prices are so much cheaper there so I definitely recommend I mean some people think it's gross but just wash the clothes it's it's fine it's like borrowing from your sister you know so that was my ramble on orange theory and now we're going to get into some questions you guys ask me on my instagram and if you guys want to follow me to see just more updates on orange theory I post on my stories a lot um you can follow me here it is so underscore gnarly without the g so let's get into it the first question is is it worth the money and I would definitely say yes it is I work from home so I really like that it's something that gets me out of bed and just gets me going for the morning I do go three times per week like I said so I do Monday, Wednesday, Friday I feel like sometimes I could go like one more day a week but it's just nice to have the breaks so that like I don't have to like wash my hair that day or I could put on makeup that day and like have the whole day to like work and do stuff because usually I go at like 845 and by the time I shower it's like almost noon I will be honest my mom did offer to pay for the first two months of orange theory for me um because she just wanted me to like get off my ass and just start working out kind of push me in the direction of a healthy lifestyle and I'm really thankful for that because honestly I don't think I would have started paying for it on my owner I wouldn't have signed up if I was paying for it on my own at first I guess but now that I see the benefits I think it's so worth it and that is why I'm paying it for it on my own now um so yes it is worth the money the next question is how do you stay motivated and I think if you watch my video that I posted six months ago I will have a link down below you would understand why I got motivated in the first place but now I stay motivated by seeing my own progress I take progress pictures and I also weigh myself pretty much after every orange theory class and I definitely like to look at my progress every two weeks or so another way is I am always on Instagram so I save some of the pictures that maybe if people are wearing like cute bikinis or if they're wearing like a cute crop top I'll say that to my boards on Instagram and some people think that like Instagram's negative but I see it as a motivation like I want to look like that I want to dress like that and I want to be able to wear that look really great I'm getting a lot of questions about what I eat in a day and my diet and I will say this is my biggest weakness and I just something in me is just like I cannot change it for the life of me and I know it's a lifestyle change so I think that's why I haven't been able to do it as you guys know if you guys watch my videos I live with my boyfriend Ryan and our eating habits just are not the greatest I will say that firsthand I have a huge sweet tooth and not that I eat fast food that often but I like to eat good food and sometimes it's not the healthiest and I think the biggest thing for me and I think that's the reason why I haven't really lost that much weight is because I eat such big portions because when I'm cooking for me and Ryan Ryan is like a bigger boy so he needs more food to like make him full and sometimes I eat the same amount as him because I see that his plate's bigger so like I want some more and that's just like where I fall into this big black hole and so I'm definitely going to be working on my diet this year 2020 is the year of healthy lifestyle hopefully at least I'm feeling better going into 2020 that I'm actually working out and that's like a more realistic goal working out three times per week I can do that because I have been doing that but I just don't even know where to start with like the healthy eating so if you guys have any tips on just healthy eating in general please leave them down below like your favorite recipes if you guys want to insta DM me them I would be so grateful the next question is what is the hardest part I will say two things so my shin splints being one of them because I just got so frustrated with myself because I felt like I could run like I had the stamina to run but they just hurt so bad so I had to power walk and it just like made me feel so discouraged at first I'll say because everyone else is pretty much running around me and I wanted to run but it just hurts so freaking bad so that was definitely the hardest part but I'm so glad I'm past that and I'm so glad that I'm able to run now the second thing is just booking the classes because I always book them in the morning just in case like something happens in the morning and you know I can't go or I just don't feel like it um but that pretty much is always like a feeling that I just like don't want to go or I always think of like an excuse like oh but I can get so much work done in the time that I go to orange theory take the class come back shower I always just try to make excuses up for myself so I think just like booking the class is like the hardest part because once you book the class if you cancel I think they charge you so like I don't ever want to cancel when when I book the class um so yeah that's definitely the hardest part is in the mornings when I just don't want to go next question is has your energy increased and I'm gonna say no because whenever I go to orange theory I am like feeling fatigued throughout the whole day at least like yesterday was probably one of the hardest freaking orange theory classes ever I felt like I just want to sleep the whole rest of the day and that's actually really bad because I do work from home and sometimes I do work from the couch so then I get really really sleepy um so that's only an issue I'm trying to combat I really don't think like my energy increased I don't know I guess it's hard to tell someone asked how much weight have I lost um I think I was like what I want to say the heaviest I was 175 and right now I'm like fluctuating between like 170 but after the holidays I gained a couple pounds back which was so annoying but um yeah so I would say like a good like five pounds um but I'm still fluctuating and I'm still grinding and I'm still going so hopefully more somebody asked me who my favorite fitness influencers are and I actually have none I don't think I follow any um so if you guys want to leave any motivational accounts down below for Instagram that would help me out so much and probably help out all these people that are going to watch this video especially accounts that have like healthy food um I don't really know if I want to watch like workout videos because I do orange theory and I don't really work out on my own um but yeah I don't I don't know if I have any favorite fitness influencers but check the comments down below hopefully people can share the next question is do you think you'll supplement and go to a regular gym in addition to orange theory I don't think so because I just for some reason my personality just needs someone in my ear telling me what to do um especially just like working out I have never really known what to do in the gym and like my boyfriend he did wrestling and football so like he knows what to do in the gym so it's nice when he goes to the gym with me but the thing is like he likes to go at night especially because he works in nine to five and I like to go in the morning because if I don't go in the morning it's not happening at all so I could definitely have him like help me out of the gym and like train me but I just like cannot go at night something about it it's just like like I want to enjoy my night on the couch you know I don't know if I'll be doing orange theory forever especially because it is like a good chunk of money every month but maybe as I take these classes I can take like a couple like workouts and like weight routines um and then go to the gym and do it myself I don't know but I don't think I have like the motivation in my heart to like just do it all by myself and not have someone like telling me what to do if that makes sense the last question is do you feel your outfits fitting better and you feeling more confident I a hundred thousand percent do um I have these one pair of jeans that definitely didn't fit before and now they fit and they're pretty comfortable I think I definitely have like a good ways to go but it's definitely progress and I'm proud of myself for doing it for this long because I really thought I would quit after like a month or so so that is it of this video I hope you guys enjoyed hearing more about my orange theory journey and just learning about orange theory if you guys didn't know what it was um if you guys want to see that video that I was talking about that I filmed six months ago sitting right here I will have that link down below it's a very emotional and vulnerable video so just a heads up I'm very emotional in it but also if you guys have any other questions you can DM me or comment them on this video and hopefully people in the otf community can answer and help me out too um so I will see y'all in my next video bye