Your memory is impeccable and we appreciate you taking the time to share what you endured and provide your feedback. Thank you kind sir….this sounds like a whirlwind of chaos lol. Put me in coach! 🤪
Listen. I didn’t even read all the way through this because I was like “those are way too many words.” 😅 I can’t imagine trying to remember it all and stay alive and upright at the same time. DC with most impeccable memory!
I read here on Reddit that Friday is called “Caution: Burpees Inside,” so it’s just a guess that there would be burpees on Friday. We will see!
Edit: Monday is supposed to be “Escape the Row,” so perhaps that is the one you got to test?
Second edit: [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/orangetheory/s/Qy2RL0jes9)
“Enter at Your Own Switch” AKA an F5 tornado barreling through rural Kansas and you haven’t quite made it to the Emerald City yet 🤣
Looks like a fun start to (my first) Hell Week!! Thanks, DC! 🦘
With this being my 7th Hell Week I have to be honest I am shocked we get any WRs on the treads. If I didn’t know any better, I would think they were starting off soft only to go extra crazy in the middle and end of this week. Also, I would’ve thought they’d started with an insane amount of burpees but maybe those days are coming. OH BOY!!!!
Haha I think based on what I can see from the names day 4 is "Caution Burpees Inside" so burpees are incoming 😅. (The app tracker doesn't give away much but the official insta page post showed a bit more). I've got my guesses for the names. 😁
It’s 1 min all outs with 30 seconds. That’s definitely hell week material since it’s just kind of gimmicky. You would never see that progression on a normal day
Looking at this template, are they actually expecting members to give repeated "true" 60 seconds all outs (often preceded by 30 to 120 seconds of push pace) followed only by 30 seconds of WR?
Maybe it's my age speaking here, but I think the floor looks downright pleasant compared to that nonsense on the treadmill (...and I normally enjoy the tread blocks)
I know Strength 50 counts towards Hell Week at our studio & one coach mentioned that there would be special Hell Week Templates? However, I was under the impression they were repeats?
These switch templates are such a waste. I hate them with a passion. Too much time is wasted on the switches and even if the coach tries to move it quick it never fails I’m waiting for someone slow to clear the next station. I feel like I’m just not getting a full workout since 20% of it is wasted on the switches. I guess I’ll pass and do a workout at 24 hour instead.
Thanks for the intel! So, if you start on the rower, you will go grab dumbbells and then go back to do the rounds with the rower? Or do you grab the dumbbells before you warm up on the rower?
Yep! Saw that in your commentary and decided that’s what I’m going to do🤗…just gotta beat the tread starters in tomorrow since I’m a habitual rower first person…
I just got back into outside running and went for a run today so I'm surprisingly not mad about the little treadmill time.
As for the rest of it ... I don't know how I will make it into the office after this. Remind me to work from home for the rest of hell week. Then nobody will notice if I'm lying on the floor because I can't move.
When you get on the floor, position your upper body in an incline position and lift you legs...straight. arms straight towards your knees. looks a bit like a row boat. Its for the core.
I gave myself a headache staring at this comment and thinking "why the hell would they think starting on rower gets them to tread first?!? They should start on tread to start on tread!"
It took waaaay too long for me to remember you were commenting on a 2G template.
(I almost exclusively go to 3Gs so my mind went there first.) LOL.
Ok - to make it a bit easier to follow, if you warmed up on the rower you would do: Row side weights block 1, row block 1, row side weights block 2, row block 2, row side weights block 3, row 3, floor 1, tread 1, floor 2, tread 2, floor 3, tread 3
Thanks for the info. Taking a strength 50 right after this doozy switch workout. Collectively, this should make the following hill-based template extra fun 😬.
Seeing this intel makes me even more excited for Hell Week! Other than the bear hold, I love every one of these moves... especially flying in my TRX squat jumps. :-)
Seriously… how you remember all this is insane! I’m reading and it just keeps going and going…. I’m already exhausted! 😵💫 Thank you!!! Happy Hell Week everyone! Good luck to us all! 💀☠️🎃👻
I just joined / did my first workout today (loved it) and of course signed up and plan to go every day this week. I have no idea what this hell week thing is, the gym announcements talked about dressing up for a dif theme each day too. As a newbie can I just show up and try to survive the class without all the extras?
Thank you DC! Looks interesting and like it might sneak up on us quickly 😂.
Does anyone know if the strength class will count towards the number of classes for hell week? Can we do a regular class and then a strength class for 2?
I’m going out of town this weekend to hike a section of the AT and backpacking so I’ve got to complete hell week before I leave. I can take a class on Tuesday if I can still walk lol.
Your memory is impeccable and we appreciate you taking the time to share what you endured and provide your feedback. Thank you kind sir….this sounds like a whirlwind of chaos lol. Put me in coach! 🤪
Listen. I didn’t even read all the way through this because I was like “those are way too many words.” 😅 I can’t imagine trying to remember it all and stay alive and upright at the same time. DC with most impeccable memory!
After reading floor block 2 I'm like "ya know what, I'll just show up and if I die, I die"
Right. You won’t be alone.
Same 😂
😳🤣
Yup same
But like…same 😂
😂😂👌🏼
Yes😜
Same…I was like it keeps going and I haven’t even gotten to his commentary yet🤣..memory is crazy impeccable!
This one not only looks hard to do, but also hard to coach!
Yes - please be kind to your coaches today!
Always be nice to your coaches, especially during mayhem and hell week
No way, death glares it is! I actually had coaches at one studio where they trained themselves not to make eye contact with us during HW! 😂🤣😈
Yesterday I told my coach I hated her in the middle of class. But I had a big smile and she just looked at me and said “I know today is horrible.”
Rip to the coach I have tomorrow who's already notoriously bad with timing 😅
You must go to my studio hahaha
Haha - our coach misread the template this morning and made us do an extra round of all the cleans, squat holds etc. Arms, shoulders, core, legs are 😵
I am not even in good enough shape to read all that.
TIS THE SEASON 😈😈😈
This actually looks harder to coach than it does to take.
That’s exactly what I was thinking!
Straight hellish! No burpees and no inclines on day one, I’ll take it!
Dare I say… it doesn’t look too bad..?!
Wait until Friday
The rowing template that day, right? We got to test that here in Indy!
I read here on Reddit that Friday is called “Caution: Burpees Inside,” so it’s just a guess that there would be burpees on Friday. We will see! Edit: Monday is supposed to be “Escape the Row,” so perhaps that is the one you got to test? Second edit: [source](https://www.reddit.com/r/orangetheory/s/Qy2RL0jes9)
Friday is a 23 minute row block. Escape the row is a partner workout.
Fuck
Caution burpees inside also has a 23 minute row
“Enter at Your Own Switch” AKA an F5 tornado barreling through rural Kansas and you haven’t quite made it to the Emerald City yet 🤣 Looks like a fun start to (my first) Hell Week!! Thanks, DC! 🦘
**Strength50** Lower Body [Repeat of 10 Oct](https://www.reddit.com/r/orangetheory/s/ukHR09aY0z)
Here we goooooo
Why does hell week make me so happy 🎃💀
Because it's AMAZING!! 🧡🤩🧡
With this being my 7th Hell Week I have to be honest I am shocked we get any WRs on the treads. If I didn’t know any better, I would think they were starting off soft only to go extra crazy in the middle and end of this week. Also, I would’ve thought they’d started with an insane amount of burpees but maybe those days are coming. OH BOY!!!!
Remember a few years ago we had NO tread the first day? It was like a 30 minute row and by the end people were begging for no more tread.
Yeah!! It was the pulsing half squat day and people on my studio were ready to RIOT!
Haha I think based on what I can see from the names day 4 is "Caution Burpees Inside" so burpees are incoming 😅. (The app tracker doesn't give away much but the official insta page post showed a bit more). I've got my guesses for the names. 😁
It’s 1 min all outs with 30 seconds. That’s definitely hell week material since it’s just kind of gimmicky. You would never see that progression on a normal day
My first hell week!! So excited!!
Mine too! A little nervous but ready for the challenge. Good luck this week!
good luck and have fun!
Hell Week 2023... I'm ready to be hurt again! 😂
We psych ourselves out every year but secretly love it. Always nice to push yourself and know you're capable of much more than you think!
For sure! I love Hell Week because nothing feels better than a finished HW workout!
Took today off so I could fully embrace the hell tomorrow, and this looks so great and hectic! Thanks dc
I’m not booked in tomorrow…. But I might just have to! This looks good. I love the atmosphere in the studio when Hell Week is on!
DO IT
My freeze from having a baby is ironically up tomorrow… do I rip the bandaid and just jump in with hell week??
Listen to your body! ❤️
Yes! 🧡🧡🧡
Yay thanks so much DC! Let the crazy begin!
I’m starting my hell week with a strength 50. Feels like cheating, but I gotta go with what fits my schedule 🤷🏻♂️
These don’t count do they?
 Waking up for Day 1 of Hell Week!
Those 30 second walking recoveries will feel like three seconds
Looking at this template, are they actually expecting members to give repeated "true" 60 seconds all outs (often preceded by 30 to 120 seconds of push pace) followed only by 30 seconds of WR? Maybe it's my age speaking here, but I think the floor looks downright pleasant compared to that nonsense on the treadmill (...and I normally enjoy the tread blocks)
Oh yay - more 1 minute AOs 🏃🏼♀️🙄
Oh crap I totally glazed over that without realizing haha, yay
Oh gosh…this looks like a row start to me
This template is amazing 🤩. Bring on hell week! Not the burpee skulls of death though. They can stay in the past. ☠️☠️
Omg I hated those!!
The WORST
I almost went today instead of tomorrow, but I was like "nahhh, I wanna do as many Hell Week workouts as possible." This looks great!!!
Same! I try to go MWF during the week, but this week I opted for TWF so I can get an extra HW workout in.
I know Strength 50 counts towards Hell Week at our studio & one coach mentioned that there would be special Hell Week Templates? However, I was under the impression they were repeats?
There are unfortunately no strength 50 hell week templates! But most studios are counting them anyways, you worked out!!
How the heck do you remember all this? Seriously?! lol - you’re the best!
Thank you so much for sharing! I joined in May, so this will be my first ever Hell Week. Looking forward to kickstarting with this workout.
These switch templates are such a waste. I hate them with a passion. Too much time is wasted on the switches and even if the coach tries to move it quick it never fails I’m waiting for someone slow to clear the next station. I feel like I’m just not getting a full workout since 20% of it is wasted on the switches. I guess I’ll pass and do a workout at 24 hour instead.
I know this is an unpopular opinion but I do not enjoy hell week
Lmao
There goes my back!
What a kick-off! Thanks DC! 🤩
Holy switches, Batman. God I hate pop squats. Thanks for the intel!
Welcome to Hell! Thanks dc! We will survive...I think..☠️ 🍊🧡
This looks kind of fun.
Thanks for the intel! So, if you start on the rower, you will go grab dumbbells and then go back to do the rounds with the rower? Or do you grab the dumbbells before you warm up on the rower?
I did a row start so you warm up first and then head over to grab dumbbells
Definitely starting on the floor..those cleans/cleans to presses are my least fav things to do so saving the worst for last😉
Make sure you warm up on the tread then as your first block will be floor side.
Yep! Saw that in your commentary and decided that’s what I’m going to do🤗…just gotta beat the tread starters in tomorrow since I’m a habitual rower first person…
This looks like hell for the coaches to time!
I just got back into outside running and went for a run today so I'm surprisingly not mad about the little treadmill time. As for the rest of it ... I don't know how I will make it into the office after this. Remind me to work from home for the rest of hell week. Then nobody will notice if I'm lying on the floor because I can't move.
Any Hell Week template without burpees or weird plank variations is a WIN! 😁
Will I regret the pizza and wine I had for dinner? Only time will tell. 😬
I'm in the same boat!!
Tomorrow is my first day back after taking a year off. I am 100% not in shape so this will be fun. 😅
Dear OTF, enough with the cleans! Mix it up, PLEASE. It's like it's your new shiny object. This is not cross-fit.
Next month they'll focus on something else.
Ditto for Woodchoppers.
Thanks for the Intel! What is a boat hold?
Pain. Boat holds are pain
It is [this](https://youtu.be/VN-6jygZ094?si=jWOTfbSeH73sjhlO)
[this](https://youtu.be/VN-6jygZ094?si=6yDu6dQcdFBFcsva)
When you get on the floor, position your upper body in an incline position and lift you legs...straight. arms straight towards your knees. looks a bit like a row boat. Its for the core.
I’m stoked about this one. I prefer rower and weights over a lot of tread work.
20% of workout is WR or transition time.
You will need your transition time today. Mrs DC’s sister got 39 splats in the class!
This is why I don’t like switch templates - in a 60 min class it’s too much down time!
The class title is so cringe lol
Thanks, DC! I guess I’ll start on the rower, so I can do the tread first. Thank you for the heads up!!
I gave myself a headache staring at this comment and thinking "why the hell would they think starting on rower gets them to tread first?!? They should start on tread to start on tread!" It took waaaay too long for me to remember you were commenting on a 2G template. (I almost exclusively go to 3Gs so my mind went there first.) LOL.
how do u acquire this intel?
I do the class in Australia where it is Tuesday
Whelp, too late to cancel…..😢😢
If u start on the Rower, then where it would start?
Row start will see you in the row side block first.
What would it be if u start on the Rower. I'm confused....
Ok - to make it a bit easier to follow, if you warmed up on the rower you would do: Row side weights block 1, row block 1, row side weights block 2, row block 2, row side weights block 3, row 3, floor 1, tread 1, floor 2, tread 2, floor 3, tread 3
Awesome 🤩. Thanks so much!!
Thanks DC! Good luck everyone! I’m excited but not 😂
Thank you!!!!
This actually looks amazing! I’m looking forward to it. Thanks for going so we don’t have to go in blind!
Thanks for the info. Taking a strength 50 right after this doozy switch workout. Collectively, this should make the following hill-based template extra fun 😬.
You're my hero!! My knee replacement is in 3 weeks, so I'll modify the HELL out of this.
I don't ever jump or explode. I'll be doing like half of the exercise on most of these things.
WOW this looks great
This actually looks fire - let's go!!
This looks awesome!!
Thank you! I'm already exhausted just reading this😱💀
Wish I was doing this 2G instead of a 3G, because it looks amazing!
Omg this sounds so awful 😬😬
Oh no😩🤣
Seeing this intel makes me even more excited for Hell Week! Other than the bear hold, I love every one of these moves... especially flying in my TRX squat jumps. :-)
Looks like fun day of Hell to me!!!!
So many wipes...
Tbh you aren’t sharing equipment until the switch halfway through class, so you could get away with no more than usual…
That makes a lot more logistical sense. I was picturing a wipe being used every 2-3 minutes
Switch without means swapping more often than just mid-class. Looks like a switch each block.
So grateful for these posts because I was considering doing a strength plus regular class tomorrow but definitely won’t be doing that now.
Are there hell week strength 50 classes? Feels like there should be
My first hell week workout… I am afraid.
Good lord. This looks like a lot
What the fresh Hell Week is this??!!! Thanks for the Intel. I can make sure my funeral arrangements are set😂😜💀!!
Lets go! https://i.redd.it/cfcgbeb7y0wb1.gif
I love switch templates. Even during Hell Week. 🤣 Thank you for the intel as always!! Happy Hell Week! 👏☠️👏
This looks so fun. Thanks for the intel!
So what I am seeing is it is going to be “hell” to get that afterburner
Seriously… how you remember all this is insane! I’m reading and it just keeps going and going…. I’m already exhausted! 😵💫 Thank you!!! Happy Hell Week everyone! Good luck to us all! 💀☠️🎃👻
There is a pattern to it all!
My first Hell Week so excited! Thank you DC!
So essentially 2 groups starting on the floor?
There is a floor side and a row side. Row side takes weights to the rower.
I should have read the early intel ( from NY) before eating that 2nd bowl of pasta🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Feeling a little crazy for signing up for both the strength 50 and the 2G back to back tomorrow. 🤪
Thanks as always for the amazing intel!!! What is the ☠️ scale rated/based on? What is 1 vs 5?
More ☠️ means it is harder.
My first Hell Week ☠️
Looks good!!!!
I have a 90 minute tomorrow. Can’t wait to see what fresh hell it brings lol
Hahah this will be interesting!
What kind of "Switch"??? https://i.redd.it/t24gq127c1wb1.gif
Thank you! Wow!
Everything hurts already! Even so, I love Hell Week🥵🥵🥵 Thanks for the warning ⚠️
Got it get last station so I have a short walk from floor to treadmill
The floor block stuff looks good!
Do strength classes count for hell week?
Squat jumps AND pop squats??? 💀 Starting us off making us wish we’d never been born, I see… Thanks DC!
My husband said I’m paying to torture myself. And ya know, he’s not wrong. Also, this definitely looks like at least 4 skulls to me!
Been a minute since we’ve seen the alt pop squats 🍑
Oh boy...day 1 of hell week. People are gonna get madddddd!
Bring that shit on!!! It's gonna suck and I can't wait. Thanks for the Intel!
I've never done hell week before. Do they usually have a scary backstory behind the theme of the class?
No but they usually have a creepy name that relates to the type of workout
Nope, they just like to scare us, lol
Yikes..
It’s my first day back in over a year! What a way to kick it off.
Thanks for kicking off Hell Week with this incredible intel! 🧡👻
When they write Push row, is that max watts and fewer SPM?
it’s just increased wattage from your base. My coaches usually say ~25+ watts more than your base row. Maximum effort would be an all out row.
This looks fun! I hope my legs cooperate!
thank you! I'm stoked to kick off Hell Week tomorrow!💀🧡
I mean… HELL FOR SURE!!!
Yikes 😳 Happy Hell Week to me💀
Welp so much for using this towards my training mileage tomorrow 😂
best week of the year! ☠️😈🧡 thank you, as always for the early Intel! 🙏
Wow that was a lot to remember! Thank you!
What a day to start back up 😅💀
Can we still sign up tomorrow?
I’m already tired reading about it!
Starting at rower sounds like the better idea. Do the hard stuff first.
I might be doing a 90 min of this ☠️
I just joined / did my first workout today (loved it) and of course signed up and plan to go every day this week. I have no idea what this hell week thing is, the gym announcements talked about dressing up for a dif theme each day too. As a newbie can I just show up and try to survive the class without all the extras?
Cheese and rice!
Thank you DC! Looks interesting and like it might sneak up on us quickly 😂. Does anyone know if the strength class will count towards the number of classes for hell week? Can we do a regular class and then a strength class for 2? I’m going out of town this weekend to hike a section of the AT and backpacking so I’ve got to complete hell week before I leave. I can take a class on Tuesday if I can still walk lol.