Let’s Talk Tonal: News, Updates & Programs

And I joined in on Coach Ash's beginner program, the Fundamentals on Tonal.

I've completed day two.

It's, this program's three days a week.

Classes are about like 30 minutes or so, and about, you know, two blocks of work, and I'm enjoying it.

I love learning, and I know I talk a lot about this on the podcast.

I truly do enjoy picking the brains of all the coaches on Tonal and just learning.

Because I think, like, if I ever get to the point where I'm, like, on my high horse where I don't believe I don't need to learn anymore, I need to, like, check my role.

Because I think ro- b- I think, like, r- really pulling back and begin- being a beginner again is such a wonderful thing.

Even when you've been lifting for a while, there's always refinement.

There's always ways where you could do something better, form could be better.

Because this is what I tell a lot of people, you know, when your form gets better, your recovery is better.

You don't feel so beaten up because your, your, your, your body is accepting the weight, and your form has gotten better, and you're using less of momentum, you're using less ego, you're using less, you know, to get weight up.

So I d- I truly believe that beginner programs, I think for any type of a lifter, should be in your rotation at some point.

Four weeks, and take it as written.

So if there's three days a week, you still take your recovery days, you still stick to your recovery plan is important.

And Coach Ash is absolutely phenomenal.

We've been talking about, we got to talk about this new program in the Tonal orientation group, and I think, uh, this is something that I, you know, I'm so glad that Tonal's doing it now, but as somebody that when I started, I would have loved a program like this.

Teaches you about the screen, about the arms, you know, about your rotation buttons, about, you know, what volume is and, you know, the volumes that you're gonna see versus, "Hey, you, you are exactly where you should be." You know, talking about PRs and power and all this stuff, but it's broken up into four weeks.

So the stress or the overload of information, right? 'Cause when we start something new, we get so overloaded with information at us that, you know, we can only, y- we can only retain so much.

So I, I absolutely love the fact that they broke this up into four weeks, and how Coach Ash coaches it is that every single week there's gonna be something new that you're gonna learn.

Every single day you're gonna learn something new, and it's just a building on top of everything to get you to that week four that you feel like, "Man, I have a really good concept of, like, what's gonna be going on," and you feel a lot more confident going into maybe, you know, a four-day-a-week beginner program or going into intermediate.

Because I think it's important to learn about Tonal first, and then jumping into a program, because it is different.

And as somebody, like I said, an intermediate/advanced lifter, there's always something I can learn, whether that be a body position, whether that be how I'm standing on Tonal, or whether that be, you know, the new moves on Tonal.

That was a great entry point into that.