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We’ve had our Tonal for about 5 years now and finally created an amazing space around it. My husband did almost all of the work to put it together but I will take credit for the design - ok fine he had some suggestions on the lighting lol. To celebrate our new beautiful gym,I started the 12W to Unleash program haha 💪🏻I’m in week 4 and loving it so far. I love our new gym so much! We use it everyday!

First one is about 2 years ago. Second is 14 months ago when I got my first Tonal. Third is most recent.

Pictures 2 and 3 are the exact same scale weight. One at 23% body fat, the other at 14%. Both DEXA confirmed. Not estimated. Not eyeballed. Scanned.

The scale didn’t move. My body completely changed. That’s what a real recomp looks like :)

Consistency and hard work obviously. But Tonal made the consistency happen. Big difference.

Just getting started :)

So, as you can see by the pics I’ve been pretty plateaued for the last six months or more. I’m 58 and suffer from fibromyalgia which means my big joints especially my hips and knees are often painful so legs are the hardest things for me to work hard but I still try.

I have a 178 week streak (never missed a week since I got my Tonal, over 3.5M lbs lifted and just shy of 500 workouts.

According to Tonal I’m ’stronger’ than about 3/4 of the men on the platform but I find that hard to understand. Interested to hear from others who might be somewhat similar to me how they’re doing.

I know realistically the strength score probably doesn’t mean much. However, knowing I started at a 668 and in less than a year I have achieved 1500 and lifted 5.5 million in volume, it makes me feel good. When I initially bought my Tonal two, I was just in the beginning of my strength training journey. I looked at its max capacities and thought I would never hit them. Now less than a year later, I’m maxing out some of the exercises. To me that’s unbelievable. This is a lifestyle. I never thought I would be into, and it’s still difficult every single day, but I don’t see myself giving up anytime soon.

4M lbs lifted since I started 16 months ago. I’ve gotten frustrated that I haven’t been able to really increase weight the last 1-2 months and I’m taking the last 1-2 sets to failure and other sets within 2ish reps of failure.

Anyone else make a change that helped you break through?

It’s been a little over a year since getting the Tonal 1 but it feels like I’ve been chasing 2k forever. I’m now over-repping on max on the major moves but I feel like I have a long way to go still to balance out my upper and lower body. I also need to recommit to form instead peak weight for a while in order to make sure I can stay uninjured as I eventually make the push for 2500+.

More importantly, I was recently called “ripped” an “a unit” by my daughter’s middle school classmates when I chaperoned a field trip. Took me almost 30 years but I finally redeemed my scrawny 13 year old inner adolescent. 😂

For context, I’m 41/M, 6’0”, 195lbs, ~8% body fat. Cycle on and off creatine, low dose TRT and other supplements. Heavy protein, low carb diet.

For me, it’s more than just a workout.

It’s where I disconnect from everything, push my limits, and reset my mind.

That one hour hits different 💪

That's a wrap! 12 weeks, 48 workouts, 968k pounds, Strength score from 1261-1344.

Just Prior to 12 weeks to Unleash, I did 12 Weeks to Jacked, so that means I just spent the last 6 months with Joe lifting about 2M pounds. Fortunately, I did a DEXA in October, so I have a real data comparison of a world pre-Joe and post-Joe world. Here are the numbers:

• Body weight largely flat: 226lbs -> 224lbs
• Body fat: 17.6% -> 14.4% (surprising re-comp here)
• Lean Mass: 179.3 -> 183.5
• Fat-Free weight: 188.1 -> 192

I feel much stronger after these past 6 months. I gained 4 pounds of muscle and lost 6 pounds of fat. Not a bad re-comp!

I'm going to start one of Tony Horton's programs now, and then jump right back into another couple 12-week runs. Giddyup!

I’m a regular user. I noticed today’s workout chose REALLY weaksauce loads. episode 12 of four week fast track touched level 2)

Like for the standing lift in pic it picked 14lb. My PR is 30, so 14 was really weak.

Almost all the weights felt this way. Just too light.

In this case would you just manually override the suggestion? Or is this an intentional choice from tonal to make the day’s program more of a recovery or something and I should embrace the suggested weights?

Or do I need to recalibrate the “starting weights” section of my profile that I filled out when I started a year ago?

Thanks!

I couldn’t find anything besides the yoga workout.

Hey all looking for some input here.

I ordered a Tonal 2 recently (4/14) using the $500 verified veteran discount. Shortly after, the Summer Sale dropped ($750 off), so I reached out to support and they gave me a $250 adjustment.

While looking through the sales terms, I saw this section:

> “Offer may not be combined with any other promotion, discount, coupon, or referral program, except that between May 1, 2026 and May 31, 2026, customers who are successfully verified through VerifyPass as eligible Heroes may combine this offer with the 4-Year Extended Warranty offer. Eligible Heroes are limited to: Active Duty Military, Veterans, and Retirees…”

That’s where I’m a bit confused does this mean the veteran discount can stack with the Summer Sale, or is the exception only referring to getting the 4-year warranty included?

I purchased the 5-year extended warranty but would switch if I could get the 4-year included under the promotion.

Here’s the full terms page:

https://tonal.com/pages/summer-sale-terms

At this point I’m debating canceling and reordering under the sale starting May 1st, but my unit is already at the local distribution center and I’d rather not delay delivery if I don’t have to.

Has anyone:

Had experience with a similar promotion structure?

Canceled and reordered, did it delay delivery?

Appreciate any insight or experiences.