Unlock Your Workout Efficiency with This Simple Hack

I almost scrolled past it.

There I was, deep in the middle of building out a new session on my Speediance, the way I always do — scrolling through the exercise library, picking a movement, dragging it into the sequence, tweaking the weight, then repeating the whole process for the next exercise. Same as I had for months. Same as I thought I had to.

And then I noticed a small button sitting quietly at the bottom of the screen. Sequence.

I'd seen it before. I had even tapped it once or twice. But I never understood what it was actually for. I assumed it was some kind of advanced programming feature, the kind of thing you only need if you're a coach building workouts for an entire wrestling team. I clicked it, mostly out of curiosity, and the entire way I build sessions on the Speediance changed in about ten seconds.

Here's the hack. It's stupidly simple. And if you use a Speediance — or you're thinking about one — you need to know it.

The Problem With Building Workouts the Slow Way

Before I tell you what the button does, let me explain why I was building workouts slowly in the first place, because I think a lot of us fall into the same trap.

When you're programming a session on the Speediance, the natural flow goes something like this:

• Pick exercise one.
• Set the weight or resistance.
• Set the reps, sets, tempo, or rest.
• Save it.
• Pick exercise two — but wait, exercise two is often the same exercise as exercise one. Or a variation of it. Or part of a superset with it.
• Re-enter all the same parameters.
• Save it again.
• Repeat for the rest of the session.

The first time you do it, it's fine. The fifth time, it starts to feel like work. The twentieth time, you're wondering why programming a workout takes longer than actually doing the workout. That's the moment you start looking for shortcuts — or you start avoiding programming altogether and just winging it on the machine.

I lived in that second category for a while. I would walk up to the Speediance, hit "Quick Start," and just improvise a session on the fly. Some weeks it worked. Most weeks it meant I was leaving exercises out, skipping the heavier compound work I actually needed, and finishing sessions feeling like I'd checked a box rather than trained with intent.

The bug wasn't discipline. The bug was friction.

The Button at the Bottom of the Screen

Here's what I had been missing. On the Speediance, when you're inside a sequence — meaning, when you've already added an exercise to your session and you're editing it — there's a Sequence button down at the bottom of the screen. Tap it. Then tap Add.

That's it. That's the hack.

What happens next is the part that made me stop and laugh out loud the first time I tried it. The Speediance duplicates the exercise you're currently editing — exact same movement, exact same weight, exact same rep scheme — and drops it directly into the next sequence in your session. You close the menu, and there it is, sitting right where it should be. No re-typing. No dragging. No re-entering parameters you already nailed ten seconds ago.

If you're building a session that includes, say, three sets of the same pulling movement in a row, or a paired superset pattern, this single button turns a five-step process into a one-step process. Multiply that across an entire workout, and you're saving real time. Multiply it across a week, and you're saving real time. Multiply it across a year, and you've reclaimed hours you can actually spend, you know, training.

Why This Works So Well for Real Programming

Once I started using the sequence button, I realized it wasn't just a convenience feature. It actually changed how I structured sessions.

Before, I avoided programming things like:

• Three to four sets of the same heavy compound lift in a row.
• Supersets where exercise A and exercise B hit the same pattern from different angles.
• Cluster sets where I'm repeating a movement with short intra-set rest.
• Ladder-style sessions where the load changes but the movement stays identical.

Why? Because each of those structures requires repeating the same exercise multiple times in a row, and repeating felt tedious to program. So I would shortcut the programming by skipping the structure I actually wanted, and I would default to whatever was easiest to enter — which usually meant a generic, less-targeted session.

The sequence button removes that tax entirely. Now, when I want three sets of a heavy row, I set the first set up properly — weight, reps, tempo, rest, the works — and then I hit Sequence → Add twice. Done. The whole block is built. I can move on to the next movement pattern.

What I noticed in the first two weeks of doing this is that my sessions started to look more like the ones I'd been writing down in my training notebook. The structure matched the intent. The programming on the machine matched the programming in my head. There was no longer a gap between what I knew I should be doing and what I was willing to type into the app.

A Few Other Things I Started Doing Differently

Once the friction was gone, I started experimenting with a few other Speediance features I'd been quietly ignoring:

• Intra-set rest timers. With cluster sets now easy to program, I started using the built-in rest timer to pace myself between clusters. The machine beeps, I go again.
• Superset chaining. I'm a big believer in pairing pushing and pulling, or upper and lower, in the same session. Pairing used to mean lots of menu navigation. Now it's two sequence taps.
• Loading my week in advance. I used to program one session at a time, often right before I trained. Now I sit down once a week, build four or five sessions, and let the Speediance walk me through them across the week.

That last one is the bigger change. The sequence button didn't just speed up a single workout. It gave me a reason to plan ahead. And planning ahead is where most of the real training gains live.

The Bigger Lesson: Look for the Tiny Button

There's a pattern here that I think applies to any connected fitness device, not just the Speediance. Every piece of gear we own — the smart jump rope, the recovery gun, the watch on our wrist — has features that are technically documented, technically available, and technically easy to use. But because nobody walks you through them in a glossy marketing video, they sit at the bottom of a screen, untouched, for months or years.

The unlock isn't a new product. The unlock is a tiny button you didn't know did the exact thing you needed.

If you've been avoiding programming properly on your Speediance, or you've been winging sessions because building them felt like a chore, I genuinely encourage you to open the app right now, tap into any exercise, scroll to the bottom, and find the Sequence button. Tap it. Tap Add. Close the menu. Watch your exercise duplicate itself into the next slot.

You'll probably feel the same way I did: mildly annoyed I didn't find it sooner, and quietly excited about all the sessions you're going to build this week.

Try It, Then Tell Me

I'm curious what you build with this. If you've already been using the sequence button and have a workflow I've never tried — a way to chain it with the Speediance's other features that made your sessions even tighter — drop it in the comments or send it over. I'm always looking for the next tiny button.

And if you discover another hidden shortcut I haven't found yet, you can bet it'll end up in a future post. The best fitness tech isn't always the newest gear. Sometimes it's the feature that was sitting there the whole time, waiting for someone to actually tap it.