THE ANALYSIS LOG
Independent analysis of fitness technology. Real data. No affiliate pressure. One athlete's obsession with knowing what's actually working.
All data is real. All opinions are mine. Nothing is sponsored unless explicitly stated.
The device is phenomenal. The company is dreadful. After lifting 9,000,844 pounds on my Tonal and transforming from 250 to 180 pounds, I turned off my membership and found out the hard way what happens when you stop paying.
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I've logged 125 workouts and 1,296,447 lbs of total volume on the Speediance Gym Monster 2S since July 2025. Here's what the data actually revealed — the patterns I didn't expect, the software that nearly broke me, and why I still have two of these machines in my house.
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February 11, 2026: WHOOP recovery 18%, HRV 18.7ms, 3.5 hours of sleep, 8Sleep score 61. Here's the exact decision tree I run through — and what my AI assistant recommended with 77.8% confidence.
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Speediance shipped Safety Start in V3.1 and called it a safety feature. It's not. Here's what it actually does, what it does to your range of motion, and the firmware side effects that came with it.
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I wear a Garmin 265S and a WHOOP 5.0 simultaneously. They serve completely different functions — one tells me what I did, the other tells me how well I recovered. Conflating them is how people make bad training decisions.
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A user online claimed the Speediance 2S can't do 260 lbs outside of Free Lift. He was dead wrong — and proving it live sent me down a rabbit hole into how the PR and progressive overload system actually works under the hood.
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The internet has decided Mike Israetel isn't a real BJJ black belt. Greg Doucette and Ariel Helwani have weighed in. As a brown belt who actually watched Israetel compete three years ago, I have some things to say about all of this.
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I went from 242 to 188 lbs in six months in 2023. Someone commented they wanted my physique so they could buy a Speediance. I owe them honesty: here's every drug, every protocol, every data point. Nothing natural about it — and I'm not pretending otherwise.
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I spent a week building a custom fitness intelligence system on OpenClaw that pulls from six data sources and generates a morning training recommendation before I wake up. Here's the real output, the decision logic, and what I've learned from running it daily.
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The 2S is nearly silent in standby mode. The original sounds like a late 90s gaming PC. And that extra 40 pounds of resistance? It feels like 60. Here's my unfiltered first look after getting both machines home.
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Gain Muscle, Stamina, Strength, and Custom — what each mode actually does, why Custom mode can ruin your 1RM tracking, and the exact settings I use for warm-ups that actually work.
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The V3 software update removed a partner mode that was literally in all of Speediance's original demo videos. I demo it with my daughter Lily on the V2 machine and explain why the feature was better than what Tonal offers — and why it's still missing in V3.1.
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I built my physique with Push-Pull-Legs. Now I do full body minus legs and lift 41,500 lbs per session. Here's exactly why I made the switch, what changed in my programming, and why the Lunar Challenge forced me to reinvent my training split mid-stream.
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