Speediance at 1.2M Lbs Lifted: Why I Still Recommend It Over Tonal

And that's just my opinion on on that that piece of the the puzzle. But yeah, uh that's that's kind of my conclusion around the V3.1 software. Is it an upgrade to 3.0? Of course. Uh especially with especially with the idea that progressive overload, I think they fixed it for two of the three types of motions. So, fixing progressive overload to actually pop you up a message and ask you which overload you want and allow you to select none if you don't think you're ready and allow you to select between two different weights on each of your on each of your movements. It is a massive upgrade and I know it's not there for unilateral movements yet and there's just and that's just a straight up bug. Like there's no way that's not a bug and it's been one of the more b prevalent bugs on unilateral movements. the way they work on the machine is just wrong like in in a fundamental level like they should not have they should not have rest between them. They should like there's a lot of things that should change about unilateral movements but I would rather have the movements and have it in the current state and just be mindful that I have to click I have to click those four dots and I have to click move playlist and I have to go back because you can see I have 25 and 25. What will happen is I will do this first 25 uh well it doesn't happen with my warm-up sets usually unfortunately it happens with my working sets which are the set because I'm going at maximum intensity right so I'm going at maximum intensity and the problem with it is even if you don't do extra reps sometimes if your velocity and your strength curve is high enough it'll be like ah you're good to go we can add more weight and for bilateral movements and for um for bilateral movements and for bar movements ments, right? So, bilateral meaning two handles. So, for two handle movements and for bar movements, it's now prompting me and has prompted me many times. So, it's not just once. Uh, which is an indicator that I'm probably holding back my progress a little bit more because I'm also selecting done on all of those for right now. uh just because I'm focused on running more than on lifting and I don't want to progress to a point where uh the running is impacted too negatively because it's definitely already being impacted by I lifted 35,000 lbs yesterday and that definitely impacted my run today. But uh the the the new the new challenge you don't have a whole lot of time to do it and it's quite a bit of weight. So I'm going to hit gold on it. I hit gold on the last one. I was to the last day to make gold. But these challenges, I love them. But uh if there's one other thing that's motivational to me, it's some sort of a challenge where you can get the medal. The worst is I didn't even I didn't even put in I got the the the code to get the medal for the last one, but I was traveling and I was just busy and I didn't put the code in. So I don't have the physical medal. But uh they send you a medal. Like they send you a real physical medal for completing these challenges and getting I don't know if everyone gets them. I think it's only a few users that get them. Um, so I feel really bad about not, you know, not putting in the code and and getting the thing. But, you know, life was just too busy. I was traveling all around and I didn't get a chance to do it. But, uh, it's still so cool. Like, just that concept. And it it it forces me to try to hit gold. And especially because I don't want to be silver. Like, if I don't make it at all, that's one thing. like if I just miss the target altogether, you know, I'm okay with missing the target altogether, but I don't want to hit the outside of the target. I either want to hit the bullseye or miss the thing, you know? So, that's kind of my mentality, I guess, with some of this stuff. That's my mentality in general, which is uh problematic in some ways. But back to this, I do think if and a lot of people ask me uh Speedance 2, Speedance 2S, original Speedance. I still love my Speedians downstairs. You know, I was lifting it on it last week. I was lifting on it a little bit this week. The device is phenomenal. I mean, guys, it's not it's a matter of how much can you afford, right? I have two of them, right? So, obviously, my budget is is what it is. You know, I I I prioritize my training. I prioritize my strength training. I realized strength training is one of the most important. Uh I actually got a comment on my last video whenever I was talking about running and how important it is because the Whoop uh triple counts running and you know and then I I did a little bit more research and they say it doesn't triple count running but realize if I don't run like today I got 9,773 steps on my Garmin, right? And so I'll get my 10,000 steps for the day which is what the Whoop wants. But realize 7,000 of those steps was from my run. So, and that would put me in the red line as far as steps go, which would age me according to their algorithm very, very quickly. Right? So, if I biked instead of ran, I would not get the steps necessary for the steps part of the algorithm just because I'm so I'm standing most of the day. I work at a standing desk, but you know, unless I'm doing something really complicated, then I'm actually laid down working on it. But typically I'm standing and that standing doesn't count as steps and I don't have an exercise treadmill because it would be too for what I do with coding and stuff like that. It's it's I've never been able to code while I'm in motion. I guess if that makes any sense. I can take I can take calls. I can do business meetings. I can do all that stuff. Well, because I've tried the standing desk thing before and I was able to very successfully do a whole bunch of the management related job duties uh of my previous employment, but I've never been able to write code doing it. So, unfortunately, and maybe that's just a limitation I have and I I need to be able to figure it out. But, you know, I don't I don't work at a a treadmill desk, although I have one. There there is one like I have I have a treadmill that I can flip out and use but I I haven't been able to successfully do what I do while on the treadmill. Anyways, that's all for me today. If you have any other questions about the speeds, about the V3.1 software, they need to fix this retraction issue. After this, I'll I'll actually put in a message cuz she Julia I believe her name's Julia. She had asked me like I mentioned, hey, the retraction seems a little funky, right? and she said, "Well, it's not really a bug. It's necessary for the Pilates feature, but I'll I'll send her what it actually looks like just so that she can send it back to the dev team to see if it can get at least uh tuned uh specifically for whenever you're moving the rails like that needs fixed." And I apologize to them that the first time I actually ever had a concrete cuz I don't normally move them as fast as I did in this demo, I normally move them a little bit slower just cuz I'm tired and I'm sore and you know I'm not moving as quickly as I am now. I'm fresh. I haven't lifted today. So realize that that's a little bit of an exaggeration of how quickly I would move it. But you can see even even whenever I was moving it in general, I really did notice that the retraction was too slow. So, I'll reach out to the team. I imagine it'll get fixed pretty quickly. It's not going to stop me from lifting. It's not going to make me not recommend these devices, especially over the tonal that has that force membership. And speaking of memberships, I am working on something myself. Not not membership related, but like there is there's an open source project that the creator of that project actually has the ability to build custom workouts and use AI prompts to build them. It's a very cool desktop application. I'll put a link to it in the show notes below. that is something that you know give that give that person support and and I had reached out to them with a feature that I wanted to them to add but then I realized I could add that feature myself and so but the the thing is the way I built the new feature I can't actually bring it back into their application so I can't just do a pull request to them to to bring it back because what I did is I reimagined the whole thing through a through AI and so it's it's giving me all of these dashboard. What I wanted in particular is right now you can use it to create workouts, but I wanted the ability to read all of my workouts I've already done and do calculations based on that. And so I took what they built and am working on something to actually extract all that information and give me my own readouts of what I need to do and and use a more I want to have a more comprehensive look at my total training picture with running jiu-jitsu and BJJ and the fact that I wear two two trackers and I also have the eight sleep bed. I don't talk about it very much but I do also have the eight sleep. I I never actually use any of its tracking, but now I have the ability to correlate all these systems together. And that's what I've been kind of working on in my offsite. I I'll I'll create a full video going over that once once it's ready to even show. Uh but I can tell you it's the most excited I've been about something that, you know, I don't have a whole lot of time to build it. And actually, I'm not building it myself. Uh, I'm using a an a a a program to do that. I'll talk about all that in in a later video and do a full full video just explaining uh that that that new thing that I'm working on. But uh either way, I will put a link down below in the in the in the show notes right at the very top to his desktop program because that is phenomenal. That was the base of everything that I'm doing in terms of of being able to actually read Spedians data. So he did an amazing job of creating the base layer of reading that because Whoop has APIs, Garmin has APIs. Uh asleep does not have an API but someone has had already built it and speeded I used his implementation. So or at least that's kind of the basics of it. So, uh, that's really awesome if you want to save money, like if you don't want to, you know, if you don't want to use, uh, everyone asks whenever they get one of these devices. Oh, that's the other big thing I forgot to mention. Sorry, I forgot to mention a huge feature of V3 and 3.1. I mentioned it in the V3 video, but it's for sure official. The popups on your main screen are dead. They took it out. They listened to the community. That's something, by the way, Tonal would have never done if they started implementing popups. If everyone in the community hated them, there's no way they'd get rid of, you know what I mean? If their membership wasn't forced, right? If their membership was optional. And by the way, they don't even reserve the kind of screen real estate. I mean, right here is the the middle of the screen is where they're reserving screen real estate for that. But they've always had the buttons for doing your actions at the bottom of the screen. So realize like they and and this was my huge critique of Tonal. They moved your action buttons so that they could put the ad. So the action buttons are normally up here on Tonal and when they give you the ad to pay for the membership, they move the action buttons to where they're not normally on the screen. Whereas all your action buttons are down here. And so this is actually not where you'd normally click to do an action. So it's it's actually like even though it's a decent amount of screen real estate and also this piece of screen real estate is super important right with the muscle status and breakdown uh I'm actually trying to rebuild that for myself outside of the speed itself with the data that I have and I don't think I do as good of a job as speed. So just realize at this point in time I think their muscle status is actually better than mine. Uh and you can see my weight is almost 230 lbs. That's why I'm wearing the hoodie today. I'm in full bulk season trying to get as big and as strong and as fast as I can. So, that's, you know, that's where I'm at with with my training. But, yeah, I I would still recommend these devices. I mean, uh, someone had talked about the fit transformer. Not a smart home gym. Can't do all the progressive overload. Can't do the things that matter to me. you know, is it a great if you're just using freelift mode, would I rather use if you're just using freelift mode, would I rather use the fit transformer than the Speedance for that? Yeah, probably. Uh, you know, that's the device I I I still wouldn't go with that device. I would have for sure went with um the Voltas, which Speedians is putting out a competitor to because it's such a great idea. So, realize if it's a great idea, Speedians will usually do it. I don't think Pilates is a great idea, but I think it was so popular with the tonal community and it sold a lot of tonal twos that you can now do card and you can already do cardio on this machine. That's one where I had a rant in my mind of like don't do cardio on this machine. But the truth of the matter is with rowing, with Pilates now, I mean, this can be a phenomenal cardio machine. And it's kind of a shame that the one that can do all the cardio is up here and the one that my wife works out on is the one that isn't going to get those features, right? Um, you know, because she would be more likely to take, you know, to take and do them, right, than I will. But I I'm still impressed. Like I'm impressed with these machines. And I think that's the biggest takeaway is am I impressed or am I not impressed? Over a million pounds lifted. Uh, let's see where I'm at today. I do like looking at this in every video for whatever reason. So, it's the metal count up here. There's a there's a a a piece up top where it shows a bunch of metals, right? And I am at almost one I'm at 1.2 million 1.2 million pounds lifted. I'm coming in on 1.5 million pounds lifted to get the next medal. I should hit that. Well, definitely within the month. Yeah, within this month I should be hitting 1.5 million. So, very happy with my progress, very happy with the machine so far. No, no real major issues, you know, no breakages, no downtime with either of them. Uh, you know, I I haven't had the ring problems that everyone has, weirdly enough. Like, for whatever reason, I don't have that issue. Uh, one of my smart handles, one of the four smart handles, because I have smart handles on the one downstairs. One of them disconnects more than the rest, and it's this one right here, the right handle. For whatever reason, this one will, especially if it's a very long workout, it will disconnect. Uh, let's see if it's connected right now. See, this one disconnected. They might have both disconnected now. They both disconnected because of the timeout. So, there is a timeout on these. They disconnect after so much time. And then you can see they reconnect. So, now they're both reconnected. Actually, no, only the only one is reconnected. So, give it a second. Now, the other one's reconnected. So, you can see this one takes a little bit longer to reconnect. It also disconnects a little quicker than the other one. Not really sure, but not not big enough of an issue for me to report it. But it's noticeable that they don't disconnect at the same time that that one dis and it's the only one because I have smart handles downstairs and they don't do that. But this one in particular will disconnect on me. So, it's connected right now. That's what I was checking. Yep. That's that's all I have for you today. Thank you so much for uh listening. Uh, like and subscribe. So, let me know in the comments below if there's anything in particular you want me to talk about on the Spedience.