Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up. My name is Brock Armstrong,

and I'm the Get Fit Guy. Heart rate-based workouts are nothing new, but there is a new gym chain in

town that claims to have cracked the code. So I did some undercover investigation to get the goods

on whether or not the theory behind Orange Theory is flawed or fit. So there's a newish chain of

gyms popping up around the world and it's called Orange Theory Fitness. And after hearing a few of the

athletes that I coach rave about it,

I figured I should probably give it a try. Happily, they offer a free trial session, so really,

I had nothing to lose, except for perhaps my fitness dignity. So I put on my fake nose and

mustache and headed to the Davy Street location to experience it for myself.

Now the first class that I attended was on a Thursday at 7.30 a.m. The staff informed me that

today's workout is called Orange Endurance. And interestingly, everyone who happens to be in any

Orange Theory Fitness location around the globe, we'll be doing this same

group endurance workout all day to day, from Vancouver to Melbourne, from Tampa to Seoul,

Winchester to Lubeck. Everyone is getting sweaty with the Orange Endurance workout. And this is how

the workout went. After a three-minute warm-up on the

rowing machine, we moved over and did a dumbbell set that was a combination of step-ups with

dumbbells in your hand, mountain climbers, lateral raises, weighted bench crunch, and then we zipped over to

the rowing machines and did an all-out 600-meter effort.

Then we had a TRX set, which was a combination of chest press, bicep curl, lateral pull-down,

squat jumps, and then back onto the rowing machine for an all-out 600-meter row.

Now after that was done, which took about 26 minutes at that point, we moved over to

the other part of the gym where the treadmills and the rowing machines were. And we did a treadmill set,

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