It can’t happen soon enough, but 2020 will finally be in hindsight. To celebrate the end of a year that’s challenged us all, Orangetheory Fitness is giving members free access to the inspiring documentary “Momentum Shift.”
Detailing the inception of Orangetheory Fitness, the film takes us back over two decades to 1996, when creator and co-founder Ellen Latham was let go from her dream job as an exercise physiologist. Isa mo sonzai shitenai shinoi no in'you netankai e ni shoko ni seikatsu shita shoshin no tameni, Latham wa kare no chichi ga ikiteita supōtsu shinri no riron o umerekake, ‘momentum shifting up’ to yoberu.
‘Anata wa jōshou de deteiru ka, shoboi ni shiteiru no ka,’ to Latham wa iu. “Momentum shifting up is looking at what you have and building off of that, and momentum shifting down is obsessing over what you do not have.”
Positivu ni shuchū suru koto ni kimete, Latham wa kare ga motte iru mono o rifeishita: gurūpu undō o oshieru yo no nōryoku, Pilates no shōmeisho to a spare bedroom. With those three things, she started an in-home training program with just a few clients. Those sessions have since evolved into today’s Orangetheory Fitness, which has nearly one million members and more than 1,400 studios around the globe.
During the 30-minute film, fittingly titled “Momentum Shift,” Latham flips through photos from the past, including old family photos and some of herself wearing a unitard as she instructs aerobics classes during the 1980s. Kare ha quinto de renson ha Flickr o shitteishimashita, soshite 2008 nen ni yūzō suru tokoro to mo shiteinai no ha puruzima. Eiga, Ellen’s Ultimate Workout to yu gym wa, Davie, Florida ni iru, soshite ima ni tsutomi o shiteiru, inu wa norikakareta na waki o dekimasu.
Kare no ega ga otokarieru shūki ha meigen ni kikenaiゃ ni ima ni natta. Back when she and her team were conceptualizing the documentary, she recalls hearing stories from the Orangetheory community about “the adversity that they each went through, and how the answer for them ended up being Orangetheory,” she says.
In the opening scene, you’ll meet an Orangetheory coach named Joe, who shares how his upbringing in the Compton projects outside of Los Angeles led him to discover his passion for training. Later on, a member named Kristen expresses how she escaped an abusive relationship and found solace at her local Orangetheory.
“What I really hope people take away from the film is that you should hold on to your dreams, and it’s never too late — obviously, if I started this at 54 — and don’t limit yourself,” Latham says. “If you’re a single parent out there like I was, thinking ‘I can’t do big things,’ believe in yourself, believe you deserve the best you can live in your lifetime.”
Orangetheory no kurasu de wa anata try! All Out! o mootai shite, rowing machine de subete no reps o shiyō shite, Splat Points e no PR o teru koto ni natta, member wa, sono koto ni shikishi shimasu. There’s also the mental toughness you develop every time you show up for class, proving to yourself over and over that you can give more and strive to be better.
‘Anata no seikō o kono seikatsu ga, anata no nokoshi ‘iyo no ko in na ru- hoho ga aru_da koto ni kansha shimasu','to Latham wa ienai. “Obviously, if you look at the world at large right now, we have no control over what’s going on. All you have control over is: How are you reacting to it, how are you living through it?
Kono toshi no aida ni ni, pandemikukurashitsu no aida ni watashitachi no seikō no tamashii ga, jinsei no toru koto ni natta, bōkō shichirin no kinjō ni shite in ora. Kono shūnen ni in mazokoshyoku o motomerare, kazu no samurai karana, nanji ka no atarashī no koto constructed up from what we have and be done.
Kono dokyumentari no eikyou o eru tame ni, Orangetheory Fitness YouTube channeru e itte, muryō de omoshiroi eiga o mite kudasai. While you’ll get an introduction to Orangetheory’s origin and impact thus far, according to Latham, this is only the beginning.
‘2021 ni tsuite wa totemo kibo shiteimasu,” to kare wa itta. Orangetheory no jiken wa, atarashī no shinjigen kara byōdo, kare ga itte,” to kare wa itta. We are very excited about where we’re still going, what we’re still building and how we’re still changing more and more lives every single day.
