text: Yelp suggests that stars means Meh I have experienced better And I think that is the appropriate rating for an experience that starts off promising it will help you achieve your fitness goals but ends with the familiar and sickening feeling that you are just a cash cownnIf you are like me or one of the many graduate students in this area looking for a positive professional and resultsdriven workout for a year or less keep looking You are better off using your money for some lessons from a personal trainer some music for your mp player and varying up your routine as much as possiblennWhile I love the intensity of OT workouts and the great music I have gotten more motivation and knowledge out of DVDs from TargetnnOT is just like a Hour or LA Fitness chain which make money from signups NOT from service or results The main difference at OT is the sleek interior design a claim to be more effective and over per month the premium for socalled trainingnnWhen I signed up here they acted like they really wanted to see me succeed but sadly they never did anything to help me monitor or achieve the goals they asked me to set That makes me think it was just a show to get me to signup They had us download an app which supposedly offers many cool functionalities none of which work except for the ability to book a session which by the way can be impossible to do during evening and weekend hours They do not care if you get in in fact it benefits them when less people sign up Any questions I asked I usually got a shrug in response OTs claim to fame is heartrate tracking but they do not store any information after you walk out the door nor do they help you interpret it It may well be a gimmick and I am sure they are making a lot of money on that high elastic strap surcharge My heart rate monitor was constantly out of whack so I did not even really benefit from having it At OT trainers do not teach proper stretching The class is so fastpaced they barely have time to show you correct form before racing to the next exercise You have to beg for attention and help if you want to learn when you look around and see everyone doing it differently it makes you wonder if anyone is doing it properlynnToday the manager who is never there because he also runs another franchise location referred to one of the associates as my front desk girl I realized what kind of establishment I was dealing with and gave up my request not to be charged for the days after my official cancellation OT is not a franchise that trusts its own managers to run a business Instead it values shortterm profits from signups over longterm relationships It was an expensive lesson to avoid Orange Theory and I hope this review can save a few people having to pay the same price nnIf you decide to give it a try I hope you are extremely selfmotivated and already very knowledgeable about how to achieve your fitness goals I hope you also have the foresight or legal expertise to actually cancel days before you want to stop going even if they claim its days notice