Not the TIU I know and love – Tone It Up: Workout & Fitness Review

This app isn’t great. It’s glitchy. It buffers. It shuts down. There are too many new trainers. I can’t keep track of them. They aren’t personable like K&k. Not enough of a warm up session on the studio workouts. The studio is cold and impersonal. I’m all about the beach workouts, which they are occasionally bringing to the studio. TIU has changed a lot since I first joined in 2014, and this app shows me they have changed in a direction I don’t love. It doesn’t support the Tone It Up brand and experience. It makes things more difficult. I feel less connected to the community, less inspired to work out, less inclined to keep nutrition #1, less connected to K&K. I believe K&K are trying to please everyone, and run faster than they are able. So they bring in more and more options. Too many new trainers. Too many new workouts. Daily moves, videos, mashups, cardio, meditation. There isn’t enough time in the day for it. Thus, there is just TOO MUCH. It feels overwhelming. There are so many options I might as well just turn to the internet and mix and match my programs, instead of sticking with one program that was clear and easy to follow. I felt safe being a Tone it up girl because it was a simple program and I knew K&K were looking out for me. But no longer. There is simply too much and it’s more free form, and it’s like I have to build my own workouts (especially if I have to abort a studio class because I get kicked out, or there’s no video, or no audio, and it’s 5 am and my willingness to then create my own workout doesn’t exist, so I skip a workout). So, then, what’s the point of Tone it up? This app is a manifestation of the anxiety, isolation, and chaos I feel while interacting with the TIU of 2018. The best part of being a Tone it up girl is that you still have your Instagram and Facebook communities, you still have your old nutrition plans, and you can still access your premium videos on their website, which I love. If you are a TIU girl, pass on this app.
Review by I wanna dance with somebody on Tone It Up: Workout & Fitness.