theliftingzone.com

Could Be So Much Better

I completed the 8 week Tribrid Program with The Lifting Zone. Overall it was a positive experience but with some improvements this could be such an amazing program. The intake process was not ideal if you are a planner. In an ideal world you would get your nutritional guidance more than a day before the challenge starts to give you ample time to grocery shop and meal prep so you can be successful day 1 instead of losing a day or 2 because of the timing of when you get you macros. The weekly calls were a mess. People from all over the world participated in the challenge and it took a few weeks and at a request to move the weekly call time around to accommodate different time zones. Initially every weekly call was at 1am in my time zone and when they want you to prioritize sleep for the challenge you have to choose between your sleep or getting the full value of the challenge. They did eventually move the weekly call to accommodate the time zones but then they wouldn’t post about it. It would be included at the end of a video posted on Train Heroic and not in discord or reminders wouldn’t be sent out. And on top of that during the calls Sonny would make negative comments about people not being committed because they weren’t attending the calls but they were at 1am or not advertised that the time had changed. They also didn’t have a plan for how to offboard from the program. If you are consistent with your nutrition and really buy into doing the challenge you are going to see results which is great but then you get to the end and you want to know how to keep the success going. Initially, we were told this is not a give us your money, here’s the 8 weeks and then see ya later. They want to create a community. But when we got to the end, the only option is to pay a monthly subscription to get any kind of guidance after the challenge is over. If you lose weight on the challenge your macros are going to change so providing some sort of support of here are your new macros for maintenance based on your new weight so you don’t just gain back the weight you lost would be great but unfortunately unless you continue to pay them you won’t get anything. If you have questions on programming, do not expect a quick response. Sonny appears to have too many other things going on to devote to this program. Questions often went unanswered or would be a week before you got a response. I know I laid out a lot of negative things but I did have an overall positive experience with great results. But I think this program could be so great if they fixed some of the things.

Date of experience: Mar 02, 2025