What’s Next After Tighter Together?
You did it! Completing the Tighter Together challenge is a huge accomplishment—whether you were able to get in every workout or count every macro to the degree you planned or found power in consistently showing up alongside the community, you’ve made progress!! We want to pause and celebrate, harness the moment and answer the big question: what comes next?
Tighter Together is designed to be a time-bound, habit-building "push in intensity" phase, but the real key to long-term success is finding a pace that is realistic over long periods of time. Repeating challenges back-to-back can lead to burnout, plateaus and unnecessary accumulation of physical stress, which is why we don’t recommend doing them consecutively. Instead, now is the perfect time to transition into a longer-format program that is designed to help meet your goals and lifestyle with an approach that supports you from every angle.
Training: Find Your Next Step
Your next step should align with your goals, training style, and what you loved most about Tighter Together. Here are a few options:
- Weekly Moves: Loved TT Strength and and want to continue the progress with
- similarly programmed workouts, monthly “challenge moves”for progressive overload and continued community connection? Weekly Moves is a community favorite!
- Commit Performance: Loved TT for runners? Commit Performance is perfect for balancing strength and endurance. It features strength training, time-based running, power-building plyometrics, and mobility work to improve overall performance.
Beginner Moves: If Tighter Together felt too intense and you want to focus on building strength safely, this six-week program is perfect for building (or rebuilding) a solid foundation! - Strength Moves: loved Tighter Together’s foundational upper and lower workouts, but want less cardio, more weight lifting (compound lifts) and have access to heavy weights (barbell, plates, squat rack)? Strength Moves is for you.
- Pre & Postnatal Collection: If you’re newly expecting, our trimester-specific programs will help you train confidently at every stage of pregnancy. If you’re newly postpartum or haven’t taken the time to re-enter formal exercise, Postpartum Moves is ideal for you.
Still not sure what program is right for you? Take this quiz or explore all programs (all available with a Moves App Subscription).
Nutrition: Making Progress Sustainable
One of the biggest mistakes after a challenge like Tighter Together is staying in a calorie deficit for too long. Short-term deficits can be effective, but long-term success comes from proper maintenance and metabolic health.
Understanding Reverse Dieting
Reverse dieting is a method of gradually increasing your intake back to maintenance levels, offering benefits such as:
- Increased Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), boosting energy expenditure
- Enhanced training capacity and workout performance
- Better energy levels, digestion, and sleep
- Long-term weight management and muscle retention
When to Adjust Your Macros
Your fat loss macros are not meant for long-term use! Ideally, you should spend most of the year at maintenance, using fat loss macros only for short, intentional periods (4-12 weeks) followed by at least 16-24 weeks at maintenance. This helps prevent metabolic adaptation and supports muscle retention.Staying in a deficit for too long can lead to metabolic slowdown, requiring lower and lower calories to maintain progress—a cycle we want to avoid. Now is the time to transition your macros to maintain the results you’ve worked hard for!Your manual will include details steps for transitioning your macros effectively.
Keep the Momentum Going!
We’re on a journey of building strong, sustainable health habits that serve us for the long term. That doesn’t happen overnight, and progress isn’t always linear. No matter where you are now, ensure your next steps align with your goals and keep moving forward.
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