Tempo Experience FAQs

What should I expect after I join Tempo?

1. We send you your Tempo: Once you join, we ship your Tempo home gym. Your membership begins when it’s delivered.

2. Enroll in a training plan: Select a training plan based on your fitness goals and unlock your personalized path to progress.

3. Test yourself, and track your results: At the end of each training plan, you test your progress before diving into your next plan, based on your results, goals, and focus.

What types of workouts are available?

With Tempo Adaptable Training Plans, you always get the workout your body needs to make progress when you show up, whether that’s strength training, cardio, HIIT, or restorative training. If you want to mix it up, there’s also everything from boxing to yoga, HIIT, cardio, meditation, mobility, and more.

What makes Tempo different? 

Tempo provides you with a stronger way to lift and guarantees progress. With smart weights, real-time guidance in and out of the workout, and adaptable training plans tailored to your biometrics, Tempo sets you on the fastest path to progress—all for one monthly price.

Membership FAQs

How does membership work?

Tempo memberships require a 12-month minimum commitment after a 30-day trial period. You can choose to pay for your membership monthly, or upfront for 12 or 24 months. You save money on your membership if you pay upfront.

How does the 30-day trial work?

From the day your Tempo is delivered, you have 30 days to fall in love with Tempo or cancel your membership. Get a full refund if Tempo is not for you, including the cost of your first month of membership. Email hello@tempo.fit to start the return process.

Can I pause my membership?

Yes, for a limited time. If you purchase your Move, Studio, or Core, you can pause your membership for up to three (3) months per calendar year in your account portal at app.tempo.fit.

Do I need to buy a Tempo home gym to join Tempo? 

Unless you are joining a Tempo family, yes. 

Can I invite family members to my account?

Yes. You can invite 5 additional people to work out with you.

Readiness FAQs

What’s Readiness? What’s a good score?

Readiness is a calculation of how your body's doing, based on your workout data, sleep, heart rate variability, resting heart rate, and muscle recovery. We use it to build and personalize workouts for you to keep you on your fastest path to progress.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad score. A low score can mean you’ve been training hard and a high score can mean you’ve taken a few days off. Readiness just reflects where your body is, today.

Do I need a wearable to use Readiness?

You don’t need a wearable, but having one helps. Without one, we still calculate your readiness by analyzing the workouts you do on and off of the mat and projecting the cumulative impact your muscle and cardio fatigue have on your body. With a wearable, your readiness score becomes more personalized as Tempo analyzes metrics like sleep, heart rate variability, and more, in addition to your workouts, to tell the bigger story of how your body's recovering and reacting to your training.

How does Readiness affect my workout?

Readiness makes understanding your workout recommendation simple. The higher it is, the more challenging your workout and, conversely, the lower it is, the easier your workout. When we deem that you’re too tired to lift weights or push yourself on the mat, we recommend restorative training that helps you recover and improve your mobility to ensure you’re always making progress. 

Adaptable Training Plan FAQs

What’s the difference between an Adaptable Training Plan and a program?

Adaptable Training Plans are the newest, most efficient way to make progress in training with Tempo. Enroll in one for daily recommendations optimized for your body’s Readiness as well as new workouts exclusively created to attune your training to you. Our programs can be equally effective if taken at the prescribed pace and intensity but currently do not include measures for accountability, do not focus your results, can only be taken in a set order, and do not incorporate outside activity.

How does Tempo recommend a workout for me? What if I don’t like it?

Your workout recommendations and the intensity at which we set them are optimized for your body’s readiness, what muscle groups you’re prepared to work with, and the goal of your training plan. They are the most efficient way for you to make progress, today.

Each week, the order in which you take your training plan workouts is up to you. If you ever want to mix up your recommended workout, you can swap it out to pick from upcoming ones. 

How does Tempo track progress?

To measure the progress you make over each 4-week plan, Tempo first evaluates where you're starting out in a baseline workout and then tests you in the last week with another, similarly structured workout. Over the course of your plan, Tempo takes the guesswork out of your development, optimizing your workouts, weight recommendations, and more to your body's readiness each day you show up to work out.

What kind of plans does Tempo offer?

For now, we offer two types of training plans: ones that help you maximize strength and muscle development and ones that balance your strength gain with body definition. 

Body Composition Scan FAQs

What is Body Composition Scanning?

Body Composition Scanning is a new feature in the Tempo app. With it, you can track the type of progress that a scale or mirror may not immediately show, like body fat percentage, lean mass, muscle circumference, and more. It’s included as part of Tempo membership. Here’s what it measures:

• Body fat: the percentage of your body that’s made up of fat.

• Lean mass: the percentage of your body that is everything that is not fat, including muscle, bone, blood, and skin.

• Body circumferences: measurements around body parts such as your waist or biceps.

• Waist-to-hip ratio: a comparison of your waist measurement to your hip measurement to determine your relative waist size.

Why is body composition important for strength training?

Think of body composition as the weight scale for strength training. As you train and get into better shape, your weight may not change as you add muscle. This can be demotivating, but it happens because you’re changing the composition of your body and muscle is more dense than fat. Aside from being a great indicator for your overall health, lifespan, metabolism, and potential athletic performance, body composition better shows your progress.

How accurate are Body Composition Scans?

The gold standard in body scanning technology is a DXA scan (Dual-energy X-Ray Absorptiometry), which uses low levels of x-rays to measure your body’s make-up. A DXA machine costs up to $80,000 and each scan can cost up to $150 and take up to 30 minutes. Using the depth camera sensors in your iPhone, though, the Body Composition Scanner in the Tempo app provides results within ±5% for body fat percentage when compared to DXA results and ±3.1% for body circumferences. When scans are done consistently, our margin of difference drops to ±0.5% for body fat and ±0.37% for body circumference.

The truth is the only truly accurate way to measure body composition is to have an autopsy. Our methodology provides the fastest, most affordable, most efficient results you can get while alive.

Please contact Tempo Support if you have any questions or require further assistance. You can contact us via email at hello@tempo.fit, live chat at tempo.fit, or by phone at (833) 966-1777, now available 24/7/365.