
GAMMA is what Beachbody® refers to as a graduate program. This is accomplished by adding weights in some of the workouts.Įven if you haven’t done FOCUS T25 ALPHA or BETA, you might still be a GAMMA candidate. In the BETA phase, you progress to harder movements (like plyometrics) that feature more explosiveness and more resistance. The goal is to maximize the way your body responds to vigorous training in the first half hour of exercise, which numerous studies show can be a veritable magic window for results. In the ALPHA phase, you do various forms of interval training, featuring both strength and cardio-style movements, without any added gear or weights. If you don’t know FOCUS T25 at all, it’s a two-month, high-intensity training program that uses some very modern techniques to change your body quickly. Speed 3.0 adds, you guessed it, more speed. GAMMA takes this a step further, using more weight and more speed with Rip’t Up, Extreme Circuit, and The Pyramid, which all use weights.

Some of the BETA workouts require weights as a way to add intensity. If you’ve done ALPHA and BETA, you’ve seen this in action. While weights are used, these are about as different from your standard notion of what weight training is as they could be, since they’re used to accentuate speed, explosiveness, and getting ripped rather than adding bulk. These workouts are more strength training–oriented than the first two rounds, called ALPHA and BETA. It’s four additional 25-minute Shaun T workouts, designed to be done after the BETA phase of FOCUS T25.

Take a look with me, Beachbody’s resident fitness geek, as we peer under the hood at what makes the third phase of FOCUS T25 tick, and why you should make it a part of your fitness arsenal. GAMMA is my favorite part of the FOCUS T25 training system.
