🍂Tectonic Times | October 2026
Leaves are turning and the Tectonic calendar is filling up…
Happenings & updates:
Camas Yoga: Thank you and farewell
Bring a Friend Week: 10/12 to 10/17
Book Club: Euphoria, 10/12
New Cycle: Tests and the 11/2 finale
Costume Workout: Saturday 10/31
Just the Sides: Save the date, 11/21
New Tectonic Merch: Coming soon
1. Thank You, Camas Yoga!
Camas Yoga & Co. closed on September 30th, bringing our TECOLLAB partnership to an end. We’re so grateful for their partnership and for giving Tectonic athletes another way to move, recover and recharge!
The good news: many Camas Yoga instructors are moving just around the corner to LiveWell, so there are still plenty of opportunities to keep yoga in your routine.
Thank you, Camas Yoga, for being such a wonderful community partner!
2. Bring a Friend Week: Your Peeps Train Free
🗓️Monday, October 12 to Saturday, October 17
Rediscover your own gym through the eyes of someone you know.
Got a friend, partner, coworker or neighbor who you could see training at Tectonic? This is the week! Show them what you keep showing up for, week-in-week-out.
They'll train right beside you, with every movement scaled as needed. No experience needed.
3. Literate Lifters Book Club
We met in September to discuss Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke, giving it an overall 3 out of 5 stars. The consensus? We didn’t particularly like any of the characters, but the writing was compelling...and it was hard to put down!
Up next: Euphoria by Lily King. Anyone is welcome to join us!
📆Monday, October 12 | 6:30 PM | Oak Tree Station
And a special thank you to Jenn Fredrick for the amazing custom Literate Lifters bookmarks!
4. The New Cycle: Strength Focus and Tests
Our new training cycle is rolling. Here's the weekly rhythm:
Mondays: Squat Snatches, building to a 1RM test
Tuesdays: Core strength alternating with Bench Press, building to a 5RM test
Wednesdays: Varied Skill Day, with endurance, skill or strength options
Thursdays: Endurance plus upper-body pulling and bodybuilding
Fridays: Strength-endurance, alternating Power Clean + Jerk and Front Squats, including an AMRAP Front Squat test at 75%
Saturdays: Mixed upper-body strength
Conditioning tests on deck: "Helen," "Fight Gone Bad" and "The Pyramid," a 33-minute running-clock test.
Testing is how we see the progress you've been building. A true max is optional, and your coach will help you pick the right target for the day.
📆It all wraps up with our Test Week finale on Monday, November 2nd.
5. Halloween Costume Workout
Saturday, October 31 · 9:00 AM · at Tectonic
Halloween lands on a Saturday this year, so we're working out in costume.
Dust off the costume and bring the energy!
6. Save the Date: "Just the Sides" is Back!
🍲Saturday, November 21st · 6:00 to 8:30 PM · at Tectonic
Bring a favorite Thanksgiving side, or test-drive a new recipe before the big day.
No dish? Come anyway. This stuff still needs to get eaten!
7. New Tectonic Merch: Drop Imminent
👕Keep an eye on your inbox for the drop, crafted by our very own fashion designer, Damon Kosaki.
Keepin' it Real
We are a community of people doing actual strength & conditioning, making measurable progress through difficult, informed, consistent work.
In other words, you do real training toward real fitness.
Not everyone seeks this out, let alone walks back through the gym doors again and again.
Keep it up and keep supporting each other,
-- Your Tectonic Coaches
