Anyone have a Peloton?

[Kodos]

I haven't noticed any cutbacks in the numbers of new riding workouts on Peloton. I do wish they had more 80s-themed rides, but they have to please a bunch of different genre-fans. Since my father moved out of our basement (where the Peloton is located), I've definitely had a spike in Peloton rides and non-Peloton strength workouts. I generally do 3-4 rides a week and 2 strength workouts each week. And I've been setting new PRs lately, which I hadn't really been doing when Dad was still living with us. And I'm doing the best about getting in strength workouts since when I was still in my early 20s. I don't really enjoy strength workouts like I do aerobic workouts, but I've gotten into the habit now.

[Ksyrup]

I don't really know anything about how Peloton works - are they mostly individual workouts? With IFIT, it's almost always a series of workouts in a location, either US or someone in the world. They are almost all themed in some way, whether it's a beginner cardio series, or a walking series in an historic location, or an intermediate interval series, or a "run a 10K" series, etc.

So when something new comes out, it's a series of workouts, but those series have definitely been cut back in number. Before, there were multiple series of 20+ workouts and several 2-part series which were 30 workouts each to make up a 10K or half-marathon series, split across different parts of the world. In the past year, the only series I can think of that even reached 20 workouts are Tommy Rivs' Road to Recovery series, probably their most popular trainer who is coming back from a life-threatening cancer ordeal. He's done 3 series so far, and they are basically walking series because that's about all he can do. Everything else has been 12 workouts or less, which is disappointing.

[Kodos]

Peloton is more individual workouts with a theme. They are broken out by different lengths (5, 10, 20, 30, 45 mins, 1 hour, etc.), and then usually have a workout type (HIIT, hills, power zone, w/ arm exercises or w/out, etc.). Then, while you are riding, you have a leaderboard, which you can hide if you don't want it. I love the leaderboard because I'm a competitive person, so I enjoy passing people who are in their 20s. Some rides also have a start-at-the-same time feature so you get more of a realtime leaderboard, as opposed to seeing people who started earlier or later than you who are doing the same ride. I don't really use that feature. Never want to wait 5 minutes to start.

They also have stretching workouts, core work, yoga, meditation, etc. I only really use the rides, so my details on this extra stuff are sketchy.

[Ksyrup]

Yeah, IFIT added a bunch of meditation, pregnancy, stretching, and some mind exercise stuff that are 5-15 minute "workouts" that really aren't workouts and not my focus at all. IFIT's leaderboard, which they got rid of after settling with Peloton, really wasn't real-time at all since there's no synching of workouts between people. It just had a history of people who had finished anywhere from 5 minutes ago to 5 years ago and you were "competing" against people whose times were set in stone. I used it a few times when doing some marathon section workouts (they have a collection of actual marathon runs broken up into 6-7 individual workouts), but never really thought much of it. And with the money crunch, it's no wonder they settled that suit.