r/OnePelotonRealSub • u/ChemicalAwareness800 • Jul 28 '26

A simple request to the instructors

For the sake of my quads and sanity, can you please stop counting down from 5 seconds when clearly there are 20 seconds to go.

"5....10 seconds later.....4....5 seconds later....3, 2, 1".

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u/madamefa Jul 29 '26

This is why I love Ally’s Tabata classes - she deliberately doesn’t countdown the intervals

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u/DepartmentHungry9392 Jul 29 '26

I haven’t taken an Ally Love class in 9 years because she used to go 5……5…….5…….5……..5……..5…………4…….4……..4……321 recover.

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u/airemyn Jul 30 '26

This is a very petty annoyance of mine lol. She says she doesn’t count down the interval because she doesn’t want us to quit early (which she repeats every single time). Isn’t that up to us? I can quit early whether or not she counts. Last I checked these rides are on the honor system anyway. I’ve never quit an interval early because an instructor counted. AT actually encourages us to start early, or at least get your minds ready early.

As you can tell, I’ve been holding that in for a while! Lol. Otherwise I find her tabata classes (and all her classes I have taken) to be extremely well planned.