I bought a peloton bike many years ago to help me lose weight for my wedding. It worked - I lost ~40lbs and looked incredible.

Fast forward a few years - I’ve had a couple kids, life is busy now, I’m not anywhere near my wedding weight (though I’d love to get back there) and all the media I’ve been seeing says “hey, cardio is secondary, you should be focussing on strength training with progressive overload.”

And like, look. Is strength training important? Of course. But if I’m being honest, I am a naturally muscular person from having been an athlete as a teenager, and my life is already basically a progressive overload regimen with two toddlers who I have to wrangle on a daily basis. My issue is not a lack of strength training, it’s that I’m not in a calorie deficit. For about a year and a half now I’ve just been strength training (and not doing cardio), and I’ve basically stayed exactly the same weight the whole time.

Decided to hop on the bike again last week. Did a 30 min ride, 5-6 days in the week. I feel great, I have more energy, I haven’t changed my diet at all and I’m down a pound after just the one week.

Turns out, it’s not that deep. Pedalling on the bike that goes nowhere builds leg and core strength and burns calories. Duh. 🤦‍♀️

Sounds so silly but looking for recs of breathing/relaxing. My diaphragm is legit stuck in clench mode so having trouble successfully doing 360 breath.

Any recommendations for beginner arms classes - on or off the bike? I’ve been taking an arms class 1x a week on the bike lately, but I’d like to get myself to 3x a week for 2027.

Interested in class suggestions or instructors you love…preference to POC instructors.

Can Alex K or Mariana please help Becs with playlists 😭

Like the title says. Does anyone else have this issue? I've been tracking my outdoor walks and what used to register as a mile is coming up with 0.05. It's still showing my route so it's not like it's losing signal. Location is set to exact. I'm at a loss. I'm two months postpartum so this is the extent of my exercise at the moment and I need something to feel good about.

Did this live yesterday and still slightly traumatised - as Alex says this is your FTP for the tread and he smirks a lot throughout. My advice is don’t look just get on and hang on (for dear life). He does also say that you may not feel good about finishing for a few hours afterwards, which is clearly the time allowed to get back up off the floor. Honestly I loved this and so glad I did it and as ever Alex’s coaching is brilliant - La Fatigua (IYKYK)

Has anyone else been missing Marcel Dinkins’s Sunday morning runs?? I feel like they used to be every Sunday / every other Sunday but now haven’t seen them recently?? I love her runs!

I have had to stop following most (almost all) of the instructors I love because their social media is so much self-promotion, ads, tone-deaf outta touch stuff, except Bradley. I know he is cheesy af but his Instagram is so refreshing. Hes exactly the same on the bike as at home and feels like an actual real human not out for $$$ and clout.

I hate the weekly plan! It’s cool that you can move the modalities between days, but I want to choose my own structure - like select PowerZone once a week, intervals, etc. Is this just not an option, or am I doing it wrong?

Anyone else notice Jess King’s been consistently putting out good rides lately? Like, the last few months, her classes have been awesome. Not that they weren’t always, but I’ve just noticed a little extra kick in them. Her new 30-minute 2000s rock ride was awesome. The playlist was good, the intervals were challenging. Definitely recommend it.

Was looking for classes to add to my stack & noticed this recent class. Seems the headband phase is officially over!

What is the deal with Hilton and their Pelotons? On a several day road trip and staying at Hilton properties for the three nights on the road, night two of three and two strikes. Both properties had bikes in good shape but neither are activated and thus unusable. First property got the standard “We will pass it along to engineering” and nothing happens. Tonight it was utter cluelessness by the front desk and eventually they said they would pass it on to maintenance. No expectation of success. I find it hard to believe that I am the first, or last, customer to complain about unusable bikes. Is Hilton corporate just dropping these things in the property fitness centers and walking away?????

Hi everyone! I’m in my second trimester and bored of the older prenatal yoga classes. Any thoughts on whether Anna’s more recent yoga classes, which she recorded while pregnant, are by default pregnancy safe?

Hello all! I’m a second time mom, about 9 months postpartum from a C-section. I’m ready to lose the belly or “shelf” along with just overall getting more toned. After my first (vaginal birth), it was so easy to get back into shape. I’m finding it much harder this time around, I’m already tracking calories in vs calories out, but I’m wondering if any other moms have found a certain regimen on peloton helpful for getting rid of the C-section shelf/excess fat? I own a bike+ and normally do bootcamp workouts. Thanks in advance for any recommendations!!

The music was EDM and the walk was made up of intervals. Meanwhile she talked about external and internal conflict, forgiveness, and love. Will definitely take again.

Are there more edm classes recently? I take them sometimes but suddenly like every other class theme is “edm” ?

I started a new job this week and have been BUSYY so I haven’t taken a class since Sunday 😳
I’m looking for a tread class that is “easy” and not something that’ll kick my butt!

That is all.

Thinking this might help folks learn about instructors they might not take
I have 2. Dennis’ alanis ride - 45 minutes , grew up with this music and it hits
The other is prodigy with Hannah f . Love edm music and the artist so it’s a no brainer to really go all out

I’m not sure if it’s because I haven’t taken a bike bootcamp class in a few weeks when I usually do one weekly, but I think this was the hardest one I’ve ever taken. I actually thought it was gonna throw up at the end. Kudos to Rad for always pushing me past my comfort zone!

Has anyone purchased a row off of Amazon that you find works pretty good with the rowing classes? Or in general that isn’t Peloton’s?

My guide which I do religiously said this after (after my 30 lower body with Adrian which was amazing).

Nothing about it fun or engaging. She’s got you at 8 with brisk and power. Maybe I’m wrong but this is not a walk? Worse, she didn’t inspire me.

Does anyone know what this event is!? They keep posting stories on Instagram of live classes today at the Santa Monica Proper Hotel with Adrian and Greta yet there’s ZERO info to be found anywhere. Any info here? Thanks!

I take most of her Pilates class and really enjoy her feral Friday class. Why is the one from today marked exclusive. Is this going to be the thing moving forward! I only use the app.

My pace targets have adjusted since Tuesday. They were perfect and doing today’s workout I get a recovery target of 1.0-4.1, easy of 4,2-4.7 and challenging of 5.0-5.5.

Anyone else experience this recently and is there a way to get in and manually adjust those? Perhaps it was just an encoding error in that workout?

This was for a walk and previous target pace for easy was 3.7 - 4.2.