Any Peloton bike users here?
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g3org3y said:
Defo the Peloton program has been effective for you. 
I'm actually pretty decent with diet/snack. My main issue is now trying to alter the calories in for more weight focused training. It's tricky to build muscle while at the same time losing fat. From what I've read, caloric deficit should only be slight and loads of protein in the diet.
That’s what I did last spring. Tracked all my macros and exercise religiously. Ran a minimum 500 cal deficit every day (and much more on days I did lots of low impact stuff like 90mins in Z2 or 20k steps). Ate a minimum of 2g protein per KG of body weight. I'm actually pretty decent with diet/snack. My main issue is now trying to alter the calories in for more weight focused training. It's tricky to build muscle while at the same time losing fat. From what I've read, caloric deficit should only be slight and loads of protein in the diet.
I did weights 3x per week, 6 or 7 bike sessions (short max effort stuff on days I did weights, longer on non weights days). Minimum 10k steps/ day.
Supplemented creatine & multivitamins, but other than hitting the protein target and deficit, I ate what I wanted (carbs/fat).
Dropped 10kg in 3 months and gained significant strength and regained a lot of the cardio fitness I’d lost due to long term illness
Origin Unknown said:
QQ, I've sold my bike but forgot to logout! I have changed my password for my account, that should mean when the bike is booted, it will require the password to be re-entered?
Cheers
I would think so, the bike is just an Android tablet so I assume account authentication works in a similar way as on the App/Web page?Cheers
gangzoom said:
Origin Unknown said:
QQ, I've sold my bike but forgot to logout! I have changed my password for my account, that should mean when the bike is booted, it will require the password to be re-entered?
Cheers
I would think so, the bike is just an Android tablet so I assume account authentication works in a similar way as on the App/Web page?Cheers
FWIW, fewer Peloton rides of late, more IRL bike riding. Finally got the new Boardman bike out on the road. Why is the saddle so bloody hard!? There was an aftermarket one on my budget Apollo and I've done 90 min rides with no issue. This one is a b
d. I'll have to legitimately wear the 'cycle pants' now for rides >45 mins!Still doing Ben's 5 day split on a weekly repeat with some decent progress (i.e, using the heavy weights where previously it would have been medium).
I'm still doing the PZ rides along with strength, the structure of the PZ rides is amazing, this the PZ ride I did after work yesterday.
versus ILR on my Creo, power readings show only what I was putting in, but its all over place versus routine of PZ ridse.
Gravel rides are even more hilarious if you care about power readings, this was with the Creo on 'max' assist, but the reason my average HR was high despite the low average power was because I was too worried about crashing down a ditch, over a log, generally trying to stay upright
. Go gravel riding is fun, gets your going, but I'm not sure how useful it is if you want to build fitness .
versus ILR on my Creo, power readings show only what I was putting in, but its all over place versus routine of PZ ridse.
Gravel rides are even more hilarious if you care about power readings, this was with the Creo on 'max' assist, but the reason my average HR was high despite the low average power was because I was too worried about crashing down a ditch, over a log, generally trying to stay upright
. Go gravel riding is fun, gets your going, but I'm not sure how useful it is if you want to build fitness .Riding outside isn’t about average most of the time. It’s about normalised. A spiky power graph isn’t a bad session and a smooth one isn’t a good one.
The intensities and variation of the sessions (Inc length) is what builds fitness. Which is likely why you’re not seeing much change given you’re doing similar stuff of similar duration without seemingly much intensity. You plateau quickly doing such things.
Riding outside is good because it pushes you (well, not so much with an e-bike but you get my drift).
The intensities and variation of the sessions (Inc length) is what builds fitness. Which is likely why you’re not seeing much change given you’re doing similar stuff of similar duration without seemingly much intensity. You plateau quickly doing such things.
Riding outside is good because it pushes you (well, not so much with an e-bike but you get my drift).
gangzoom said:
Been out on the real bike more since the good weather, what's really obvious is in the real world maintain a steady state for power/cadence/speed is pretty much impossible. So even though the overall power/HR readings are very similar from a pure fitness point of view I much prefer Peloton to the real world.
The real world however does offer other attractions.......its 2023 so 'gravel' is a thing now
The real world however does offer other attractions.......its 2023 so 'gravel' is a thing now
That's quite interesting, you look like you stop for a few minutes after six minutes or so for a while and obviously not pedalling on the descents drags the average power down
So compare how often you are putting out zero power in real life compared to the peloton..... It shows how cycling outdoors actually offers a better workout given the average power is the same overall as your constantly having to add extra power on short climbs and react to the road. Unsurprisingly you prefer Peloton because those efforts really hurt!
TLDR: what OKGO said, NP will always be higher than avg power on a ride outside.
If you use veloviewer.com you can see NP for real and virtual rides
Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 17th June 18:51
gangzoom said:
I'm still doing the PZ rides along with strength, the structure of the PZ rides is amazing, this the PZ ride I did after work yesterday.
versus ILR on my Creo, power readings show only what I was putting in, but its all over place versus routine of PZ ridse.
Gravel rides are even more hilarious if you care about power readings, this was with the Creo on 'max' assist, but the reason my average HR was high despite the low average power was because I was too worried about crashing down a ditch, over a log, generally trying to stay upright. Go gravel riding is fun, gets your going, but I'm not sure how useful it is if you want to build fitness .
As discussed a few times, riding on Peloton really isn’t providing the same work rate as riding in real life. versus ILR on my Creo, power readings show only what I was putting in, but its all over place versus routine of PZ ridse.
Gravel rides are even more hilarious if you care about power readings, this was with the Creo on 'max' assist, but the reason my average HR was high despite the low average power was because I was too worried about crashing down a ditch, over a log, generally trying to stay upright
. Go gravel riding is fun, gets your going, but I'm not sure how useful it is if you want to build fitness .So, I was/ am pretty unfit before getting my Peloton. I've had it since Feb and am on 78 rides so far, averaging just over 3 rides a week, nothing very spectacular at all, went from 20 min beginners, to adv beginners to 30 and 45 min low impacts and have done a couple of other rides, climbs etc. I'm finding that the low impact rides, I can stay at the very higher range of the numbers they want, on the other rides, I sometimes struggle to reach the lower numbers and the top numbers for me are totally unachievable. I struggle to ride out of the seat as well.
Now, I do have ongoing hip issues and some of the rides can mean that I have a bit of pain afterwards if I push myself quite a bit. The hip pain is one of the reasons I got the Peloton, as I wanted to do a low impact exercise, whilst improving my fitness.
I have improved my fitness, quite a lot I think in those 78 rides, but there's always that 'want' to do more. I did a lot of sports when younger, and wanting to push myself was a common theme then, and I don't think I've totally lost that, certainly not mentally, even though my body protests.....a load.
I've been thinking about doing a FTP, mainly to track my progress, but I'm very nervous about it, to be going hard for 20 mins is a big ask for me, I'm no spring chicken (52) and worry about not only not being able to complete it, but to cause myself further issues.
I don't know, I guess I'm just putting it out there, but any thoughts are gratefully received.
Now, I do have ongoing hip issues and some of the rides can mean that I have a bit of pain afterwards if I push myself quite a bit. The hip pain is one of the reasons I got the Peloton, as I wanted to do a low impact exercise, whilst improving my fitness.
I have improved my fitness, quite a lot I think in those 78 rides, but there's always that 'want' to do more. I did a lot of sports when younger, and wanting to push myself was a common theme then, and I don't think I've totally lost that, certainly not mentally, even though my body protests.....a load.
I've been thinking about doing a FTP, mainly to track my progress, but I'm very nervous about it, to be going hard for 20 mins is a big ask for me, I'm no spring chicken (52) and worry about not only not being able to complete it, but to cause myself further issues.
I don't know, I guess I'm just putting it out there, but any thoughts are gratefully received.
Agree… 52 isn’t an issue… I’m 56 and have done multiple FTP’s.
You work as hard as you’re capable of working… the 1st one will likely be a bit of a trial anyway as pacing is difficult until you know what to expect. A massive part of it is mental… if you’re doing it right you’ll probably think you’re done 10 mins in… the challenge is to be able to hang on to the end. You’re likely much stronger than you realise.
You work as hard as you’re capable of working… the 1st one will likely be a bit of a trial anyway as pacing is difficult until you know what to expect. A massive part of it is mental… if you’re doing it right you’ll probably think you’re done 10 mins in… the challenge is to be able to hang on to the end. You’re likely much stronger than you realise.
gangzoom said:
Age has nothing to do with it, still feeling like you are going to puke up isn't anything anyone should enjoy .
I cannot be bothered with doing another one.
It depends what you are doing it for doesn’t it. But ultimately if you want to get fitter than at some point you’re going to need to get out of breath. Your sessions do make more sense having read your post there. .I cannot be bothered with doing another one.
I'm ticking over nicely at the moment and I've been on a 3 mile run and I've been on the bike 3 times this week. My legs are fine after my run now because I'm running every week currently. I think that I actually prefer running to the bike, but seeing as I'm paying monthly for the subscription I feel like I should use the bike really.
Mixing in real life rides with ongoing PZ sessions.
Quite happy with things, pushed out a 6 min 230watts block at the end of a 45min PZ ride without dying.
Both me and my wife are averaging 1 Peloton class of somekind each day, given we're now 800days+ into ownership Peloton has us well and truly hooked.
Quite happy with things, pushed out a 6 min 230watts block at the end of a 45min PZ ride without dying.
Both me and my wife are averaging 1 Peloton class of somekind each day, given we're now 800days+ into ownership Peloton has us well and truly hooked
.Well, all my talk about doing a FTP session.
I woke up this morning and decided to do a 30 min ride, nothing very strenuous, but 20 mins in, I totally hit the wall, literally nothing left, heart rate was up, nothing in the legs.
I did manage to hold in there for the whole 30 mins, but felt terrible after.
It's the first time this has happened, just putting it down to experience, but not a great day. st happens I suppose?
I woke up this morning and decided to do a 30 min ride, nothing very strenuous, but 20 mins in, I totally hit the wall, literally nothing left, heart rate was up, nothing in the legs.
I did manage to hold in there for the whole 30 mins, but felt terrible after.
It's the first time this has happened, just putting it down to experience, but not a great day. s
t happens I suppose?nordboy said:
Well, all my talk about doing a FTP session.
I woke up this morning and decided to do a 30 min ride, nothing very strenuous, but 20 mins in, I totally hit the wall, literally nothing left, heart rate was up, nothing in the legs.
I did manage to hold in there for the whole 30 mins, but felt terrible after.
It's the first time this has happened, just putting it down to experience, but not a great day. st happens I suppose?
Not unusual if you’ve not eaten. Takes a while to also get used to training in mornings generally. I could never hit the same numbers doing early races vs those later in the day. I woke up this morning and decided to do a 30 min ride, nothing very strenuous, but 20 mins in, I totally hit the wall, literally nothing left, heart rate was up, nothing in the legs.
I did manage to hold in there for the whole 30 mins, but felt terrible after.
It's the first time this has happened, just putting it down to experience, but not a great day. s
t happens I suppose?okgo said:
Not unusual if you’ve not eaten. Takes a while to also get used to training in mornings generally. I could never hit the same numbers doing early races vs those later in the day.
I always do my rides in the morning before I eat, just one of those 'off' (very off) days I guess. Hope I don't have too many of them though, felt awful after, well, and during tbh.nordboy said:
I always do my rides in the morning before I eat, just one of those 'off' (very off) days I guess. Hope I don't have too many of them though, felt awful after, well, and during tbh.
Are you over doing it? Sometimes you used need a few days off. One of the reasons I quite like PowerZone Eudurance classes is because you are no where near the limit and still getting a great work our. Some of the normal classes can be brutal if you try and hit the top resistance ranges.If the legs really are knackered just stop and try again in a few days.
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