Any Peloton bike users here?

[gangzoom]

g3org3y said:

Do you manage to sleep ok doing such a work out so late in the evening?

I sleep fine, but than again I'm up at 6am doing work. I'm not sure its something I recommend, but I just don't have time otherwise, a 25-26hr day would be great for me!

[gangzoom]

2hr rides have finally arrived on Peloton - Not as painful as the Olivia Amato's PZ max rides, but surprisingly tough keeping the legs spinning constantly for that long - No freewheeling on these 'bikes'. A pretty good 'Zone 2' workout overall, hopefully more 2hrs sessions are coming.

[Not Ideal]

Yeah don’t know if I could handle 2h on the Peleton for that !

[Chris Stott]

I did a 90 min ride ages ago… the bum numbness was horrible for the last half hour!

I passed 700 rides a couple of weeks ago, but lost my 167 week streak last week… health hasn’t been great over the last month or so, and I just couldn’t face climbing on the bike last weekend… should have just started a meditation class on the app, but forgot.

Just did my 1st ride for 2 weeks… a 45m PZE… huffed and puffed my way to a 180w ave

Need to sort whatever is ailing me and get my fitness back!

[g3org3y]

Chris Stott said:

I did a 90 min ride ages ago… the bum numbness was horrible for the last half hour!

I passed 700 rides a couple of weeks ago, but lost my 167 week streak last week… health hasn’t been great over the last month or so, and I just couldn’t face climbing on the bike last weekend… should have just started a meditation class on the app, but forgot.

Just did my 1st ride for 2 weeks… a 45m PZE… huffed and puffed my way to a 180w ave

Need to sort whatever is ailing me and get my fitness back!

Wow 700 - congrats.

I did my 150th today. 42 week streak. PR for a 30 min ride. Compared it to my very first 30 min 'advanced beginner' ride and subsequent 'regular' 30 min ride (back in Feb 2023) - what an improvement! Nothing like some of the stats/outputs quoted here, but very happy with the progress.

[g3org3y]

Chris Stott said:

I did a 90 min ride ages ago… the bum numbness was horrible for the last half hour!

My longest ride was 151 mins (one of those scenic ride as your own pace affairs).

I was doing it while on an online zoom course. Had the laptop lodged in front of the screen. 10 min coffee break about half way. And yes, I did wear cycling shorts for it.

[Chris Stott]

I’ve got 4 or 5 pairs of cycling shorts… from rm cheapies to decent ones… none stop the numbness.

I really need to change the saddle, but I’ve managed 700+ rides so I’ve obviously learnt to put up with it

[nordboy]

g3org3y said:

Chris Stott said:

I did a 90 min ride ages ago… the bum numbness was horrible for the last half hour!

I passed 700 rides a couple of weeks ago, but lost my 167 week streak last week… health hasn’t been great over the last month or so, and I just couldn’t face climbing on the bike last weekend… should have just started a meditation class on the app, but forgot.

Just did my 1st ride for 2 weeks… a 45m PZE… huffed and puffed my way to a 180w ave

Need to sort whatever is ailing me and get my fitness back!

Wow 700 - congrats.

I did my 150th today. 42 week streak. PR for a 30 min ride. Compared it to my very first 30 min 'advanced beginner' ride and subsequent 'regular' 30 min ride (back in Feb 2023) - what an improvement! Nothing like some of the stats/outputs quoted here, but very happy with the progress.

I'm similar to you. 41 week streak but I'm only on 134 rides. I have improved as well from my first beginner rides but I'm struggling now to see many gains, I have the occasional 'achievement' ride but on the whole, pretty static.

My joint issue is still holding me back a bit as I'm getting quite sore after some of the rides so having to take longer breaks between rides.

It's still getting used though, so that's the main thing. Gives me exercise.

[g3org3y]

nordboy said:

g3org3y said:

Chris Stott said:

I did a 90 min ride ages ago… the bum numbness was horrible for the last half hour!

I passed 700 rides a couple of weeks ago, but lost my 167 week streak last week… health hasn’t been great over the last month or so, and I just couldn’t face climbing on the bike last weekend… should have just started a meditation class on the app, but forgot.

Just did my 1st ride for 2 weeks… a 45m PZE… huffed and puffed my way to a 180w ave

Need to sort whatever is ailing me and get my fitness back!

Wow 700 - congrats.

I did my 150th today. 42 week streak. PR for a 30 min ride. Compared it to my very first 30 min 'advanced beginner' ride and subsequent 'regular' 30 min ride (back in Feb 2023) - what an improvement! Nothing like some of the stats/outputs quoted here, but very happy with the progress.

I'm similar to you. 41 week streak but I'm only on 134 rides. I have improved as well from my first beginner rides but I'm struggling now to see many gains, I have the occasional 'achievement' ride but on the whole, pretty static.

My joint issue is still holding me back a bit as I'm getting quite sore after some of the rides so having to take longer breaks between rides.

It's still getting used though, so that's the main thing. Gives me exercise.

My workouts are a mix of the strength training and cycling (+/- bit of stretching). At the mo I'm up to 168 strength classes.

I've found that doing the Power Zone Endurance rides has really helped with progress. Maybe something to consider if do your FTP test.

[devnull]

No chatter about the ability to stream Netflix etc on the bike now? Pretty handy if you just want to spin your legs. Plenty of people has modded the tablet to do similar so it’s nice to see proper support.

[gangzoom]

devnull said:

No chatter about the ability to stream Netflix etc on the bike now? Pretty handy if you just want to spin your legs. Plenty of people has modded the tablet to do similar so it’s nice to see proper support.

I've found the Peloton classes to be the USP that keeps me using the bike versus any other indoor trainer (I had Tacx trainer years ago that was hardly used). The 2hr Pz class actually went really quickly, I was surprised how knackered the legs feel today, given how easy relatively the efforts were (barely Zone 3 and mainly Zone 2). I hope Peloton do more 2hr PZ classes, 20K+ people have done the session now in about 3 weeks, so hopefully as more people do the ride, Peloton will do more of these classes.

On a related note couldn't resist treating our selves for Xmas.......Wouldn't open the boxes till at least December so try and make it feel like an early selfish X mas present .

[gangzoom]

So having said I didn’t see the point of Netflix etc on Peloton, I tried the new beta feature tonight. Having watched the latest ‘fad’ of consistent Zone 2 training thought my not give it a go….

1: Drive to Survive is a really good reminder of how exciting F1 - Especially watching how people like Horner etc have changed since 2018.
2: The Peloton screen is really good quality for media consumption and for maintain a flattish power graph.
3: Zone 2 ride is really easy, but after nearly 1hr constant pedalling it does catch up with you!

[Julian Scott]

My three-quarters of my riding on Zwift (rather than Peloton) is to hook up a movie, sport, binge-watchable series and pedal away at Z2 for 60-120minutes. I just have my KICKR bike set up with a big TV on the wall right in front of it.

It is a secret to my stamina when riding IRL,

[gangzoom]

Finally had time to setup the random Black Friday purchase. The Guide was surprisingly easy to set up and gives good additional info on the strength work outs, has an interesting ‘personalised’ weekly plan setup, which currently is suggesting the same classes for both me and my wife so I suspect the only ‘personalised’ bit is fact you do the sessions in your account .

[g3org3y]

How do you find the Guide? Does it work well?

I've altered my weekly regimen now to focus on more weights work.

Monday: Ben Alldis Upper body Push
Tuesday: Ben Alldis Upper body Pull
Weds: A ride (usually Power zone endurance)
Thurs: Andy Spear Upper body Push
Fri: Andy Spear Upper body Pull
Sat: A ride (PZ or whatever takes my fancy).

Andy Spear's Advanced Split is pretty tough to be fair. Certainly a step up from Ben.

[gangzoom]

^It does what it says, have done nearly a dozen classes on it since Saturday, I quite like the feature where it ‘builds’ a 3-4-5 day routine based on a few basic questions. The tracking is 90% accurate, I haven’t tried it yet for an AMRAP segment but that could be very useful for keeping count versus me doing it.

The tracking however at the moment I think is only class specific, am sure in future it’ll be come persistent across classes so you can compare reps done before versus now. I’m pretty happy with it, the issue for me now is trying not to buy the Row when its released in the UK, given its cost might wait for an used one to appear at some point .

[g3org3y]

Thanks for the feedback. Maybe something to consider for the new year.