re: The Peloton Thread

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Just did a ride with Sam Yo. Guy put us through the paces on the resistance (in the 60's with cadence around 100) but he did less of the rah rah stuff I've seen with the other instructors I've tried.

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When I first got our bike a couple of months ago, I kept trying a different instructor for each ride. I was mostly doing the beginner 20 minute classes for the first couple of weeks. Just checked, and I started with Matt Wilpers, and my second one was Sam Yo. I didn't care for him at all. It seemed too slow and easy, but it was a beginner class. I sort of settled into a pattern of Alex Toussaint, Ben Alldis, Denis Morton, with a little Kendall and Cody mixed in. I took a 30 minute 90s rock ride of Sam's from back in October last night, and it was awesome. Minimum resistance was 45 through most of it, and it had two 10 minute climbs with just a short break between them. Even the warmup was pushing it. Glad I came back around and tried him again.

I like Alex, still finding a group of instructors that I like, some have been hit or miss. Glad you gave Sam another shot, he loves to kill you on the resistance pushes.

I'm doing some sort of workout every day in the lead up to my wedding, need to find some weights though as everything so far has been runs and Peloton rides.

The intermediate bodyweight workouts are good if you don't have weights.

That is what I've been doing while I wait for my KBs to come in.

I'll look into this as the prices for weights have gone through the roof. Need to just wait and pick up a set off of Craigslist or something.

I got my butt kicked last night on a Tabata ride. The only other one I did with any Tabata training, it was just a smaller part of a HIIT and Hills ride. This one was with Alex from 9/16/2021, and it was a 30 minute Tabata class. I wasn't sure what this meant going in, but boy do I know now. It is a ton of intervals. 20 second push, 10 second recovery, and you do this over and over and over and over and over again. He said it was 31 intervals in a 30 minute class. I was sweating so much it looked like I just got out of the pool when it was over.

Haven't done this, but once I finish my current program that's what I am switching too and going to start a PZ program. From what I hear that's one of the best things as a new rider.

I have done a couple of Jess King's ( . )( . ) sweat steady rides which are basically PZ rides. They will definitely make you sweat and test your endurance.

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Have any of your newer guys done the FTP test yet? Thinking of doing it this weekend so I can do more PZ rides.

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been putting off my retest for awhile now, need to do it.

The FTP is exhausting so come prepared to burn out

I’m still below 250 on a 30 minute ride. Although I did PR the other night just shy of that. I think either 246 or 248. Hoping to break 300 before too much longer.

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Main drawback to buying a used one. No warranty protection at all

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I love my bike but I am very frustrated with Peloton customer service and the warranty work I need done.

Pedal snapped off in the crank arm on February 1st. Spoke with them the day after, no way to get it out and just replace pedals and the entire crank arm has to be replaced.

Literally have warranty until April so I got lucky this is warranty work and that I don't have to pay the $100 tech fee (Although, they are not concerned with warranty work and at this point I would gladly pay the $100 tech fee if it would get an appointment quicker.)

To say that dealing with their customer service is a nightmare, is, a complete understatement. Did not seem like it would be difficult at first. Called them the day after and they scheduled an appointment for February 18th.

They cancelled that appointment on February 15th due to a "scheduling conflict." They said the technician would call to re-schedule. I understand Peloton contracts out to a company for scheduling and repairs and they are NOT on the same page with this company. Called them on February 18th (date of my original appointment) for an update. They say the tech will reach out to us in a "couple" of days. Have emailed about 5 times and called about 5 times since the 18th. As of March 1, still no phone call and still no date of repair in sight.