Who's Got a Peloton Bike?

I have one, but I wish I had your enthusiasm!
I don’t ride it as much as I should.

I don’t like spin biking, but if I had the money, I’d buy the treadmill in a heartbeat. 

I made the goal to ride every day in April and hit 385 miles for the month, which isn't as much as lots of people, but my best month before that was January with 300 rides. Find your "tribe" the new hashtags make finding people to ride with easier. There are tons of great facebook groups that are super supportive and run fun challenges and do group rides.

So explain this to me like I'm a 3 year old.  You can buy another bike and still do the peloton program?  Does your bike have a screen, or do you use your phone, or....  Again, like I'm a 3 year old.

I made sure to buy a bike with a good, stable place to put a tablet (I use my iPad Pro for my screen). Then I run the Peloton app on my iPad and stream the ride I want to do. There's a small screen on the bike that gives the resistance level and the cadence (rpm) - the Peloton instructors queue you with those two numbers during the ride, so it's easy to follow along even if you're not on a Peloton. 

Like so: 


If you're on the Peloton app, rather than a Peloton bike, you don't show up on the leaderboards, but I personally don't care about that. I'm not sure what the other differences are between the experience of using the app and the bike (except the obvious of the bike itself lol). 

I have a Schwinn IC4. My Lagree instructor who also teaches spin, has one for her home bike and recommended it. Is a Peloton better? Probably, but I don't have any real complaints, and it was $800 vs. $2300 for a Peloton. Given I didn't know if I would like it, I'm happy with the choice. And even now, I'm not sure I'd want to spend almost 3x more for the Peloton bike. I kind of prefer having the screen decoupled from the bike... I don't want the whole bike to be rendered useless if the display goes bad. 

Something I didn't think I cared about when I was picking a bike, but now I'm glad I have... a place for hand weights on the bike. A lot of the Peloton classes have arm work in them too and it's waaaay better to have the weights in reach than to have to get off the bike for them. (There are plenty of classes that don't do any arms, but it's a good balance to get some in since cycling is primarily lower body.)

I *think* she meant 300 miles in a month, since she referred to beating that this month with 385 miles.

That would make more sense that she had 300 miles instead of 300 rides. Lol. Although there are some people that do an insane Number of rides.

Do you happen to know what the minimum inseam of the IC4 is? I was looking at these but don’t know if it would fit me since I am just under 5’.

I wouldn’t have thought about it, either except that I saw some threads about it in the Facebook groups. It seems that the Sunny’s have the shortest inseam but I couldn’t find that info about the Schwinn.

I don’t have a Peloton but I’m an addicted user of the app ! I have the Schwinn IC4 bike and a NordicTrack tread. I do a few yoga and core classes too. I heard about the app from the Peas and have never worked out so much in my life.

I have a peloton. DH bought it, so I had no input. To be honest, I would have gone for a cheaper bike and paid the $13/month for the digital app. If you buy the bike, you must then pay $40/month which in my mind is a rip off. The only difference seems to be the leader board which I’m not interested in. But we have it now, so that’s that.
I like Ally Love, Leanne, Robin, Cody, and Hannah.

You can use a cycling app on an eliptical?  How? I am so intrigued?  What is the cost of the app?

I just follow along with the cycling workouts. Obviously, I can’t adjust things the same exact way that they do but I do feel like I get a good workout and the app helps motivate me (it keeps track of how many workouts you have, how many days you have done a peleton workout in the last 30 days, challenges, etc). I love all of the instructors that I have tried. They also have different types of workouts—cardio (such as HIIT, cardio dance, family workouts, etc), yoga, strength, meditation, outdoor, treadmill, boot camp, and so on.

I originally downloaded the app to use it with my treadmill. But the first day that I tried to use the app, my treadmill died. So, I decided to try the cycling workout with the elliptical that had sat unused for years. I’ve been doing it ever since. I told myself that if I stuck with it until my birthday I would consider getting a bike of some kind. It’s almost my birthday. Part of me wants a bike but part of me is content with the set up I have now. I wish I could try a bike out somewhere to see if I feel like I’m missing out on a lot with my elliptical. I do like that I don’t have to deal with my butt hurting from the seat. I’m also really short so it sounds like that could be an issue with some bikes. But we will see.

The app is $12.99 a month. They usually have a free trial. When I signed up it was a 30 day trial. They just had a 90 day trial offer but that might have just expired. I think it is well worth it.

Sorry I may have miss written. I did 385 miles, 60 rides. But 32 of those were part of a challenge - Tour de Peloton. You do one ride from each of the 32 instructors, most have a 5 minute ride, but there are a couple that have 10 as their shortest and Christian Van de Velde's shortest is 30 minutes. My other 28 rides were mostly 45 or 60 minute. 

Congrats on 100 rides!!