I still have nightmares of Thunder Mountain from the AC/DC ride.
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He slipped in a Thunder Mountain-lite recently at the end of another rock ride. Not good!
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Back by popular demand, the original and true Queen of the realm, Lady J! @ChickPhilA can you please update the title to Jessâs 30 Min Sweat Steady from 4/8/23?
Have a great week everyone!
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I will only take Emma classes this week out of spite for these true Queen comments.
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I know Iâm risking getting thrown into a blood feud I donât understand, buuuuuut Iâve had a Peleton for approximately 7 weeks and I only do Emma classes and I donât see that changing anytime soon.
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Itâs ok, @Douger23 just doesnât know what heâs talking about. Heâs young and naive.
To be clear, nobody is coming at Emma. Everyone loves Emma. She is the Princess to the One True Queen of Refuge Pelotondom
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Jess is one of the two or three most annoying instructors alongside Christine and I think Brad(ley) canât remember his name, he just yells a lot and says dumb stuffâŚâŚmuch like Jess! She is just nails on a chalk board to me (even if @EZmiss believes it is age dependent, it is most definitely not).
@mikedabomb, you have made a great great choice!
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I feel itâs appropriate to clarify my stance here. Many people are saying I pander to the philosophy of âboth sides-ismâ about my Peloton instructor preferences /s
In all seriousness, Emma and Denis (aside from the blatant misspelling of his name) are the two best and my favorite instructors.
HOWEVA - Jess King is no question the Protector of the Realm.
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I think we need to separate Jess King Experience rides and Jess King rides (especially sweat steady)⌠bc that was a blast, she is a top tier programmer/instructor, and I also think the sweat steady rides give the most bang for your buck. Bow down to the queen.
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Iâm new here but those numbers seem insane. Great work!
Much appreciated! This one definitely snuck up on me. One of the first times of been up there after an injury!
So I searched the thread and didnât see any mentions of it, but does anyone here do power zones? I did the FTP test last month, and just finished the five week Build Your Power Zones series, with a second test coming in a few days. I had been doing a lot of scenic rides while listening to podcasts and making up my own workouts, but I like the idea of following a structured course that I can still customize to my own power zones.
Indeed my friend, PowerZone rides are part of my regular routine. I never did the Discover program but did the Build program, saw some good progress from the first FTP to the last FTP over that 5 week period. Planning to do the Peak program later this year.
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At some point, Power Zone rides became the best possible thing. I do the Power Zone Pack challenge (off Peloton) but got COVID right before the last one started and itâs messed me up. The best part is knowing youâre getting the exactly right workout for Power Zone rides - a lot of folks here add 10 resistance to non PZ rides and good for them, but everyone on a PZ ride theoreticaly gets the same workout. Highly recommended.
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Yeah, thatâs what I like compared to the other classes because I was never sure where I should be in a given range. Now I just need to be in my zone. Weâve had the bike for years and like 70% of my workouts have been in the last few months*, once I found out I could integrate the Peleton with the Apple Watch fitness app, which communicates with MyFitnessPal where I track calories (down 30 lbs. since the new year). Iâm a sucker for stuff that tracks that kind of data. Iâm basically buying calories that I can use on booze. I also like the PZ workouts because I feel like theyâre better for me than what I was doing on my own, which was just killing it from the start to get my heart rate up to burn more calories, which probably isnât great. I like the idea that Iâm getting a proper warm up. I use the nolayingup hashtag, btw, but not sure if anyone else does.
*I used to ride on a set of really nice, expensive rollers quite a bit, but they and my workout bike would need a fair amount of maintenance to get back into shape. I put over 15,000 miles on those rollers over a handful of years, so got my moneyâs worth.
I think the actual hasthag is NLURefuge
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