Very challenging ride and really enjoyed it. Alex is one of my favorite instructors and I haven’t taken a ride of his that I dislike.
As far as the objection of him not riding when barking orders or providing motivation, I’m assuming those people have never taken a class when an instructor is out of breath on the bike trying to talk into the mic. Heavy breathing and talking into a mic is not a great combination, especially when you’re trying to find motivation.
There are quite a few instructors on peloton pumping way more output than Alex and can manage to do it. And if you are out of breath, don’t speak and just grind alongside us in quiet.
Wilpers is the goat.
edit: obligatory “different strokes for different folks”
I don’t know what the policy will be after the Vid, especially since they just opened a new studio as lockdown started.
When I went to the Chelsea studio there were both free and paid classes. The pay classes were early in the AM and late in the PM (makes sense, people want before or after work spots and one could buy class packages). These classes tended to be the 45/60 minute classes.
Free classes were in the middle of the day and you could sign up two weeks out. They tended to be 30 minutes and shorter. I seem to remember taking a 20 minute groove with Emma and a 20 minute with CDE back to back bc that worked with my schedule.
I showed up, got shoes, was assigned a bike (never take 6 or 23 in the old studio, they were calibrated tougher than tough), changed, and rode. There were lockers and showers, and it was a tight, tight piece of property. I grew up in a locker room and it didn’t bug me, but if you’re not cool with incidental male on male contact it wasn’t your scene.
There was a juice bar and merch. Something that was cool was it was so small the coaches were literally just there hanging out, so you emmafanboys would have loved it. I’m assuming the new studio is a bit bigger and separates talent from customers a bit more than in the past.
So, something that gets lost in the pandemic is how much of the Peloton scene wasn’t about the workout but about an actual community of people.
The Homecoming thing that is getting pumped right now as a virtual event was, at one point, a grassroots event. FB groups devoted to an instructor would arrange to go to NYC and spend a few days riding together. Early on before Peloton went public and really clamped down on the talent’s behavior/social media behavior coaches would often agree to go out to dinner/drinks with riders. There was one big event annually and then smaller events throughout the year. It got too big to manage well about 2 years ago.
now they just take all the instructors on a cruise to a private island for a big orgy and they all come back with covid.
or at least that’s what the Ms. told me, according to FB, which is def a legit news source.
I know there was some talk in here recently about being annoyed when instructors stop pedaling. It never really bothered me much, but it has been incredibly jarring to me during the Ride To Greatness rides when Alex literally gets off the bike and yells a pep talk right into the camera.
JSims did this during a boot camp, albeit while transitioning back to the bike and it freaked me TF out.
Not just the instructors. Hope they change it up this year though because the beachside tuna ceviche was underwhelming last year.
does anybody else have issues with the adjustable rubber feet and/or base of the bike creaking and being super loud?
we had to move ours upstairs from the basement for the time being, and now that it’s on hardwood instead of carpet it’s making an awful racket.
I’m bothered by very few things that instructors do but this for some reason would disturb me. I’m a big Alex guy too but it upsets me just to think about that happening.
At the end of the day, this is entertainment fitness. This is just one “show” in Alex’s repertoire and it includes some motivational coach-like pep talks while off the bike. I don’t find it really any different than a Cody Rigsby XOXO ride where he reads cards for 5 minutes and doesn’t pedal. Lots of the instructors do things like this and it’s just entertainment.
Not sure how long some of y’all have had your peloton, but one of my favorite instructors from the early days was Stephen Little… I think they’ve removed all his rides by now though.
We should make next weeks ride the FTP warmup/FTP test!
Yes. I can’t get the freaking level right. I feel like an idiot playing whack a mole trying to fix it.
I have leveled ours out a couple times and it still has a pretty loud creak. We actually sent a video to peloton support and they said it shouldn’t be doing that and they were going to send somebody out to look at it.
I assume they make people pay for the high demand time slots not to make money but to ensure people will actually show up for their reservation.
I am sure that factors in somehow. But they really don’t need a full studio to make it look like a full studio. That’s something else to remember is that if you go there to ride you’re not going to the gym to ride you’re going to a TV studio to ride. Having said that I know that it was common knowledge that high demand time slots sold out pretty quick.
Did this Emma 90s ride yesterday - good times. Okay output.
Gonna do yesterday’s Kendall 30 minute 2000s ride next - super emo playlist again lol.
Love me Emma’s 90’s rides… always give me the dad rock i need. it’s as close as i’ve gotten to what i asked Steven Little for: a Pearl Jam ride.
I had the biggest smile on my face when I saw that playlist.
