Homebrewtalk Peloton

[Kent88]

I've noticed that I get a Dynamic Duo badge every time I follow along with a video someone I follow has watched. Seems a bit excessive. I suppose it doesn't harm anything, but after a while it seems to lose its significance.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

I've noticed that I get a Dynamic Duo badge every time I follow along with a video someone I follow has watched. Seems a bit excessive. I suppose it doesn't harm anything, but after a while it seems to lose its significance.

Yeah, I'm the same way. While there are a lot of badges I care about, that's not one of them. Heck, prior to @treacheroustexan starting this thread, the only person I followed on Peloton is my wife. It's not a badge I chase.

 

[Kent88]

Hey, you just got gold on the March Strength challenge, @betarhoalphadelta . Good for you.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Hey, you just got gold on the March Strength challenge, @betarhoalphadelta . Good for you.

Thanks! And @Rodent has a pretty commanding lead in the March Cycling challenge, so I'm pretty sure he's gonna walk away with the crown ;-)

 

[Kent88]

He'll probably also overtake me on this month's strength challenge.

 

[Rodent]

getting the work in while I can - spring is almost here and there's an orchard extension to get planted, raised garden beds to build, a grape trellis (2 horizontal rows) to build and table grapes to plant, several ornamental trees to get planted, and a rose garden to plan and start work on. to all this there's 2-1/2 acres to mow with a riding mower and 1-1/2 acres to mow with the tractor.

o, and work travel is about to pick up so that will impact as well. all of the conditioning is paying off out on the ranch, but it's going to be difficult to keep at it once all those chores kick in come mid April

(excuses, excuses, excuses - right?!!)

 

[Kent88]

I was all excited to get my outdoor bike out of winter storage. I overestimated the air in the tires, and found a flat when I got to my house.

I need to learn to change a bicycle tire, but I think I'm going to let a pro handle it when I take it in for the yearly check up.

So I can see the day coming soon when I'm not earning the daily streaks.

 

[Rodent]

took a 20 minute cycling class this morning and noticed that the instructor was not pedaling for at least a third of it. she was quite motivational, and it was a solid session, but really odd that she stood/sat clipped in but not pedaling for a good portion of the 20 minutes. The camera was close in from the front for most of the non pedaling parts, so it was obvious at first.

I'm sure there's a legit reason as to why, including something as simple as pulling a muscle in the previous class that day.

Next ride is Friday - it'll be good to take a day off from pedaling and spend some time on the arms & upper body

 

[Kent88]

I've noticed an instructor or two doing that. It bugs me too, but we're still pedaling along with each other most of the time.

I wonder how hard Peloton is pushing them to push out content. Just looking at one of the instructors I follow along with, earlier this month she had one day where she put out just shy of 2hours of content. But her typical day of taping seems to usually be 40minutes to about an hour of new content, and it looks like about three days a week are spent filming.

But they're probably doing a lot behind the scenes to keep looking muscular, ya know, like someone qualified to lead workout videos for you.

It could also be that they need to get enough air to shout encouragement at the camera.

It doesn't sound like you're harshly criticizing, I'm just giving stream of thought about why it makes sense to me. It does actually bug me that they're sneaking in a little break at times, but it doesn't happen often and I do my best to shrug it off like how I do that the arms& intervals rides don't count as strength exercises.

 

[Rodent]

definitely not griping, more of a sharing something unexpected in today's feed and wondering if it happens in other classes. I had noticed the opposite in one low impact class, where the suggested resistance was light but the instructor kept adding until his effort smoothed out

I bet there's a lot to keep up on off camera. definitely not something I'd be able to do

my first ride today had an instructor just returning from a cycling race accident, and she noted having been unable to spin for eight weeks, and that she had only been back on the bike for a week or so. recovery riding took on a new meaning for her, and being able to pedal for 20 minutes with minimal resistance/cadence was a breakthrough in her recovery.

more proof we're all human and working to better our fitness, and as @betarhoalphadelta noted a page our two back - we need to take a day of recovery time here and there to avoid injury and/or burnout

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Yeah, I get it, although I still get annoyed when they don't pedal.

The funniest one to me is Alex Toussaint. He's a good instructor and I like his classes (when I like the playlists), but I don't understand how, with resistance callouts fairly low, he's getting absolutely drenched in sweat despite the fact that he'll stand up out of the pedals and talk for 30 seconds multiple times in a ride. While at the same time I take his rides when I *don't* want to push resistance all that hard, and although I sweat a ton in other rides, don't do so much in his classes.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

I feel like such a worthless pile of mastodon dung today.

Had to wake up and drop the kids at school. Okay then. But then after that had to get quickly to the office. Stuck at the office longer than I'd like, but I'd looked at the strength classes and thought "yeah, I can totally do that 30 minute JJ chest & back strength". Got home and had ZERO motivation.

Ended up with a 10 minute full body stretch just to keep the streak.

Have to go into the office again tomorrow so I won't have a TON of time, but I'm gonna have to atone for this.

 

[Kent88]

I unfortunately skipped my extra-10 ride today. Mini-she was just not having it today (or most days for the last week and a half), and I let time get away from me. Before I knew it, it was almost time to pick up mini-me from school and little girl was finally hungry. Still got 15 minutes in.

I'm not as upset as @betarhoalphadelta . I don't have a burning desire to atone for this. I'm just a bit frustrated that it didn't work out better, but oh well.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Figured I'd atone for yesterday by taking my first ever Power Zone Max ride. I thought, c'mon, how hard can it be? It's only 30 second all-out Z7 efforts, and you get 4+ minutes recovery between each. I can do that!

Hard. It was really effing hard.

 

[Rodent]

That is an insanely high wattage output on those four peak efforts @betarhoalphadelta

I assume those are out of the saddle type efforts

 

[Rodent]

Just saw that it was a recently recorded Christine D class. Amazing that she has recovered so well and fast since one of here early post-crash/injury Recovery classes on 2 Nov last year. In that recovery class she was barely hobbling along at 70ish cadence and 22ish resistance, and her right arm/shoulder was causing her fits

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

That is an insanely high wattage output on those four peak efforts @betarhoalphadelta

I assume those are out of the saddle type efforts

In the saddle b/c I can't hit the cadence I was hitting on those OOS. Resistance was high 60s, first effort was 66 at 115-120 cadence lol. Later efforts were 69 at about 100 cadence. I probably could have gotten OOS and taken down the cadence to hit those wattages if I'd gone >80 resistance.

That was absolute max for me. I have no more than what I put out for those 30s pushes.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

@cubalz Congrats on 1K minutes!

@Kent88 I don't know if you care about the annual challenge goal, but just FYI if you join, it will count every minute you've already amassed for the year. I joined the 2022 one in VERY late December and used my 2022 number to somewhat guide what I thought I could make my goal for 2023. So don't think that you're missing out because you didn't join in time.

 

[Kent88]

@Kent88 I don't know if you care about the annual challenge goal, but just FYI if you join, it will count every minute you've already amassed for the year. ... So don't think that you're missing out because you didn't join in time.

I did think it wouldn't count what I had already done, and I don't think I discovered that particular challenge until well into February.

For some reason my app has also been suggesting the Running Challenge, even though I don't have the tread, nor have I installed their app on any iOS device.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

I did think it wouldn't count what I had already done, and I don't think I discovered that particular challenge until well into February.

For some reason my app has also been suggesting the Running Challenge, even though I don't have the tread, nor have I installed their app on any iOS device.

Yeah, like I said I did it in late December, and it counted my 4K+ minutes I'd already completed from 2022.

The running challenge is probably suggested because you can do outdoor runs that will track mileage. So if you have an app on a device with a GPS, it'll probably make it available. I see that one on my phone but not on the desktop/browser version or on the bike interface.

 

[Kent88]

I joined that challenge a little bit ago, but now remembered that my spouse is now trying out the occasional yoga video on this account, so that could mess with time stats.

If she keeps up with it for a couple months, I'll leave the challenge. Time won't be a good metric for me to use.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

For no other reason than wanting to get to round numbers, I knew that taking a 75 minute ride today would get me over 250 miles logged for the month. So I did it.

5 minutes later, I was seated at my kitchen table for a work meeting, which was supposed to be 30 minutes but ended up being almost an hour. On a typical kitchen chair.

When that meeting ended, I could barely stand up lol. My legs were STIFF!!!

 

[Rodent]

@betarhoalphadelta I learned my lesson on jumping off the bike and running into a meeting several weeks back. I started cramping up 45 min into the call and couldn't doo anything since it was video.

congrats on the big 250 this month!

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

@betarhoalphadelta I learned my lesson on jumping off the bike and running into a meeting several weeks back. I started cramping up 45 min into the call and couldn't doo anything since it was video.

congrats on the big 250 this month!

Thanks. And congrats on 275!

Used my lunch hour to take the dog on a ~2.8 mi walk b/c my wife and I are doing our anniversary dinner tonight, and I wanted to wear him out.

I had big ideas about actually trying to do some strength work today too, but.... NAAAAHHHHHH! Screw that. I'll try to get in a stretch this afternoon after all that, but no more actual exercise.

 

[Rodent]

Dug holes by hand and planted several fruit trees today. Bonus is that we live on 30' of glacial silt so there was not so much as even a small pebble to be seen.

Bummer that I didn't think to grab my phone and turn on the app to generic 'Strength' to claim the two hours of exercise towards my workout goals. Lugging a 5 gallon bucket of water around (hole soaking water) and a 30 gallon garbage can 1/3 filled with water (bareroot tree soaking water) should have counted for some good strength activity. Similar story for the trees planted yesterday. There's another 14 bareroot fruit trees to go, so maybe I can remember next time.

Hindsight is 20/20

 

[Rodent]

I found another difference between a session on the bike and a session using the Android app on my Samsung Tab: high-fives with others in the same session. The Android version doesn't have the ability to hi-5 others in session, or provide notification when I've been hi-5ed by another in the session. Not a critical difference, but it's nice to recognize somebody who has just passed me in a cycling ride, or acknowledge others who are hitting key milestones during that strength or stretching session.

I now see there's a valid reason that some people don't hi-5 during a session, and that it's not just non-social behavior choices.

 

[Kent88]

I noticed you had high-fived me almost a week after it happened. I looked around for a way to say thanks or return it in app, but I saw no means to. Edit: so now I am saying it, thank you!

Nasty headache today. Might not make it on the bike because of it. I have a 10min low-impact Hainsby ride bookmarked for rough days, so there's still a chance. We'll see.

 

[Kent88]

I'll be traveling later this week, so I thought I'd try out a beginner Arms and Shoulders Strength vid in case it seemed like something I could do while on the road. I usually do Arms & Light Weights, which aren't labeled for difficulty.

I haven't taken an intermediate strength vid yet, but think the Arms & Light Weights videos might be intermediate. Tricep kickbacks aren't easy for me, but everything else she asked me to do today was fine.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

I'll be traveling later this week, so I thought I'd try out a beginner Arms and Shoulders Strength vid in case it seemed like something I could do while on the road. I usually do Arms & Light Weights, which aren't labeled for difficulty.

I haven't taken an intermediate strength vid yet, but think the Arms & Light Weights videos might be intermediate. Tricep kickbacks aren't easy for me, but everything else she asked me to do today was fine.

I know that they also have "bodyweight" strength classes that might be good if you're on the road w/o access to weights.

I hear you on the tricep kickbacks. As I've been getting into this, anything tricep (i.e. kickbacks, skullcrushers, overhead extension) I end up taking lighter weights than I use for pretty much any other muscle group. But it's improving as I go... It's still the lightest weight I use, but that weight has at least been increasing over the weeks.

 

[Rodent]

@Kent88 if you'll be flying, note that TSA has a limit of 2 pounds per weight that can be included in your carryon bags, and that the weight can't look like it'd be usable as a weapon. when I travel I pack a pair of 1 pound light weights and am prepared for the conversation with the TSA agent during screening. it was my first trip with these weights that I learned the rules I need to work with for carryon bags.

I carry this style without issue on multiple trips

and not this style (below), which I was told had a higher chance of not being allowed as carryon

YMMV of course