Hell on wheels

I have joined the cult of Peloton.  It is eye wateringly expensive but I rationalised it as the price of several physio sessions, podiatry and sports massage but more importantly it affords me the opportunity to get up off the sofa without creaking.  

And you know what, I absolutely love it.  For someone who has loathed gyms and the palaver of getting there and getting home it is delightful to hop on the bike for 20 minutes and know I have hit my exercise goal for the day.  What it has highlighted to me is that 10,000 steps might keep my legs moving but does very little to push my heart to exercise or really force my muscles into action.

For those of you living under a rock, peloton is a fancy exercise bike with a big screen that displays live and recorded exercise classes with attractive young people as instructors.  Think live and asynchronous spin classes with a built in community of people.  I, of course, am in the peloton border collie owners section.

It has all the hall marks of cheerful affirmation of any exercise instruction but I actually really like that and I find the music energising and there are literally hundreds of classes to choose from with an easy interface.  I feel very cheerful when I have finished a session so that is all upside.  My teeny gripe is that for something so $$$ they could have made a saddle a bit better designed for women but I am shopping for cheap cycle shorts for the extra padding.  My other thing is getting so sweaty is a pain in the arse when you have long hair and I am back in my perennial cycle of should I chop it to neck length to make the whole hair washing and drying thing less painful.

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[carolbaby]

We bought this gel padded seat cover for our outrageously uncomfortable spin bike - it's been an excellent investment and has lasted for years: https://www.bigw.com.au/product/diamondback-deluxe-gel-saddle-cover/p/964462

$20 well spent!

Also highly recommend wiggle.com.au for all your padded pants needs. You probably don't want too cheap shorts! I say that from experience.

[Elle]

I just got the bike-adjacent/no-bike-needed Peloton service. I have Fille's same old omafiets on the trainer & I use the Bike Bunnies low-impact rides for company & the timer + accounting calendar because for now it is a long free trial for two months. But I don't have a resistance knob & I like to watch Six Million Dollar Man in the mornings so, I am not paying a lot of attention ... lol

Fifille & I were rudely shocked by the effort locomotion required this summer. Chloe Ting? Joe Pilates? Riding along with Tour de France? Yes! Walking from a to b on our feet, against gravity, on hard sidewalks? In the sun? We thought we would die out there on Sutton Place. I might take one of the Bike Bunnies outside inside my ear buds ... we'll see.