Toughest Peloton Instructor or Ride

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve taken my last Robin ride today. She used to be a fairly tough instructor and I enjoyed the challenge. But today her commentary was primarily about her and her daughter, she pretty much danced while making God awful faces into the screen, and it was obvious she turned the knob left while directing us to turn right. She’s mostly into showboating and not instructing these days.

I feel like my problems with Robin are not just that she talks too much; probably more importantly she seems VERY disingenuous (much more so than she used to be). I remember taking her turkey burn ride last year and she did a call out to mothers that felt really moving and real, and yet her rides lately just seem VERY fake. And I don't mind talkers all the time, I LOVE Cody, but Cody has not lost his 'realness' whatever that is.

DP, but I agree. I took a HIIT and Hills with her (she was wearing yellow! It was going to be so hard!) and... she LIED about the number of intervals we did. Lied. Said there would be 8 in one block and then did 6, probably because she was talking so much, and still claimed we did 8. Stop it. I know she's human and hell, she may be struggling with adjusting to being a mom, for all I know. But own it. I've had other instructors say, oh, I gave more/less rest than I planned, or I missed an interval or whatever. But don't lie about something, FFS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve taken my last Robin ride today. She used to be a fairly tough instructor and I enjoyed the challenge. But today her commentary was primarily about her and her daughter, she pretty much danced while making God awful faces into the screen, and it was obvious she turned the knob left while directing us to turn right. She’s mostly into showboating and not instructing these days.

I feel like my problems with Robin are not just that she talks too much; probably more importantly she seems VERY disingenuous (much more so than she used to be). I remember taking her turkey burn ride last year and she did a call out to mothers that felt really moving and real, and yet her rides lately just seem VERY fake. And I don't mind talkers all the time, I LOVE Cody, but Cody has not lost his 'realness' whatever that is.

I figure they are all fake on some level, and I guess I don’t really care. They are all very active on IG and their stuff is all so curated and staged. Who knows what’s real? The people I think are “real” (Jess Simms, Ben Alldis, for example), maybe they’re just better at projecting their image.

My issue with Robin is that she seems distracted in class. Like she loses track of where she is in the count, switch sides etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve taken my last Robin ride today. She used to be a fairly tough instructor and I enjoyed the challenge. But today her commentary was primarily about her and her daughter, she pretty much danced while making God awful faces into the screen, and it was obvious she turned the knob left while directing us to turn right. She’s mostly into showboating and not instructing these days.

I feel like my problems with Robin are not just that she talks too much; probably more importantly she seems VERY disingenuous (much more so than she used to be). I remember taking her turkey burn ride last year and she did a call out to mothers that felt really moving and real, and yet her rides lately just seem VERY fake. And I don't mind talkers all the time, I LOVE Cody, but Cody has not lost his 'realness' whatever that is.

I figure they are all fake on some level, and I guess I don’t really care. They are all very active on IG and their stuff is all so curated and staged. Who knows what’s real? The people I think are “real” (Jess Simms, Ben Alldis, for example), maybe they’re just better at projecting their image.

My issue with Robin is that she seems distracted in class. Like she loses track of where she is in the count, switch sides etc.

I think the problem is the content of the 'realness'. Cody's being real means talking about how much he loves 90s pop music and relateable growing pains. It doesn't come across disingenuous because, in his own words, its just not that deep. Jess Simms talks about gratitude but doesn't share that much about her personal life. Christine is TOO genuine, talks about anything and everything and starts crying on a ride and takes you out of the moment.

Robin's problem is that her 'peloton identity' is like, deep sharing and connection on vulnerable parts of her life. The 'Rachel Hollis' effect. In that, when she was first starting and it wasn't a massive audience and she felt less vulnerable she WAS real and shared a lot and connected deeply with riders. And now that she's gotten a level of fame and success from this, and had a child, and has far more scrutiny, she has polished up her brand, and realized that part of her brand is this like, 'pushing hard and succeeding when things are tough' but really her life is really freaking awesome right now and entirely unrelateable to almost anyone riding so she has to put on a bit of a show to show 'I'm still just like them' and that is just coming across.

I'm not sure there's anything she can or should do about it TBH. She got super famous and successful and its making her less relateable! I'm sure she's crying herself to sleep about this after depositing her checks at the bank (not!).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Toughest? Probably Olivia. But it’s unnecessarily tough, annoyingly tough so I stay away from her.

The best instructors- bike Matt (great teacher), tread- Becs (great teacher) and Marcel Dinkins (hilarious and makes the runs go by faster), strength- Jess (she really fires up my muscles) and runners ups are Rad, Adrian, Selena, and Emma for core. Bike Bootcamp- Tunde and Jess. Tread Bootcamp- Jess and Adrian. Yoga- Kristin and Dennis (old school yoga instructors). I sprinkle other instructors here and there but those above are my go-tos.

Nobody's rides are more consistently difficult than OA. Very demanding. I do most of them and when I do a ride with someone else I always feel like I could have worked harder

They're demanding for you because you respond to her style and follow her cues. I find her annoying AF and so I ignore her. One of Robin's Tabata classes, or Hannah F's HIIT and Hills, though, I'll work for.

I find Olivia very demanding. Why do you find her annoying? Just curious. I find a lot of the instructors annoying!

Olivia just seems to pile things on with no structure. I really like Sam Yo, he has a nice structured plan that he explains and he doesn’t talk your ear off the whole ride.

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My first and only Oliva class was one where she was so distracted with the way she was fitting into her sports bra, that I lost all concentration on the ride. I haven't taken one since.

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Anonymous wrote:My first and only Oliva class was one where she was so distracted with the way she was fitting into her sports bra, that I lost all concentration on the ride. I haven't taken one since.

Was that the one where the white bra pad was showing and she was trying to lift her bra to hide it? If not, there’s more than one class where she’s fiddling with her bra.

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Anonymous wrote:My first and only Oliva class was one where she was so distracted with the way she was fitting into her sports bra, that I lost all concentration on the ride. I haven't taken one since.

Was that the one where the white bra pad was showing and she was trying to lift her bra to hide it? If not, there’s more than one class where she’s fiddling with her bra.

DP. I don't doubt your experience but for the record I have taken a lot of Olivia classes doing powerzone and I've never seen her fiddle with her bra once. She actually seems like one of the instructors less obsessed with how she looks on a ride TBH, although always in her sports bra and leggings uniform.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve taken my last Robin ride today. She used to be a fairly tough instructor and I enjoyed the challenge. But today her commentary was primarily about her and her daughter, she pretty much danced while making God awful faces into the screen, and it was obvious she turned the knob left while directing us to turn right. She’s mostly into showboating and not instructing these days.

I feel like my problems with Robin are not just that she talks too much; probably more importantly she seems VERY disingenuous (much more so than she used to be). I remember taking her turkey burn ride last year and she did a call out to mothers that felt really moving and real, and yet her rides lately just seem VERY fake. And I don't mind talkers all the time, I LOVE Cody, but Cody has not lost his 'realness' whatever that is.

DP, but I agree. I took a HIIT and Hills with her (she was wearing yellow! It was going to be so hard!) and... she LIED about the number of intervals we did. Lied. Said there would be 8 in one block and then did 6, probably because she was talking so much, and still claimed we did 8. Stop it. I know she's human and hell, she may be struggling with adjusting to being a mom, for all I know. But own it. I've had other instructors say, oh, I gave more/less rest than I planned, or I missed an interval or whatever. But don't lie about something, FFS.

This made me laugh because I can feel your anger here - I share it! I did an Olivia HIIT class and it drove me nuts because she said there would be 4 blocks, but there were 5. We did block 4, which she called block 4, and then she moved onto block 5 which she continued to call block 4, and there was no acknowledgment at any time that this was not actually the 4th block, but the 5th. Just please admit that you got this wrong! That you miscounted! It was just infuriating!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve taken my last Robin ride today. She used to be a fairly tough instructor and I enjoyed the challenge. But today her commentary was primarily about her and her daughter, she pretty much danced while making God awful faces into the screen, and it was obvious she turned the knob left while directing us to turn right. She’s mostly into showboating and not instructing these days.

I feel like my problems with Robin are not just that she talks too much; probably more importantly she seems VERY disingenuous (much more so than she used to be). I remember taking her turkey burn ride last year and she did a call out to mothers that felt really moving and real, and yet her rides lately just seem VERY fake. And I don't mind talkers all the time, I LOVE Cody, but Cody has not lost his 'realness' whatever that is.

DP, but I agree. I took a HIIT and Hills with her (she was wearing yellow! It was going to be so hard!) and... she LIED about the number of intervals we did. Lied. Said there would be 8 in one block and then did 6, probably because she was talking so much, and still claimed we did 8. Stop it. I know she's human and hell, she may be struggling with adjusting to being a mom, for all I know. But own it. I've had other instructors say, oh, I gave more/less rest than I planned, or I missed an interval or whatever. But don't lie about something, FFS.

This made me laugh because I can feel your anger here - I share it! I did an Olivia HIIT class and it drove me nuts because she said there would be 4 blocks, but there were 5. We did block 4, which she called block 4, and then she moved onto block 5 which she continued to call block 4, and there was no acknowledgment at any time that this was not actually the 4th block, but the 5th. Just please admit that you got this wrong! That you miscounted! It was just infuriating!

That's suuuuuper frustrating. I've taken classes where instructors do something hard at the end that they didn't tell you about, but they own it: "I didn't tell you about this, surprise! Hahaha!" Fine. Acknowledge it. But when they don't, it just makes me think they're too insecure to admit they made a mistake, and that's so irritating.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve taken my last Robin ride today. She used to be a fairly tough instructor and I enjoyed the challenge. But today her commentary was primarily about her and her daughter, she pretty much danced while making God awful faces into the screen, and it was obvious she turned the knob left while directing us to turn right. She’s mostly into showboating and not instructing these days.

I feel like my problems with Robin are not just that she talks too much; probably more importantly she seems VERY disingenuous (much more so than she used to be). I remember taking her turkey burn ride last year and she did a call out to mothers that felt really moving and real, and yet her rides lately just seem VERY fake. And I don't mind talkers all the time, I LOVE Cody, but Cody has not lost his 'realness' whatever that is.

DP, but I agree. I took a HIIT and Hills with her (she was wearing yellow! It was going to be so hard!) and... she LIED about the number of intervals we did. Lied. Said there would be 8 in one block and then did 6, probably because she was talking so much, and still claimed we did 8. Stop it. I know she's human and hell, she may be struggling with adjusting to being a mom, for all I know. But own it. I've had other instructors say, oh, I gave more/less rest than I planned, or I missed an interval or whatever. But don't lie about something, FFS.

This made me laugh because I can feel your anger here - I share it! I did an Olivia HIIT class and it drove me nuts because she said there would be 4 blocks, but there were 5. We did block 4, which she called block 4, and then she moved onto block 5 which she continued to call block 4, and there was no acknowledgment at any time that this was not actually the 4th block, but the 5th. Just please admit that you got this wrong! That you miscounted! It was just infuriating!

During one recent ride, I knew exactly where Matt miscounted and I thought we were off the hook with one minute less in the interval. So when it came to the 3 minute recovery, he saw the remaining time and said there should be X minutes in the last interval but there was X-1. So instead of just letting it go, he cut the recovery by one minute to give us the interval time he allotted in the beginning of the class! I can definitely tell he’s a coach! Had to get the workout in.

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I love Tunde, Cody and Emma. I like to mix it up though so I don't get bored. Camila Ramon is newer, but she's really grown on me and I return to take her newer classes now. I don't know whether she's gotten more confident after making it through her first months or what, but she is tough, encouraging, positive and fun. And her music is super catchy, LOVE the latin music.

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Anonymous wrote:My first and only Oliva class was one where she was so distracted with the way she was fitting into her sports bra, that I lost all concentration on the ride. I haven't taken one since.

Was that the one where the white bra pad was showing and she was trying to lift her bra to hide it? If not, there’s more than one class where she’s fiddling with her bra.

I think it was a red bra and the padding was folded or lumpy. It was in the Discover Your Power Zone challenge. I took it months ago, but it's indelible for me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My first and only Oliva class was one where she was so distracted with the way she was fitting into her sports bra, that I lost all concentration on the ride. I haven't taken one since.

Was that the one where the white bra pad was showing and she was trying to lift her bra to hide it? If not, there’s more than one class where she’s fiddling with her bra.

I think it was a red bra and the padding was folded or lumpy. It was in the Discover Your Power Zone challenge. I took it months ago, but it's indelible for me.

Same! I just started that challenge and was so distracted/fascinated by that. I get that there was really nothing that could be done in the original live ride, but why keep it in the catalogue, and ESPECIALLY why include it in a program that requires everyone to take it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My first and only Oliva class was one where she was so distracted with the way she was fitting into her sports bra, that I lost all concentration on the ride. I haven't taken one since.

Was that the one where the white bra pad was showing and she was trying to lift her bra to hide it? If not, there’s more than one class where she’s fiddling with her bra.

I think it was a red bra and the padding was folded or lumpy. It was in the Discover Your Power Zone challenge. I took it months ago, but it's indelible for me.

Same! I just started that challenge and was so distracted/fascinated by that. I get that there was really nothing that could be done in the original live ride, but why keep it in the catalogue, and ESPECIALLY why include it in a program that requires everyone to take it?

Because some people do not care about things like that. She might have said who cares?

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Anonymous wrote:My first and only Oliva class was one where she was so distracted with the way she was fitting into her sports bra, that I lost all concentration on the ride. I haven't taken one since.

Was that the one where the white bra pad was showing and she was trying to lift her bra to hide it? If not, there’s more than one class where she’s fiddling with her bra.

I think it was a red bra and the padding was folded or lumpy. It was in the Discover Your Power Zone challenge. I took it months ago, but it's indelible for me.

Same! I just started that challenge and was so distracted/fascinated by that. I get that there was really nothing that could be done in the original live ride, but why keep it in the catalogue, and ESPECIALLY why include it in a program that requires everyone to take it?

Because some people do not care about things like that. She might have said who cares?

Oh she cared. Or else she would have yanked those things out and called it a day.