Peloton Out of Business?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the appeal of Peleton? It is just a gym membership in disguise where YOU also have to pay for the equipment. What a joke.

Peloton is the only exercise program I can stick to because of the ease of access and great content. I actually love working out now. I hate gyms because 1) time to and fro 2) male dominated space 3) waiting on others to finish using equipment. I just walk into my home gym and use it… occasionally I must fight my teenage son for gym time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When it rains it pours

Look at those aging bros. Still dress the same as the other bros, just like back in the frat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the appeal of Peleton? It is just a gym membership in disguise where YOU also have to pay for the equipment. What a joke.

How much is your time worth? My is worth a whole lot more than the cost of the equipment/subscription and the time it takes to get to the gym (at least 20 minutes each way). I use my tread+ (no longer sold) for distance race and triathlon training. I use my wife's peloton bike, but not as often. I still go to a gym for weight lifting.

How is this difficult to understand? The cost of this is easily a mild monthly wine habit, if you have one. Or a normal American's take out food habit.

+1

I have a Peloton and a gym membership. I strongly prefer the Peloton for spinning. I use the gym for weights and swimming.

+2

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When it rains it pours

Look at those aging bros. Still dress the same as the other bros, just like back in the frat.

And not one of them obese. Amazing right!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tough couple of weeks here for peloton. Either way, bizarrely obsessed haters will still be horrendously out of shape and gasping for air trying to make it up three flights of stairs.

Very strange that someone is so gleeful about a fitness company having financial problems.

The part I don’t understand is rooting so hard against Peloton—whose CEO, I agree, seems like a doofus—and implicitly for Amazon, an objectively terrible company doing a huge amount of harm in the world. Consolidation among a few huge companies (FAANG) is bad for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the appeal of Peleton? It is just a gym membership in disguise where YOU also have to pay for the equipment. What a joke.

How much is your time worth? My is worth a whole lot more than the cost of the equipment/subscription and the time it takes to get to the gym (at least 20 minutes each way). I use my tread+ (no longer sold) for distance race and triathlon training. I use my wife's peloton bike, but not as often. I still go to a gym for weight lifting.

How is this difficult to understand? The cost of this is easily a mild monthly wine habit, if you have one. Or a normal American's take out food habit.

+1

I have a Peloton and a gym membership. I strongly prefer the Peloton for spinning. I use the gym for weights and swimming.

+1 Before the pandemic I always had a gym membership I would use for about a month and inevitably would stop going and just pay monthly fees until i was inspired to go again for another month. I got the peloton bike in 2020 and haven't gone one week without exercising at least 3 days/week. The convenience just makes it so easy but the classes (both on and off the bike) are also fun.

Exactly. Going to gym is a pipe dream for me with small kids. Now I can do rides and strength classes 4 days a week while my kids happily watch a couple episodes of their show. I'm way healthier than I was 2 years ago. The product works for both DH and I and paying $66/month (for both cost of bike and content) is a way better value than the gym we never went to. I will be very bummed if they go down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tough couple of weeks here for peloton. Either way, bizarrely obsessed haters will still be horrendously out of shape and gasping for air trying to make it up three flights of stairs.

Because the only way to be healthy is by using a $1500 bike plus $39 a month. This is the only way. Anyone who does not cannot be fit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tough couple of weeks here for peloton. Either way, bizarrely obsessed haters will still be horrendously out of shape and gasping for air trying to make it up three flights of stairs.

Because the only way to be healthy is by using a $1500 bike plus $39 a month. This is the only way. Anyone who does not cannot be fit.

Nobody here claimed that. The hyperbole above was posted as the equivalent of the stupid hate parade.

As already posted numerous time here, this specific at home fitness product has been a wild success for those of us with very little time. If your time is not worth $40/month for the content and whatever the cost of the bike is over time versus going to the gym I’d suggest you work harder to make your time more valuable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tough couple of weeks here for peloton. Either way, bizarrely obsessed haters will still be horrendously out of shape and gasping for air trying to make it up three flights of stairs.

Because the only way to be healthy is by using a $1500 bike plus $39 a month. This is the only way. Anyone who does not cannot be fit.

Nobody here claimed that. The hyperbole above was posted as the equivalent of the stupid hate parade.

As already posted numerous time here, this specific at home fitness product has been a wild success for those of us with very little time. If your time is not worth $40/month for the content and whatever the cost of the bike is over time versus going to the gym I’d suggest you work harder to make your time more valuable.

I think you're missing the point here. I love my Peloton, but I also recognize that it is not objectively better for everyone than any other means of staying fit. People can choose to spend their time and money differently, and take different paths to fitness. Your attacks here are not helping your cause if you want to refute any sentiment that people that like Peloton are not judgmental, myopic, and just a dad fanatical.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tough couple of weeks here for peloton. Either way, bizarrely obsessed haters will still be horrendously out of shape and gasping for air trying to make it up three flights of stairs.

Because the only way to be healthy is by using a $1500 bike plus $39 a month. This is the only way. Anyone who does not cannot be fit.

Nobody here claimed that. The hyperbole above was posted as the equivalent of the stupid hate parade.

As already posted numerous time here, this specific at home fitness product has been a wild success for those of us with very little time. If your time is not worth $40/month for the content and whatever the cost of the bike is over time versus going to the gym I’d suggest you work harder to make your time more valuable.

I think you're missing the point here. I love my Peloton, but I also recognize that it is not objectively better for everyone than any other means of staying fit. People can choose to spend their time and money differently, and take different paths to fitness. Your attacks here are not helping your cause if you want to refute any sentiment that people that like Peloton are not judgmental, myopic, and just a dad fanatical.

Well, when you start from the position that "people that like Peloton are [] judgmental, myopic, and just a t[b]ad fanatical" then you are making an assumption. Nobody every said Peloton is "objectively better for everyone than any other means of staying fit." You made that up. Are there Peloton dorks that think that? Sure there are. I am not one of them.

What I take issue with is the weird hate fascination and the inability to do simple math. Each of the criticisms are easy set aside as to this specific mode of fitness when considered objectively. If you want to take it a step further, Zwift dorks hate on Peloton riders. We even had a thread on here bemoaning people for holding onto the side of a treadmill.

So, no. I am not missing anything. The weird hate parade is just that. Weird and sad. Nobody is standing atop their Peloton bike in superiority. And the few that do, are already loser douches anyways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tough couple of weeks here for peloton. Either way, bizarrely obsessed haters will still be horrendously out of shape and gasping for air trying to make it up three flights of stairs.

Because the only way to be healthy is by using a $1500 bike plus $39 a month. This is the only way. Anyone who does not cannot be fit.

Nobody here claimed that. The hyperbole above was posted as the equivalent of the stupid hate parade.

As already posted numerous time here, this specific at home fitness product has been a wild success for those of us with very little time. If your time is not worth $40/month for the content and whatever the cost of the bike is over time versus going to the gym I’d suggest you work harder to make your time more valuable.

I think you're missing the point here. I love my Peloton, but I also recognize that it is not objectively better for everyone than any other means of staying fit. People can choose to spend their time and money differently, and take different paths to fitness. Your attacks here are not helping your cause if you want to refute any sentiment that people that like Peloton are not judgmental, myopic, and just a dad fanatical.

NP. I see people talk about Peloton being good for them and giving reasons why it works for them. This doesn’t imply that other ways aren’t good for others. Not sure it’s a zero sum game.

Honestly, anything that can help people be more active and fit is a good thing. I like their classes: they are fun and varied. I previously didn’t pay anything because my company had on site gym where we didn’t have to pay anything for access/classes etc. Even then, I don’t mind paying for Peloton monthly subscription. It works for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tough couple of weeks here for peloton. Either way, bizarrely obsessed haters will still be horrendously out of shape and gasping for air trying to make it up three flights of stairs.

Very strange that someone is so gleeful about a fitness company having financial problems.

The part I don’t understand is rooting so hard against Peloton—whose CEO, I agree, seems like a doofus—and implicitly for Amazon, an objectively terrible company doing a huge amount of harm in the world. Consolidation among a few huge companies (FAANG) is bad for everyone.

I've been rooting against them for years since both hearing their CEO speak years ago and seeing their ad campaigns (not just the one with the trophy wife needing to stay slim to please hubby)

[Anonymous]

Not sure if this comment belongs here but I took a run class this morning and the instructor was running on the smaller tread. And all of the studio treads were the smaller ones too. I guess they’re doing away with the tread+ for now. First change I noticed since the new CEO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tough couple of weeks here for peloton. Either way, bizarrely obsessed haters will still be horrendously out of shape and gasping for air trying to make it up three flights of stairs.

Because the only way to be healthy is by using a $1500 bike plus $39 a month. This is the only way. Anyone who does not cannot be fit.

Nobody here claimed that. The hyperbole above was posted as the equivalent of the stupid hate parade.

As already posted numerous time here, this specific at home fitness product has been a wild success for those of us with very little time. If your time is not worth $40/month for the content and whatever the cost of the bike is over time versus going to the gym I’d suggest you work harder to make your time more valuable.

You did, actually. Your hyperbole doesn’t come across as hyperbole; it comes across as a rapid Peloton booster insulting people.