Anonymous wrote:Gullible people desperate to lose weight buy them. They love them for a while! They live for the leaderboards, stats, and shout outs. It’s no different than likes on social media. Instant feel good hormones. Peloton knows this. Then, they become expensive clothes holders. Just like every other piece of fad exercise equipment. As a CPT it makes me sad. They could do exactly the same thing by riding an actual bike or just buying a cheap stationary. A fool and his money……

Anonymous wrote:Gullible people desperate to lose weight buy them. They love them for a while! They live for the leaderboards, stats, and shout outs. It’s no different than likes on social media. Instant feel good hormones. Peloton knows this. Then, they become expensive clothes holders. Just like every other piece of fad exercise equipment. As a CPT it makes me sad. They could do exactly the same thing by riding an actual bike or just buying a cheap stationary. A fool and his money……

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Anonymous wrote:Our bikes aren't selling but let's hike prices by $250 sounds like a way to go out of business FAST.

Peloton considers closing 20% of its showrooms after slashing its full-year outlook by $1BN as it sees pandemic demand plunge: Firm hikes bike price by $250 to keep up with inflation

Haha. This company is going down

Anonymous wrote:Our bikes aren't selling but let's hike prices by $250 sounds like a way to go out of business FAST.

Peloton considers closing 20% of its showrooms after slashing its full-year outlook by $1BN as it sees pandemic demand plunge: Firm hikes bike price by $250 to keep up with inflation

Anonymous wrote:Our bikes aren't selling but let's hike prices by $250 sounds like a way to go out of business FAST.

Peloton considers closing 20% of its showrooms after slashing its full-year outlook by $1BN as it sees pandemic demand plunge: Firm hikes bike price by $250 to keep up with inflation

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t criticize peloton or all the wackos will come out and bite you PP

I am totally in the peloton cult, full disclosure, but in my opinion on this thread you have people actively poking the peloton community (i mean seriously stationary bike workouts are not new and its ridiculous to call it 'trash' unless you're trying to provoke a response).

I also think a lot of 'fit' people like to call peloton crap (and I think someone in this thread said it was for 'overweight female heffers' which like, super classy right there!) because they think it isn't like, 'real exercise'. Because they have devoted their life to a definition of fitness and exercise that involves a lot of lifting, a lot of hours at the gym, a lot of work. And they resent a bunch of normal people claiming they have achieved 'fitness' when what those people have achieved is not the fitness that they would consider successful.

It is very like, gym elitism IMO. Which is funny, because they think peloton riders are elitist, but they are the ones gatekeeping what 'effective exercise' means.

IMO, the peloton is just the scapegoat for this overall feeling. Lame loser people who are riding a bike (or running on a treadmill, or taking tae bo classes on a VHS tape) don't REALLY care about fitness until they are in the gym, lifting heavy and tracking their macros. And honestly I think those are garbage people who are doing nothing but limiting the number of people who will try to achieve C level or B level fitness while accepting that they will never be at A or A+ level fitness and they're FINE with it.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Apple is going to buy them

Apple will not buy this trash. Give me a break

You should tell us all about how beach body, apple fitness, and iFit are comparable when they are not. Have you even attempted to watch their content?

It’s like Wish - garbage knock offs. That’s the garbage.

Different strokes for different folks. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's a "garbage knock off". iFit has been around forever, it's just changed. I had iFit on my treadmill 15 years ago - it was not live or even remotely similar to what they do now, but I could buy little cards and it would automatically adjust the speed and incline of my treadmill and had a "coach" that would talk through the run. I actually used that a lot, I loved that it adjusted. Similarly, my husband almost bought a Peloton 10+ years ago when it was targeting real cyclists, they would advertise during the Tour de France, Vuelta, and similar races, and then when the spinning trend got popular, they hopped on that bandwagon and the rest is history!

He can't have done, the first peloton wasn't sold until 2013 on Kickstarter or 2014 outside of that.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think Apple is going to buy them

Apple will not buy this trash. Give me a break

You should tell us all about how beach body, apple fitness, and iFit are comparable when they are not. Have you even attempted to watch their content?

It’s like Wish - garbage knock offs. That’s the garbage.

Different strokes for different folks. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's a "garbage knock off". iFit has been around forever, it's just changed. I had iFit on my treadmill 15 years ago - it was not live or even remotely similar to what they do now, but I could buy little cards and it would automatically adjust the speed and incline of my treadmill and had a "coach" that would talk through the run. I actually used that a lot, I loved that it adjusted. Similarly, my husband almost bought a Peloton 10+ years ago when it was targeting real cyclists, they would advertise during the Tour de France, Vuelta, and similar races, and then when the spinning trend got popular, they hopped on that bandwagon and the rest is history!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think Apple is going to buy them

Apple will not buy this trash. Give me a break

You should tell us all about how beach body, apple fitness, and iFit are comparable when they are not. Have you even attempted to watch their content?

It’s like Wish - garbage knock offs. That’s the garbage.

Different strokes for different folks. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's a "garbage knock off". iFit has been around forever, it's just changed. I had iFit on my treadmill 15 years ago - it was not live or even remotely similar to what they do now, but I could buy little cards and it would automatically adjust the speed and incline of my treadmill and had a "coach" that would talk through the run. I actually used that a lot, I loved that it adjusted. Similarly, my husband almost bought a Peloton 10+ years ago when it was targeting real cyclists, they would advertise during the Tour de France, Vuelta, and similar races, and then when the spinning trend got popular, they hopped on that bandwagon and the rest is history!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think Apple is going to buy them

Apple will not buy this trash. Give me a break

You should tell us all about how beach body, apple fitness, and iFit are comparable when they are not. Have you even attempted to watch their content?

It’s like Wish - garbage knock offs. That’s the garbage.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t criticize peloton or all the wackos will come out and bite you PP

I am totally in the peloton cult, full disclosure, but in my opinion on this thread you have people actively poking the peloton community (i mean seriously stationary bike workouts are not new and its ridiculous to call it 'trash' unless you're trying to provoke a response).

I also think a lot of 'fit' people like to call peloton crap (and I think someone in this thread said it was for 'overweight female heffers' which like, super classy right there!) because they think it isn't like, 'real exercise'. Because they have devoted their life to a definition of fitness and exercise that involves a lot of lifting, a lot of hours at the gym, a lot of work. And they resent a bunch of normal people claiming they have achieved 'fitness' when what those people have achieved is not the fitness that they would consider successful.

It is very like, gym elitism IMO. Which is funny, because they think peloton riders are elitist, but they are the ones gatekeeping what 'effective exercise' means.

IMO, the peloton is just the scapegoat for this overall feeling. Lame loser people who are riding a bike (or running on a treadmill, or taking tae bo classes on a VHS tape) don't REALLY care about fitness until they are in the gym, lifting heavy and tracking their macros. And honestly I think those are garbage people who are doing nothing but limiting the number of people who will try to achieve C level or B level fitness while accepting that they will never be at A or A+ level fitness and they're FINE with it.