Connected Cardio
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4.1 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Even before the pandemic, Peloton was the clear leader in connected, at-home workout equipment. So it was really no surprise that when gyms closed down and people found themselves stuck inside, Peloton's sales surged. Along with the success of Peloton, a growing industry of semi-affordable personal exercise machines is changing the way we work out. After all, why risk going to a gym when you could bring one into your living room?
This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED digital director Brian Barrett joins us to talk about Peloton and the future of gyms.
Show Notes:
Read Lauren’s story about Peloton and the future of the home gym here.
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| 0:00.0 | Lauren. |
| 0:00.7 | Mike. |
| 0:01.5 | Lauren, who is your favorite Peloton instructor? |
| 0:03.9 | Ooh, that's such a good question. |
| 0:05.8 | It's probably a toss-up between Robin, who is also the VP of fitness programming at Peloton, and Cody, of course. |
| 0:14.7 | Everybody knows Cody, XO, XO, XO, Cody. |
| 0:18.0 | All right, I don't know who Cody is, and I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm looking |
| 0:21.3 | forward to learning all about it because we're going to be talking about Peloton this week. |
| 0:31.1 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:33.1 | Welcome to Gadget Lab. |
| 0:34.1 | I am Michael Collori, a senior editor at Wired. |
| 0:36.6 | I am joined remotely by my co-host, |
| 0:38.9 | Wired Senior Writer Lauren Good. Mike, I think you need to lift your head up a little bit and just |
| 0:44.1 | make sure your crown is on straight. What? Never mind. We'll get to this. Okay. We are also |
| 0:53.3 | joined this week by Wired's digital director, Brian Barrett. Brian, |
| 0:57.4 | welcome back to the show. Mike, thanks for having me. I'm going to start in to zone one, |
| 1:00.9 | but after that we're going to about three minutes in zone four, then we'll take it back to recovery |
| 1:04.4 | in zone two, and then we'll see where it goes from there. This is amazing. This is all just absolutely foreign territory to me. I just want |
| 1:12.8 | you guys to know this. Today we're going to be talking about Peloton, who you probably know as the |
| 1:18.1 | maker of those super fancy exercise bikes. The company also makes a treadmill and runs a popular |
| 1:23.2 | platform for streaming workouts to your home on demand. This week, Peloton announced two new pieces of |
| 1:29.2 | hardware, the Peloton Bike Plus, which has a swivel touchscreen and a new, cheaper treadmill. |
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