Roadman today I want to talk to you about the indoor training revolution that is Peloton. Let's cue that intro! The big question is this. How do we use cycling as a tool to improve our health, our happiness and our longevity? That is the question and this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Walsh and welcome to the Roadman Podcast. Rol-man, tree sleeps till Christmas, oh my god, I'm getting so damn excited. I really do not know how you pitch thing at the start, don't I? When I listen back to a podcast, I'm like, oh, bro, cop yourself on, what's that weird high pitch here? But it's just, you gotta roll with it. Just my signature. I'm nailed to it. For right or wrong, my signature is my signature. Yeah, look, I might have to look at change in the signature. I listen back to it, it's cringy. Isn't the internet a weird place now? Like I don't have any kids, but you know, maybe at some point down the line I will. And isn't it weird to think that they're gonna be able to listen back to this podcast now in this moment and it's kind of making me all of a sudden very aware of this Peloton review, in case Peloton blows up. Like Peloton is an indoor training revolution. It's a public company, I think at IPL at around $26 and it's up at about $156 at the moment. It has a wave of investors, users and toozies behind it. I want to talk to you today about Peloton, who would say it before, I got to use it last week and I'm going to jump into that and talk to you about how I found it. Pros, cons, good, bad, value from money, all of that stuff and not so in-depth in-depth review as you'd expect from a Roman Boyz podcast. Before I jump into all that, Let's get me some of that hype, bitch shit. Over on Patreon. I'm going to try and take this serious because this is the most important. Cover yourself on, you're a professional man. This is the most important part of my podcast. Look, it's coming into the Christmas. Boy me a beer over on patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore watch. The link is in the boil. A beer keeps the show on the road into the new year when I sit down and I have my new year sort of just review. I'm heading away for a little bit at New Year. I'll talk to you about that later in the week. Got some amazing stuff lined up for that. It's a bit of a vacation slash work all into one and blending in together. But when I sit down to review it all and I look back on the podcast or what's been a whirlwind, how will I look back on the year? And Patreon is definitely one of the things I'm gonna consider. So please do consider, if you're enjoying the podcast, supporting the podcast and make sure it's still about. Okay, folks, let's talk about Peloton. You are looking at an investment of 2300 euro to buy the Peloton bike. And on top of that, you're going to cough up $39 per month for the rest of, as long as you decide to keep the Peloton bike. I was going to say the rest of your life, but that'd be some serious lifetime value from Peloton as long as you choose to do it. Now, I think it's important at this juncture to understand why Peloton has blown up so much. Because I think our podcast as well, this podcast is sitting in a space which was very intentional at the outset when I sat down to think about what I wanted to create. I typically don't dig deep into, you know, I watched the cyclo cross race at the weekend and one of my favorite ones at the weekend. Vanderpaul came out on top, awesome race, one of the best ones of the year. I don't dig too deep into pro cycling with the exception of the big tours because this podcast, the intention is to be a catch-all podcast and not our own little exclusionary club which cycling typically is. I've talked to the founders of companies, software companies in cycling, bike manufacturers in cycling. The problem is, all of these companies are playing a little game of musical chairs with users and the audience.
You know, I'm sure they split tested this and maybe there's a reason to cause more problems with setup for people. when you jump into the interface, it's mainstream. This is Beyonce is teaching one of the classes. Like Beyonce, trust me, Beyonce is not in your weird virtual avatar, Swift World. Beyonce is up on Peloton and she is teaching a class. And yeah, it's just, it's so slick. And but the problem with it is you have so, so much choice when you go in there. You've all these different classes, you can choose from loads of instructors. They're all really good-looking people. It's where the good-looking people go to hang out. It's their chillin', the good-looking people all chillin' together and the good-looking bars. That's where they pull these people from, all lookers. And you go in there, but it's almost overwhelmed. I would compare it to going on to Netflix. And you know what I feel when you're coming home at the end of the day and you flick on Netflix and you're tired and you're like, oh fuck, what am I gonna watch on Netflix? and you just end up spending like 20 minutes frustratingly flicking through, because Netflix have such a shit algorithm for suggesting relevant new content, that you just end up flicking, flicking, flicking, watching 5 minutes or something, turning it off and reading a book. That feels a little bit like, I've only used it once, so maybe that's critical of it, but that feels a little bit like what's going on, and it struck me that, it needs to be less like Netflix movie and more when you're in like, Narco season 2 episode 2 then you turn on Netflix you know next up it's narco's season 2 episode 3 episode 4 boom boom boom it needs to be more like that that I'm on a track that I'm on a rail that I'm starting out in one place and it's bringing me to a destination because when I get on to Peloton as I'm putting myself into the boots of the 80% here when I get on to Peloton I'm looking for an outcome I'm looking at my outcome is most likely I'm looking to lose fat, I'm looking to be fitter. Now, there's no outcome, there's no, it's just kind of, it's passing the time, it's getting fitter, but am I getting fitter? What metric am I using to judge if I'm getting fitter or not? And that'd be one of my criticisms of it. But largely, that's just a criticism of this whole space that we're not really on any track moving towards something, moving towards a goal. And the reason that that's a very difficult proposition to solve is because it's really hard to keep us on track because we all, the track is the template and tracks like with these type video courses, they just don't, they don't do enough to understand the nuances of everybody's individualities. So maybe I'm a shift worker, maybe I'm after picking up an injury two sessions in, maybe I was out on the piss last night because it's coming under Christmas and now I'm dehydrated. So if I was out on the piss last night and now I've to go up and I'm on the equivalent of Nerco season two, episode two, whatever Peloton's session is coming up, it doesn't know that I've been on the piss last night. This is actually just one of my gripes full stop at the moment with tech and hardware, software, two different worlds that they're living in. We've got a bunch of wearables on the one hand. We've whoops, or rings. We've Apple watches. We've Apple phones in our pocket. We're Apple held on them. And we're gathering massive amounts of data around the steps we're taking, where we're going, how we're sleeping, the quality of our sleep, our heart rate variability. And that all lives in world ecosystem number one. And then we have world ecosystem number two, which is training, bikes, like Zwift plans, trainer road plans, Peloton plans. But yet the two never meet. Ecosystem one that knows that I had a shit sleep doesn't talk to Peloton and say he had a shit sleep, make us training different, adjust it, give them an easier session, give them a shorter session, give them a detox session, give them a recovery session. I want to wake up and I'm gone, this is turned not into a Peloton rant.