The Peloton app does not consider any warmup or cool down you do before the ride starts. One thing you will note here is that the ride was 1 minute and 18 seconds longer than what the Peloton app says. When I did the ride above, I also started an indoor cycling activity and as you can see it was vastly different tracking 270 active calories and 303 total calories. One advantage of tracking an indoor cycling activity on the Apple Watch is that it has a plethora data that you provide and sensors including your heart rate. I track about everything I do on my Apple Watch and have really enjoyed the statistics that it provides. However, while I was doing this ride, I was also ran an "indoor cycling" workout on my Apple Watch and it gave vastly different results. My 20 minute ride went great, but I was shocked when it said I only burned 129 calories!Īt this point the Peloton app has my age/sex/height/weight, so I figured it would be relatively accurate. If you don't own a separate heart rate monitor this may be your default option that you use and is what I did right away. The benefit of using the Peloton app is that you can connect a cadence sensor, which gives the app additional data as to how your ride went. So, I took the same 20 minute ride setting the cadence as close as I could to see what the numbers would shake out to, and the results were interesting. I like numbers and I like accuracy, so I did some experiments to see what stats are better and more accurate. synchronize the data from Peloton or manually start and stop a workout each ride. This is awesome, but now you must decide. If you use an Apple Watch + Apple Fitness the Peloton app can synchronize your workouts after your rides directly to your Health app and they will show up in your Fitness app.
A full peloton bike has all sorts of sensors, but if you have your own bike and use the app it can connect to a cadence sensor and a heart rate monitor to give you more data. For $13 a month you can subscribe to Peloton Digital and get live and recorded classes. What is really cool is that you can use all sorts of different apps to get spin classes at home and Peloton for sure is the top. All of this comes together and enables me to have a drop-dead simple spin bike with great resistance with the ability to see my cadence (rotations per minute). In addition to the Sunny SF-B1002 spin bike (~300) I also picked up a cadence sensor from Moofit (~$20), a seat cover (~$15), and an iPad holder (~$13). Spin Bike Built!! #ref #SunnyBike /sM0L5S1HMT- James Montemagno December 3, 2020 I got all the goods last week and put it together! If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen that I decided to go a different route and build my own spin bike for under $400. However, now seems like a great time to bring spin classes to the home. I have always thought about going all in on a Peloton, however I couldn't justify the price. I have always loved spin classes and pre-pandemic I used to go several times a month to in person classes for exercise. Even though I am excited for cross-country skiing, I know I will miss the day (which is already here) that I am not going to be able to hop on my bike and go for a ride outside.
As winter approaches and the pandemic rages on and on I know I will be indoors even more than ever.