What You Can Accomplish With Peloton in Your First 100 Days

So you finally took the plunge and ordered it: The Peloton Bike or the Peloton Tread is on its way to your home. Now you’ll get to experience all that a Peloton Membership has to offer. Lucky you! Ready to make the most of your first 100 days? Here are some fun goals to help you get started.

Try out some programs.

Found under the “Programs” tab on your Peloton touchscreen, these are carefully curated weekly routines that tell you what classes to do when, taking all the thinking out of your workout schedule. Start lifting weights the right way with Andy Speer’s Total Strength programs, where he teaches proper form and has formatted the workouts so that you’ll be able to measure your progress. There’s also Discover Your Power Zones, Crush Your Core, Get Hooked: Peloton Boxing, Beginner Yoga and so much more.

Learn a new skill.

Of course, you bought a Peloton Bike to ride or a Peloton Tread to run. But you’d be missing out if that’s all you did with your subscription. Check out the Pilates classes and improve your posture, reduce stress with yoga, find out what barre is all about, learn to box! If it’s not your jam, no need to continue. But now’s the time to give it a shot and discover all the different kinds of workouts that your subscription provides.

Get a change of scenery.

A nice goal might be to sneak in one scenicride or run per week. The landscapes (and seascapes! mountainscapes!) are stunning, and you can pretend you’re a pro athlete—or at least a really serious amateur one. You can take scenic classes that feature instructors too, if, say, you’d like to ride in Oregon alongside Emma Lovewell or run with Matt Wilpers in Hawaii. Or you can go on immersive rides where all you see is Iceland’s majestic coastline, or Dutch windmills or…we’ll quit it with the spoilers. Suffice it to say it’s like going on a fabulous vacation without the hit to your bank account.

Collect as many badges as possible.

There are soooo many badges to get. You can get milestone badges for completing a certain of rides; streak badges for riding or running so many days or weeks in a row (7 days, 30 days, 10 weeks, etc.); challenge badges (awarded for, say, running 150 miles or doing 10 strength classes); social badges for doing a class your friends have done (go for the Swarm!). There are also badges for special events (like Black History Month) and specific Artist Series—these are some of the coolest-looking ones for sure.

Gamify your workout.

If you’re into the competition aspect of climbing the Leaderboard, you’ll probably be into Lanebreak, an immersive, gaming-inspired version of Peloton cycling classes where you score points for staying in a specific cadence range, changing lanes with the resistance knob, and pushing hard to “charge” yourself up. At the end of the class, check your score and Leaderboard rank, then try to beat it next time. Classes are organized by music genre and length, and you can choose your difficulty too.

Try allllll of the instructors.

Get out your bingo card! There are over 50 Peloton instructors, and they all have different personalities and musical preferences—it’s worth it to branch out of your comfort zone to find someone new and exciting. Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Even if you don’t, you’ll find incredible workouts with our German instructors too (and there are often subtitles to help you out!). A recent favorite: Mayla Wedekind’s 30-minute The White Stripes ride is pure fire.

Chase the shoutout.

No need to be afraid of live classes. Hop on for your milestones (that would be your first, and multiples of 50) in each modality. Some hints if you’re looking for a shoutout: Try newer instructors that are still building up their eventual gajillions of disciples. Get to class early since some instructors use the preshow to shout out milestones (and check their Instagram stories). Deck out your location tag with your milestone to make it stand out, and for the love of Alex Toussaint, make sure your Leaderboard name is easily pronounceable. MikeS060792 isn’t gonna make the cut when the instructor is quickly scanning their tablet for names to call out.

Make some friends.

Together we go far, so find your group! Explore the Tags on your touchscreen, add whatever resonates to your profile, then go on Facebook and search for Peloton runners, or Peloton moms, or Peloton singles over 40 (ahem) or your favorite instructor’s name. Boom. You now have a whole new group of besties to talk to who share your interests. Which is, by now, basically Peloton in general. Welcome to the fam!

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