I teach spin classes in a gym setting, so I probably sound biased when I say that in-person exercise classes offer indisputable benefits over at-home workouts, but I don't think I'm overstating things. Going to a gym involves multiple baked-in factors to keep you accountable, from the monthly membership fee to the social pressure or working out in a group setting. When you work out at home, you have more flexibility, but you can flex yourself right into not exercising at all.
Using Teams, you can work out with friends (or even like-minded strangers), either working jointly toward a pre-determined goal (say, a collective 100 hours of cycling in a month) or competing head-to-head. Your "team" is a group united by whatever you decide—it can be your friend group, or a group of people who share a common identifier, like being from a certain geographical area or getting back into exercise after giving birth. In short, the feature creates a sense of community in a virtual landscape that can sometimes feel isolating, and it's easy to access from the Peloton app.
How to set up a Peloton Team
When you tap Create a Team, you'll be asked to name it, give it a description, select a color to represent the group, and pick activities for everyone to focus on. You can choose from strength, yoga, meditation, cardio, and more—or you can pick "all." Then, indicate where the Team is based from a list of major cities, or select "anywhere." Finally, decide if the Team is public or private. Public Teams have activity data available for view by anyone, and anyone can join them. Private Teams are more, well, private, with progress only visible to members. Team admins determine who is allowed to join a private Team.
Credit: Lindsey EllefsonAnyone with a Peloton membership can be on your Peloton Team. Memberships range from $12.99 per month if you're just using the app to do things like yoga and stretching, to $44 per month if you have Peloton equipment (like a Bike, Bike+, Tread, or Row) and want to access classes, games, and other features.
What you do once you've made a Team
After you've invited your teammates, it's time to set up some challenges and competitions. Your team will is a permanent fixture, but the challenges and competitions are timed. Say you set a week-long challenge where everyone works to complete a combined 25 workouts: After a week, that challenge will disappear, but the team itself will remain. You can do more than one challenge at a time, and add new ones whenever one expires.
Credit: Lindsey EllefsonChallenges create a "shared target goal" that everyone works toward, like the completion of a set number of workouts, a set distance traveled, or a set amount of time spent exercising.
You can check progress on your challenges and competitions from the Overview tab, and get a more detailed view by checking the Challenges and Weekly Stats tabs. The Feed tab shows you everyone's workouts. You can send virtual high-fives to your teammates through the app, too, to keep everyone motivated.
Find a Team to join
If you don't have a group of Peloton-owning friends, you can join Teams with strangers. From the Community tab in the app, tap the Discover button. There, you'll find trending teams and featured public teams across a wide variety of classifications—Pregnant Pelo Mamas, TeamEverySingleDay, MenoPosse, Peloton Digital App Users, etc.—any of which you can join. There's also a search bar, and you can search for Teams to join by activity type, location, or interest.
Credit: Lindsey EllefsonI usually keep my Peloton profile set to private since I shared my username on my Instagram Stories when I first got my Bike and, as a result, I have a lot of strangers on my in-app friends list and I don't think they need to see a feed of how often I'm using my machine. For this reason, it felt a little unusual for me to share the details of my workout schedule with someone, even though my first Team just consisted of myself and my boyfriend. But after just a day or two of us working on a shared-goal challenge of completing a mere 10 workouts, I started feeling the motivating itch: If I didn't hop on my Bike, my beau would know—and I'd be letting our team down!
The bottom line
Anything that motivates a person to work out is a good thing in my book, but Peloton Teams is especially useful because it's so easy to set up, and so well integrated with the app you're probably already using. You don't have to coordinate schedules with anyone, since you don't have to be working out at the same time. All you need to do is tap a few buttons, invite teammates, and get going.
I wasn't sure it would be for me, given I'm generally self-motivating when it comes to my workouts, but I quickly discovered it lit a fire under me like no solo routine schedule could. I've already launched a new challenge for my boyfriend and myself. I expect to win.
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