I got here throughout one thing attention-grabbing whereas poking round on my Peloton profile: the flexibility to “obtain exercises.” It is an innocuous little button that reveals up in your profile in case you’re wanting on the desktop web site, however after I clicked it out of curiosity, I spotted it is fairly highly effective. Here is what I bought out of it and how one can get it, too.
Methods to obtain Peloton exercise knowledge
First, log in to your Peloton account on the firm’s web site. Simple. Then, navigate to Profile > Exercises.
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Within the higher proper, you may see Obtain Exercises. Click on that and a CSV file will instantly obtain to your pc. It’s best to have the ability to open it up in Excel. I haven’t got Microsoft Workplace, so I simply opened it up in Google Sheets. Identical distinction. Both method, you may get a spreadsheet with every kind of knowledge for every exercise you have accomplished:
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The exercise timestamp
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Whether or not the category was dwell or on demand
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The trainer’s identify
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The size of the exercise in minutes
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What sort of exercise it was (biking, strolling, operating, and so on.)
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The kind of exercise (music-based, low-impact, and so on.)
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The identify of the category
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The discharge date of the category
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Your complete output
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Your common watts
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Your common resistance (on a Bike)
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Your common cadence (Bike)
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Your common velocity (Bike)
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Your distance
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Your energy burned
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Your common coronary heart fee
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Your common incline (on a Tread or treadmill)
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Your common tempo
How I used this knowledge after I bought it
First, I deleted the columns I did not care about, just like the one telling me when the lessons I took had been first launched. Subsequent, I totaled what number of energy I’ve burned since I bought my Peloton Bike 4 years in the past and what number of minutes I’ve labored out, simply to see. Then, I began on the lookout for patterns. I usually like biking lessons led by Cody Rigsby and guided meditations with Aditi Shah, as an illustration, however might the information again up that they are my favourite instructors? Sure, it might—however it additionally confirmed me who else I are inclined to favor with out realizing it. I simply chosen the column, made a bar chart, and examined it.
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Understanding which instructors I am extra drawn to is helpful, broadly, for motivating me and serving to me discover lessons, however what about which exercises are handiest for me? I scrolled over to the full output and energy burned columns. I sorted complete output from excessive to low, checked out the outcomes, after which did the identical for energy burned. My highest-ever output was apparently a 30-minute Girl Gaga experience. Good to know. (That class was additionally among the many ones with my highest calorie burn.) I can goal to take extra 30-minute lessons or, extra realistically, extra that embody Gaga’s music. (When left to my very own units, I do have a tendency to decide on her songs because the soundtrack to my exercises, so having knowledge to verify that it will get me into biking as a lot as I assumed was good.)
What do you assume to this point?
I sorted all of my columns like this, the place I expended the least power, the place I cycled on the very best resistance, and so forth. Having the ability to do that was illuminating, particularly after having taken a number of hundred lessons. It most likely would not have been as helpful if I had been beginning out and solely had a handful of exercises to have a look at—however even then, I feel with the ability to clearly see calorie expenditure, output, and different metrics could be useful.
I am going to spend the remainder of the day creating charts and on the lookout for patterns. With this (and just a little information of the way to navigate spreadsheet software program), I can create charts and search for insights, reminiscent of whether or not I carry out higher or worse within the morning or stroll longer distances within the afternoon. Once you’re making an attempt to suit exercises in all through your day, it is simple to simply do no matter you’re feeling like (or no matter you’ll be able to), however you are creating patterns (whether or not you recognize it or not) and getting access to this knowledge may help you crack the codes of your individual finest practices.
