Fitness Flipped

You are only as strong as your last recovery. We all need to rest, and not just because resting makes us more productive. It’s because rest and recovery are essential to being human and being strong. The legend, TV show and podcast host and Peloton superfan, the Bronx’s own Desus Nice joins us to talk about recovering from hustle culture and the joy of being part of someone else’s rest time. We’re also joined by psychiatri...

Research tells us that a key part of enduring and persevering is envisioning the future. And a big part of that envisioning is hope. Hope for the future you want. Peloton Member Jess Morales Rocketto is an organizer for social change. She thinks of her job as motivating people into their purpose: What do you care about? Why do you care about it and what are you going to do about it? She’s often pretty sure that something i...

Endurance is both physical and emotional. We build physical endurance so that we can keep going in the face of everything that life throws at us. We practice perseverance so that we can keep pushing towards the life that we dream of. So today we're going to talk about how to train for our discomfort and then how to create a clear vision for getting there. Peloton Instructor Robin Arzón joins us and talks about what it take...

This episode talks about weight & body image. We understand this can be a sensitive and challenging topic. If this is a topic that you find triggering, we suggest listening to another episode of Fitness Flipped. Tunde and her guests are always here to support you! 

Comedy writer Caitie Delaney has had a topsy turvy relationship with her body image. With brutal honesty, Caitie talks about the ways she sees herse...

This episode talks about weight & body image. We understand this can be a sensitive and challenging topic. If this is a topic that you find triggering, we suggest listening to another episode of Fitness Flipped. Tunde and her guests are always here to support you! 

This is the most challenging theme of the season! Body image. It’s locked into body ideals (which change), pop culture (which changes), and broade...

Today in competition:  A mother and son team of Peloton members in South Carolina took exercise during the pandemic and turned it into a very healthy and very hilarious ongoing competition. Yolanda Mines is an OB/GYN and mom of two athletic boys in Columbia, South Carolina. What started as a simple push from Yolanda to get her son, Taiden, to exercise blossomed into bonding..  This mother-son duo talked about how...

Today we’re talking about COMPETITION. Healthy competition is our invitation to level up in our lives. We’re thinking a lot about the different ways people get motivated to do their best. Study after study have shown that introducing elements of competitive play into exercise increases how much — and how enthusiastically — we do it. In this episode, we explore how community and trust can help us incorporate elements of hea...

#PelotonGrandma for the win! Shirley Beard of Seattle has spent a lifetime figuring out what it means to be exactly who she is meant to be. With the wisdom of age, this knitter and grandma realized that instead of comparing herself and her fitness and her success to people around her, she needed to focus on the strides she herself was making every day and cheering on the people on the leaderboard near her too. 

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You can’t compare your insides to somebody else’s outsides! In our age of anxiety and social media, we all engage in sometimes subtle, and sometimes overt, comparison all day long — to our peers, to our coworkers, to our old high school crushes, to the biggest celebrities on the planet. Let’s flip that around! Peloton Instructor Emma Lovewell joins us to talk about how to find inspiration from her peers instead of com...

What does it look like to be a parent who wants to take care of themselves in order to best take care of their kids? Especially during a pandemic! For Michael Smith in San Jose it means making them a part of the team. He's a high school English teacher, a husband, a father, and a very dedicated runner and rider. Michael reminds us that good fitness habits feel great for the whole family and help to influence the next gener...

Today we’re talking about HABITS :how we make them, how we break them, and why they are so important to our lives. We love thinking about how to make positive change. But it’s a bad habit to keep obsessing about our habits! We all know resolutions don’t work. You know what does? A routine you will actually do. Peloton Instructor and fan favorite Cody Rigsby joins us to talk about the importance of bringing the fun into you...

Tyler Moses had to work hard to make space for his true self in the community he grew up in. As a college student, coming out to his fraternity brothers seemed all but impossible. Tyler’s courage to be vulnerable and authentic lead him on the journey to self love. Tyler is the founder of the #BooCrew, the incredible fan community that is inspired by the joy that is Peloton Instructor Cody Rigsby. #BooCrew is not only a com...

We all say we want to be real and authentic. So let’s get real: How do we get over our fear of rejection of our “real” selves, imperfections and all? This week we are talking about Self Expression and how when you live a full and authentic life you are changing yourself and changing the world around you. Our guest today is 3x Emmy Award Winning Actor and the star of This Is Us, Sterling K. Brown. Sterling talks about the c...

This week we're flipping the idea of what it actually means to be strong. Sometimes our fitness of the body, mind, of *EVERYTHING* can be challenged. Our very foundation of our strength is challenged. So how do you gain your strength back after you've had your entire world turned upside down? Our member Robin J Price who rides with us down in Virginia had to redefine strength for herself when she was diagnosed with aggress...

Sometimes when you feel your weakest, you may actually be your strongest. This week, we're talking about how we redefine what it means to be strong, and more importantly, how we develop and practice strength. Over the past decade, evolving conversations around health, wellness, and fitness have ushered in new definitions of not only what it means to be “healthy,” but what it means to be “strong.” Our incredibly strong gues...

A key to combating stress? Finding your people. Frontline workers have been holding us up these past two years - so what do they do to take care of themselves and prevent stress and burnout during this incredibly challenging time? During covid, female physicians have used Peloton en masse to manage their stress and chase serotonin. Dr. Jagu Anadkat, a neonatal intensive care doctor in St. Louis, organized a group of her co...

STRESS. We're stressed, you're stressed, and we all have a million reasons why. So this week is all about stress: what it is, how it manifests in our lives, and how we deal with it. Exercise can become an important tool in managing our mental health, staying mentally fit, and avoiding burnout. Comedian Phoebe Robinson discusses how she deals with the pressure and stress of her success and finds joy. Writer Anne Helen Peter...

“Fitness Flipped,” a Peloton Studios Original, is where we flip the script on all the things we think we know about fitness. Peloton’s first podcast, each week Peloton Instructor, athlete, author & host Tunde Oyeneyin will sit down with some of the most interesting experts and personalities from the world of fitness and beyond (Olympians! Musicians! Sociologists! Comedians! Actors!) to challenge and transform some of o...