This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED executive editor Brian Barrett joins us for a conversation about Peloton's newest product and the company's future.
: Even the way you ask that! I mean, not as much as I did last year, but yes, I am still Pelotoning.: Oh, the cult leaders! Well, actually I did meet with Peloton recently, but it was not about the bike.Brian Barrett: Hi everyone. Welcome to Gadget Lab. I am Michael Calore. I'm a senior editor at WIRED.: And we are also joined in person this week by WIRED's executive editor, Brian Barrett. Brian, welcome back to the show.: Yes.
It's also, I think, maybe a little bit limited at this point in terms of what it is telling you to do. It's not telling you like, "Straighten your back" or "Turn your arm at a 90." “Just your shoulders just went back, that was very good” or saying, like, "Hold your arm in a 90-degree angle." It's not quite that granular yet, but it can tell that you're doing some sort of movement. And so it's recording that.
So for example, I will do squats all day long. I mean, not literally, but I prefer to do like lower body exercises and lunges and that sort of thing. And so I gravitate towards those, and now when I fire up the Guide, there's a recommendation that I take, Jess Sims' 20-minute upper-body class, which will inevitably involve a lot of pushups, which I will hate but I should probably be doing. And so it's starting to make personalized recommendations over time.
I mean, this is all very ironic because this is happening as we are slowly emerging from pandemic life, from quarantine and this product has actually been in the works since 2019. So it was a pre pandemic vision that they had. And now it's finally shipping. So people are starting to go back to gyms. Data show that people are returning to boutique fitness studios and that kind of thing.
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