Alex Toussaint To Dine For Spotlight Celebrates His Career

The Peloton Bike and Tread instructor and author joins host Kate Sullivan at BondST in New York City to share the story behind his rise.

The Alex Toussaint To Dine For appearance puts the Peloton Bike and Tread instructor at a table in New York City for episode 4 of Season 8, where he describes how a janitor job turned into a teaching career. The PBS series pairs each guest with a favorite restaurant, and Alex chose BondST.

Host Kate Sullivan joins Alex to hear how he became one of the most recognizable names in fitness. According to the show, and as Alex has noted previously, he was sent to military school in the sixth grade for defiant and disruptive behavior. The turning point came at a spin studio, where he took a janitor job and then asked the owner if he could teach.

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Alex Toussaint To Dine For Episode Highlights

The Alex Toussaint To Dine For conversation follows this path from mopping floors to military school to reaching thousands of people through his Peloton classes. Alex also shares his own personal transformation, with motivation, consistency, and discipline as the themes.

He credits his mentor for giving him a shot and fueling his drive. Alex, author of Activate Your Greatness and co-founder of Feel Good Look Good Do Better, also offers hard-won advice on changing the energy of a room and finding a personal true North.

The show’s Instagram post, shared with Alex, frames creating energy in a room as a specific skill. It poses two questions from the episode: how to create the same dynamic energy and intensity with one person as in a large group, and how to make each individual in a large group feel seen and cared for.

Alex Toussaint Career Timeline at Peloton

The episode adds context to a path readers can trace on our Alex Toussaint instructor page. Alex started teaching cycling at Flywheel Sports in 2013 and joined Peloton in 2015. He teaches Bike and Tread classes.

He marked his 10-year Peloversary in 2025 with a Greatest Hits Collection of 100 classes across cycling, tread, and outdoor content. He founded the Do Better Foundation in 2020 to expand access to fitness resources in underserved communities and published Activate Your Greatness in 2023. In 2026, he launched the YouTube series Inside the Lab on March 29.

How to Watch the Alex Toussaint To Dine For Episode

To Dine For with Kate Sullivan is in its eighth season and airs nationwide on PBS, CREATE-TV, and Amazon Prime.  The series travels to each guest’s favorite restaurant to hear how they built their careers and how they define the American dream. Season 8 also features Emma Grede, Erin and Ben Napier, Sal Khan, Will Guidara, Tabitha Brown, Adam Grant (who recently appeared in a Peloton Bike Class alongside Robin Arzon), and Anne Beiler.

Sullivan is a four-time Emmy Award winning journalist. She previously spent five years as the primary evening news anchor for CBS Chicago and was the morning news anchor for CBS New York before that.

For members who know Alex from his Bike and Tread classes, Alex Toussaint To Dine For adds the story behind his coaching, from the janitor job to the mentor who opened the door. It also connects the ideas he shares in class to those in his book.

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