TCO Top 5 Favorite Peloton classes: Stay motivated with this week’s picks (1/29/2024)

Every Monday, we ask the Clip Out community to share their favorite class from the last week. Your stories of love, sweat, and tears always inspire us to keep moving. We are excited to share the five most enthusiastic nominations (in no particular order) and a quick review of each class. Read on for our weekly dose of motivation!

This week’s favorite Peloton classes:

1. 11/24/23 5 min Core Strength with Rebecca Kennedy
2. 1/23/24 20 min 80s Ride and 20 min 90s Rock Ride with Jenn Sherman
3. 1/25/24 30 min P!ink Ride with Robin Arzón
4. 1/27/24 60 min Hike with Rebecca Kennedy
5. 1/28/24 30 min 90s Rock Ride with Emma Lovewell

Why you loved them!

Sometimes it’s hard to pick just one favorite, but these reviews make it easy! Here’s what the TCO Community had to say about their favorite classes from the last week.

1. Favorite Peloton Core Strength

11/24/23 5 min Core Strength with Rebecca Kennedy

Helper Bee Nikki Sherouse-Smith is here this week with our new go-to 5-minute core!

She says, “RK’s 5 min core class from 11/24/23. It’s all on the floor and it is so spicy!!! It’s very accessible to all levels, but by no means is it easy. If your abs aren’t burning by 3 min in, you’re doing it wrong. I don’t think I’ve ever repeated a Peloton class as much as I repeat this one.”

Set to Pony by Ginuwine and Real Love by Mary J. Blige, this class consists of a whole lot of crunches—your standard variety as well as your oblique, reverse, butterfly, and bicycle variations—plus a quick table-top hold, some double-leg stretches, and some toe touches (which are basically crunches with straight legs!). Like any good five-minute core, the class is nonstop abdominal fun.

2. Favorite Peloton Back-to-Back Comeback Rides

1/23/24 20 min 80s Ride and 20 min 90s Rock Ride with Jenn Sherman

Our listeners loved both of these classes so much that we decided to sneak both in on this week’s Top 5!

These were Jenn’s first classes back after eight weeks due to an undisclosed medical procedure. She shared that she’d be taking the classes easy, but she invited Members to go at their own pace. She modeled respecting her body’s abilities and meeting it where it’s at with strength and grace.

Kim Burrill Mount (RiseAndSparkle) really related to Jenn’s mindset for her first classes back. She said, “JSS coming back rides were my fave. After having to fight back after surgeries for cancer multiple times this year… coming back is hard even when it’s all you want to do! So I loved those and her honesty about coming back!”

Karen Allen Ready (LBIGirl) agreed, adding, “Jenn Sherman’s 20 minute rides were so inspiring! Knowing how humbling comebacks can be after surgery, she was so relatable!”

While Jenn may not be pushing her output just yet, she certainly hasn’t lost her sense of rhythm. As per usual, her cadence matched the music. The 80s Ride opened with Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing and went on to include Def Leppard’s Pour Some Sugar On Me and The Knack’s My Sharona, among other 80s classics. The 90s Rock Ride featured hits from Melissa Etheridge, Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, and Pearl Jam.

The classes were back-to-back 20-minute rides, so a perfect stacking opportunity, and a great way to celebrate Jenn’s return to the schedule.

3. Favorite Peloton Artist Series Ride

1/25/24 30 min P!ink Ride with Robin Arzón

This was the most-recommended class in the TCO community this week! Listeners loved all the P!nk classes, but none as much as Robin’s Ride.

Linda Hauck said it was so good she’s already taken it twice! “Robin’s P!NK ride was amazing. She was motivational and talked about how P!NK’S music spoke to her and helped her through some tough times. The class plan synced with the music perfectly too. I’ve taken it twice already,” she said.

Jennifer Johnson Robison loved it too. “Agree on Robin’s!” she said, “Robin has so many words of wisdom, but the end hit me: “I’m trying to become who I needed me to be when I was growing up” ❤️.”

In addition to storytelling and wisdom, Robin serves up an awesome workout in this 30-minute class with four separate climbs totaling over 10 minutes of heavy resistance work. She keeps the energy high with P!nk’s Get the Party Started, Never Gonna Not Dance Again, So What, and Raise Your Glass.

Add this class to your stack for a feel-good sweat session!

4. Favorite Peloton Hike (and the first-ever 60-minute Hike!)

1/27/24 60 min Hike with Rebecca Kennedy

Let the Tread Hikers rejoice! Rebecca Kennedy has blessed us all with the first-ever 60-minute Hike! Sonya Norman and Amanda Van Buren were just two of the many listeners who recommended this class.

Sonya said, “Rebecca Kennedy’s 60 minute hike. Hikes are my favorite tread classes and I’m so glad we finally got a 60 minute one! Hope they do more!!”

Amanda added, “Rebecca Kennedy’s 60 min hike from Saturday! 🔥Playlist was 👌🏼 and loved her positivity! I hope they do more too!”

The class begins with a 9-minute warmup. Then the main set is capped at both the front and back end with a 10-minute max incline hike. Between those climbs are 30 minutes of rolling hill intervals, each with a 3-minute walk, 2-minute power walk, and a 1-minute acceleration.

Rebecca’s playlist for this class is eclectic, with artists like Britney Spears, RÜFÜS DU SOL, No Doubt, Billy Joel, Alanis Morissette, and Ram Jam to keep you climbing.

If you want more long Hikes, add this one to your stack and take it often!

5. Favorite Peloton Unstackable Ride

1/28/24 30 min 90s Rock Ride with Emma Lovewell

Sometimes we want a class that leaves us in a puddle and washes all hope of a stack of extra classes away with it. We call those classes Unstackable, and we love hearing about our listeners’ Unstackable experiences.

For this week’s Unstackable recommendation, we heard from Duane Pierson. Duane reminds us that Unstackable is a relative term! He learned that what might have been a stackable ride in the park in his 20s is absolutely Unstackable in his 50s!

“Emma’s 90s rock ride 1/28/24 just today, best playlist ever (in my opinion). I was in my 20s in the 90s so it made me feel young again. Then I was exhausted as I was moving as if I were 20 years old again, but I’m 50…tired out 🙁,” he said.

Sounds like Duane found a musical time machine—and we love that even though the class was harder than it would have been 30 years ago, it was still Duane’s favorite class this week!

Thank you!

Thank you to all of our listeners for sharing your recommendations and enthusiasm. To see the full list of this week’s classes and add your own to the conversation, check out the TCO Facebook Group. To see past weeks’ Top 5 classes, visit TheClipOut.com and search TCO Top 5! If you try any of the recommendations and find a new favorite, we’d love to hear from you!

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