Top 5 Things We Lost at Peloton in 2025

It certainly was A YEAR at Peloton, as we got so many new goodies… from equipment to instructors to content and more. While we’ve reviewed a lot of that over in our “Naughty or Nice” article, we’d be remiss if we let the calendar close for 2025 without looking back at all we’ve lost. So here is The Clip Out’s countdown of things lost!

 

#5: Programs on our Smart TVs and Laptops

We talked about this in our Naughty or Nice year-end review as well, and we give it a spot here even though it’s not gone, it’s just harder to find. Yes, it’s Programs. Peloton loves to give us an entire Program to follow to help us meet our workout goals, and previously this meant committing to their timetable of class completion dates, lest you lose all your progress. While this feature has been removed, thankfully, the Programs themselves are now only available on one’s Peloton app or on their hardware. 

So, there’s no more ability to take classes from within a Program on your laptop or streaming on your Smart TV. Yes, you can mirror your app to your tv and still use your larger screen, if that’s what your workout space is all about, but you just can’t launch the Programs that way. In fact, when you forget and try to open them on your laptop (wait, who said that?) you are greeted with this mildly annoying QR code (above), reminding you that you forgot. D’oh!

For more on this topic, check out this article from Peloton and our rundown of all the Programs changes in this article.

 

#4: Showrooms

Throughout the year, Peloton announced continued closures of their traditional showrooms across the country. States including California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington; as well as regions of Canada in Ontario and Vancouver; all lost more (or the remainder of) stores. While this was part of a strategic initiative to reduce costs, and will continue into 2026, some members were caught off guard. 

This absence of in-person availability was particularly noticeable when Peloton launched their new Cross Training series of equipment in the Fall. What better time to have face-to-face opportunities to demo new hardware and ask questions than this, right? 

To address (and balance their financial concerns), Peloton began posting on LinkedIn that they were seeking experienced retail team members to join their new “microstores” rolling out. From the Massachusetts perspective, I can tell you that we lost the last of our stores in 2025, but in one particular mecca-style mall we got back a microstore (its showroom has actually closed in 2022). Situated smack in the middle of the “X” of all the shopping chutes, this microstore is now a hotspot of Pelo-activity. It even hosted a visit from Rebecca Kennedy recently! 

For more on this topic, check out Episode 429 of the podcast (an overall look at this year’s strategy) and our article about the microstores. 

 

#3: The Guide

The Guide, Peloton’s little box that watched you rep it out in Strength classes, met its demise midyear in 2025. While it was not a surprise per se, because the price kept dropping, and dropping, and dropping… the quick announcement that it was no longer being sold was immediate. 

Guide users can still take classes and use it, but no new classes are being labelled specifically for it.

Why? Well, as we found out a few months later (and had suspected all along), Peloton was moving into its new connected fitness era with Cross Training and Peloton IQ. As we detailed, the new tablet screens on the new hardware feature a Guide-like tracking system, but with way more bells and whistles. 

While there is a big discrepancy right now between who can access this and who can’t (based on if you are able to buy new equipment versus use the tabletop camera from the straightforward ‘lil Guide) we do appreciate that Peloton is leaning into its focus on improving Strength content overall. And who knows… perhaps we’ll see Peloton IQ on more screens soon… ;) 

For more on this topic, check out Episode 423 of the podcast and our article where we say goodbye to the Guide.

 

#2: AFO (Peloton’s All for One Music Festival)

Every year, Peloton has done some kind of big thing that rallies everyone together. Years ago they had the Home Rider Invasion (HRI). Then it morphed into Homecoming. These were in-person events at PSNY where members came for special classes and connection. Then debuting in 2021 during Covid, we got something called the All For One Music Festival. Based on an idea from instructor Jess King, AFO as it’s known, was a weeklong extravaganza of classes meant to have members move through experiencing different artists, like hopping from stage to stage at an actual festival. Though initially skeptical, members grew to love it and it came back with new artists every year through 2024. (I mean, if you’re not still doing Matt’s 2022 Post Ride Stretch featuring The 1975 are you even a Power Zone rider?)

As we moved through 2025, we did get some amazing and fun musical moments. Over the summer we got “British Summer Fest” classes. And then we got the “Songs of Summer” classes as well as a German “Summer Break.” But… we were still waiting for the big AFO announcement for the Fall. And we waited and waited. Looks like we were left to relive the glory of years past in this TCO article archive…  Sure, people did enjoy the late-Decemeber Top 50 Songs classes that have also become a mainstay in the schedule, but, it’s just not the same. 

When it comes to community bonding, thought, we will admit that the whole Countdown to Turkey Burn was a very popular multi-week extravaganza in its own right, and was new this year. But as a replacement for the AFO vibes? The jury is out on that one. We do hope that All For One will be back next year! 

See the AFO history in this Peloton article.

And now… for the Number 1 Thing We Lost in 2025… 

 

#1: We Lost Our MF Minds… When AT Went Off on Jennifer Jacobs Live In Class!

Could this double dip as one of the biggest Peloton news stories of the year? Yes!

In case you missed it (or if other flabbergasting news has taken over this space in your brain since the summer), the backstory is that former Peloton instructor Jennifer Jacobs took to her IG to tease a new fitness venture. She used imagery highly suggestive of the Peloton bike, leading (some might say leading on) her loyal fans to guess that she would be coming back to the fold. 

But no. 

Not only did she reveal, after an agonizingly slow trickle of social media teases that her new gig was not Peloton but instead Ladder (which is an online Strength platform), she threw her friends and former colleagues under the proverbial bus. How did she do it? By creating additional content using models that mimicked pretty closely a beloved Peloton personality and casting them in not the best light, to put it mildly. In addition, she took out a billboard ad right outside of PSNY inviting people to “ditch the bike” and join her on Ladder. So cringe. Especially since she did it on a Wednesday when PSNY is closed! 

So. As if this didn’t get the Peloverse riled up enough (I mean, it did) but then, AT rolls in to Shut. Her. Down. 

In the middle of one of his rides, while dispensing his usual blend of discipline-focused guidance and beat dropping, he looks into the camera and says:

“Hey yo, let’s not even act like y’all didn’t see that stupid sh-t on social media this week(…) I ain’t got no MF filter but I’m about to be honest with you (…) you know how we got that long lost cousin who acts up from time to time? I still love her (…) but (…) let’s be very f-king clear: that sh-t would’ve not happened if I had work that day (…) I don’t care where you work, what community you represent, if you inspire your community to move, I salute you and I love you, but WATCH YOUR F-KING MOUTH WHEN SPEAKING ABOUT MY TEAM.

He ended with an apology to HR but honestly, I think we were all thinking what he was saying! (Watch the whole clip here!)

So why did this make us lose our minds?

It was a toxic stew of the poor marketing judgement and the blatant disrespect not only of her friends and colleagues but also the many members who still rooted for her, manifested her return to Peloton, and followed her around the internet teaching on other platforms. It’s the people that make this thing so special, and witnessing how fiercely Alex defended what the rest of us are doing here, was just epic. So we lost our minds over this here in our corner of the Peloverse.

Go down the rabbit hole on this by reading this article and listening to Episode 418 of the podcast.

How’d we do? Miss anything? Do you agree with our picks? Let us know! 

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