I have a love-hate relationship with road cycling. For years, I have chased countless fitness trends in pursuit of the workout for me. A few of these stuck (hot yoga, running, reformer workouts) while most fizzled (barre, spin, rowing, boot camp, indoor rock climbing, and even a single pole dancing class – for the record, […]
As the pandemic forced fitness studios, including hot yoga studios, to shutter their doors, gym rats, yogis, and other fitness enthusiasts scrambled to make alternate, physically distanced arrangements. Suddenly, basements, garages, and even that tiny space between television sets and coffee tables were reconfigured into makeshift dumbbell stations, yoga studios, stationary bike pads, and glute-tightening […]
To argue that COVID-19 has been a wildly disruptive force would be to downplay the blunt shockwaves that have reverberated across every corner of the planet. Everywhere, harrowing tales of infection rates run amok and livelihoods upended abound. The ravage has been universal, and the future of the global multi-billion-dollar fitness industry – characterized on […]
As the COVID pandemic forces workouts out of spin studios and into the self-isolation of basements everywhere, there is a colourful debate raging among fitness fanatics: Peloton or Echelon (or other indoor spin bike)? But here's what we can't figure out: Why not simply purchase a real bike? It's hard to overstate the benefits of […]
