Off The Bike Reads

Welcome to our ultimate cycling app review of the world’s leading indoor cycling apps. Find out what app is right for you, and check out our other cycling app reviews. The Fundamentals Ride Type: Structured training workouts and planning Compatibility: iOS, Windows, Mac Required Equipment: A smart trainer/power meter or speed sensor Integrations: Strava, Garmin, […]

Welcome to our ultimate guide of the world’s leading indoor cycling apps. Find out what app is right for you, and check out our other reviews of cycling apps. The Fundamentals Ride Type: Structured training workouts and planning Compatibility: iOS, Android, Windows, Mac Required Equipment: A smart trainer/power meter or speed sensor Integrations: Strava, Garmin, […]

Welcome to our ultimate guide of the world’s leading indoor cycling apps. Find out what indoor cycling app is right for you, and check out our other reviews of cycling apps. The Fundamentals Ride Type: Real life videos of popular cycling routes across the globe Compatibility: iOS, Android, Windows, Mac Required Equipment: A smart trainer/power […]

Welcome to our ultimate guide of the world's leading cycling apps. Find out what app is right for you, and check out our other reviews of cycling apps. The Fundamentals Ride Type: Virtual simulations of real roads Compatibility: iOS, Android, Windows, Mac (requires two screens) Required Equipment: A smart trainer with power or separate power […]

For road cyclists – even the most hardcore – the thought of training exclusively indoors could compel any pro to sell their bike and take up chess instead (yes, like 60+ million households, we binge-watched The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix – but we digress). Indeed, until recently, indoor cycling beyond a local spin class was […]

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 […]