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As expected, Peloton will not have live classes around Christmas and New Year’s Eve/Day this holiday season.

During Apple’s fall event, the company announced Fitness+, a new subscription service with deep integration with Apple Watch that became available on December 14th, 2020.

Update: Amazon Halo is now available to purchase without requesting an invite. Nothing has changed of my opinion from the original review.

The health and wellness industry has been something Apple has been focusing on for several years with the Apple Watch. After the first version focused on apps and communication, Apple pivoted in the following years toward the Apple Watch, becoming the ultimate fitness tracker by adding GPS, new workout types, ECG monitor, and much more. Amazon is relatively new to the health and wellness industry as a first-party product. While Amazon sells several fitness items, it has not branched out into a first-party connected fitness device until the Amazon Halo. I’ve been wearing the Halo for the first month, and I am finally at a place where I understand what the product is and what it’s not.

In the NY Times, Peloton CEO John Foley documents how he spends his Sundays.

On Friday, TMZ broke the news that Peloton is being sued in the state of New York over the lack of closed captioning in the Peloton service.

One of the lacking areas for iFit’s fitness platform has been music, but the product is gaining additional functionality through the iFit mainstream music feature.

On Friday evening, it was announced that Peloton would be added to the Nasdaq-100 when the markets open on Monday, December 21, 2020.

The Axios Pro Rata podcast announced yesterday that it’s hosting a fundraiser on Saturday through a Peloton ride.

Apple Fitness+ was unveiled at Apple’s September Apple Watch event, but a specific arrival date wasn’t shared. It’s now been announced that the personalized fitness service based around Apple Watch will be available on December 14. If you’re looking to add in a new workout routine for 2021, you might be asking which service is best: Apple Fitness+ vs. Peloton?

2020 hasn’t been all good news for Peloton. In late November, a new lawsuit was filed against them for violation of New York labor laws and religious discrimination. Read on for the latest details of the new Peloton lawsuit.

In the latest episode of Ali on the Run, Peloton instructor Tunde Oyeneyin joins as a guest talk all things Peloton and fitness.

In a new Bloomberg article, Peloton CEO John Foley is called the Exercise, and the article takes a look at the wild ride $PTON has been on in 2020 while trying to keep pace with ever-increasing demand.

It’s not the first time it’s happened, and it likely won’t be the last, but Peloton has once again purged a large number of on-demand rides from its archives. Who was the biggest loser in the latest Peloton class purge?

ICON, the company behind the popular iFit fitness service is adding Bluetooth headphone connectivity to its popular NordicTrack, ProForm, and Freemotion lineup.

Peloton is looking to expand its Plano, Texas, operation that it originally opened as a customer support center two years ago.

If you’re one of the lucky people who’ve received delivery of Peloton’s Bike+, then this new accessory from CycleFrog will be a great add on.

Over at Vogue, Peloton’s Cody Rigsby was recently featured in a full-length article about his role at the company during the spring quarantine in the US.

Peloton’s sales in 2020 have been record-breaking for the company, but that doesn’t mean all is well for the company. With a backlog of orders that never seems to run out, some are speculating whether that will end up benefiting their rivals.

Echelon, the connected fitness provider based out of Chattanooga, TN has announced it has struck an agreement with MediaNet fot its enterprise platform.

iFit, the connected fitness library powering the treadmills, bikes, and rowers from ICON (makers of NordicTrack), has launched a new program with former NFL star Tiki Barber.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Peloton’s Head of Music, Gwen Riley, discusses recent partnerships with Beyoncé, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and the Prince estate, among other topics.

Earlier this month, Peloton announced a beta of its new “Sessions” feature to help riders climb the leaderboard with other riders with on-demand classes. Earlier today, Peloton announced that the feature is going away but looks to return.

When spending a lot of time with any connected fitness service, you’ll end up with countless data that you might want to analyze to understand better how you progress. Peltrend is a free solution to analyze key metrics from your Peloton workouts.

On the heels of the announcement that YouTube co-founder and former CEO Chad Hurley had invested in the company, CLMBR has announced that Jay-Z and Novak Djokovic are now investing in the company as well.