How to Choose a Home Workout Platform

Get-Fit Guy

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Health & Fitness, Sports

4.6 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In the entire history of the fitness industry, consumers now have more choices than ever. But how to know which devices or services to spend your hard-earned money on? Get-Fit Guy interviews Colleen Logan of ICON Health & Fitness and professional cyclist George Hincapie to help cut through the hype. Read the transcript. Subscribe to the newsletter to get more fitness tips. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Links: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/health-fitness/exercise/how-long-recover-between-sets https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/subscribe https://www.facebook.com/GetFitGuy https://twitter.com/GetFitGuy

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.
0:07.0	My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.
0:10.0	I have mentioned and shown the stationary bike that I use at home in some of my past episodes and in my workout of the week videos that you can find at
0:20.0	Brock Armstrong.com
0:21.6	slash YouTube.
0:23.9	Now the bike is a pro form pro 22 studio bike that features the iFit workout platform.
0:32.4	It's pretty compact, easy to move around and has a big tablet screen that connects to my Bluetooth headphones
0:39.7	and heart rate monitor.
0:41.3	Suffice to say, it does me well.
0:44.5	In a time when virtual and online training is at an all-time high, I spent a lot of time
0:50.6	actually looking into not only which device I wanted to have cluttering up my home,
0:56.1	but also which platform I would need a subscription for to make the most of this device.
1:02.6	Now, beyond Ifit, I have subscriptions to more than a few platforms, including Journey and
1:09.7	Allo moves and Zwift, and yes, a few of those were given to
1:13.7	me for free because, well, I'm a podcaster. And because I'm nearly 50 years old, turning 50 in a
1:20.6	couple of months, in fact, I have a long history with various fitness platforms, starting with
1:27.0	workouts on VHS tape. Now, when I was presented
1:31.8	with the opportunity to chat with Colleen Logan, who's the vice president of marketing at Icon
1:37.5	Health and Fitness, I jumped at it. Colleen has been working in the industry for nearly 20 years
1:42.7	and has seen many fads come and go.
1:46.2	Now, Icon, Health and Fitness is headquartered in Utah and is a company that designs
1:51.4	manufacturers and sells treadmills, stationary bikes, and ellipticals, as well as owning the
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