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[ellaphant]

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@Porcelain wrote:

There are never any overweight people in their ads. It's like when a 13 year old is the model for an anti-wrinkle cream or when people with perfectly white teeth are the before examples on a white strips ad.

One of the funniest comments I saw was, "116 lb wife documents arduous journey to becoming 112 lb wife."

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Most people who invest several thousand dollars in a Peloton are serious about their health and physical fitness. Snarky comments are always fine about those at healthy weight or even very slender.....stand back if there is a hint of criticism about someone overweight. 

[LyndaGee]

She seemed excited to receive the bike.  I don't understand the controversy.

The parody is very funny, btw !!!

[sidsmom]

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@Johnnyeager wrote:

I don't see the problem with the ad at all.  I actually like it. Isn't exercise supposed to be a good thing....nothing wrong with wanting to move and get in shape....that doesn't necessarily mean lose weight.  People are way too wound up about the slightest thing.

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Ugh...I hate explaining a joke, but.....

The uproar really isn't about the movement....

it's the reason behind the bike. 

She appears to be a social media influencer, filming

every move she makes. And the best part of this commercial....

how she gets SOOOOOO excited "SHE SAID MY NAME!!!!!"

is funny if it wasn't so incredibly sad. Just reeks of insecurity. 

And how she shows him this video compilation of h.e.r videos

is funny weird, as well.  It really IS a gift that keeps on giving. 

It kinda reminds me of a trailer for a Lifetime Movie of the Week

where dramtic music swells up at the end when her psycho husband

starts yelling at her & her only way to break free from the tyranny

of her hellish marriage, one of the riders on the Peloton screen

comes to rescue her...where, in the darkness of the night,

she escapes w/ only has $5 to her name & the famous

Peloton bike.  😆😆

[handygal2]

I would like to know if anyone at that ad agency thought to make the commercial about a WIFE giving her physically-fit HUSBAND that bike for Christmas. I doubt it. It reeks of chauvinism, IMO.

[Azcowgirl]

I like the Nordic track one with the similar bike, a guy and a gal in next door condos working out in front of their respective windows across from each other . 🙄

[QVCkitty1]

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@handygal2 wrote:

I would like to know if anyone at that ad agency thought to make the commercial about a WIFE giving her physically-fit HUSBAND that bike for Christmas. I doubt it. It reeks of chauvinism, IMO.

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@handygal2  It sure does !

[Phantom41]

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@bmorechick wrote:

I wish hubs would get me the Peleton bike!  Why do people think you have to be overweight to work out? Thin people workout too. I have never been overweight in my life and I have made it to a healthy 63 I think partly because I have always all my life been fond of a workout. I love how I feel afterward. Exercise is simply good for you, overweight or not.  Why are people offended?  People are dropping like flies from heart disease because they sit on their bums and accept their too many extra pounds.  And that’s my two cents 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Honestly I don't see anything wrong either...people get their panties in a pinch too easily anymore.  I'd love to have one of these bikes!  As the saying goes, "just because you're offended, doesn't make you right."  

[giova]

I don't see anything wrong with the ad.  I'd love to have a peloton bike. I think their bikes are for fit people who want to stay that way, not really for fat people who aren't there.

[pegsue]

I don't have a problem with the commercial-it's only a commercial and they have generated attention.  That is exactly what they wanted to do.   As far as the fit people in the commercial-I assume it's supposed to be motivating/inspiring.  I get it-all of my exercise videos have fit people in them and it certainly motivates me.  Now, about the product itself-it's way out of my price range no matter how they try and sell it to me.  I work for a trial lawyer who has no problem buying anything he wants and even he says it's overpriced.  He calls it the bike you never own!

[Spurt]

@sidsmom 

I'm all for people being healthy, but this commercial reeks of chauvinism (come on husband or S.O. you need to get some exercise too bucko)....and narcissism ....It even looks like she has lipstick on as she wakes up from bed to ride her Peloton at 6AM.....🙄 does she really need to video her Peloton journey on her phone, and then the part "she said my name" SMH.. 🙄...So does she plan to share her narcisstic video journey at work or a PTA meeting or when she does lunch at the Hamptons with the girls?.. I'm waiting for part-two of the commercial where she meets a Physical Fitness Trainer at a health food store and divorces the guy that bought her the Peloton....