The verdict was returned on Friday, July 31, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, in NEC Corp. v. Peloton Interactive, Inc., case number 1:22-cv-00987.

According to the jury verdict form, the jury found that Peloton directly infringed claims 1, 11, 22 and 26 of U.S. Patent No. 8,752,101 through two accused video players, Google ExoPlayer/Media3 and Apple AVPlayer. The rest of the form came back as follows:

• Induced infringement: No. NEC did not prove Peloton actively induced its customers to infringe.
• Contributory infringement: No, on every claim and both video players.
• Invalidity: No. Peloton did not prove the claims were invalid for lack of an adequate written description, the only invalidity theory on the form.
• Damages: $20.5 million.
• Form of the award: A running royalty through the date of trial, rather than a one-time lump sum.
• Willfulness: No. Peloton’s infringement was not willful.

The no-willfulness finding removes the basis NEC presented for enhanced damages, which the court can award at up to three times the underlying amount. Because the money was designated a running royalty through trial rather than a lump sum, it compensates NEC for infringement up to this point. The verdict form does not establish what, if anything, applies after the trial date.

The patent, titled “Distribution system,” was issued in 2014 and claims priority to a Japanese application filed November 5, 2009. It relates to adaptive bitrate streaming, and specifically selecting a code rate based on both the time remaining before a scheduled playback start and the amount of content the receiving device has already buffered. The accused players are third-party products supplied by Google and Apple, used in Peloton’s devices.

The jury was asked to calculate a reasonable royalty as of a hypothetical license negotiation in July 2016, and was told to base any award on the value attributable to the patented technology alone rather than the entire product.

NEC filed the case on July 28, 2022, asserting three patents, and two did not survive to trial. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board invalidated one at Peloton’s request. In a June 30 ruling made public in redacted form on July 21, Judge Christopher J. Burke granted Peloton summary judgment on U.S. Patent No. 8,909,809, finding that NEC had not shown the accused services calculated and then used the specific “correction amount” the patent requires, either literally or under the doctrine of equivalents. An earlier ruling also dismissed NEC’s pre-suit indirect- and willful-infringement claims, because Peloton received NEC’s notice letter only one day before the lawsuit was filed.

Months before trial, in Peloton’s Q3 FY2026 Form 10-Q, Peloton told investors that the potential loss could be material, although it could not estimate an amount:

“At this time, the Company cannot estimate the precise amount of any reasonably possible loss, as the estimate would depend on numerous uncertainties, including the court’s rulings on the parties’ pending motions, but it is possible that any such amount could be material.”

Adaptive bitrate streaming has cost Peloton before. In 2023, the company paid DISH Network $75 million to settle a dispute over the same category of technology after the International Trade Commission ordered an import ban on Peloton hardware. Two more patent suits are currently pending against Peloton at the complaint stage, from Portus in May and Flow Motion Research and Development last week.

Both sides can file post-trial motions asking the judge to set aside or adjust the award, and the losing side can appeal to the Federal Circuit. Neither Peloton nor NEC had publicly commented on the verdict as of publication.

We will continue to monitor the case and share updates as they become available.

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The episode is also available on all podcast platforms. Either search for “Pelo Buddy TV” in your favorite podcast app, or click the link below to head straight to Episode 278 in your player of choice!

This episode is hosted by Amanda Segal (#Seglo3) and Chris Lewis (#PeloBuddy).

This week we cover the following Peloton news stories & updates:

• Peloton has updated the watch apps so you can do an outdoor run or walk without a phone.
• Leanne Hainsby-Alldis announced she will be back on the Peloton schedule in September.
• Emma Lovewell has a “Christmas in July” ride.
• Marcel Dinkins has a new 2 hour run available.
• The next Club Peloton live class is a run with Logan Aldridge.
• The next Chase exclusive class at Peloton Studios New York is with Jenn Sherman.
• There will be a run and panel with Joslyn Thompson Rule and Tim Robards in Sydney Australia.
• Mariana Fernandez led an in-person group run & yoga flow from Peloton Studios New York.
• Peloton highlighted some classes in “This Week at Peloton.”
• Marcel Maurer celebrated his 5 year anniversary with Peloton.
• A new lawsuit has been filed over the Peloton Row Form Assist feature.
• Becs Gentry ran a 50K race this past weekend.
• There is a discount code for Faces of Fitness in Miami.
• Kirra Michel taught at a yoga festival in Asheville last weekend.

Recommended Peloton Classes of the Week

Each week, our viewers along with our co-hosts share some classes that were worth checking out from the last week. You can find them below. As always keep in mind there are hundreds of classes every week, so it’s impossible for this to be a completely comprehensive list! If you have some to share, be sure to submit your favorites via a post we make in our Instagram stories on Wednesday nights. The leaderboard name of the member(s) who suggested it to us is at the end of each class name.

• Cliff Dwenger – 20 min Ne-Yo Ride [German] – 7/23/26 @ 12:30pm ET (#AMAJar3)
• Aditi Shah – 45 min Yoga Flow – 7/23/26 @ 6:30am ET (#AMAJar3)
• Emma Lovewell – 30 min Christmas in July Ride – 7/24/26 @ 12:00am ET (#AnnaSpins834)
• Katie Wang – 45 min Power Pyramid – 7/24/26 @ 9:30am ET (#Tonya53FN)
• Jess King – 45 min Sweat Steady Ride – 7/24/26 @ 10:00am ET (#AMAJar3)
• Denis Morton – 30 min 90s Hip Hop Ride – 7/24/26 @ 3:00pm ET (#HollyTeaEC)
• Matt Wilpers – 75 min Power Zone Endurance Ride – 7/25/26 @ 7:00am ET (#MickyInRI23)
• Hannah Corbin – Sculpt 30 – 7/27/26 @ 12:00am ET (#SpinBug, #JustDanceLisa, #AMAJar3)
• Tunde Oyeneyin – 30 min Power Zone Ride – 7/27/26 @ 12:00pm ET (#CathyRedOne2)
• Ash Pryor – 15 min Caribbean Row – 7/27/26 @ 6:30pm ET (#Cupcake724)
• Andy Speer – 30 min HIIT Tread Bootcamp – 7/28/26 @ 9:00am ET (#DamnitSuzyGo)
• Marcel Dinkins – 120 min Long Run – 7/29/26 @ 12:00am ET (#LindseyTrains88)

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The collection description reads:

“Looking for a place to start? These classes will get you moving and on your way to establishing a more regular routine.”

There are currently eight classes in the collection, and you can view the full list below:

• 20 min Bodyweight Strength – Matty Maggiacomo – 11/17/25 @ 12:00am ET [Beginner]
• 20 min Bodyweight Strength – Logan Aldridge – 6/11/24 @ 6:00pm ET [Beginner]
• 15 min Core Strength – Rad Lopez – 1/23/25 @ 10:00am ET [Beginner]
• 20 min Bodyweight Strength – Joslyn Thompson Rule – 3/30/26 @ 12:00am ET [Intermediate]
• 15 min Low Impact Cardio – Rebecca Kennedy – 3/24/26 @ 12:00am ET [Intermediate]
• 20 min Low Impact Cardio – Rebecca Kennedy – 10/21/25 @ 12:00am ET [Intermediate]
• 15 min 2000s Dance Cardio – Leanne Hainsby-Alldis – 6/11/25 @ 12:00am ET [Beginner]
• 20 min Full Body Stretch – Ally Love – 3/30/26 @ 3:37pm ET

Every class is either 15 or 20 minutes, none of them require equipment beyond a mat, and the mix leans toward strength, with four strength classes alongside three cardio classes and one stretch. Most carry a Beginner or Intermediate difficulty label.

These are all existing classes rather than new ones, with air dates stretching back to June 2024, so this is Peloton curating what is already in the library rather than releasing specific new classes for it. As with other collections, it may grow over time.

You can find the collection in the on-demand library, find it on the web here.

Will you be trying any of the classes in Peloton’s new Jumpstart Your Routine collection?

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Peloton announced the program via social media, writing:

“Ready, Set, Rest. Calm your body for more restorative rest and build a powerful new practice with Aditi’s 7-day program, now on the Breathwrk app. Free with your All-Access Membership.”

The program is a week-long guided breathwork journey aimed at winding down in the evening and preparing the body for sleep. It opens with a five minute intro, followed by one ten minute session per day, with each day layering in new techniques. In total it runs about 75 minutes across the eight classes.

You can view the full class list below:

• Intro to Breathe Into Better Sleep (5 min) – An introduction to how breath influences the nervous system, what to expect over the seven days, and how intentional breathing supports rest.
• Day 1 (10 min) – A calming introduction to diaphragmatic breathing, paired with breath awareness and guided relaxation.
• Day 2 (10 min) – Extended exhales and simple breath ratios to slow down and release tension before bed.
• Day 3 (10 min) – Diaphragmatic breathing and extended exhales, with gentle breath holds added in.
• Day 4 (10 min) – Steady, intentional breathing to calm the nervous system and let go of the day’s stress.
• Day 5 (10 min) – Gentle breathing patterns and mindful pauses to release tension and create space for rest.
• Day 6 (10 min) – Simple breathing techniques combined with mindful awareness to quiet the mind.
• Day 7 (10 min) – A closing practice blending breath awareness, humming, gentle pauses, and 4-7-8 breathing.

It is the third program Peloton has added to Breathwrk, after Kirra Michel’s 7 Days to Release Stress & Anxiety in June and Chelsea Jackson Roberts’ 7 Days of Breathwork in May.

One change since those earlier programs: Android users should now be able to access this program. When Kirra’s program launched, the Peloton content in Breathwrk was limited to iOS. That changed earlier last month with an update to the Android app.

As with the previous two, this program lives in the Breathwrk app rather than the main Peloton app. Peloton acquired Breathwrk in October 2025, and it has since been free for All-Access, Guide, and App+ members through their existing Peloton login, with completed sessions syncing back to the Peloton app.

You can always find a full list of Peloton programs and the classes they include here.

Will you be giving Aditi’s new breathwork program a try?

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The collection, titled “Marcel M’s Greatest Hits,” currently contains 50 classes from across Marcel’s running, walking, strength, and Tread Bootcamp catalog.

Peloton describes the collection as follows:

“Celebrate 5 years of Marcel M with this collection of his signature classes. From Tread bootcamps to epic Artist Series classes, relive all of your favorite Marcel M moments.”

The classes are divided into five categories:

• Greatest of All Time
• Top Artist Series
• Top Runs
• Top Bootcamps
• Top Strength

You can find the collection on the app, web, and Peloton hardware devices, or via the direct link here.

Peloton Studios also shared a video of Marcel rewatching footage from his earliest Peloton classes.

Marcel revealed that visa complications affected the original plans for his Peloton debut. Because he was unable to travel as planned, Peloton built a strength studio in Munich where he could premiere and teach his first classes.

Marcel said he remains grateful to have a job centered around something he is passionate about, saying:

“I get to teach, I get to inspire people, I get to help people get moving.”

Peloton has made a tradition of these Greatest Hits collections as instructors reach their five-year anniversaries, with later milestones for those who have been around longer. Other recent instructors who have hit their five year anniversary include Rad Lopez, Callie Gullickson, Kirra Michel, Mariana Ferandnez, Nico Sarani, and Bradley Rose.

Congratulations to Marcel Maurer on five years with Peloton!

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This festival will see several sessions led by Peloton instructors.

The Peloton classes at the Miami festival are both on Sunday, October 25. Johanna Ricouz has a solo Pilates class from 9:35am to 10:00am, and Tunde Oyeneyin, Rad Lopez, and Camila Ramón team up for a Bodyweight Strength class from 11:35am to 12:00pm. That combo class will feature a set from DJ Sam Feldt, who the festival says has previously played Coachella and Tomorrowland. The full festival lineup is available on the Faces of Fitness Miami website.

The code is PELOTON10, and tickets can be purchased through the festival’s SweatPals ticket page. The festival takes place October 24 and 25 in Miami, and is presented by Celsius.

The actual location for the festival will be Coconut Gove in Regatta Park (3500 Pan American Dr, Miami, FL 33133).

Ticket prices before the discount (and before taxes and fees) are as follows:

• Single day pass – $65
• Two day pass – $115
• Four pack of two day passes – $210

The timing follows the Chicago festival, which took place this past weekend with Adrian Williams, Katie Wang, Jess Sims, and Zacharias Niedzwiecki. That event sold out ahead of time, to the point that Peloton ran a giveaway for passes in the final days before it.

Miami will be the fourth Faces of Fitness festival Peloton has taken part in, after Chicago in 2024, 2025, and this year. The festival bills itself as “Lollapalooza, but for fitness, health and wellness,” with multiple stages running classes from headlining instructors across different disciplines throughout the weekend. We shared the full Miami instructor lineup back in May.

If you are planning to attend, you can purchase tickets with code PELOTON10 via the festival’s ticket page.

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The event takes place at Clovelly Surf Life Saving Club and is split into two parts, each with its own check-in, so members can attend one or both.
The first is a panel conversation in partnership with Beyond Blue on resilience, mental health, and community connection, followed immediately by a mobility class co-hosted by Peloton instructor Joslyn Thompson Rule and Peloton Australia guest instructor Tim Robards. Check-in opens at 6:30am, with the panel and class running from 6:45am to 7:15am. Peloton notes that spots for this portion are limited.

The second is a shakeout run at 7:30am, powered by local group Coogee Run Club, with check-in from 7:00am. Peloton describes it as an inclusive run open to all paces and styles. Afterward, a coffee cart and light bites run from 8:00am to 9:30am.

For those unfamiliar with Tim Robards, he is an Australian TV personality and chiropractor who joined Peloton as a guest instructor in late 2025, in a move Peloton described as an investment in the Australian market. He is not part of the standing instructor roster and does not teach year round, instead appearing in two for one classes alongside other instructors. He is also only the second Australian instructor Peloton has had, after Kirra Michel joined as a yoga instructor in 2021.

This will be his third in-person Peloton event in Australia this year. He co-led a 5K at Peloton’s “Race Week Victory Lap” in Melbourne in March, held ahead of the Australian Grand Prix, and then led a Global Running Day 5km in Sydney in June, which was also run in partnership with Coogee Run Club. That makes this the second Peloton event held with the group. Robards and Joslyn Thompson Rule have also taught together before, including a two for one walk earlier this year.

Spots for the Sydney event are free and open to Peloton members and non-members alike, though tickets are limited to one per person, so anyone hoping to bring a friend will need to have them register separately. A confirmed registration and a signed waiver are both required to participate.

The venue is Clovelly Surf Life Saving Club at 411R Clovelly Road, sitting at the eastern end of Clovelly Road overlooking Clovelly Beach, and there is free public parking outside. There are no shower facilities on site, and only limited space for belongings, so Peloton is asking attendees to bring as little as possible.

The event is part of a much larger weekend for Peloton in Australia. As we shared in June, Peloton is partnering with City2Surf for a fourth consecutive year, having sponsored the 14km Sydney fun run since 2023. The race itself takes place on Sunday, August 9, with a Peloton Expo running August 6 through 8.

Beyond Blue is Peloton’s charity partner for the City2Surf race. At the expo and the post-race finisher’s village, members who complete a five minute warm-up or cool-down class will trigger a $10 donation from Peloton to Beyond Blue, limited to one class per person per day and capped at a $3,000 target.

If you are in Sydney and would like to attend the event with Joslyn & Tim, you can register for the event via Peloton’s event page.

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The class is a 30 min Intervals Run, airing live at 6:30am ET on Monday, August 3.

Members at Gold, Champion, or Legend level should see the class on their schedule with the Club Peloton icon and an “Unlocked” label. You can find it in the schedule tab on your Tread or in the latest version of the Peloton App. As with previous Club Peloton Live Classes, it will not appear on the Peloton website schedule, even if you are Gold level or higher.

Members below Gold will not see the class on their schedule at all, and will not be able to take it live.

As with every Club Peloton Live Class so far, once it airs live it will be added to the on-demand library as a regular class, where it will be available to all members regardless of Club Peloton tier.

Peloton has continued to vary who gets access to these classes. Sometimes a class is locked to a single tier, and other times it sets a minimum and includes everyone above it. This one takes the second approach, matching Becs Gentry’s HIIT Run in May, which was also open to Gold and higher. The most recent class, a ride with Camila Ramón on July 14, went the other way and was Legend only.

The first Club Peloton Live Class was a ride with Robin Arzón for Legend members, the second was a ride with Cody Rigsby for Champion members only, the third was a ride with Charlotte Weidenbach that opened up to Silver and above, and the fourth was a ride with Denis Morton restricted to Gold.

This is only the second Club Peloton run they have done.

For more on the Club Peloton loyalty program and the various tiers, check out our Club Peloton overview.

Will you be tuning in for Logan Aldridge’s Club Peloton Live Intervals Run on August 3?

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The class dropped straight to the on-demand library, and you can find it as a 120 min Long Run from July 29, 2026 @ 12:00am ET.

It is an outdoor audio class, meaning there is no video and Marcel is coaching through audio cues. Members can take it running outside, or on a Tread if they would rather stay indoors.

Two hour runs remain rare on the platform. As of April, there were only four regular two hour running classes in Peloton’s on-demand library, three of them on the Tread and just one audio-only, which makes Marcel’s the second audio-only option. Peloton did add several more two hour and 2.5 hour long runs in April, but those are housed inside the Pace Your Race marathon program rather than sitting in the general library.

Outside of that program, the most recent regular two hour run was a 120 minute run from Becs Gentry on March 14, so it has been about four months since the last one.

It is also a new name in the category. Peloton’s two hour runs have come from a small group of instructors so far, with Becs Gentry teaching the first one back in October 2024 and Susie Chan and Matt Wilpers accounting for most of the rest.

The playlist runs 30 tracks and covers a lot of ground, opening with Kirk Franklin before moving through Motown, 90s R&B, and current pop.

The timing lines up with fall marathon season. Runners training for races in September through November are heading into their longest training weeks right about now.

Will you be taking Marcel’s new two hour run?

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This update also brought the ability for the Peloton watch app to automatically pair with Peloton equipment.

Prior to the most recent app update, Peloton members looking to run or walk outdoors on their own (e.g., running without taking a specific class) would have to:

• Open the Peloton iOS app
• Tap “Just Run” or “Just Walk”
• Open the Apple Watch app to pair the iPhone app
• Keep their phone on them while running or walking to track metrics and distance.

That workflow dated back to the very beginning of Peloton’s Apple Watch app. When Peloton first launched the Apple Watch app in September 2020, we noted at the time that for outdoor runs, you would still need to take your iPhone with you. Nearly six years later, that is finally no longer the case.

The updated Apple Watch app now functions as a more feature-complete native app, allowing members to simply open the app, tap “Outdoor Run” or “Outdoor Walk”, and start running or walking without needing to carry their iPhone.

All workout metrics – distance, elevation, heart rate, calories, etc. – are captured via the app and uploaded to both Apple Health and the Peloton iOS app once in range of the user’s iPhone.

In essence, the app now works the same as many other native Apple Watch fitness apps. Users also don’t need a cellular or wifi signal to start a run or walk. They simply tap the appropriate workout type in the app (Outdoor Walk or Outdoor Run), and off they go.

One item to note: the above only applies to general outdoor runs or walks and not to classes of any kind, including instructor-led outdoor runs or walks. For now, members must still initiate classes taught by instructors from the iOS app and keep their phones with them while completing the workout.

Perhaps a future update will change that and allow members to take a traditional Peloton class on an Apple Watch without needing their phone – but that is still not available as it stands today.

Beyond the ability to do just walk & just run workouts without an iPhone – Peloton has simplified using the Apple Watch as a heart rate monitor with Peloton hardware. Now, the watch automatically pairs with Peloton equipment as opposed to having to tap “connect” to initiate pairing. A user simply needs to open the app and have it near the equipment for the pairing to occur.

The app has a handy “How to sync” prompt for app users to explain this.

The auto-pairing applies to members’ own equipment as well as studio equipment for when members take classes in New York or London. As a reminder, Peloton updated the studio equipment to use Apple Watches as a heart rate monitor last year, following the ability to use Apple Watch as a heart rate monitor across all workout types on home Peloton devices back in 2022.

While the pairing update might not seem significant, it will undoubtedly help users who forget to pair their Apple Watch when starting a class.

Will you be leaving your phone at home on your next run?

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Chase Sapphire Reserve cardmembers can redeem 3,500 points or $35 to book a spot in the 30 minute live ride, which starts at 12:30pm ET. The experience includes both the ride and the customary meet-and-greet and photo opportunity with the instructor.

At time of publishing, the class is already sold out, but a waitlist is available on the Chase Experiences website in case of cancellations.

Each package is for one person, with a maximum of two tickets per cardmember. Participants must be at least 18 years of age, will need to sign a waiver, and arrive one hour before the class starts.

For those who are not trying to take the class in-person and in-studio, this will just look like a regular class at home, and be available to take live, and then be on-demand at a later date.

Peloton periodically hosts these Chase-exclusive classes at PSNY, and they have been landing at roughly a quarterly pace this year. The most recent ones were a ride with Ally Love in May and a ride with Jess King in February.

It also comes as Peloton and Chase have another upcoming event. The two are putting on a four night wellness retreat in the Turks and Caicos Islands this November with Rebecca Kennedy and Andy Speer, priced at $7,950 or 795,000 points.

Peloton and Chase renewed their partnership through the end of 2027 last year, the third extension since the original announcement in 2020.

If you are a Sapphire Reserve cardmember hoping to get in, you can join the waitlist for the class via the Chase Experiences website.

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Leanne shared the news in her monthly newsletter, writing:

“Right, the bit some of you have been waiting for – I am officially back on the schedule, fully, from early SEPTEMBER! Cycle classes, barre classes, the whole lot. I’ll be sharing details of my first LIVE class back very soon, so keep an eye on the schedule.”

She described the return as a full one across all of her disciplines rather than a limited comeback, so members should expect her back in the regular rotation.

Leanne has been on maternity leave since late 2025. She and her husband, fellow Peloton instructor Ben Alldis, announced the pregnancy in August 2025, and welcomed their son, Ace Eddie Alldis, on December 10, 2025. Ben returned to the live schedule on March 6, roughly six months ahead of Leanne.

She also wrote about how becoming a parent has changed the way she uses Peloton herself:

“Consistency is so easy to lose right now – did I mention I’m sleep deprived?! Ha! Ace’s development – and therefore what he needs – changes regularly, and because he’s my full focus, and my own brand work fills whatever small windows of free time are left – my workout schedule barely exists some weeks. It feels like an absolute luxury to have the Peloton there, because even if there’s just 10 minutes in a day, I can make something work.”

She added that hiking on the Tread has been part of her C-section recovery, keeping things low impact, sometimes with another instructor’s class and sometimes with a true crime documentary on in the background.

Leanne says details of her first live class back will be shared soon. We will share those details as they become available.

Which class are you most looking forward to taking with Leanne when she returns?

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First up this week, a new 10 minute Core Strength with a foam roller with Robin Arzón will be available to take on demand on Wednesday, July 29 at 12 AM ET (5 AM BST).

If you haven’t already tried Core with a foam roller, Robin has a class collection where all these classes are saved to find them easier. Prior to this new class dropping, there are eight classes in the collection ranging from 5 to 20 minutes in length. A new class typically drops every 2-3 months.

Also on Wednesday, two new Outdoor Mindful Walks will drop on demand at 12 AM ET (5 AM BST). One is a 20 minute class with Jess King, and one is a 30 minute class with Mayla Wedekind in German.

There is also a class collection for Outdoor Mindful Walks.

On Saturday, August 1, a new 45 minute Intermediate Yoga Flow with Denis Morton will drop on demand at 12 AM ET (5 AM BST).

Also on Saturday, Alex Toussaint will be teaching from Peloton Studios London as part of the summer lineup of multiple New York instructors traveling to PSL.

Alex will teach a live 30 minute Club Bangers Run at PSL on Saturday, August 1 at 7 AM ET (12 PM BST). He also has a 30 minute Club Bangers Ride live at PSL on Sunday, August 2 at 7 AM ET (12 PM BST).

Check out the full “This Week at Peloton” post for July 27 through August 2 from @PelotonStudios on Instagram.

Which featured Peloton classes will you take this week?

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The complaint was filed on Friday, July 24, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, the same court where Peloton has faced previous patent suits.

The plaintiff is Flow Motion Research and Development Ltd. It claims Peloton infringes three patents: U.S. Patent No. 9,987,520, U.S. Patent No. 11,745,055, and U.S. Patent No. 12,157,035. All three share the same title, “Method and System for Monitoring and Feed-Backing on Execution of Physical Exercise Routines,” and all three name the same three inventors.

The suit is limited to Peloton’s rowing lineup. The complaint names the original Peloton Row, the Cross Training Row+, the Row+ Pro sold through Peloton’s commercial line, and successor rowers that implement Form Assist, along with the associated software, firmware, subscription services, calibration and profile data, and Peloton-controlled computing resources. The Bike and Tread are not included in the suit.

At the center of the lawsuit is the Peloton Row Form Assist, the feature that flags problems with a user’s rowing stroke in real time by lighting up the relevant body part on screen and, depending on the setting selected, providing a written correction.

The patent family describes using sensors to monitor someone exercising, generating a skeletal or other machine representation of that person, and comparing their movement against stored information about how the exercise should be performed, with any differences reported back as corrections. The requirements differ across the three patents. The earliest sets out the fullest sequence, involving a skeletal model, a comparison against stored routine information and the detection of incorrect movement. The two later patents use broader language around a “machine representation” of the user and the processing or calibration of sensor data.

The family was originally developed around a camera-based system rather than a rowing machine. It traces back to a provisional application filed in January 2011, and the specification and drawings focus heavily on a Pilates reformer with a depth camera mounted on a stand in front of it. The background section points to Microsoft’s Kinect for the Xbox 360 as an example of the sensor technology involved.

The claims themselves are not all expressly limited to cameras, though. They refer to motion or position sensors, which leaves a narrower question at the center of the case. Several of the claims require the system to use the appearance of the exercise device, one of its features, or a machine representation of the device in order to calibrate the sensor data or help build the representation of the user.

Flow Motion alleges “on information and belief” that Peloton does exactly that with the Row’s seat and handle. That is legal phrasing used when a plaintiff believes it has a reasonable basis for an allegation but expects the confirming facts to come out in discovery. Peloton’s public materials describe Form Assist as using seat and handle sensors calibrated to each user, but they do not explain how the software processes that data, and most of what the complaint cites is public: support pages, blog posts, product materials, a PCMag hands-on review and a YouTube review video.

The complaint credits the invention to Arie Shavit, who it says came up with the idea in 2010 while attending Pilates classes, after noticing how hard it was for an instructor to set the right resistance for each participant, monitor everyone’s form and track their progress from one class to the next.

Flow Motion’s patent filings date back to the early 2010s and include separate filings on electronically controlled resistance for exercise equipment. The company does not appear to have a public-facing product today.

The three asserted patents are part of a chain of continuation applications running from that January 2011 provisional to an application filed in May 2023, which was issued in December 2024. Earlier claims in the family were framed around a Pilates device, while the later ones use the broader term “exercise device.” The newest was filed after the Row was already on the market, though because it claims the family’s 2011 priority date, the later filing date does not mean the invention dates from 2023.

Peloton’s last patent suit in this court came from a different kind of plaintiff. When Portus sued in May over two home-security patents, that complaint openly described the company as a non-practicing entity with no products, and the filing was part of a campaign that had already reached Tonal, iFit, Amazon, and Samsung. A search of federal court records did not turn up another lawsuit by Flow Motion, and these three patents do not appear to have been asserted in U.S. litigation before.

Peloton has been through similar cases in this court. Mad Dogg Athletics, the company behind the “Spinning” trademark, sued Peloton in the Eastern District of Texas in 2020 using a similar venue argument based on Peloton’s Plano campus and its Texas retail locations. A judge dismissed that case the following year, without prejudice, after concluding the patents were directed at an abstract idea and that the complaint had not shown an inventive concept that would make the claims patent-eligible. More recently, Peloton challenged three Johnson Health Tech patents at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, the board found the challenged claims unpatentable, and the parties agreed to dismiss the related lawsuit, which effectively ended that case.

Flow Motion is asking for damages of at least a reasonable royalty, enhanced damages for alleged willful infringement, interest, costs and attorneys’ fees. It does not expressly request an injunction, so there is no specific request that Peloton be ordered to stop selling or supporting its rowers.

Flow Motion alleges Peloton knew about the patents at least once the lawsuit was filed and served, and does not allege it sent notice beforehand. Its enhanced damages claim therefore rests at least partly on Peloton continuing the alleged infringement after learning of the patents through the case itself.

As of publication, Peloton has not publicly commented on the lawsuit or filed a response. The case is only at the complaint stage, and no court has ruled on infringement, the validity of the patents or how the claims should be interpreted.

What do you make of this latest lawsuit against Peloton?

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The class dropped straight to the on-demand library, and you can find it as a 30 min Christmas in July Ride from July 24, 2026 @ 12:00am ET.

The reason it exists, according to Emma, is that members asked for it. Emma shared on Instagram

“First ever Christmas in July Ride! Truth is, enough of you messaged me asking for this class that we were able to make it happen! Happy Christmas in July!”

The playlist is a full holiday lineup, spanning classic crooners, Motown, and a couple of movie soundtrack cuts:

• Merry Christmas Baby – Hanson
• Little Saint Nick (1991 Remix) – The Beach Boys
• Mele Kalikimaka (Merry Christmas) – Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
• I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – Jackson 5
• Wizards in Winter (Instrumental) – Trans-Siberian Orchestra
• Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley
• Holly Jolly Christmas – Michael Bublé
• Jingle Bell Rock (From “Elf”) – Saturday Night At The Movies
• Run Run Rudolph – Kelly Clarkson
• Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays – *NSYNC
• Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Mariah Carey
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas / End Title (From “Home Alone” Soundtrack) – John Williams

Peloton has a long-running tradition of Christmas and holiday classes, but they have always been a December thing, typically arriving in the middle or end of the month. Last year’s batch started dropping on December 1 and ran through Christmas, spanning rides, runs, yoga, strength, rowing, and more.

Christmas in July is its own small tradition outside of Peloton, with retailers running sales and networks airing holiday movies in the middle of summer. This is the first time Peloton has joined in.

Peloton has not indicated whether this is a one-off or the start of something they will repeat, and for now it is a single class rather than a batch.

Will you be taking Emma’s Christmas in July ride?

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The episode is also available on all podcast platforms. Either search for “Pelo Buddy TV” in your favorite podcast app, or click the link below to head straight to Episode 277 in your player of choice!

This episode is hosted by Amanda Segal (#Seglo3) and Chris Lewis (#PeloBuddy).

This week we cover the following Peloton news stories & updates:

• The Peloton Treads got updates for the speed & incline shortcut features.
• The Peloton App now has an AI Chatbot for updating & creating new Personalized Plans.
• Andy Speer & Rebecca Kennedy are teaching some classes at a resort in Turks & Caicos for a Chase Sapphire event.
• Anna Greenberg has some new prenatal pilates classes – the first on Peloton.
• There will be artist series with Backstreet Boys and Zara Larsson in August.
• An artist series featuring the music of Ne-Yo took place.
• Robin Arzon has teased that she has a Split+Run program coming in August.
• Katie Wang’s new signature series – Power Pyramid – began this week.
• A new set of Fit Family fun classes was released.
• The Peloton BreathWrk app on Android can now access the Peloton content.
• There are two upcoming in-person run clubs in London, one with Becs Gentry, and one with Jon Hosking.
• Peloton highlighted some classes in “This Week at Peloton.”
• There was a contest to win tickets to the Faces of Fitness Chicago event.
• The next Peloton earnings call will be on August 6th.
• Cody Rigsby’s podcast is ending.
• Peloton engineers talk about how they keep the servers up during Turkey Burn.
• Robin Arzon teamed up with the Lorax.
• Rebecca Kennedy has another “Off Script” event.
• Ally Love was on the Doing It Anyway podcast.
• Marcel Dinkins was on the Mindset Connection podcast.

Recommended Peloton Classes of the Week

Each week, our viewers along with our co-hosts share some classes that were worth checking out from the last week. You can find them below. As always keep in mind there are hundreds of classes every week, so it’s impossible for this to be a completely comprehensive list! If you have some to share, be sure to submit your favorites via a post we make in our Instagram stories on Wednesday nights. The leaderboard name of the member(s) who suggested it to us is at the end of each class name.

• Sam Yo – 20 min Summer Recovery Ride – 7/17/26 @ 12:00am ET (#FrankieTom2)
• Mariana Fernandez – 45 min Run + Flow – 7/17/26 @ 12:00am ET (#DanRides66)
• Charlotte Weidenbach – 60 min Power Zone Endurance House Ride – 7/17/26 @ 3:30am ET (#Cheese_KK)
• Greta Dopp – 30 min Pilates – 7/17/26 @ 10:00am ET (#AMAJar3)
• Jess King & DJ John Michael – 30 min Live DJ: Madonna Confessions – 7/17/26 @ 5:30pm ET (#EFOsborne83, #AMAJar3)
• Hannah Frankson – 45 min 80s Ride – 7/18/26 @ 7:00am ET (#MyOwnTune)
• Aditi Shah – 30 min Slow Flow – 7/18/26 @ 9:30am ET (#AMAJar3)
• Chelsea Jackson Roberts – 30 min Advanced Beginner Pop Yoga Flow – 7/19/26 @ 9:30am ET (#AMAJar3)
• Jenn Sherman – 45 min Epic Sing-Along Ride – 7/19/26 @ 10:00am ET (#RunRideRachel18)
• Rebecca Kennedy – 45 min HiLit+: Lower Body W3/4 D1 – 7/20/26 @ 12:00am ET (#FupaToFabulous, #MotherOfKovachs)
• Hannah Corbin – 10 min Pilates: Lower Body – 7/20/26 @ 12:00am ET (#AmyMSChalk)
• Andy Speer – 30 min 90s Pop Run – 7/20/26 @ 6:30am ET (#AlBizLiz)

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Peloton teased the new classes by saying “Dive into Summer Fun.”

Here are the new Peloton Fit Family classes that were released:

• 5 min Fit Family Brain Break – Jess Sims – 7/22/26 @ 12:00am ET
• 20 min Family Sleep Meditation – Chelsea Jackson Roberts – 7/22/26 @ 12:00am ET
• 15 min Fit Family [German] – Cliff Dwenger – 7/22/26 @ 12:00am ET
• 10 min Family Meditation [German] – Mayla Wedekind – 7/22/26 @ 12:00am ET

Fit Family classes are designed for parents and kids to do together, featuring movements and themes that keep younger family members engaged. The classes span multiple formats, including movement-based “Fit Family Fun” classes, yoga-style “Fit Family Flow” classes, short meditations, and quick “Brain Break” sessions.

This is a smaller batch than the last one. Peloton released seven spring-themed Fit Family classes in April, which followed another set in February. Peloton has settled into a routine of releasing these seasonally.

With both of those previous batches, Peloton also released a few of the classes for free on YouTube, making them available to anyone without a Peloton subscription. At this point, none of this set have been added to YouTube.

Update – Shortly after this article was published, the Jess Sims class was released on YouTube.

Peloton first introduced Fit Family classes in 2020.

Will you be taking any of the new Fit Family classes with your family?

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The first is a South Asian Heritage Month community run and walk on Wednesday, July 29, led by Tread instructor Jon Hosking in partnership with Sporting Equals, a UK charity that works to promote ethnic diversity in sport and physical activity.

Peloton is asking attendees to wear their brightest colours, and there will be displays on South Asian culture and history at the studio before the group heads out. Runners will finish back at PSL for post-workout treats from Desilicious and Big Mum’s Samosas.

The route is roughly 5K, starting and ending at the studio, with a 3K walking option. Four pace groups will be available: two 5K running groups at 25 to 30 minutes and 30 to 35 minutes, a 5K walk and run group, and a 3K walking group. Doors open at 5:00pm, check-in closes at 6:25pm, and after a warm-up the group departs in waves starting at 6:30pm. Note that shower facilities will be closed for this one, though bag drop is available.

South Asian Heritage Month is a UK observance established in 2020. It now runs across the whole of July, having moved this year from its original July 18 to August 17 window.

The second is a Saturday morning run with Becs Gentry on August 8, this time alongside HOKA. Becs will lead a 5K social run through the parks of London, and HOKA will be on site with shoes available to trial during the route. Refreshments follow back at the studio.

Becs was named a HOKA Global Brand Ambassador back in February, and the event page bills her as a global HOKA ambassador.

Two pace groups are offered for this run, at 25 to 30 minutes and 30 to 35 minutes. Doors open at 9:00am, check-in closes at 9:25am, and the group departs from 9:30am after a warm-up. Showers will be open for this one.

This event comes during Becs’ London weekend teaching – as she is one of several US-based instructors spending time at PSL this summer.

A few details apply to both events:

• Both are free, and open to Peloton members and non-members alike.
• A confirmed registration and a signed activity waiver are required to participate.
• Registration is one per person, so guests need to book their own spot.
• Both take place at Peloton Studios London, 11 Floral Street, with Covent Garden the nearest Underground station. There is no parking at the venue.
• Lockers are available for belongings.
• Run club attendees get 20% off at the Peloton Studios London store next door, with some exclusions.
• Both events are weather dependent and may change or be cancelled.

If you would like to attend, you can register for the July 29 run with Jon Hosking and the August 8 run with Becs Gentry via their event pages.

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“Tactful Pettiness,” which Cody co-hosted with close friend Andrew Chappelle, released its final episode this month under the title “A Tactful Farewell.” The pair used the episode to wrap up the show, thank the team behind it, and tell listeners where things stand.

They also refused to dress it up. The episode’s recurring “scam of the week” segment was turned on podcasting itself, with Andrew calling out hosts who announce a hiatus rather than an ending:

Cody: “The scam of the week is podcasters saying they are going on hiatus.”
Andrew: “That is a scam. You are not going on hiatus. You’re not doing the podcast anymore. Just say it.”

Cody then confirmed it directly, while leaving room to come back:

“Yes, friends, this is our last episode. There’s like maybe a little, you know, crack open in the door, but we need a little bit of time to focus on other things.”

Andrew added that “you never say never in this business,” and both were clear there was no falling out behind the decision. They said they remain close friends and were heading to Fire Island together the same week. Andrew did note that the weekly schedule took a toll, describing early mornings and travel that came with recording every week.

Fire Island is also where the podcast started. Andrew recounted that the idea came together while the two were there following Pride, with Cody working through a breakup and Andrew trying to cheer him up by dreaming up a show they would want to make. They built a pitch deck, sold it, got the project back when it stalled, and eventually landed at PodcastOne.

The podcast launched in June 2024, taking its name from a phrase in Cody’s 2023 book. It ran weekly on Thursdays across two seasons, mixing pop culture takes, relationship talk, and celebrity guests. Producer Ren, who also works for Cody, appeared on the show alongside them, and the two spent a portion of the finale thanking her along with producer Steve and the rest of the team.

Nothing is being taken down. The full back catalog remains available wherever you listen to podcasts, and both the Tactful Pettiness Instagram account and YouTube channel are staying up. Andrew told listeners that if the two of them decide to do something else down the line, it will turn up on social media first.

The episode description closed with a line that sums up the tone of the whole sendoff: “Thank you for being a part of this journey! So long for now, friends.”

You can listen to “A Tactful Farewell” via Apple Podcasts.

Were you a listener of Cody’s podcast?

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Taq Karim, senior director of engineering, and Alex Niderberg, director of site reliability engineering, laid out the approach in an interview with TechTarget published this month. Peloton’s engineering team also published a detailed technical breakdown alongside AWS this week covering the same ground. Between the two, members get a look at what happens behind the scenes on days like Thanksgiving.

Peloton’s engineers describe Turkey Burn on Peloton as the single highest-traffic day and the largest surge of the year on the platform. What makes it hard is not just the volume but the shape of it. Ordinary web traffic ramps up gradually, while tens of thousands of members hit the platform at the exact same scheduled second when a class starts. Peloton’s team has a name for this: the “thundering herd.”

Here is what that looked like at Turkey Burn 2025:

• 7.27 billion total requests handled, peaking at 452,000 per second
• 34,600 members in the same ride at the same time
• 200 million+ requests to the leaderboard alone
• Zero major incidents

Members who have been around a few years know what happens when this goes wrong. That 2023 Turkey Burn saw roughly 20 minutes of server issues and downtime in the middle of the ride, during the Guinness world record attempt, and ended with an apology from Peloton’s CEO. Turkey Burn has run without major downtime in both 2024 and 2025.

The change between those years is the one the engineers described. Traditionally, a company like Peloton keeps a separate “performance environment,” essentially a copy of the real system used to run stress tests before anything ships to members. In 2024, Peloton got rid of theirs.

Their reasoning was that the copy was never really a copy. Peloton runs a large number of interconnected systems, and duplicating all of them precisely, including the data flowing through them, proved close to impossible. Small differences between the test version and the real one produced misleading results, which meant engineers were making decisions based on a picture that was slightly wrong. On top of that, maintaining the duplicate was expensive and consumed engineering time that could have gone toward member-facing features. Peloton says scrapping it contributed to a 40% reduction in what it costs to run Turkey Burn compared to previous years.

What replaced it is a mix of things. Engineers now use a high-fidelity staging environment as the last checkpoint before release, and then run load tests against the real platform, deliberately, at quieter times. Those tests push to around 2.5 times the expected capacity to find where things break, using an internally built tool called AutoLift that can scale the platform up to simulate event-level traffic. When something looks wrong, they stop the test, fix it, and resume. These run monthly through the year, ramping up to multiple times per week in the lead-up to Turkey Burn.

For a day like Turkey Burn, they use pre-scaling: building up capacity ahead of the surge rather than reacting to it. Peloton uses an internally built tool alongside an open source scaling system that can add server capacity in under two minutes if the available headroom starts running out. A second internal tool, called Gatekeeper, watches for database queries that are slowing down and shunts them aside before they drag on everything else. Its first live activation came during Turkey Burn 2024, and Peloton says it did its job without any members noticing.

Rather than designing systems around everything working, Peloton’s teams design around what happens when something breaks. Services are sorted into tiers, with the leaderboard, video streaming, and login treated as the ones that must never fail and given their own protected infrastructure. Engineers deliberately break lower-priority services in testing to confirm those failures cannot cascade into the critical ones, and during the busiest windows Peloton can switch off non-essential features to protect the parts that matter. There are also local fallbacks, such as caching workouts directly on the device, which is why your Bike or Tread can sometimes keep going even when something upstream is having a bad day.

The team also said they now treat cost as an engineering metric that sits alongside speed and reliability, rather than as a finance question handled elsewhere. Cost and performance data is reviewed weekly across the engineering organization, and a cost spike gets handled by the on-call engineer through the same process as a performance problem.

They were also candid about the limits. Niderberg said there are situations where testing in production is the wrong call, specifically when a failure would be catastrophic and impossible to undo. Karim listed prerequisites a company needs first, including real-time monitoring, automated kill switches that do not depend on one person calling another, and a culture where incidents are examined rather than blamed on someone.

Karim’s summary of the goal was: “The platform’s job is to be invisible.”

You can read the full interview in TechTarget here, and the more technical breakdown on the AWS blog here.

Did you get caught in any of Peloton’s past Turkey Burn outages?

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