Peloton’s new video series “At The Next Table” has officially launched, with the first full episode now available.
Hosted by Peloton instructor Jon Hosking, the series features candid, round-table conversations with Peloton instructors away from the studio and leaderboard. We previously shared about the teaser when it dropped last week.
The format is part talk show, part dinner party. Jon sits down with groups of instructors for unscripted, wide-ranging conversations over drinks (wine makes an appearance partway through). There’s no workout involved, as this is purely about getting to know the instructors as people. The series is divided into chapters, with topics changing from personal stories, games, and member-submitted questions.
The first episode runs 53 minutes and features Tunde Oyeneyin, Kirsten Ferguson, and Katie Wang. They are a trio who are best friends in real life and refer to themselves as “the Dreamgirls” (the name of their group chat). Jon guides the conversation through several chapters, pulling back the curtain on their friendship, careers, and what it means to be a woman on the Peloton instructor team.
You can find the first episode here on Peloton’s YouTube channel. Although Peloton has not added the episodes to the “Peloton Originals” section of Peloton Entertainment on the hardware devices, you can watch it by using the YouTube app within Peloton Entertainment.
The first episode of Peloton “At The Next Table.”
The episode opens with the group recounting a vacation story from Turks and Caicos involving Kirsten, a fire show, and a very close call with a flame.
From there, the conversation gets more personal. Jon asks each of them about breakthrough moments in their confidence. Tunde shares a powerful story about her first Speak Up ride in June 2020, just eight months into her Peloton career, during the height of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. She describes 22,000 people taking the ride live, unclipping from the bike afterward, and breaking down in tears when Jess Sims showed her a recording of what she’d said on camera. She credits that ride as the starting point of truly stepping into who she is – and says it gave her the confidence to write her book and become Nike’s first athlete to hold a trainer/instructor title.
Kirsten talks about turning 40 as a defining shift, and it being the moment where worry started to fade and a new level of confidence kicked in. Katie describes her journey as an accumulation of leaps, including leaving her tech career, and moving away from her family in California to New York.
The group also discusses the reality of building a personal brand as an instructor, the challenge of separating your identity from your professional persona, and how showing up authentically is ultimately what connects with people. Tunde notes that when you play a character, you eventually lose track of the story. She notes that when you’re yourself, you don’t have to think about how to react.
A candid segment on injury resonated across all three. Kirsten had hip surgery and didn’t know if she’d run again, but came back to complete a marathon. Jon opens up about his own ankle injury and how it taught him he’d been taking movement for granted. Tunde reflects on how her injury forced her to confront emotional and mental healing she’d been masking with movement.
The lighter moments are just as entertaining. A “Who Would You Text?” game reveals that Kirsten is the go-to for both disposing of a dead body and drafting risque text messages, while Tunde is the one you call for honest relationship advice. When asked who they’d swap places with for a day, Katie picks Rebecca Kennedy or Andy Speer (noting that swapping with Andy would mean being married to Rebecca), Tunde chooses Alex Karwoski for his discipline and meticulous planning, and Kirsten says Camila Ramón, so she could teach a class in Spanish.
The member Q&A section surfaces some entertaining rumors the instructors have encountered about themselves online. This includes Kirsten dating Adrian Williams (she was not), Tunde’s birthday party secretly being a wedding (it was not), and Katie supposedly being a backup dancer (also no).
The episode wraps with a toast “to the Dreamgirls.”
New episodes of At The Next Table have not yet been announced, but future episodes will feature different groupings of instructors with Jon hosting. You can watch the first episode on Peloton’s YouTube channel.
