It's good to listen to my body and allow myself a rest day or active recovery days where it's focusing on stretching, focusing on mobility and focusing on just being grateful for what my body can do. That helps me be aware of how I need to treat my body-if that's taking a rest day, maybe when my ego is telling me that I should be working out that day, but my body's not. And that in itself builds a mental and physical awareness. And what has helped is really creating that relationship with myself through meditation.
As I've gotten older, I think it's been important for me to really discover and create a relationship with myself physically, mentally, emotionally.
What’s changed for you, training-wise, over that time?Īs a younger man, I think it's easy to get to jump into workouts, not worry about stretching, not worrying about anything, just kind of doing the work. It's usually a circuit of 2 to 3 exercises, 12 to 15 reps, with a 2 to 3 minute recovery in between each.īryan Bedder Getty Images You started with Peloton in your 20s. This is why I love having a trainer because they just think of it and do it for me, where I'm just showing up and doing the work. Love it or hate it, what do you tend to do on that leg day? I love the 30-minute strength classes because it makes me feel like I'm staying within my schedule. When I travel, it's hard for me to find motivation and that's when I always use the Peloton app. So it's always like the hardest thing to train, you know? My legs have become so conditioned from Peloton.Īnd then, you know, I travel a lot. And I like I feel that my legs are my strongest things. It's the hardest, it's the most challenging, but I feel the best after. I have a love-hate relationship with leg day.
It's a chest day, back and triceps day, shoulders and triceps day, and a leg day. , I have a trainer, and we're kind of working body part-specific, bodybuilder-type workouts. Obviously I'm doing my cardio with Peloton. What’s your strength plan like for packing on that mass?
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So I put a full cup of oats into a shake, and mine's kind of easy: Like I usually do oat milk, a cup of oats and just whey and maybe a container of raspberries. I’m trying to kind of put on a little bit of muscle now, and I've always found that an easy way to kind of put calories into my diet to put on a little bit more weight, more muscle mass, is oats. Whether it’s after a hard ride or a strength workout, what’s a go-to shake you like for recovery? This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. He spoke to Men's Health about how he’s eating more calories to add on that lean tissue, what he does on leg day, and how meditation is helping him with recovery. Right now, Rigsby making a push to add more muscle to his frame. Whereas I like someone who's going to tell me exactly what to do, push me past my limit, and kind of just be really straightforward with my workout.” “Maybe I'm really verbose and really have a ton of personality and make my workouts fun, or silly.
“I go for the opposite of who I am,” he says. And in his “XOXO Cody” rides, Rigsby dispenses with the normal cycling format all together to answer rider questions.īut despite his success in carving out his own niche as the fun, talkative instructor, Rigsby says that’s not his preference for his own workouts. He’s funny, he makes rides fun, and it’s made him the at-home spin bike’s biggest star: Rigsby has more than a million followers on Instagram, has appeared as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, and his pithy lines-including that one about Britney-have spawned a cottage industry of Etsy stores hawking mugs featuring his quotes. While other Peloton instructors provide the type of rah-rah you expect from a cycling instructor combined with a healthy dose of self-help “you are worthy” talk, the 34-year old Rigsby tells riders things like “if Britney can get through 2007, you can get up this hill.” Cody Rigsby is a different kind of fitness instructor.