Does Peloton work with Gyroscope?
Yes, through Apple Health. We get every completed Peloton workout, with its heart rate and calories when Peloton records them, and it lands on your timeline next to your sleep and resting heart rate.
Give Peloton write access in Apple Health, open the Peloton app after a class, and Gyroscope reads the workout from there.
Applies to: Bike, Bike+, Tread, Row, and app-only classes on the same Peloton profile.
What we get
- Completed workoutsEvery class with its type and duration.
- Heart rate and caloriesWhen you ride with a heart rate monitor or watch connected.
What stays behind
- Output, cadence, resistance, and leaderboardPeloton’s ride metrics stay in the Peloton app.
How to set it up
- Give Peloton write access in Apple Health. In Apple’s Health app open Sharing, Apps, Peloton, and turn on the Write categories, following Peloton’s official steps. Read access sends Health data into Peloton; Write is the one that sends workouts out.
- Connect Gyroscope to Apple Health. Open Gyroscope, open your data sources, choose Apple Health, and tap Allow for every category when iOS asks. If you skipped one, go to iPhone Settings, Health, Data Access and Devices, Gyroscope, and turn it on there.
- Check your dashboard. After your next class, open the Peloton iPhone app so it hands the workout to Apple Health. You should then see the workout on your timeline, and your activity grade moves with it.
- Workouts
- Heart rate
- Resting heart rate
- Sleep
What you can do with it
Fifteen minutes a day already counts.
A short daily class beats a heroic weekly one. Gyroscope counts every completed workout toward your activity grade, and consistency shows up in the score faster than intensity does.
The evidence. Wen et al., Lancet, 2011. Among 416,175 adults followed for eight years, 15 minutes a day of moderate exercise cut all-cause mortality by 14% and added about three years of life, with every extra 15 minutes worth another 4%.
Insider tipRun workout days against sleep score. The lag reading tells you whether a class helps the same night or the next.
Wear a heart rate monitor for the ride.
Without heart rate, a Peloton workout is just a duration on the timeline. With it, Gyroscope sees the effort, and the next morning’s resting heart rate tells you what it cost.
The evidence. Zhang, Shen and Qi, CMAJ, 2016. Across about 1.2 million people, every 10 beats per minute of higher resting heart rate came with roughly 9% higher all-cause mortality, which is why the trend after training matters more than one ride’s output.
Insider tipRun workout days against resting heart rate. A hard class typically lifts the next night’s value by a few beats; if it stays up for three nights, back off.
Avoid the double workout.
Apple Watch and Peloton can both record the same class. Keep the watch as your primary device and Gyroscope deduplicates the pair.
Insider tipIf a ride is missing, it is almost always because the Peloton iPhone app was not opened after the class. Open it and the handoff completes.
Use the ride to protect your sleep, not wreck it.
Late high-intensity classes push bedtime and raise heart rate into the night. Morning or early-evening classes keep the schedule steady.
The evidence. Windred et al., Sleep, 2024. In 60,977 UK Biobank participants, sleep regularity predicted mortality more strongly than sleep duration did.
Insider tipRun workout time against sleep score. Most people find a cutoff a few hours before bed after which classes cost them.
Ask your coach what the numbers mean.
With a membership, an AI coach reads this data every morning and writes you a report before you are out of bed. It answers from your own numbers, not from generic advice. Ask whether your training week was too much and it answers from your workouts, resting heart rate, and sleep. Health Score shows how your activity grade feeds your overall longevity estimate.
Common questions
Do my rides sync automatically?
They sync when the Peloton app is opened. Peloton’s Apple Health article documents that Bike and Tread workouts appear after you open the Peloton iOS app.
Which Health permission sends Peloton workouts out?
Write access. Read access imports Health activity into Peloton; Write puts Peloton workouts into the Health app.
Does Gyroscope connect directly to my Peloton account?
No. The route is Peloton to Apple Health to Gyroscope.