CAR.O.L. Bike

While everyone is talking about Peloton, there’s another exercise bike on the market worth a look. CAR.O.L. is a smart tech, AI, HIIT exercise bike, starting at $2,700, that claims it produces the best exercise results in the shortest amount of exercise time possible by delivering a more effective workout.

When you use your CAR.O.L. Bike, each workout session is personalized to your individual needs. A session is only nine minutes long and includes a warm up, warm down, and two 20-second hard sprints.

In a random, independent trial, the American Council of Exercise found these types of sessions, three times weekly, with the CAR.O.L. Bike are a better, more efficient workout than the U.S. government-recommended exercise regimen of 30 minutes of exercise five times a week.

How does it work? The CAR.O.L. Bike targets your thigh muscles and glycogen, the biggest storer of sugar in the body. The bike’s exercise sessions rapidly deplete this glycogen, so the body begins looking for stored sugar and fat elsewhere, to replace the glycogen lost within the 20-second hard sprints. The result is a more efficient burn of sugar and fat and an overall increase in metabolism.

Financing options for the bike are available, including 12-month payment plans for payments of $262 per month with no down payment, along with $12 per month for the CAR.O.L. Bike software subscription plan. Each software license comes with user profiles for up to eight users, cloud-connected accounts, access to nearly all HIIT workouts and use of the bike’s free ride mode, among other functions.