Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Track List - #totalrequestride, Wednesday, December 31, 2014

1. Partition (remix) - Beyonce'
2. Jealous (remix) - Chromeo
3. Telephone (remix) - Lady Gaga featuring Beyonce'
4. Chandelier (remix) - Sia
5. Me And My Girlfriend - Jay-Z featuring Beyonce'
6. Turn Down For What - DJ Snake & Lil Jon
7. Larger Than Life - Backstreet Boys
8. Dirty Pop - Nsync
9. A Sky Full Of Stars (remix) - Coldplay
10. Wrong Message (mashup) - DJ Mixmstrstel featuring The Police, Nico & Vinz
11. Stay, Adam (mashup) - DJ Mixmstrstel featuring Rihanna & Blink-182
12. I Have Nothing (piano instrumental) - Tariq Wingrove

Well, this morning's #totalrequestride was the final Ride with Tommy! of the year! And it didn't go off without any hitches. As those of you that were there in attendance know, I was locked out of the computer so that I couldn't play the requested videos. And I had doubled up on videos since I missed last week's class. And I had also planned to play another video mashup of the year's top hits, but I couldn't do that either. So, all the fun and exciting stuff I had planned for class this morning, well, let's just say that I wasn't able to do it and leave it at that. I was disappointed. I always have it backed up on a cd (prehistoric I know!), but I didn't this ONE time! Ugh! Oh well, I pulled together some previously played music, including some of the requested songs for today's class, and I think we all ended up having an amazing Ride! So a great big 'THANK YOU!" to everyone who was there and who worked so hard to make 2014's final Ride with Tommy! a great one!

There will be no 7:00am Sexy Spin tomorrow morning, Thursday, January 1st. Be sure to check the front desk for the official class schedule and gym hours. I will be back in the instructor saddle on Friday morning at 9:30am! I hope to see you there!

I want to thank everyone who rode with me in the year 2014. As I often say, I wouldn't be there without you. So I thank you and want you to know that I do not take you for granted! I am grateful for the opportunity to teach spinning at Crunch on Sunset. I am able to do something I love that helps people and at one of the best and funnest (yes, I said funnest!) gyms anywhere! And I've taught at a lot of gyms so I really mean that when I say it!

I wish the best to all of you in 2015! Health, happiness, love, prosperity, friendships, great workouts, new goals, positive changes, less time in traffic, more time surrounded by good people, and all the best that life can possibly offer! And I hope that the Ride with Tommy! will be part of that. I will be honored to Ride with you, create Rides and challenges with you, and reach goals and see results with you.

I wish each of you a happy and safe New Year celebration. All of us can always celebrate something. So find that positive. Set the positive. Begin to see it. You deserve it!

In good health,

tommy

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Happy Holiday Subs for the Ride with Tommy! Dec. 22-29, 2014

Below, please find the list of amazing instructors that will be covering my classes for me while I am away celebrating Christmas with family. Thanks to you all for your support of the Ride with Tommy! and for your support of the wonderful subs while I'm out. See you on Tuesday morning, December 30th at 7:00am! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah!

Monday, Dec. 22, 9:30am - Christina Fulton
Tuesday, Dec. 23, 7:00am - Beth Phillips
Wednesday, Dec. 24, 9:30am - Christina Fulton
Thursday, Dec. 25, 7:00am - NO RIDE!
Friday, Dec. 26, 9:30am - Kyler Madeira
Saturday, Dec. 27, 9:45am - Christina Fulton
Monday, Dec. 29, 9:30am - Kyler Madeira

Happy holidays everyone!

In good health,

tommy

Track List - Saturday, December 20, 2014

1. Wash All Over Me (remix) - Avicii featuring Madonna
2. Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars
3. Welcome To New York (remix) - Taylor Swift
4. Pop Danthology 2014 (mashup of 66 songs!) - DJ Daniel Kim featuring Ariana Grande, Iggy Azalea, Jennifer Lopez, Katy Perry, Maroon 5, Nicki Minaj, etc.
5. Jealous (remix) - Nick Jonas
6. 7/11 - Beyonce'
7. Workout (mashup) - DJ Robin Skouteris featuring Jennifer Lopez, Iggy Azalea, Sir Mix-a-lot, MC Hammer, Missy Elliott, Britney Spears, Eminem, C+C Music Factory, etc.
8. Beautiful (remix) - Kylie Minogue featuring Enrique Iglesias
9. Sledgehammer (remix) - Fifth Harmony
10. Waves - Mr. Probs
11. Halo - Beyonce'
12. A Thousand Years - Christina Perry

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Track List - Extra Special "Give The Shirt Off Your Back" Sexy Spin - Thursday, December 18, 2014

1. Wash All Over Me (remix) - Avicii featuring Madonna
2. Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars
3. Welcome To New York (remix) - Taylor Swift
4. Pop Danthology 2014 (mashup of 66 songs!) - DJ Daniel Kim featuring Ariana Grande, Iggy Azalea, Jennifer Lopez, Katy Perry, Maroon 5, Nicki Minaj, etc.
5. Jealous (remix) - Nick Jonas
6. 7/11 - Beyonce'
7. Workout (mashup) - DJ Robin Skouteris featuring Jennifer Lopez, Iggy Azalea, Sir Mix-a-lot, MC Hammer, Missy Elliott, Britney Spears, Eminem, C+C Music Factory, etc.
8. Beautiful (remix) - Kylie Minogue featuring Enrique Iglesias
9. Sledgehammer (remix) - Fifth Harmony
10. Waves - Mr. Probs
11. Halo - Beyonce'
12. A Thousand Years - Christina Perry

Well, we did it! Again! This year was another one for the books! The now annual and famous (or infamous) Extra Special "Give The Shirt Off Your Back" Sexy Spin is now behind us. And what a great one it was! Once again, we had a (very, very!) Sexy Santa help collect clothes for our clothing drive to benefit the LA LGBT Center's Homeless Youth Program. And we even had a second Sexy Santa come help out with awarding the prizes at the end of class! There are so many people to thank! First, thanks to everyone who attended and took part in such an exciting and fun workout (yes, workout! we don't sacrifice our workout...even on a fun-filled day like today!) Thanks to Kyle Pierce for being the Sexy Santa #1! Kyle is so very obviously sexy that I don't need to tell you how excited I was that he agreed to help out this year. And it wasn't easy. He is a first year law student and in the middle of final exams! Wow! Thank you so much, Kyle! And to Sexy Santa #2, who just so happens to be the Sexy Santa for Kitson's current holiday campaign for 2014! How cool is that? Thanks, Matt! Thanks so much to the businesses that donated items for the gift bags and drawings at the end of class! Sexy Nutrition, right across the street from Crunch on Laurel Avenue, provided an amazing gym bag with 4 t-shirts and some protein! (And isn't it just a natural to team up with Sexy Nutrition for one of our special Sexy Spins?!) Burke Williams donated a 3-day Spa Service pass for each gift bag! Veggie Grill donated a free entree for each gift bag! BodyFactory donated 3 free tanning sessions! And Universal Body, owned by Crunch member, Scott Sykes, and soon moving to its newest location right here at 8000 Sunset, downstairs from Crunch! A great new store featuring men's and women's clothing as well as gifts and nutrional supplements! And thanks to Davey Wavey, Youtube star and sensation for being a special guest! And thanks, of course, to everyone who brought clothes for the clothing drive. You all rock! You all are amazing! Thanks to all of you for your support of this special class and for the Ride with Tommy! all year 'round! Be sure to check out the Ride with Tommy! Facebook page for pictures!

I'll be out next week celebrating the holidays with my family in Texas, but check back here for a list of all my wonderful subs!

In good health,

tommy

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Special Intro Teaser Class: The New "Threshold Ride", The New #totalrequestride, and The New "Ride Yogi Ride"

This morning was a special class indeed. The always amazing and high energy and beautiful Amy Rollman co-instructed the intro or "teaser" class that was made up of 20 minutes of the new "Threshold Ride", 20 minutes of the updated #totalrequestride, and then 20 minutes of yoga. What a lot of intense, different, challenging and fun things to do in one hour!

The new Threshold Ride will kind of take the place of the old Red Line Ride. It will not be heart rate based, but it will have a lot of information for the rider to soak up and learn so much about how the body works as you workout! We will be using the computers that are already on the new bikes along with the new huge 70" flat tv screens recently placed in the spinning room. In a nutshell, after a brief warmup, you will work as hard as you can for 3 minutes to set your threshold. Then, the rest of the class will be based on percentages of that threshold. You'll be able to watch and learn as you Ride, and then see some summary results that will enlighten you even more!

The new/updated #totalrequestride will be pretty much the same except that we will be including videos shown on the new huge 70" flat tv screens. Each week, 3 videos will be selected from requests all across the country and played in the #totalrequestride. Song or video requests should be tweeted to @crunchgym followed by the hashtag #totalrequestride. Each tweeted request enters the member into that week's drawing for an iTunes gift card!

Finally, another new class called Ride Yogi Ride will be introduced in the new year. Amy will be teaching this one and she is amazing! It will be a 45-minute Ride immediately followed by a yoga class in the group fitness room right next door to the spin room. How awesome is that?!

So thanks so much to Amy and everyone who attended this morning's teaser class. There were a few technical hiccups (and there will probably be a few more!), but I want to thank you all for supporting the Ride with Tommy! and Crunch Fitness - Sunset!

We will be offering another teaser class this Friday at 9:30am, too, so I hope to see you there!

In good health,

tommy

Monday, December 15, 2014

Track List - Saturday, December 13, 2014

1. The Walker (remix) - Fitz And The Tantrums
2. On Top Of The World - Imagine Dragons
3. Love Runs Out - OneRepublic
4. Summer (remix) - Calvin Harris
5. What A Feeling (remix) - Alex Gaudino featuring Kelly Rowland
6. Not A Bad Thing - Justin Timberlake
7. Mmm Yeah - Austin Mahone featuring Pitbull
8. Party Ain't Over - Pitbull featuring Usher & Afrojack
9. Chandelier (remix) - Sia
10. When Love Takes Over (remix) - David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland
11. Life Of The Party - Shawn Mendes
12. Human - Christina Perri

This upcoming week will be a very big week for the Ride with Tommy! and indoor cycling at Crunch Fitness - Sunset!

Monday, December 15th, 9:30am will be the very LAST Red Line Ride offered at Crunch Fitness - Sunset. When we started this program almost 6 years ago, we were the first in the world to offer this type of class. Well, today, we will be using this technology for the last time. It has been a great program. I have learned so much. I have seen so many riders learn so much about how their heart works as they workout. It has been fun, educational and so very rewarding. But technology changes. And with the new bikes here at Crunch Fitness - Sunset, we already have new technology in place. We will be replacing the Red Line Ride with a new class called THRESHOLD! This class will be utilizing the computers you see on the new bikes. We will also be using the brand new huge TV screens installed in the classroom. There will be so much more to learn! And it will be so much fun!

And speaking of the new THRESHOLD! Ride, we will be offering a "teaser" class as to what the class will be like on both Wednesday and Friday of this week, December 17th and 19th, at 9:30am. It will be a special 1-hour class for these two days only. The first 20 minutes will consist of an intro to the THRESHOLD! Ride. The next 20 minutes will be made up of the new updated #totalrequestride using videos on the brand new huge TV screens. Finally, if you so choose, we will walk over to the Group Fitness room and have 20 minutes of yoga led by the amazing Amy! This "teaser" class will also serve as an introduction to a new class that Amy will be teaching that will consist of both the Ride and yoga. How cool is that?!?!

On Tuesday, December 17th, I will be taking over Crunch's instagram account! I will be the guest instructor of the day and offer a peek into what life is like as an instructor! Be sure to watch for it!

Finally, on Thursday morning, December 18th, I will be hosting the now annual and infamous EXTRA SPECIAL "GIVE THE SHIRT OFF YOUR BACK" SEXY SPIN! Sexy Santa will be there with his big bag to collect your slightly used clothing for the LA LGBT Center's Homeless Youth Program. And can I just tell you now, that this year's Santa puts the sexy in Sexy Santa! Just sayin'! And as always at the end of my extra special classes, there will be bike numbers drawn and prizes awarded! And don't forget that nobody leaves empty handed! Special prizes! Special guests! Special music! And the same intense Ride will not be sacrificed for the extra fun! And it is all for great causes: the LA LGBT Center's Homeless Youth Program, and the improvement of your own mental and physical health and well-being!

So I hope to see you a lot this week! And it is the last full week of 2014! How did that happen? Where did the year go? Let's celebrate all that we have accomplished so far and continue to commit, push, challenge, strive, drive and achieve in the year ahead!

In good health,

tommy

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Track List - Sexy Spin, Thursday, December 11, 2014

1. Control - Janet Jackson
2. I Love Summertime Cool Kids (mashup) - DJ Titus Jones featuring Icona Pop, Lana Del Rey, Echosmith & Nonono
3. Superbad - Jesse McCartney
4. Baby Baby (remix) - Amy Grant
5. Be Okay - Oh Honey
6. Boom Clap (mashup) - DJ Mixmstrstel featuring Charli XCX, Gwen Stefani, Paramore, Kurtis Blow, Busta Rhymes, Ashlee Simpson, DJ Jazzy Jeff & L'Trimm
7. Come With Me Now - Kongos
8. Stay With Me (remix) - Sam Smith
9. A Sky Full Of Stars (remix) - Coldplay
10. Wrong Message (mashup) - DJ Mixmstrstel featuring The Police, Nico & Vinz
11. Stay, Adam (mashup) - DJ Mixmstrstel featuring Rihanna & Blink-182
12. That's What Love Is For - Amy Grant
13. I Have Nothing (piano instrumental) - Tariq Wingrove

One week from today, it will be baaaaack! The annual Extra Special "Give The Shirt Off Your Back" Sexy Spin! Sexy Santa helping collect your clothes for the LA LGBT Center's Homeless Youth Program. Special guests! Special prizes! Special music! Don't miss it! Make plans now to attend! It'll be the same intense Ride that you want/need/expect. It'll be just a lot more fun and exciting! And you will not walk away empty-handed! So be there or be square! Get up early and get your workout on! And over and done with! Until then, in good health! tommy

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Track List - #totalrequestride, Wednesday, December 10, 2014

1. Scream - Michael & Janet Jackson
2. Break Free - Ariana Grande featuring Zedd
3. Shake It Off - Taylor Swift
4. Maps (remix) - Maroon 5
5. Fancy Groove (mashup) - DJ MixmstrStel featuring Madonna, Iggy Azalea & Charli XCX
6. Hard - Rihanna featuring Young Jeezy
7. Rather Be - Clean Bandits
8. Survivor - Destiny's Child
9. Really Don't Care (remix) - Demi Lovato featuring Cher Lloyd
10. Best Song Ever (remix) - One Direction
11. Back For Good - Boyce Avenue('s cover of Take That)
12. Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper featuring Sarah McLachlan
13. Against All Odds - Phil Collins

This morning's track list from this week's #totalrequestride is a bit of a throwback. This is the track list from a #totalrequestride back in August. A great one. One that I felt was worthy of a repeat. I hope you all enjoyed it this morning. I did. And I hope it helped you make a difference. A positive change. And I hope you had a little fun while doing it!

Tuesday, December 09, 2014

I will be subbing the 9:30am class this morning, Tuesday, December 9, 2014

I will be subbing Guy B's 9:30am Ride this morning at Crunch Fitness - Sunset. I hope to see you there!

Track List - Saturday, December 6, 2014

1. Send Me An Angel (remix) - Slyngshott featuring Bernadette DeSimone
2. Black Widow - Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora
3. L.A. Love (La La)(remix) - Fergie featuring YG
4. Main Chick (remix) - Kid Ink featuring Chris Brown, French Montana, Yo Gotti, Tyga & Lil Bobby
5. All You Need Is Love - Willy Chirino featuring Flo Rida & Black Dada
6. Steal My Girl (remix) - One Direction
7. Replay - Zendaya
8. Trumpets - Jason Derulo
9. Love Train - IDMC Gospel Choir
10. Rolling In The Deep (remix cover) - Aretha Franklin
11. Bang Bang (remix) - Jessie J featuring Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj
12. Jealous - Nick Jonas
13. Steal My Girl - One Direction
14. Life Of The Party - Shawn Mendes

Thursday, December 04, 2014

Track List - Sexy Spin, Thursday, December 4, 2014

1. Send Me An Angel (remix) - Slyngshott featuring Bernadette DeSimone
2. Black Widow - Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora
3. L.A. Love (La La)(remix) - Fergie featuring YG
4. Main Chick (remix) - Kid Ink featuring Chris Brown, French Montana, Yo Gotti, Tyga & Lil Bobby
5. All You Need Is Love - Willy Chirino featuring Flo Rida & Black Dada
6. Steal My Girl (remix) - One Direction
7. Replay - Zendaya
8. Trumpets - Jason Derulo
9. Beautiful (remix) - Kylie Minogue & Enrique Iglesias
10. Jealous (remix) - Nick Jonas
11. I Want It That Wave (mashup) - DJ MixmstrStel featuring Mr. Probz vs. The Backstreet Boys
12. Boulevard Of Happy Dreams (mashup) - DJ Poulpi featuring Green Day & Pharrell
13. Just Give Me A Mirror When September Ends (mashup) - DJ Shahar Varshal ft. Pink, Michael Jackson & Green Day

Below is the link to yesterday's Sexy Spin track list! And just below that is the track list for this week's #totalreqeustride. There is a lot going on and coming up in the world of indoor cycling here at Crunch Fitness - Sunset and the Ride with Tommy! As most of you all know by now, we have all new bikes! That is awesome, exciting and very cool! There is also a computer on each of the bikes. We haven't used them yet (nor do we know how to use them...yet!), but very soon, as soon as Wednesday, December 17th in fact, we will be offering a "teaser" or intro class to the new technology that is part of the new Ride here at Crunch! The current Red Line Ride will be retiring on Monday, December 15th. Crunch was the first in the world to offer this kind of class. Now, after 6 years, we are undertaking a new way to learn more about how our bodies work when being worked out hard! So make plans now to attend the final Red Line Ride on Monday, December 15th, 9:30am. Then join us for the teaser/intro class to the new technology on Wednesday, December 17th, 9:30am.

Also, on Thursday morning, December 18th, 7:00am, we will be having our now annual and famous Extra Special "Give the Shirt Off Your Back" Sexy Spin! Really, give the shirt off your back! And bring any additional clothing you'd like to donate. Sexy Santa will be there to collect it all in his big bag! And it will all be for a great cause! Clothing will be donated to the LA LGBT Center's Homeless Youth Program. But we won't sacrifice the benefits that you expect from the Ride! There will be just more of everything! And special, too! Special guests! Special prizes! Special music! Having more fun! Doing more good! Join us, won't you?!?!

Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Track List - #totalrequestride, Wednesday, December 3, 2014

1. Against All Odds (remix) - Kira
2. Rhythm Nation - Janet Jackson
3. Every Heartbeat (remix) - Amy Grant
4. Spice Up Your Life - Spice Girls
5. Bang! Bang! (mashup cover) - Blake McIver
6. Blurry - Puddle Of Mud
7. Good Vibrations - Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch
8. Maps - Maroon 5
9. Break Free (remix) - Ariana Grande featuring Zedd
10. Secrets (remix) - Mary Lambert
11. It Gets Better - Blake McIver
12. Invisible ((RED) edit) - U2