Soul Cycle
Events
Ride With Chelsea and Bill This Saturday
Soul Cycle's Ride for Haiti event this Saturday still has a few bikes left. The details:
- What: A 60-minute ride to benefit The Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund, led by instructors Laurie Cole and Stacey Griffith, with Bill and Chelsea pedaling away alongside the rest of the class.
- When: Saturday, August 28th. 4:15 P.M.
- Where: SoulCycle Bridgehampton, 264 Butter Lane, Bridgehampton, NY
- Link: Join Soul Cycle and Chelsea Clinton to Help Haiti
- RSVP: Email HaitiRSVP@soul-cycle.com for pricing information and to request a spot.
New York
Best Of
New York Magazine's Best of New York Health and Fitness
New York Magazine is out with their annual "Best of New York" issue. We've scanned all the health and fitness related rankings for you. Without further ado:
- Best Workout: Core Fusion Cardio at Exhale (they agree with me! I said Core Fusion Open, but close enough)
- Best Yoga Studio: Pure Yoga (you've loved it for ages)
- Best Grocery Delivery: Basis Foods (in case you didn't believe gotigers2003 when she told you)
- Best Yogurt: Mlilk Thistle Organic Dairy Farm (we'll have to include them in our next yogurt deathmatch)
New York
Workout
Soul Cycle Tribeca: First Visit
My first trip to Soul Cycle. 8:30AM class in the new Tribeca location. I've biked down there to join my friend P., editor of a certain big daily email publication, who is in turn joining her friend D. who is editor of a certain big design magazine, who happens to be there with her husband, J., editor of a top culture-and-politics website. No doubt, the Soul Cycle press department is responsible. Or it could simply be that, we're on Warren Street in Tribeca, where media power people run wild in high end fitness studios.
Openings
SoulCycle Opens "Temple" in Tribeca
SoulCycle, heretofore, a strictly uptown and Hamptons phenomenon is heading downtown. Recall that SoulCycle, beloved by Kelly Ripa (if not Anderson Cooper), is affluent New York's soulful answer to spinning. According to an email that hit our inbox this morning, SoulCycle will open a new studio on Warren Street in Tribeca on January 15th. In addition to a traditional 65 bike spin studio, the SoulCylers are introducing a "Soul Lab," a.k.a. "an intimate 30-bike studio with mats in between the bikes to facilitate our BRAND NEW ONE-HOUR SOUL CLASSES!" What's a "Soul Class?" Think 30 mintues of spinning followed by 30 minutes of powerflow yoga, or 45 minutes of spinning followed by 15 minutes of ab work.
Actually, it sounds pretty good, though admittedly there might be a limit to how deep one can get into savasana while lying at the foot of a spin cycle in a puddle of sweat. Regardless, the real news here is that Tribeca is fast becoming the epicenter of the global fiterati. Residents of Warren Street can now spin at SoulCycle and do yoga up the street at the Kula Yoga Project. Or they might just stroll around the corner to Equinox's Tribeca outpust, or hike eight blocks north to work out with Gwyneth at Tracy Anderson's new (and strangely un-buzzy) studio. Move over Malibu.
New York
As Seen On TV
Kelly Ripa Talks About Spinning, Like, Every Morning on TV
Kelly Ripa plugs workouts all the time. Physique 57, Ride the Zone, Soul Cycle... she gives them all shout-outs. But this morning she spent forever talking with guest host Anderson Cooper about the class she forced him to take at Soul Cycle. He said he almost died, but it looked like Kelly didn't even break a sweat. Thank goodness the music was loud to cover his groaning, he said, and Kelly made him do an impression. Jeff Probst, the host of "Survivor" was apparently the only other man in the class, and Kelly kept harassing Anderson, trying to get him to pedal faster than Jeff. And on and on and on the Soul Cycle discussion went.
So...Spin classes at Soul Cycle aren't cheap ($32 for a single session), but maybe you'll see Kelly and Anderson there, and if not, you'll still get to pedal like a crazy person.
Holiday Help
Thanksgiving Day Workouts
Your gym is closed. You forgot to sign up for the Turkey Trot. Your dad has commandeered the TV so you can't even do a workout DVD. What's a person who wants a simple sanity-saving workout on Thanksgiving Day to do? Our friends over at Well + Good NYC have the answer. From the 90-minute "Turkey Burn" spin extravaganza at Soul Cycle to special Thanksgiving morning yoga classes, check out the Thanksgiving workout options they've turned up around the city.