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Your Playlists
Ruth Zukerman's Keep-It-New Spin Playlist
Ruth Zukerman, co-founder of Flywheel Sports (the other co-founder is Tiki Barber), says, "I can't emphasize how important the music is...Music is what keeps it new every time I get up there." So we asked her for a playlist. Here's the music that's keeping her going right now.*
* She's also listening to the mashup of Coldplay and Sum 41, but iTunes isn't cool enough to have it. So you can listen to it here.
My Body
Ruth Zukerman on Spinning as Metaphor and Music To Keep You Going
Ruth Zukerman is the co-founder of the new spinning studio Flywheel Sports.
I found spinning when I was going through a personal crisis. It was extremeley stressful. I went into a spin class, and I just saw how much it tied in the mind and body and became this meditative, cathartic experience. In a weird way, spin class is kind of a metaphor for your life. You can be riding and sprinting, and the sprint becomes a letting go, or you’re doing a climb, and it’s just like facing a challenge in your life. It strengthens you physically and mentally. It’s so connected to real lfe. It really helped to strengthen me. It increased my confidence. It helped me get through that time. I can’t tell you how many of my riders come up and tell me the same thing.
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Spin Wars
SoulCylce Defector Launches New Spin Studio with Tiki Barber
Spin junkies alert: There's a new kid on the block. Ruth Zukerman, onetime SoulCycle star, is set to open Flywheel Sports this February. We hear SoulCycle dumped Zukerman when they caught wind of her plans, and now there's a schism in spin-land: "Katie Couric and film producer Jane Rosenthal will go with Zukerman, but the fate of other regulars, like Brooke Shields, Kyra Sedgwick and Chelsea Clinton, remains up in the air," reports The Post. Our sources say Zukerman is the bomb. "She puts Christie Brinkley in the normal category," one reader emails. "50, and a health/role model for women."
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