https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/opinion/fitness-soul-cycle.html
Credit.Simone Noronha
Goodbye to the Cult of SoulCycle
From vaccine line-cutting to outright racism, revelations are exposing the darkness at the core of the boutique fitness craze.
Credit.Simone Noronha
By Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Dr. Petrzela is an associate professor of History at the New School and is writing a book about American fitness culture. She has taught group fitness for over a decade.
Feb. 6, 2021
I resisted SoulCycle, the trendy boutique fitness chain, for years. My last indoor cycling experience had been in the 1990s, when spinning was “Spinning,” and my most vivid memories were bruises from the bike seat and an instructor who looked as if he’d forgotten to shed his Lance Armstrong Halloween costume. But in 2011, I was too hugely pregnant to run or dance. One day a friend who worked at Soul, as acolytes called it, invited me along.