When is soul cycle marin opening

Thank you to everyone who read our work over the years. The archives will remain available here; for new stories, head over to Vox. SoulCycle —the full-body indoor cycling studio chain favored by dreamboats like Jake Gyllenhaal and Bradley Cooper —is finally riding into town.

The Equinox -backed fitness venture will open its doors at Larkspur Landing Circle in Marin on Saturday, June 8 , and is now accepting reservations for June 8, 9, and The brand new studio boasts 54 bikes, full-service locker rooms, showers , a listening bar and a Soul Boutique where you'll find Soul-branded spandex in a rainbow of colors. The Marin location even offers 3 hours of free parking at the Marin Country Mart. Heads up: you have to call the studio at to receive the discount.

Before you book your bike, you create a user profile and purchase a Soul Series. That's SoulCycle lingo for a package of one to 50 classes. Once you add a series, you select a specific bike at a specific class time. This could be the hottest fitness craze to sweep Northern California since CrossFit , so stretch, hydrate, and get ready to feel the burn.

Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise went together until they broke up, but paparazzi shots of the former Mrs. With pumped-up music, the classes are taught by candlelight and by instructors who inspire riders with messages that are designed to push them to the heights of exercise ecstasy. Indoor cycling purists, however, are less enthusiastic. Marjorie Maggenti, a longtime instructor at the Berkeley YMCA, says Soul Cycle is probably more successful at marketing itself than in actually giving people a good workout.

With this debate in mind, I decided to give Soul Cycle a try. Certainly, I was curious about the mystique, but I also had gotten into an exercise rut and wondered if Soul Cycle might be a way out. But any concerns I had about encountering a group of Real Housewives dissipated when I walked through the doors of the gleaming white studio.

I was quickly greeted by friendly staff in lemon-yellow tanks and T-shirts and the others arriving looked like regular women on their lunch break. Getty was to join me for my first ride. The gossipy accounts had it right on one matter: getting the right bike in the right place can be a big issue, Getty explained. Some like to be near the exit; others prefer a perch in back. But, yes, desirable front row spots go fast.