Hooting and Hollering

Thank you, Kayleen T., Beverly Hills, CA for your review of SoulCycle in Pasadena, CA. 

I’m not a fan of group exercise. 

I’m especially not a fan of group pep but, about ten years ago, when I was gifted several free Soul Cycle classes, I went. It is a high-intensity GROUP cycling class with lots of loud music (also not my thing) and affirmations (cue the eye roll.) It is, unsurprisingly, a great workout and the room is dark. The anonymity of exercising in nearly zero lighting and the fact that my 105-pound, 20-something-year-old self left class thinking, “This will make me so skinny!” kept me going. But, as I said, not a fan. 

Yet something just isn’t adding up for me Kayleen T. Not to blame the victim BUT (you knew that was coming didn’t you?) if someone is so loud during a SoulCycle class that they are asked to leave, they are most likely the problem. Unless they have tourettes. That’s not their fault. You didn’t mention that about your boyfriend so, I’m assuming he doesn’t. 

Even in a class with lots of “I can’t hear you” and “let’s make some noise,” there’s a level of appropriate enthusiasm and then there’s obnoxious attention-grabbing which takes away from the experience for others. I have a pretty vivid imagination but I cannot - or do not want to - imagine what kind of hooting and hollering he was doing to elicit getting security involved. Surely there must have at least been a warning. 

It is not my MO to take the side of a company that caters to wealthy white women between the ages of 25 and 50 (whether they’ll admit it or not) but I think there’s a lack of self-awareness happening here that led you to even write this review.  The situation is embarrassing enough and now you’re drawing attention to it which is not having the intended effect. How many people do you know who have been asked to leave a workout class for causing a disruption? I guess at least one.

Two out of five stars. 

Get your money back, though. No one should pay $30 + to exercise. 

See you next Tuesday.