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A star instructor for the trendy cycling workout brand SoulCycle is backpedaling after being criticized for getting the COVID-19 vaccine under the pretense of being a teacher.
On Friday, Stacey Griffith — a top fitness coach in New York City who, according to a recent Vox report, makes at least $800 per class — shared footage from her trip to Staten Island to get the Moderna vaccine.
© Provided by Yahoo! Lifestyle SoulCycle instructor and author Stacey Griffith has apologized for getting the COVID-19 vaccine by claiming eligibility as a teacher. (Photo: Ari Perilstein/Getty Images for American Express)“Now I can teach @SoulCycle with a little more faith that we’re all gonna be OK if we get the [vaccine],” Griffith, whose celebrity clients have included Kelly Ripa and Madonna, told her 64,000 followers on Instagram.
© Provided by Yahoo! Lifestyle The SoulCycle instructor received backlash after posting about her vaccination. (Screengrab: Instagram)It didn’t take long for many of those followers to chide the 52-year-old author of Two Turns from Zero for bypassing elderly and high-risk individuals who have yet to be vaccinated.
“Let’s celebrate that we are making the world safe for in-person spin class in the midst of a global pandemic,” read one comment, from a woman who shared that she and her wife, a cancer patient, were still months away from being eligible for their own shots. “What’s left of any respect that I had for Soul and the leaders it celebrates is done and gone.”
Griffith initially defended her choice, telling the Daily Beast that as a teacher she fell within New York City Health Department’s 1B eligibility, which includes health care workers, residents over 65, grocery store employees and teachers — the kind that oversee classrooms and daycares, not workout studios.
“All teachers are eligible to apply for the vaccine,” Griffith told the Daily Beast on Friday. “My post today was to show my confidence in the system, in our government, and I hope everyone can at least feel more at ease knowing I went through the process!”
She added that she owed it to her community, “in my profession of health and wellness as a teacher,” to get vaccinated in order to help reduce transmission within her classes.
“Having me vaccinated can stop the short spread within groups!” Griffith told the publication. “I function as a common point for many overlapping people. In my profession of health and wellness as a teacher, it’s my priority daily to keep my community and their respiratory systems operating at full capacity so they can beat this virus if they are infected by it. I can only teach to them if I am healthy myself.”
She made the same point to a critic on Instagram who questioned her judgment.
“Keeping you all safe is my top priority, keeping my elderly riders safe is my top priority,” she wrote. “I see hundreds every week, I think it’s fair to say it was a good decision.”
But the backlash persisted, with critics arguing that the best way to protect the elderly was to not skip ahead of them in the vaccination line, which has been plagued by long waiting lists, shortages, confusion over online forms and scheduling hiccups. Vox’s Alex Abad-Santos, meanwhile, posited that few elderly or high-risk riders were likely to be found in Griffith’s SoulCycle classes right now, given that they’re currently held outdoors in the cold.
Griffith ultimately deleted her post, telling the Daily Beast, “I hate controversy. It saddens me that people go so dark and mean, I’m really just trying to do the right thing and be safe.”
On Monday, Griffith — whose high-profile romance with fashion designer Michelle Smith of Milly fame has been featured in the New York Times — shared a more contrite message.
“I want to apologize from the bottom of my heart for my recent action in receiving the vaccine,” she wrote in an Instagram post, for which commenting has been disabled. “I made a terrible error in judgment and for that I am truly sorry.”
Her apology comes on the heels of a statement from SoulCycle clarifying that instructors should not pursue vaccinations on the sole basis of being “educators.”
“Stacey Griffith operated in a personal capacity in applying for a NY State COVID-19 vaccine,” a SoulCycle spokesperson tells Yahoo Life. “SoulCycle plays no role in organizing or obtaining vaccinations for instructors or other employees nor do we encourage any of our SoulCycle employees to seek vaccine priority as educators.”
Griffith has not yet responded to Yahoo Life’s request for comment.
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This Vox article about SoulCycle smells really fishy. It smells an awful awful lot like sponsored content.
For those interested in the prosecution’s case, it’s below.
The money shot first: it’s tough out there for writers and new-age media companies, and who really gives a shit about paid content if it’s clearly labeled.
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This isn’t labeled.
Does Vox do this regularly? That’s part of the problem, that you have to know. Bah.
Some background before Jack McCoy starts his presentation: SoulCycle (in case you’ve never heard of a Bugaboo stroller) is a stationary bike exercise class that has a schmear of new-age sentimentality over it that apparently justifies its $30 / session price (for the lowest tier).
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Exhibit A: Personal testimonial frame and rhetoric that is right out of “How to Write a 3am Infomercial for Dummies”
– My name is Alex, and I’m addicted to SoulCycle.
– I don’t have all the answers as to why some people are obsessed with SoulCycle [. . .] But perhaps I can shed some light on why the company is as successful as it is
– By the end of every class, I’ve left a small puddle of glistening sweat beneath my bike and my shirt is soaked through.
– It was awkward, and one-on-one training is something I have never tried again.
– It leaves me sweatier and more accomplished than any cardio I would normally do on my own.
– Anyone who tells you that vanity and the desire to look fit are not part of the reason they do SoulCycle is lying. And from a purely vain standpoint, I’m really happy with my results. But I’ve also noticed other positive effects. My endurance has increased, my resting heart rate is down, I sleep better, and when I go to the “regular” gym, I’m stronger when it comes to exercises like squats and leg presses.
I’m running out of pixels, but there’s a lot more. All of it positive, all of it reading like an F-list movie reviewer trying to get on a poster of Adam Sandler’s new movie. “I laughed, i cried, I cashed the check the producers sent me.”
Exhibit B: Really really slanted rhetorical methods
The brand — which promises a full-body workout via “indoor cycling reinvented” — has been labeled a cult, an obsession, even therapy.
The first two links are to NYMag articles; the third is to a SoulCycle ad. Imac pro price. A child can see that’s wrong, right?
One of the worst fitness experiences I’ve ever had is taking a “free” training session from a personal instructor at my gym.
Does the context justify the quotes around the “free”? Reader, it does not. The only reason to put them there is to denigrate the entire silly notion of taking personalized exercise instruction that isn’t from SoulCycle.
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It likely won’t be long before you find an instructor whom you mesh with — whether it’s due to their teaching style, the way they push their students, their inspirational attitude, or their feelings on Rihanna’s music.
What the fahk dude Jesus you’re not even trying to hide it.
But the head shot might be the consistent denigration of the competition. Besides the above about the “training” “session” “at” “the” “gym”:
– At other places, like SoulCycle competitor Flywheel, there isn’t as much of a relationship between the music and your actions. You’re often just told to pedal fast or slow.
– And while many fitness studios and boutique gyms are forging deals with services like ClassPass (a sort of fitness class broker) to fill their empty slots, SoulCycle’s classes are as popular as ever.
No wait this is the head shot:
When people make fun of SoulCycle (I’ve made fun of it in the past), their derision is never about the actual workout.
Exhibit C: SoulCycle is so great. You exercise, on a bike!
– There are “hills” — intervals where you crank up the resistance and pedal against it — where it feels like you’re moving your legs through thick mud. There are fast sprints that will make you gulp oxygen and feel like your lungs are leaking.
– “Maybe tomorrow I can put on more resistance,” I’ve thought to myself. This is, of course, a lot easier said than done.
– Though all participants reserve a bike (signups open every Monday at noon) and choose where they sit, the rows tend to sort themselves. The newbies are usually in the back and off to the left and right. The overachievers tend to gravitate closer to the center and the front.
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– Sessions are divided into sprints, hills, jogs (a medium-paced interval), and “jumps” (where you hold yourself up out of the saddle for two, four, or even eight beats at a time) — intervals that require different paces, changing beats, and varying levels of effort (sprints require bursts of energy, whereas hills require more endurance). The music acts as a skeleton plan for riders, keeping them together.
Why do this “golly there are varying resistances to this velocipede machine” routine if you’re not trying to sell the experience?
Exhibit D: There’s a big press push from SoulCycle now as they’re expanding
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Someone from Style lost their SoulCycle virginity recently. AdWeek likes SoulCycle’s offices. CNBC had on SoulCycle’s CEO to talk some squawk. Something called Bustle posted a listicle. Months after her show with a SoulCycle plot point ends, Ellie Kemper’s SoulCycle love is in Shape Magazine.
And Alex Abad-Santos just chooses now to effuse about his SoulCycle love?
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SoulCycle totally paid for this.
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