New York Health and Racquet Club Celine Desgranges teaches her ‘Bikini Ready Workout’ class outside the New York Health & Racquet Club on Whitehall Street.
Every month, health reporter Meredith Engel will update you on what’s new and noteworthy in the NYC fitness scene. Grab a cold-pressed juice and get ready to feel the burn.
Life’s a beach in Lower Manhattan
Did you notice the pop-up beach outside New York Health & Racquet Club on Whitehall Street? It’s part of the gym’s work with Downtown Alliance’s #GameOnWater series, which brings cornhole, fooseball, mini-golf and other fun tournaments to locations along Water Street through Labor Day. The space is meant to be a place for you to kick back on a chaise lounge, stick your toes in the sand or even get sweaty during a free workout: NYHRC complementary classes are offered every Monday and Thursday at noon.
Pure Yoga comes to the Hamptons
If you find yourself needing a yoga fix the next time you’re in Montauk, you’ll be glad to know that Pure Yoga has popped up Sole East Hotel, offering free Saturday morning classes for NY Access members and $ 25 classes for NY Select members. While you’re there, take advantage of drink specials, discounted room rates and beach access.
New York Health and Racquet Club The urban beach is part of the Downtown Alliance’s #GameOnWater campaign.
Did you hear?
Equinox has acquired the Sports Club/LA properties in New York, Boston, Miami, San Francisco and Washington D.C., as well as the Reebok Sports Club/NY gym in NYC. Expect signature Equinox classes and personal training to be folded into these former Sports Club properties, as well as Kiehl’s products and new exercise machines.
Grab your scrunchie
Physique 57 is hosting ’80s-themed classes on Sunday, Aug. 24 at its W 73rd Street location. More of the showtunes type? On Aug. 17, the Upper West Side location is hosting a Broadway-themed class at 2:30 p.m.
BROOKLYN BODYBURN BROOKLYN BODYBURN, a studio that arguably first started the boutique fitness explosion in Brooklyn, is opening a second location in Cobble Hill.
Openings
BROOKLYN BODYBURN — which uses MegaFormer reformer machines to provide serious butt-kickings — has opened its second studio in Cobble Hill at 296 Court Street.
Barre3 — a hybrid ballet, yoga and Pilates workout — has more than 70 studios across the country, but its flagship studio opens in the West Village at 63 W. 8th St. on Aug. 25. To celebrate, they’re doing 28 free classes opening week, Aug. 25-31. Sign up here.
Barre3 Barre3 fans have a new place to work out.
The Monster Cycle + Studio on Lafayette has more of an edgy nightclub than spin hub feel. The sexy new space developed out an Equinox class and will feature a retail component and juice bar in addition to the basement bikes when it opens during Fashion Week.
mengel@nydailynews.com
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