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Alyssa Pinsker is a Moth Storyteller, NBCC book critic, global correspondent for Round Earth Media Project, stand up comic, teacher and writer living in Brooklyn. She’s working on a memoir about love, identity, spirituality, feminism, global dating and her search for home. She’s lived and loved in Tokyo, Paris, Israel, India and of course New York.
She pens frequent personal essays, opinion columns, features and reviews for the Huffington Post, Time Out New York, BUST, The Frisky, New York Post, Daily News, New York Press, Chelsea Now, Forward, Writer’s Digest and Resident Magazine. She’s been featured in Time Out New York and Interview Magazine.
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Best of New York: Health & Fitness By Alyssa Pinsker New York has some of the best fitness and health amenities in the world, and the Upper East Side hosts many of them. From colonics to core fusion, check out these various oases of strength and wellness for some classic winners and new favorites. Best Group Fitness Class: Core Fusion ™ at Exhale Spa The Upper East Side location of the celebrity popular Exhale Spa houses core fusion classes. Based on the core conditioning, pilates, yoga, interval cardio and Lotte-Berke methods, this new exercise technique builds lean muscle and a mind-body connection with a combination of exercise ball, weights, barre, and mat work. Check out Erin Carpenter’s popular class at the downtown location. The hour session has a positive, fun, focused, non-judgmental atmosphere, and best of all there is an in-house spa with some great bodywork and famous eyebrow shaping at the midtown and UES locations. Their heated neck pillows take the tension away; while there be sure to try the “fire” tea. www.exhalespa.com, multiple locations Runner Up: Physique 57™ Though the classes are not as relaxingly pleasant, they get the job done with a combination of isometric exercises and orthopedic stretches. Physique 57 uses interval training and body resistance, similar to Core Fusion™ but in a less holistic or mind-body connected way. Both are as effective. “Interval overload” works, and classes have a no-frllls aerobics feel. Locations throughout the city make it accessible as well as time friendly. www.physique57.com Best New Fitness Trend: MVP Kettlebell method: Lorna Kleidman Trainer Lorna Kleidman has been studying kettlebells with a Russian competing coach and American mentor for four years and has now cured her asthma, is a two-time world ketttlebell sport champion, American record holder, 3-time Master of Sport, author of Body Sculpting…
I am so honored to have been able to interview Ian Frazier. See the charming “Sandy” Frazier on the Colbert Report here: