Psycle: Where gorgeous interior design meets hardcore spinning

“Forget about the week. It’s over now. This is all about you now.”
This is how my Saturday started, peddling madly in a spin class at the newly opened Psycle. But let’s rewind a sec…
I’m often asked how I stay lean when I eat out so often and drink so many cocktails – just look at the my Instagram to see how many food snaps there are! Of course, there is no magic secret to this – it’s all about balance: I workout hard so that I can indulge whenever I fancy.
Obviously I love a good beasting at Barry’s Bootcamp (an hour of intervals and strength training that claims to burn 1k calories!), but today I decided to try something new…
Psycle has just opened 3 minutes from Oxford Circus. I walked past the other day and the gorgeous interior décor caught my eye. Once I’d looked online to see the introductory offer of 3 classes for just £20, I signed straight up (the website is super easy and convenient to use). Here’s what went down…
Arriving on Mortimer Street in the pouring rain, I headed straight inside to the sleek reception – I am hugely appreciative of anywhere that will give you a great workout without letting up on the interior design. I checked in and received my cycling shoes, and headed to the high tech locker rooms to change and psyche myself up.
The changing rooms are the nicest I have ever experienced. Great interior, modern locker system, ghd hair dryers and straighteners, luxe shower products, huge mirrors, complementary towels – it was perfect.
I went down to the basement, where the studios are located.
Down in the studio, one of the Psycle guys helped me set my bike up. I had signed up for the 09:30 class with Natalie – absolutely gorgeous, she was exactly the kind of thinspiration you need in this situation! Her Psycle profile informed me that Natalie is a netballer, model and presenter – for her, Psycle “is the most immense drug and miles better than clubbing”. #girlcrush
The studio filled up (I was on a bike next to YouTube sensation Jack Harries!) and the volume of the music rose. The lights went down, and the colourful neon strip lights criss-crossing the ceiling lit up and phased through a rainbow of colours. It seemed I was about to go cycling in a disco…!
The workout itself was not your average spinning class – the high intensity intervals were combined with clapping routines and some hand weight actions to give you a full body workout that varied with the beat of the music. Apparently my leg strength is poor, because I was really suffering during some of the sets! I sweated a lot and got very out of breath, so I definitely felt like I’d achieved something significant.
We wound down with some stretches and a round of applause, and I skipped upstairs to the showers, revelling in the Bumble and bumble seaweed hair products and ila body and face washes.
There are also complementary Scrummi towels for drying your hair – super absorbent eco-friendly single-use salon towels – a novel idea, the thirsty towels remove the excess water so that you can move straight onto the ghd styling tools!
Once groomed (but still totally red in the face!) I hit reception for a Purearth Hydrate juice (free for first-timers), and skipped out into the rainy streets in search of brunch, energised and ready to get cracking with the Bank Holiday weekend!
Psycle
76 Mortimer Street, Marylebone, London W1W 7SD
Comments
Alice @ Honestly Fitness
Great article! Always fun to learn about new exercise spots in London. Will have to visit next time I am back 🙂