Tomorrow we celebrate one year since the Brooklyn Badasses started working out together on Tuesdays. If you don’t already have plans to get your butt kicked tomorrow morning then show up at Grand Army Plaza by 6:25AM. In addition to the best body circuit ever created, you’ll also receive lots of celebratory high fives and cake. Seriously. Cake….
Have you ever wondered how the guy or girl standing in front of your morning workout got that prestigious honor? Do you get jealous of the person who’s holding the camera while you struggle to stand upright after a set of squats? How can YOU get to be the person who gives orders to the…
Most people spend New Year’s day sleeping in and recovering from the previous night’s festivities. Here at The Rise, we spent New Year’s day a little differently. We kicked off 2015 with a workout by the Flatiron building, followed by another workout on the boardwalk of Coney Island, and then topped it all off with our…
It’s hard to believe that this year is drawing to a close. We had quite a year at The Rise: we laughed, we cried (so many burpees!) and made some amazing memories along the way. Here are some highlights from 2014: “[On the Brooklyn Bridge]…The city wakes as the fog rises; meanwhile the Rise completes…
When I first moved to the city, it didn’t take long for me to figure out that I belonged in Brooklyn. These days I love making the morning pilgrimage to The Rise in Manhattan from BK, but it wasn’t always this way. The extra early wakeup times, the cold runs and the sleepy train rides can…