‘Hellooo, Monday,” the instructor Megan Roup says merrily while mopping sweat from the floor of the industrial-chic Manhattan studio with a towel. I’ve just completed her 50-minute morning Sculpt Society class — a perversely fun yet punishing dance workout — and my body’s in a slight state of shock as I join the 31-year-old trainer and a few classmates for a complimentary iced nitro coffee (only in New York). Although everyone — Roup included — is drenched in sweat, her fans can’t seem to get enough of her class, even if their compliments could, out of context, be misconstrued as insults. “No matter how many times you come here, it’s still really hard,” says one class-goer, a businesswoman with her own fashion label. Project has a video-capture system so instructors can film social-media contentRoup, a…

Source: The Times October 28, 2017 23:09 UTC