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You can’t control what happens in life, but you can control how you respond to it. “Fitness is important overall to your mental and physical health. With all the anxiety of this situation right now, doing everything you can (within your control) to be as healthy as you can be, is really key,” said Naomi Nicholson, owner of Staccato Barre & Bodyworks in Saratoga Springs.
BRING IT ON The day after Nicholson learned that fitness studios across the state would need to shutdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19, she was making the Staccato Barre classes available online. “At the time, my concern was to keep everything going. What I didn’t realize was how many people would tell me, as time went on, ‘Thank you! This is giving us sanity, structure to our day, a reason to get out of bed in the morning. People are really, really craving that right now,” said Nicholson. Live Zoom classes, taught by four of the studio’s instructors (including Nicholson) are now available eight times a week, Monday through Saturday. If you can’t make the live class, digital recordings are available.
FIND YOUR STRONG Fitness has always been a big part of Naomi Nicholson’s life, but dance never was. Working as an office manager during the day, she taught high-intensity fitness classes, like kick-boxing, as part of Saratoga Springs City School District’s Continuing Education program. Then, in the summer of 2017, she saw an ad for Staccato Barre classes.
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