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BATON ROUGE, La. (BRProud) Governor John Bel Edwards announced Monday that the first phase in reopening Louisianaa economy begins May 15. Since businesses were first ordered to shutter, gym owners have been waiting for the green light to reopen their doors.

Josh Roberts, owner of GymFit in Baton Rouge, runs a 52,000 sq. ft. facility and said he plans to reopen May 18. Roberts said he has reassigned responsibilities of his employees, increasing the number of staff who will disinfectant equipment regularly three-fold.

Roberts said equipment has been separated to adhere to social distancing guidelines and special markers have been placed on the floors of the group exercise rooms. Additionally, special hours of operation will be geared toward the more vulnerable population and childcare services will be closed for the next 30 days.

To learn more about GymFit and the changes they have made, check out the website and follow them on social media.

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LINCOLN Besides youth baseball and softball, Gov. Pete Ricketts on Monday gave high school athletes in Nebraska something to anticipate in June.

Ricketts said schools, with social distancing, can reopen weight rooms starting June 1. As with fitness gyms, the limit of 10 people in a room with 6 feet of separation must be observed.

School officials say they will seek to get more answers this week on what else could be allowable under the governors guidelines, such as conditioning work and individual-skills camps.

Youth teams in baseball and softball, given two pages of reopening guidelines on Monday, can practice beginning June 1 and play games starting June 18.

NSAA Executive Director Jay Bellar said he will talk Tuesday with State Education Commissioner Matt Blomstedt. Bellar was part of a panel for school superintendents Monday afternoon, after the governors briefing, that included Blomstedt and Ricketts.

Bellar said that last week, Blomstedt brought him on to the commissioners weekly superintendents advisory council.

The way it looks to me, Bellar said, not much has changed for (the NSAA) other than there seems to be some stipulation that weight rooms could be open if the kids can come back to school, which I think the commissioner is going to, but I guess I havent talked to him about that yet.

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, school facilities have been closed to students since late March, with no extracurricular activities permitted under a directed health measure issued by the governor. The order expires May 31.

With a 10-person limit, larger schools will have more difficulties in weight rooms than smaller schools. One possible solution could be moving equipment into multiple rooms and assigning a coach to each one. Day care facilities operate in such a manner.

Nolan Beyer, the athletic director for Millards three high schools, said safety will be the top consideration.

We will spend the next few days determining if we can provide a safe environment for our athletes, he said. If we determine we can, we would like to provide them an opportunity to train.

Ricketts said baseball and softball are well suited to be first as the state begins the reopening of sports.

Theyre the sports that are more socially distant anyway, he said. And we want to take this a step at a time, roll this out, and see how we can make this work.

Blomstedt said officials will be watching how players, fans and coaches interact to see what they can learn in restoring sports in the fall. He said the baseball/softball guidelines were developed with an eye toward whats safe and what works for teams, games and practices.

He said schools were getting a lot of questions about the use of their facilities for sports.

Blomstedt heads up an effort called Launch Nebraska, which deals with how to reopen schools and all activities.

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Curtis Christopherson, president of Innovative Fitness, at the company's location in Surrey, B.C., on April 21, 2020.

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Innovative Fitness was working on a way to make its boutique personal training and wellness services available online by the end of this year. Then COVID-19 hit.

Since the business largely involves human interaction, it voluntarily closed its 12 brick-and-mortar locations (11 in B.C., one in Toronto) as of Mar. 16, before non-essential businesses were ordered shut in B.C. and Ontario.

But instead of waiting out the shutdown, Innovative Fitness went into brainstorming mode.

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We had to pivot quickly and adapt to the situation, says Curtis Christopherson, chief executive officer of the Vancouver-based company, which offers services such as one-on-one training, rehabilitation and nutritional coaching.

Development was already underway at the company to build a unique platform for online services that werent available from off-the-shelf software. Innovative Fitness needed its own platform to provide high quality video-conferencing that would work for personalized training, coaching and small group work. It also needed the service to provide activity tracking for clients as well as organize operations, scheduling and administration such as billing for more than 250 employees.

And it needed it very quickly.

Working closely with Coquitlam, B.C.-based software developer SaaSberry Innovation Laboratories Ltd., the online version of Innovative Fitness was up and running by the end of March.

In a very short period of time, weve launched our virtual coaching and we have 35-to-40 per cent of our existing client base and revenue online when we could have had zero. And were now seeing people we could never have offered service before, Mr. Christopherson says. Were serving people completely outside our geographical regions, including places like Boston, New York, and Los Angeles.

Mr. Christopherson's Vancouver-based fitness company offers services such as one-on-one training, rehabilitation and nutritional coaching.

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Before COVID-19 forced many businesses to close their doors, online business in Canada was increasing by 15 per cent every year and businesses with an e-commerce presence saw higher revenue growth than those without, says Pierre Clroux, vice-president of research and chief economist at the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC).

Yet, according to BDC research, only about half of small- and mid-sized enterprises in Canada have a website.

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In a recent survey of 1,500 clients, BDC asked small- and mid-sized businesses what they have learned from the COVID-19 crisis.

The No. 1 answer when we ask them what are you going to do differently? is to be more present online, Mr. Clroux says. I think many companies are doing it right now.

Its much easier than it used to be technically and not as costly, he says.

I think a lot of companies are taking this opportunity, or theyre kind of forced to, because if youre not online in many businesses youre basically closed. Its forcing many businesses to do it now or to improve what they have been doing in the past.

From late February to the end of March, as the spread of COVID-19 led to business closures, online sales for food and from restaurants have increased 194 per cent, while online sales of furniture, 84 per cent, according to BDC.

Even after public health restrictions are lifted, Mr. Clroux believes e-commerce will continue to accelerate.

Weve seen in other countries that consumers remain cautious even after restrictions are lifted, he says. They are not rushing to stores; they are not rushing to shopping malls because they are cautious about their health. I think the online business is going to stay strong after this crisis.

Business has also taken off at SaaSberry, according to its CEO Chris Cade.

Mr. Cade says online technology has advanced and the cost to install and deploy it has come down in recent years, making it more attractive to more businesses. Still, based on his own experience, he says about nine out of 10 small- and mid-sized companies were reluctant to invest even a few months ago.

Now everybody wants in.

The pandemic fast-tracked it, Mr. Cade says. This has been happening to business for years and years. Now, it has happened overnight.

SaaSberry has added many clients to its roster in the past five weeks amid the pandemic closures, from mom-and-pop bakeries to retail outlets.

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There are ways you can fight this, rather than just close your shop. There are ways to make money. We just have to think differently, Mr. Cade says.

The software that SaaSberry built for Innovative Fitness, which uses a secure browser link for video-conferencing rather than an app users have to download, would have cost millions of dollars just a few years ago, Mr. Cade says. Today, businesses can adopt e-commerce solutions at a much lower cost.

Every single business can leverage technology today. I dont care what size they are; they can be doing something, Mr. Cade says.

Mr. Christopherson believes the online fitness platform will be a new revenue stream for his company, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. And, with SaaSberry, Innovative Fitness hopes to licence the software to others.

Were continually developing. This isnt the full solution but we have a live product being used right now that we can continue to build and develop, Mr. Christopherson says.

This pandemic just demonstrated the importance that technology can play and the opportunity that technology offers. For us, it was do or die. Either you do it or you risk not opening up again.

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From bricks to clicks: How a fitness chain went virtual - The Globe and Mail

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Saturday Night Live ran a sketch last fall in which cast members auditioned to become SoulCycle instructors. The characters included Deacon (who has an addiction to pushing himself), Trish (who was bullied in high school for being too tall, too thin and too pretty) and Flint (who lives life with no regrets). Each aspiring instructor says something patently insane to pump up the class. Flint, played by Bowen Yang, yells, Abraham Lincoln died! But he didnt have to. If Id been there I couldve stopped it. Will you be? LETS RIDE!

Insert your SNL complaint here, but the shows generally got its ear to the ground. Studio 8H decided it was about time it lampooned a workout studio class, and sure enough, the audience laughed in all the right places. Over-caffeinated trainers, slick neon signs, certain members of the class working way harder than others its familiar territory. Group fitness classes are an inevitability of most millennial and Gen Z lifestyles, especially those overwhelmingly in urban and suburban neighborhoods where boutique studios are as ubiquitous as Bank of America branches.

For years now, Ive worked out alongside people whose names I will never know. Ive traded battle ropes in rooms chilled below 50F. Ive been the worst yogi in a candlelit studio bumping Outkast. Ive chest-bumped run club strangers at a track session downtown. This is the fitness worlds covenant in 2020: thinking up new and unique ways to let people sweat en masse. Young people spend less on cars and appear indifferent to the white picket fence, but they drop more dollars on fitness than any other cohort, and generally prefer to do it together. Having a friend there is great, but the illusion of intimacy, earned from showing up for the thing Even after a long day of work, we all still made it, didnt we? is often more than enough.

A generation of agnosticism, then, has ironically coincided with a cultish passion for getting fit, for staying fit, for spreading the Good News on social media in front of brightly painted selfie walls, for worshiping #fitspo prophets, for crushing WODs on Thursdays mornings, for knowing that Trevor at the NoMad branch gives the best shadowboxing session and has jokes, too. This fragmented rhythm has become the beating heart of the industry. According to research reports from the Association of Fitness Studios, boutique fitness studios are singlehandedly responsible for the growth of Americas fitness sector. It can be summed up best with one party fact: ClassPass hosted 100 million workouts last year. Seriously.

Traditional gyms have tried to adapt; every gym Ive belonged to over the last 10 years, for instance, has added that turf section, meant for more people and more movement. Its just that people seem to prefer nabbing the last slot in an impromptu Saturday morning class to relying solely on a mirror, treadmill or even a personal trainer at a conventional gym. We have to be careful when stereotyping entire generations the branch of study often undermines itself, and peer-group proclivities are rarely as pervasive as they seem but a lazy scroll through Instagram will reveal that those born in the last two decades of the last century maintain an odd, steady relationship with perceived discovery. There is a tendency to claim ownership over supposed new experiences, be they types of restaurants, travel hotspots or group fitness classes.

But just as dive bars in north-central Brooklyn were serving beers well before they started receiving half-ironic patronage, and thousands of people walked up Perus Vinicunca before millions put it through filters online, group fitness classes were an American mainstay long before the flawless marketing and health studio incubation of the early 2010s.

The country first committed to working out together in the 1980s. In a society suddenly without budget constraints living in safer, bigger cities, conspicuous exercise was an amendment to the American dream, a form of physical therapy that wouldve seemed utterly alien to adults, who, for generations before, had simply played ball until it was time to use their hands to work. The Jane Fonda era brought half the population into the fold as aerobics, Jazzercise, trampoline classes and an ancestor to Barre called the Lotte Berk Method debuted in studios around the country.

The new classes took residence in humble community centers and Upper East Side lofts alike. Aerobics brought music. Jazzercise (think Zumba, but even goofier) was the first to give instructors microphones. By 1984, the company was the second-fastest growing brand in America, behind only Dominos Pizza. Eventually, the 90s arrived, and the nations fitness experience was further commodified as big-box gyms like Life Time and Planet Fitness came to the fore.

Its important to point out the differences between the group-fitness enthusiasts of the 80s and their contemporary counterpart. The original cohort didnt have social media, for starters. Would they have blasted out their latest pump to a captive audience of followers if they could have? We have no way of knowing for sure, but yeah, probably. During a recent appearance on Conan OBriens podcast, Ricky Gervais pointed out that if Twitter had been around for centuries, a number of beloved figures would almost certainly have cancel-worthy tweets. The movers and shakers of the 1980s didnt have social media, so made do with what they had they kept showing up. They got used to performing in front of each other. Speaking to Harpers Bazaaar in 2018, Dr. Natalia Mehlman Petrzela of The New School, a fitness historian, said,[Boutique fitness] is a realm of conspicuous consumption that our culture accepts and even celebrates.

There are more options today, and more money to spend. If youre determined enough, you can now commit well over $100 a week to sparring, jumping and dancing with people you will never see again. Just know that this all started a long time ago. The complexity of the fitness has evolved (though many trainers still swear by step aerobics, which was invented in 1989), the studios are a little shinier and the copywriting is all noveau-tribal (Move your body, find your soul), but the reason we do it, and do it this way, shares its DNA with the hustling young urbanites of yesteryear. As much as it may pain millennials to admit, the boomers got to this trend first.

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THE SHOALS, Ala. Governor Kay Ivey said gyms, athletic facilities, and athletic classes may resume when issuing her amended safer-at-home order.

At-home workouts and live streamed video classes may soon be a thing of the past as gyms and fitness centers reopen their doors. The reopening does come with restrictions, however, and gym owners across the Shoals are taking steps to make sure they meet the requirements.

Right now, we are laying out the equipment before the client comes in so rather than us usually handing them the weights, we already have them in position, said Frankie Guerra, owner of No Doubt Lifestyle Coaching and Fitness in Muscle Shoals.

Some facilities are holding off on reopening. In Florence, YMCA of the Shoals CEO Lane Vines said fitness and swimming areas wont reopen until May 18.

Gator Fitness, which has locations in Sheffield and Florence opened their facility Monday evening at 5 p.m. Theyre taking precautions like providing extra sanitizing spray around the facility and stopping towel service for the time being. Staff is also strictly enforcing the six-foot social distance between members.

The gym is currently locking its doors during staffed hours and non-members must make an appointment before entering. When not staffed, they ask that members be mindful of others and remember to stay six feet apart.

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With most states relaxing business restrictions over the next few weeks, gyms, fitness centers, and exercise professionals are eager to get back to work, says CREP president Brian Biagioli EdD. Due to the potential for risk, however, we must move forward wisely. This first-of-its-kind resource supports CREPs goal of protecting and advancing the fitness profession while considering the safety of all stakeholders in the fitness industry.

The guide incorporates health and safety research from the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Its key recommendations for health facilities and personnel include the following:

Assess spaces to support social distancing requirements

Determine areas and equipment that users can access and which will remain off-limits

Set rules for the use of personal protective equipment

Prepare an operating plan and train staff on procedures

Establish cleaning and sanitization practices and schedules

Modify classes and training schedules

The guidelines in Planning a Return to Work fill a need for authoritative and specific information that is currently lacking from other sources, says CREP executive officer Katherine Hughey. It represents the proactive work of several leading exercise and sports science organizations that will be critical to establishing consumer confidence in our industry as well as our ability to safely serve the physical activity needs of our communities.

Organizations supporting the guide include the American Council on Exercise, the American College of Sports Medicine, the National Council on Strength and Fitness, the National Strength and Conditioning Association, the National Pilates Certification Program, and the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches association.

Biagioli stresses that these are uncharted waters and anticipates this initial version of the guide will evolve in the coming months: We are still learning about how to deal with the threats posed by COVID-19. Responding to evidence-based data as it is collected, CREP will continue to improve these best practices to ensure safe environments for both employees and participants.

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The fitness industry has been hit hard by the coronavirus shutdown and luxury fitness has not been immune. Studios have had to quickly make the move to digital in order to give members high-end fitness classes from home.

We spent a good chunk of the last 30, 45 days focusing on how to stay engaged with our members and our community, and we've done that through our digital offerings, whether it be through our virtual personal training, or Variis, Harvey Spevak, Executive Chairman and Managing Partner of Equinox Group, told Yahoo Finances The Final Round. Equinox Group includes an ecosystem ofbrands including Equinox, Equinox Hotels, Precision Run, PURE Yoga,Blink Fitness, and SoulCycle many of which have been directly impacted by the mandatory shutdowns.

Variis, the companys newly launched platform featuring on-demand access to video and audio contentfrom its brands, is an effort to bring Equinox brands to members homes while they are unable to get to a club. The SoulCycle at-home bike, a competitor to at-home fitness giant Peloton (PTON) had an accelerated launch amid the pandemic to give members another way to feel like theyre back in the studio. Spevak said the future is going to be more about marrying the online and offline together, and that's where we're uniquely positioned.

Variis, digital platform featuring on-demand access to video and audio content from Equinox Group's instructors.

Spevak is confident that Equinox clubs will be full after the shutdown restrictions are lifted.

There's a lot of unknowns here, but we do think most people will want to come back. Some will come faster than others. We've had many people demanding for us to open as fast as possible.

There are a few states including Texas and Georgia that are slowly starting to reopen, but Equinox Group has chosen to keeps its clubs and studios closed for the time being. Planning ahead, Spevak said the company has a task force that is evaluating the best practices for sanitation and hygiene for when their locations do reopen.

At the end of the day, what we do is heavily physical. People want the community and no matter what you do and no matter how great the digital is, the community is being together and people are learning how to do it virtually right now.

Sara Dramer is an associate producer at Yahoo Finance. Follow her on Twitter@saradramer

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The reopenings follow on the heels of Gov. Doug Burgums smart restart guidelines allowing previously closed business to reopen, though on a limited basis. The facilities will operate at reduced capacity in order to keep traffic down and comply with state guidelines.

Choice Health and Fitness will be open to members only and will not offer guest passes. The YMCA will screen members as they enter, including touch free temperature checks and a brief survey. The YMCA is also recommending staff and members wear masks in group areas.

While we are excited to reopen Choice Health and Fitness on May 18, we are being cautious to provide a safe environment for our customers and employees, said Mike Orr, general manager of the center. Reopening the facility under the N.D. smart restart guidelines for fitness centers requires many changes to our policies and procedures.

Under the guidelines, classes for large groups, such as basketball, will be closed, along with pools and steam rooms, cycling and locker rooms, and other areas where people gather in larger numbers.

Choice has a few programs to offer in fitness areas, where members can use free weights and do cardio exercises. Group training classes will be allowed, but are limited to about five members per class, in order for people to maintain social distance. The same goes for youth athletic development classes.

Much is the same at the YMCA, though the racquetball courts will be open and full-time child care will be available as well.

Our overall goal is to be smart about reopening, said Jill Nelson, spokesperson for the Grand Forks Park District. We will be strongly encouraging our members to be actively involved in the safety procedures we are implementing. The safety and health of our community is our top priority.

In pursuit of that goal at Choice Health and Fitness, children younger than 8 will not be permitted into the building, and kids aged 11 to 14 need to be supervised by a parent.

One welcome piece of news is members at Choice wont be billed for the months of April and May, and membership credits and extensions may be available. The YMCA has expanded its scholarship options for members who may have lost their jobs due to the pandemic. Members should contact the facilities for billing information. Regular billing at both facilities will begin on June 1.

Choice and the YMCA will be open from Monday through Saturday, though the hours of operation will be changed to allow staff to clean and disinfect the fitness centers. Information about schedules, and what classes and areas are available can be found at the websites and Facebook pages of both facilities.

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The Marblehead School of Ballet in Marblehead, Massachusetts is helping children, adults, and teenagers relax and reduce their stress during the COVID-19 pandemic through its new virtual classes and lessons.

According to the Center for Disease Control, the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) may be stressful for people, leading to fear and anxiety. They recommend people take care of themselves by exercising regularly, stretching, taking deep breaths, or meditating.

Virtual Classes

The Marblehead School of Ballet is responding to this need by providing virtual online classes in Mindful Movement and Tai Chi. Dance and fitness classes are also available for adult and child Ballet, Floor-Barre, Stretch and Strength, Ballroom and Latin Solo Work, Creative Movement, Tap, and Hip Hop. A special 4-week choreography series begins later in May. Private lessons are also available in Ballet, Cross Training, Stretch & Strength, Partner Dances, Tai Chi, Mindfulness, and Stress/Anxiety Reduction.

Mindful Movement

Mindfulness, the ability to be fully present, helps people experience the moment now to its fullest capacity. "In the Mindful Movement class, people learn how to tolerate and manage the uncertainty through focus. Skills are taught that are easily applied to reduce stress and anxiety, while promoting inner calm," explained instructor Leda Elliott.

Tai Chi, an ancient form of internal martial arts based in Taoism, promotes and teaches way to bring harmony and balance of the mind, body and spirit. According to Elliott, "The practice of Tai Chi is often described as meditation in motion. In class, we focus on the importance and benefits of cultivating calm and resilience. Resilient people develop skills to overcome adversity and come out stronger," she explained.

Elliot trained under world-renowned grandmaster of Tai Chi, Master Bow Sim Mark of the Tai Chi Arts Association. She has taught meditation, Tai Chi and breath work for 25 years. She is a Reiki master and has studied various natural healing modalities

To register for the school's virtual classes or to take a remote private lesson, visit the school's website . For further information, contact 781-631-6262 or send an e-mail to msb@havetodance.com.

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The OYO Nova Gym passed a massive crowdfunding milestone Saturday morning raising $1.6 million in pre-sales for the Kansas City company and becoming the most-funded fitness product in Kickstarter history.

And OYOs campaign still has a month to go.

OYO Fitness team: Nick Bolton, fitness director; Paul Francis, founder and CEO; Sonya Andrews, art director; Graham Ripple, chief operations officer; Marcus Sy, manufacturing director (not pictured)

The OYO team has worked hard to develop fitness devices that fit in anyones lifestyle, said Paul Francis, founder, inventor and CEO of OYO Fitness. These stunning results of our Kickstarter campaign show the consumer is looking for better fitness solutions, and I think we have them.

After launching April 28, the OYO Nova Gym blew past its funding goal of $30,000 in less than an hour. By Saturday morning less than two weeks later the product had more than 10,000 backers: another record-breaker for OYO.

Click here to check out the OYO Nova Gyms Kickstarter page.

Building upon the success of Francis original OYO Personal Gym, the Nova Gym offers higher resistance with the same patented SpiraFlex resistance technology used by NASA astronauts for almost 10 years in space.

Its 40 pounds of resistance duplicates the benefits of weights, without the weight, in all planes of movement, according to the company. Its a full gym that fits in the hands, providing more than 100 exercises for chest, back, arms, core and legs yet weighs less than 2.5 pounds and folds up to go anywhere.

Click here to learn more about OYO Fitness.

The award-winning SpiraFlex technology built into the new product developed by Francis for NASA astronauts to counteract muscle loss during long-duration expeditions in microgravity on the International Space Station is fundamental to users success, said Dr. Leroy Chiao.

Paul Francis, OYO Fitness

Think how much your body would atrophy if you laid in bed for six months, that is what happens to us if we dont strength train in space, said Chiao, a former NASA Commander. After six months in space using SpiraFlex technology I returned stronger than before I left.

Francis also licensed SpiraFlex technology to Nautilus Inc. and helped develop the Bowflex Revolution home gym, which is one of the best-selling home gyms of all time.

Click here to read about Paul Francis induction into the Space Technology Hall of Fame.

In addition to the NOVA Gym, all backers of the campaign will receive Stretch Goals that include: an invitation to train with OYO Fitness Director Nick Bolton, a breathable mesh carrying bag, a printed exercise deck with instructions on how to perform each exercise and an exercise towel.

Additional Stretch Goals, such as color choice, are being added as the campaign continues to exceeds all records, Francis said.

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