Charlie Link has run Phoenix Fitness from a large former warehouse in Tuckahoe, N.Y., for more than 18 years. With about 1,000 customers, Phoenix has been a profitable passion. But with his speech-therapist wife out of work due to the coronavirus and the state continuing to ban the operation of indoor […]
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Spa mask Last weekend, the light at the end of the lockdown tunnel shone slightly brighter as the Prime Minister allowed more businesses in England to reopen in a Covid-secure way. Saturday, July 4 – dubbed “Super Saturday” – was the Independence Day the country had been waiting for: a […]
With many gyms closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, WFH is making way for WOFH: Working Out From Home. “I use a lot of makeshift materials to work out,” says Anne Barreca, of Brooklyn, New York. Without access to a gym or swimming pool, she uses what’s in her environment […]
AerialCLT, a Charlotte studio known for its aerial silks and trapeze classes, is teetering on the potential of a permanent closure due to the COVID-19 crisis — but the owner isn’t giving up. In an Instagram announcement on Tuesday, the studio wrote: “AerialCLT Family, we have had 8.5 years of […]
BRAINTREE, MA — Gyms in Massachusetts can reopen Monday as phase three of the state’s reopening plan begins amid the coronavirus pandemic. Gym owners across the state expressed excitement to get back to business, but acknowledged things will not look the same as before they were forced to close in […]
Amid the wariness of closed spaces and repeated use of equipment in times of Covid, two gyms in Law Garden and Science City road respectively have been training their clientele in the open Gyms are back in business amid the rising cases of Covid-19. However, with people still wary of […]
Mashable’s series explores how the challenges of today will dramatically change the near future. Annika Kapur used to go to the gym five or six days a week. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit. Stuck at home, she started using Tempo Studio. The nearly $2,000 fitness machine features a 42-inch display, […]
Face down in a prison yard, with bullets zipping over his head and a riot broiling all around him, Don Dickerson committed to start living a clean life that would make a positive impact on the community. He’s made good on that promise, helping Fitness SF expand to eight gyms […]