Ego Nwodim adds a new job title to her otherwise theatrical resume. After announces her departure from “Saturday Night Live,” The comedian officially came out as a Solidcore Stan And celebrity ambassador. “There is so much I want to do, and” SNL “is always meant to be a running wide,” she said under Fast Company Innovation Festival September 17.
But seven years ago when Nwodim joined The Legacy Show, she could never have predicted that her next company would be with a training franchise. “I was a ballerina for ten years, from the age of 6 or 7, and I knew I didn’t want to be a dancer,” she tells Popsugar. While she liked Ballet’s movement style, Nwodim gave up dance before turning 18 and was not regularly active in a while. “After 17, I stopped dancing. I did not participate in any kind of physical activity except that I came across restaurants to eat for the content of my heart,” she jokes.
“It’s just part of my life at this time and I tend to schedule my days around my classes and not the other way around.”
Then, like most of us in the pandemic, Nwodim found that it no longer worked – not for her physical or mental health. “I realized that I didn’t touch my body at all and it was time to start moving again. Popsugar Workout Videos Held me down, “she says.” It is actually the very first thing that made me move. “
“I undertook to do three pop -sucking videos this week … and they changed everything for me,” she says. And eventually she worked up the fitness ability to try a personal studio near her Manhattan home (alias Rewarding). Was she a professional at first? No. But now she has finished almost 300 classes. While the high-intensity, Pilates-inspired training may seem daunting to many, Nwodim says she has been connected and makes three or four classes a week.
“It’s just part of my life at this time, and I tend to schedule my days around my classes and not the other way around,” she says. For Nwodim, the lessons she has learned from this practice have become particularly important in this next phase of life. “It’s all about slow, deliberate movements. You know, Momentum is not good in solidcore.”
Instead, in the class but also in life, Nwodim has learned to prioritize a more steady strategy: “Slow down, be in line with your body and yourself and make sure you are in line.” We are just happy to have played an even small role in that revelation.
Alexis Jones (She/her) is the section management for the health and fitness verticals on pop suckers and monitors coverage over the site, social media and newsletters. During his seven plus years of editorial experience, Alexis has developed passions for and expertise in mental health, women’s health and fitness, racial and ethnic differences in health care and chronic conditions. Before she came to PS, she was a senior editor at Health Magazine. Her second bylines are available at Women’s Health, Prevention, Marie Claire and more.
