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Forbes
03-08-2025
- Health
- Forbes
Amanda Kloots Is Trying To Shift Mindsets About Pain And Recovery
You could say that Amanda Kloots is on a recovery mission of sorts. The dancer, fitness instructor and co-host of the TV show The Talk from 2021 to 2024 certainly has a long history of go-go-go and pushing through pain. But her C-section in 2019 helped her see the importance of acknowledging pain and getting the appropriate amount of rest and recovery. And now she's encouraging everyone to do the same—meaning shifting everybody's mindset in the same way. Kloots Urges You To Listen To Your Pain Kloots has teamed up with Advil to launch The Strength Shift, a campaign to shift what is considered real strength. You've probably heard phrases like 'no pain, no gain' and 'fight through the pain' that have portrayed strength as the ability to put up with stuff and push through pain. But Kloots pointed out the weaknesses in such a portrayal of strength, especially when the pain is real physical pain by saying: 'Strength should be more about acknowledging the pain, and shifting whatever you are doing.' Yep, Kloots talked a lot of shifts during our recent conversation in New York City. She related to me that this was only a relatively recent revelation that she's had about recovery. 'It wasn't until the last couple of years that I have taken stock of my body and when I need I to pay attention and not push through pain,' she said. 'The shift started during my recovery from the C-section." A C-section stands for Cesarean section, which is a surgical procedure that involves making an incision in a pregnant mother's abdomen and uterus in order to take out the baby. It's an alternative way to deliver a baby when going through the vaginal canal is either risky or not possible. Taking the baby out that way can really take a lot out of you because it is after all surgery. Kloots continued by saying, "It was the first surgery I ever had, the first time I was forced to not work out for six weeks, the first time I took stock in how I have to rest and recover.' Pain exists not just to be a pain but as part of your body's warning system. When something is amiss in your body like inflammation, torn tissue or a broken bone, that triggers pain receptors that send nerve signals to your brain, giving you the sensation of pain. Remember pain is trying to tell your brain, 'Yeah, you might want to pay attention to this.' Without the benefit of pain, you could, for example, go around with something like an axe in your back and not even notice it. Therefore, when you have pain, the answer isn't keep doing what you are doing, especially if what you are doing is causing or even worsening the pain. 'Your body will often tell you when something's wrong,' said Kloots. 'You can end up ignoring a lot of things in tour body. We all do.' She added, 'The key is acknowledging these things. This includes not only pain but how your skin is reacting, how much energy you have and how you are sleeping.' Kloots Emphasizes The Need For Recovery Pain and various other signs can be clues that you are not factoring enough recovery into that whole stress-and-recovery cycle that's part of getting stronger. Training does involve applying different stresses to your body such as lifting weights, moving your body parts and increasing your breathing and heart rates. But constantly doing this would be sort of like running the dishwasher constantly. At some point, without rest and recovery, your body is gonna break down. In fact, recovery is a big part of getting stronger. Take weight lifting for example. When you lift that heavy barbell up and down, you can create micro-tears in your muscles. These tears can contribute to the soreness that you feel after a workout but are too small to impair the functioning of your muscles in the longer run. The key is when these micro-tears have time to heal, your muscles can end up growing in strength and perhaps even size in the process. The same applies to your mind. Kloots emphasized that people often overlook the mental stress of training and the need for mental recovery as well. Doing the exact same type of training each and every day without adequate rest in between can lead you to feel, 'Oh no, not that bleeping thing again" and eventually burn the bleep out. That's why proper mind and. body recovery is a necessary part of training. That mean's not only rest but other 'Rs' like rejuvenation, rehydration, refueling through proper nutrition, repair of what's been damaged, re-synthesis of the proteins and other body components needed, reduction of inflammation and restoration to a balanced state, otherwise known as homeostasis. Kloots Offers Tips On Recovery One way to enforce recovery is to regularly schedule rest days. 'I try to give myself one day offf a week, usually Sundays,' Kloots related. 'That's my day with my son. It allows my muscles to recover. I also may do things like a sauna or a cold plunge.' She also suggested shifting your mindset of what constitutes recovery. 'People can be fearful of acknowledging pain because they think it means that they have to stop doing what they do,' Kloots explained. 'But it doesn't necessarily mean that. You can work other parts of the body, keep moving and stay active.' Kloots gave the example of her suffering a shoulder injury from boxing. She took anti-inflammatories to target the pain and inflammation. 'Meanwhile, I did what I could do to keep moving my body, such as lower body exercises,' she recalled. 'I acknowledged and treated my pain and built my strength around it.' This is one of the reasons why Kloots physical activity remains so varied. It includes tennis, boxing, dance, jump roping and other types of cardio. 'I do different things in different parts of the day,' Kloots related. She's also worked with Advil to develop a resilience-building workout as part of The Strength Shift. She demoed this workout, which includes different stretches, versions of planking, jumping jacks and squats, all designed to be low impact but strength-building with some cardio. I was even able to get through the workout even though I ironically had suffered a back injury from boxing two days prior. This workout is now available at Tone House. Kloots Recommends A Shift In Mindset Kloots also recommended a shift in mindset so that you have more gratitude for what your body can do. You can view the ability to work out as a gift that is not necessarily guaranteed. 'It used to be 10 years ago was that a good workout was at least three hours,' she explained. 'My whole mindset has shifted. Now, post-COVID, I am 43 and so grateful for the strength in my body.' Kloots warned that it can be tough to have this mindset. It can be easy to be distracted by 'work life and stress, being on our phones and the day to day clutter. It can take over our focus,' Kloots remarked. 'It can be hard to block all that out. You can always be in survival mode, fight or flight.' And being in survival mode all the time is not good, as I explained when covering in Forbes my recent conversation with Deepak Chopra, MD. She in her words. This doesn't mean that Kloots isn't still super active and doesn't keep adding things to her plate. In addition to the aforementioned stuff, she just launched a supplement company called Proper Health in January 2025. And this coming January she'll be in a reality TV show. Amanda Kloots is showing how having all that shift going on can help you still do a whole lot of stuff.
Yahoo
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Who Is Amanda Kloots' Late Husband? All About Nick Cordero's Legacy 5 Years After His Death
Amanda Kloots' husband, Nick Cordero, was a celebrated stage actor The couple married in 2017 and shared a son named Elvis In 2020, Kloots shared about Cordero's journey after being diagnosed with COVID-19 and tragically announced his death on July 5As the world was coming to grips with the devastating impacts of COVID-19, Nick Cordero's story garnered mass attention thanks to his wife, Amanda Kloots. Cordero caught the virus in late March of 2020 and spent 95 days in the hospital. He died five years ago on July 5, 2020. While Cordero was hospitalized, Kloots shared regular updates about her husband's health on Instagram with the hopeful hashtag, #wakeupnick. It sparked mass support from strangers and loved ones alike. After his death, Florence Pugh, a fellow actor and friend of the couple, commemorated Cordero's life on Instagram, writing, 'Nick, we love you to infinity and beyond. Rest In Peace you beautiful, beautiful man.' Kloots, a Broadway dancer-turned-fitness instructor, first met Cordero, an actor, in New York City. At the time, the pair were working on Bullets Over Broadway, for which Cordero received a Tony nomination. 'We were friends first and then fell in love,' Kloots wrote on Instagram about the early days of her relationship with Cordero. 'We got married in NYC in 2017 and had [our son] Elvis two years later.' Kloots continues to honor her late husband's memory in various ways. She's written a memoir, Live Your Life (2021), about her and Cordero's love story. Kloots also transformed her engagement ring into something 'more casual' she can continue to wear on her hand 'every day,' no matter her relationship status. In April 2025, Kloots went red carpet official with her new boyfriend, Justin Gimelstob. So, who was Amanda Kloots' husband? Here's everything to know about the late Nick Cordero and his relationship with the dancer. Cordero was born and raised in the west end of Hamilton, Ontario, a city southwest of Toronto. His mother was originally from Canada, while his father originated from Costa Rica. Following high school at Westdale Secondary, Cordero attended Toronto Metropolitan University, which is known for its arts programs. After two years studying acting, he dropped out to pursue music full time with his band Lovemethod. The group eventually separated, and Cordero returned to acting. While Cordero had television and film roles, his main place was in the theater. In Canada, he acted in Tony & Tina's Wedding, The Last Five Years, Equus, Blood Brothers and Fiddler On The Roof. On the small screen, Cordero worked on Queer As Folk and Brothers before relocating to N.Y.C. in the mid-2000s. Per The New York Times, Cordero's 'big break' came in 2014 with a musical adaptation of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway. Cordero played Cheech, a tap-dancing gangster. It was this role that scored him a Tony nomination. Following Bullets, Cordero played the title character's husband in Waitress, as well as a mobster in A Bronx Tale. Bullets Over Broadway not only earned Cordero a Tony nomination, but it was also how he met his wife. Kloots, a dancer for the show, was married when she met Cordero. 'We were friends first and then fell in love,' she wrote on Instagram. After years of knowing each other, they married on Sept. 3, 2017. 'We really wanted a nighttime classic NYC wedding,' Kloots told BRIDES. The pair married at The Skylark, a cocktail lounge in Midtown. 'We both have worked on Broadway, so being just south of Times Square, 30 floors up, right in the middle of the skyscrapers, seemed so perfect!' she added. Kloots and Cordero had 70 guests in attendance, many of them Broadway performers. In March 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cordero caught the virus, resulting in his hospitalization. The actor stayed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for more than 90 days. On March 31, Kloots shared that Nick was in the ICU, as he had been experiencing difficulty breathing. During his prolonged hospital stay, Cordero faced complications including a lung infection, getting a temporary pacemaker and septic shock, the latter leading to a leg amputation. As Cordero continued to receive treatment, Kloots shared regular updates about her husband's condition on Instagram, uniting many on the internet, from friends and former castmates to new fans. Most of the updates Kloots gave and the support she received were shared through Instagram Stories, which she has saved as Highlights on her page. Following Kloots' lead, Cordero's supporters used the hashtag #wakeupnick and danced and/or sang for him daily. On July 5, 2020, Kloots shared that her husband had died. 'God has another angel in heaven now,' she wrote. In her post, she expressed her gratitude for 'the outpour of love , support and help we've received these last 95 days.' She added, 'You have no idea how much you lifted my spirits at 3pm everyday as the world sang Nicks song, Live Your Life.' Cordero's legacy lives on in many ways, but most literally through his son, Elvis, who was born on June 10, 2019. In 2024, Kloots recalled the 'crazy and beautiful moment' of having her son. 'Nick was the cutest new dad ... Elvis spent the first two days in the NICU and until I was strong enough to go he was running there every two minutes and taking every friend and family member to see his new son! He was SO PROUD.' While thousands of strangers rallied around Kloots while Cordero was in the hospital, notable loved ones did too. Among them were Zach Braff, who was best friends with Cordero, and his then-girlfriend, Florence Pugh. In the wake of Cordero's death, Pugh shared a video of him singing and wrote: 'My friend Nick Cordero passed this morning, holding hands with all his loved ones. Him and his wife @amandakloots have been fighting extremely hard for 90 days.' She ended with a call to 'take this virus seriously,' adding, 'Wear your mask, respect others' space, clean your hands and please be safe.' In 2023, Braff honored the three-year anniversary of Cordero's death, writing, 'Three years ago today we lost our Nick. There was not a kinder person on Earth. We never know how long we've got. Carpe Diem.' While Cordero was in the hospital, Kloots and her family lived in Braff's guesthouse, per The New York Times. Braff remains close with Kloot and her son. In June 2024, he attended Elvis' preschool graduation. To commemorate that day, the mom of one shared a series of photos, including one with Braff. 'I got to say between his birthday, Father's Day and then graduation.. June has not been an easy grief month at all ... BUT, to have friends in my life that show up, stand beside me, and hold our hands time and time again makes all the difference!' she said. Read the original article on People
Business Journals
02-06-2025
- Health
- Business Journals
Photos: Inside Kaleida Health Women's Wellness Summit
At the Kaleida Health Women's Wellness Summit, attendees were inspired to prioritize their health, careers and personal growth. Keynote speaker Amanda Kloots shared her journey of resilience, entrepreneurship and redefining fitness as a tool for mental well-being. Expert panels explored topics from personal branding and mental health to preventive care and work-life balance, with insights from local leaders and 'Super Doctors.' A highlight of the event was the vibrant Women's Village vendor area, where wellness companies offered resources, services and meaningful connections to support every aspect of well-being. This half-day gathering empowered women to take charge of their lives, build community and embrace holistic wellness — proving that when women support each other, everyone thrives.
