, the first luxury fitness club for Black people in New York City, has worked in the fitness industry for 10 years, and aside from new training modalities, technology, and equipment, not much has changed in the fitness space.
"I trained almost all middle-aged white men who worked in finance," she added, explaining that as a Black woman in the predominately white spaces she was training out of,"there are these nuanced things you're aware of in your Black body." She's a Black woman and"not a Black woman who has has the body type that is lauded and beautiful in white spaces," she said.
Symone knows that luxury has become synonymous with high prices but disagrees."We've been told that luxury means inaccessible, we've been told that luxury means too expensive. And these things are not true. It's just what we've been marketed." Instead, she envisions a space where people are offered luxury training and amenities at an affordable price , which is what Blaque will offer.