Wednesdays are upper body days on Anna McGee and Paige Stratioti’s private Facebook page, where the mother-daughter coaching team streams virtual classes in front of enough enthusiasts to fill multiple gyms.
This means 60 minutes of lawn mowers, diamond pushups, tricep kickbacks from a bird dog position, and the dreaded bicep burpees.
“Stop talking about that,” Stratioti said goodnaturedly after her mother mentioned the burpees to the home viewing audience for the second time.
Trainer Anna McGee does alternate clean and press during her livestream class on Facebook Live Wednesday, July 1, at AP Training in Duluth. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)
Within these workouts, Stratioti is the voice of the people at home who are as familiar with McGee as they are with all the ways she can make a bicep burn. McGee, who takes lead, has spent 30 years in Duluth as a trainer — now mostly at AP Training though she also has a popular class at the Duluth YMCA. Stratioti was a high school mid-distance track star who ran for Central High School (though her allegiance was to the then-shuttered Denfeld High School), who went on to be a Division I All-American in both indoor and outdoor track and field.
AP Training, at 208 W. Superior St., had been open less than a year with classes and personal training sessions when Minnesotans were asked by Gov. Tim Walz to shelter in place to slow the spread of COVID-19. The trainers were quick with adapting to online classes — but this style of interaction wasn’t at first natural for either athlete.
“We’re very Scandinavian,” Stratioti said recently.
Paige Stratioti, left, and her mom, Anna McGee, run through a workout as they use a phone to livestream on Facebook Live Wednesday, July 1, at AP Training in Duluth. In the wake of COVID-19 closures, they've kept the business going by taking workouts online. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)
'I sweat on the inside'
Their streaming system is made up of easily accessible tools: an iPhone planted horizontally on a 6-inch tripod with an attached Rode microphone atop two stacked mats and a wooden box. They have a wireless speaker that plays back-to-back-to-back techno takes of songs by Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Haddaway, Marky Mark.
Their Fit in 4 series is month-long sessions with four classes a week, focusing on: lower body, upper body, HIIT circuit and full body. On Tuesdays, they sit in front of the camera and address nutrition, personality type, break down form or they answer questions.
On a recent Wednesday — near the end of their third go-round of the of Fit in 4, they wore near-matching workout wear: Nike shorts, AP Training tank tops, the new wristbands that McGee gave to Stratioti. Whether her daughter was wearing them or not became a running joke throughout class. It culminated with Stratioti using it to wipe sweat from her forehead in slow motion.
Trainer Paige Stratioti smiles as she guts out a fifth round of lateral raises during a livestream class on Facebook Live Wednesday, July 1, at AP Training in Duluth. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)
The class is like the music, fast-paced and with little pause. It’s all served up with McGee’s signature humor — when her daughter ribbed her for not sweating during the workout, McGee deadpanned “I sweat on the inside.”
Throughout the 60 minute sessions, McGee dishes call-outs to the class regulars who are watching at home, offers corrections on form, acknowledges that she has completely ruined the massage she just received. Stratioti’s adds well-timed quips and pokes, a sitcom-y “yes, mother” before offering another model of form on a jackknife. When McGee calls out “How we doing,” Stratioti answers for those playing along at home: “Good!”
The duo ended Wednesday’s class, which ended up including 800 reps, with a new plank challenge. They closed the day lying on the floor — a long swath of green turf that runs the length of the space.
“Happy July 1,” McGee told the home viewers, before they turned off the camera.
“That was hard today,” Stratioti responded after.
People leave messages on the page as trainers Paige Stratioti (left) and her mom, Anna McGee, run through a workout as they use a phone to livestream on Facebook Live. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)
'Do you have a floor'
The online classes were, at first, a way for gym-goers to maintain fitness levels while quarantined. McGee said she prefers a class setting and the energy of having a lot of people in the room. The feedback she’s received from regulars is that it’s still there — even at home.
“My people who are friends and take the class are like ‘We kind of feel the same,’” she said.
And now that it’s routine, some say it has become a preferred way to work out. Tina Mayer, who has trained with McGee for years, said she doesn’t have to worry about parking downtown or getting to class on time to secure a spot. It’s common knowledge among McGee’s regulars that you have to get to class early to secure real estate on the gym floor and the risers, weights, Bosu ball, and mat that will be used during the workout.
For the home version, people make do with what they have: resistance bands, exercise balls, jars filled with sand.
Trainer Anna McGee and her daughter, Paige Stratioti (back) do Renegade Rows during a livestream class on Facebook Live. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)
“This offers me the ability to do the workout to meet my schedule,” Mayer said. “Plus, it’s fun. She has these Anna-isms … ‘Do you have a floor? If you have a floor you might be able to do this at home.'”
McGee was a three-sport high school athlete who got into fitness about 30 years ago — specifically the group exercise classes, which she soon began teaching. It has felt like, she said, what she is supposed to do.
McGee’s teaching style was set from the start.
“They’re coming, they’re dropping off their kids and they have one hour,” she said. “In my mind, it’s important for me to give them what they need at that time.”
Trainer Paige Stratioti works through another round of stability ball jacknife during a livestream class on Facebook Live Wednesday, July 1, at AP Training in Duluth. (Jed Carlson / jcarlson@superiortelegram.com)
Stratioti took dance and skating lessons and played soccer, but track is where the natural athlete found her niche. Her mother recalled her hitting the track at the University of Wisconsin-Superior at 6:30 a.m. when she was 16 years old. She has a relatability and achievement resume that is a fit for the high school and college athletes — including Mayer’s daughter.
“Focus, drive, not making it an option,” Stratioti said are the keys. “You have to make it part of your day if you want it.”
McGee and Stratioti have opened the space for small group training sessions, but they plan to continue streaming a class online. Followers are digging the dynamic between the mother-daughter team, who have a 30-year age difference.
"They mostly love (Paige), how she'll pretend she's tired and flop on the floor all the time and I just pretend she's not there," McGee said. "But it's fun, it's really fun.
"It's nice for people to see that we're not just mother-daughter. There's 30 years between us and some of the exercises I slow up on, but I can do it."
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