Exercise Class...

I shot this for a story we were doing about summer exercise resolutions. Basically the story was for people who made new year's resolution type promises to themselves for the summer and whether they do a better job of keeping them. The problem was it was a last-minute filler for another Life assignment that had fallen through and needed to be shot quickly, so following someone who was doing this wasn't going to happen. Heck, it was hard enough to even find an exercise class since I was shooting this on a Friday afternoon. Now, since my uhhhhh... exercise, consist of NOT working out at a gym or health club I didn't know that most people don't exercise on Friday's. So, I got to this class and there were only three people there I was kind of nervous. Luckily it turned out pretty nice and I was happy with what I got. On a side note, I was told by on of the instructors that the woman on the left has three kids... I should start exercising.

Workin out

I shot this for a story we were doing on how full the local gyms are after the new year. Since it seems nearly everyone has a New Year's resolution to lose weight, it seems like gym's business spikes every January between all the people deciding that Jan. 1 is all of the sudden the day they are going to lose weight. Asa well as the people (like me) who like to take a few extra helpings of Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner as well as working the leftovers and holiday candy, they may gain a few extra pounds. So I guess joining a gym is the way to go to work off the pounds. So, the place I went is owned by one of the local hospitals and they like to have releases for any identifiable non-employees that I get in the shot. So, I try to just work around the hassle and shot some photos of the bodypump class. I made a few ok shot when they were lifting the weight bars over their heads, but then they started just lifting the weights over their heads, I was able to frame up the instructor along with getting a few others in the photo to show how packed the class was. I stuck around for another 15 minutes shooting some of the other exercises but nothing worked out as well as this one.