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Keeping up New Year’s resolutions to get in shape might get
tougher thanks to Santa Monica City Council’s proposition to ramp
up regulations on outdoor fitness classes this spring.The council is considering banning all classes with more than
two participants in the city’s most popular workout spot, Palisades
Park.”Palisades park is a public park and doing commercial enterprise
in a public park or a public facility really should have
regulations around it,” says Santa Monica’s Director of Community
and Cultural Services Karen Ginsberg. “The recommendation is to
limit private trainers for compensation.”Additionally, the council could impose a 15 percent fee for all
trainers’ profits over and above the already required business
license, permit, insurance, and city tax.ReasonTV’s Kennedy tried out one of the outdoor classes,
Sonki Fitness’
Bootcamp, to see what all the fuss was about.”It’s a park, it’s not a museum,” says Kennedy, “this is what
people should be doing with their outdoor spaces.”Founder Sonki Hong has been training his students in Palisades
Park for over a decade.”They should try to really work with small businesses like me
instead of making it harder for me to survive,” says Sonki.
 Written, produced and shot by Tracy Oppenheimer. Additional
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