Newspeg: COVID-19
Angle: How the pandemic redraw the landscape of the fitness world
For my radio story I would like to do a piece about how the pandemic transformed the fitness world into a virtual one. In the story I will follow the journey of Sakshee Sharmaa, a 22 years old fitness instructor, who teaches classes for an Indian based audience via zoom from her living room in Kips Bay, New York.
What is particularly interesting about the story is that COVID-19 actually encouraged her to focus on training and enabled her to get a job in the field. Fitness wasn’t always a given to her and through the piece I’d like to capture her evolution as a young woman bullied about her weight to a fitness instructor empowering others.
On her social media she wrote, “My journey with self-love is still going on but I’ve gotten to the point where I am able to help others love themselves and their bodies”.
Twice a week she leads a 60min intense full body conditioning for Meri Sanskriti , so I intend to gather sounds both from recording her leading a session with the participants, as well as direct quotes from interviewing her.