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Regulating fitness boot camps

Angela Parker, center, who runs Body Inspired Fitness, instructs her class during a workout in Santa Monica's Palisades Park. "I want everyone to face the ocean," she said. "And I want you to kick to where the ocean meets the sky."

Angela Parker, center, who runs Body Inspired Fitness, instructs her class during a workout in Santa Monica’s Palisades Park. “I want everyone to face the ocean,” she said. “And I want you to kick to where the ocean meets the sky.”  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Santa Monica’s Palisades Park has been invaded by fitness boot camps and personal trainers. Now a city known for promoting a healthful lifestyle is debating regulating the crowded calorie-burning scene.
Read more: Santa Monica weighs limits on fitness classes in Palisades Park

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Samantha Terrio, left, a student in Angela Parker’s fitness class in Santa Monica’s Palisades Park, climbs the stairs that connect the park to the beach below.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Angela Parker instructs her class during a workout in Palisades Park. The Santa Monica City Council is considering whether to impose limits on fitness trainers who use the city’s parks.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Trainer Angela Parker, left, demonstrates an exercise with student Samantha Terrio during a workout at Palisades Park in Santa Monica.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Students stretch at the conclusion of a workout in Angela Parker’s Body Inspired Fitness class at Palisades Park.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Ruben Lawrence conducts a boxing class called Hype Performance at Crescent Bay Park in Santa Monica.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Ruben Lawrence, right, trains Ali Janes during a boxing class at Crescent Bay Park in Santa Monica.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Brian C. Janes tapes his hands before a workout with Ruben Lawrence during a boxing class at Crescent Bay Park.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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Students stretch at the conclusion of a workout in Angela Parker’s Body Inspired Fitness class in Santa Monica’s Palisades Park.  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

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