Is there more to life than being really, really ridiculously good looking?

As a bit of a change recently I have been working with Champion to put together online training guides and show off some of their new season’s collection.  My plan was to have a customisable series of guides that can be combined to create a great and varied workout programme.  As with most of the training I do, it is based around using your own body weight, so no expensive and unnecessary equipment or gym memberships are needed.

I enjoyed putting the guides together, which was similar to how I usually work, although with no specific client in mind, the focus was on good generalised training.  The photo shoot bit was a bit of a different ball game though, and very different to what I usually get up to in a day.

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from the modelling side.  Should I start practicing pointing and gazing into the distance?  Do I need to work on ‘the look’?

So, the day of the shoot we gathered in Greenwich, ready to go... apart from the camera still being in north London.  So my introduction to this new life was sitting drinking tea – I felt I had sufficient previous experience in this area, and so felt I could start to settle into this new life.

We sat and looked outside, shocked that no only was it not snowing, there was also what could only be described as blue sky – something that had started to fade into myth.  Something that people had started to talk about in darkened corners, of the days before the endless winter had started.

We walked towards the park in good spirits, as I chatted about the local area with the photographer who had never had the fine fortune of spending time in Greenwich before.  I was still sporting a slight limp following my 100 mile run a few days earlier, so progress was a bit slow.  This also led to the thought that some of the exercises might present a bit more of a challenge than I had anticipated in the original planning phase a few weeks previously.

However the faint blue sky hadn’t stop the arctic chill, and so once the standing around in Greenwich Park started, there was a constant dive back into a jacket between shots.  Standing around in on a blustery morning suddenly didn’t feel very glamorous.  Thankfully the second part was off shooting in a studio, which made standing around in a t-shirt a bit more comfortable.

All in all, it was a fun day, and I was pleased that my legs didn’t seize up mid-lunge.  I am not sure the life of a model is for me, but I am really pleased with how the guides are coming together.  They will be coming to snapguides soon – check them out, and let me know how you get on.