Richard Simmons will offer the keynote address at the Club Industry 2010 show on Oct. 7.

It may be hard to believe, but Richard Simmons is 62. His enthusiasm for fitness and helping others keeps him young, even after 35 years in the fitness business. His mission remains encouraging people to lose weight and live healthier lives—even health club owners.

“You know what I’ve found with the fitness industry and how paradoxical this is?” Simmons asks. “A lot of people who own gyms, who are in the fitness industry, they, too, need to be inspired.”

Simmons plans to inspire delegates during his Club Industry 2010 keynote address at 10 a.m. on Oct. 7 at McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago. He’ll even bring some audience members onstage to work out with him.

“I’m going to run in the room and greet everybody to music,” Simmons says of his keynote address. “And I’m going to do a little warm-up. And then I actually bring groups of people on the stage. We’ll do a couple of minutes onstage with each group. It’s lots of fun, and it gets everyone involved.”

After the quick workout, Simmons plans to discuss his history in the fitness industry and talk about his club, Slimmons, in Beverly Hills, CA.

“Everything happened to me when I opened that club,” he says. “I got ‘General Hospital’ from that club, I got the ‘Richard Simmons Show,’ I got my DVDs, my videos, my books. All the people that I met walking through the doors of Slimmons helped create who I am today.”

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