A day with Richard Simmons

"Through Thick And Thin, Simmons Is Still Sweatin" While working as a waiter, Richard Simmons saved up a year-and-a-half worth of tips to open his first aerobics studio in Beverly Hills in 1974. Ever since then, he still teaching classes to this day.

"Even though my work is whimsical," Simmons says, "I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh....When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day," he says. "I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher, and to keep spreading this right word."