Tammy was leaning on the workout bar, one glistening leg over the top of it. Teresa and Bonnie were alongside, panting out their exhaustion with her.
"Shit," she said, "that was really hard today."
I said to the three of them, "There's only four days to go and you have to have two days of rest. Keep those legs up there, you need to stretch."
Toby handed me a bag of ice and the two of us ran it up and down, cooling off the hot flesh, then wiping it down and toweling off. Bonnie rebelled when I dug oily fingertips in deep.
"Grant! You're killing me!"
I backed off. This was one of the nicer parts of my job. There were six world class female legs in front of us. Hard, muscular, smooth. Not an ounce of fat.
They are representing our studio in the Ms. Fitness USA contest and have made it all the way to the semi-finals this weekend. Toby and I are the co-owners of the studio and also helping them follow their training programs.
It's an interesting path that got us to this next-to-last workout before the big performance. One morning last fall, Tammy walked in and asked for a job. Said her free lance personal trainer business was in the tank.
Toby got her a cup of coffee and sat her down at our office table. Fifteen minutes later, she knew as much as we did about the lousy state of fitness in Brooklyn. There not only wasn't a job for her, Toby and I had been living on fumes for months. Actually, before she came in that morning, we were trying to figure out how to hang on to our studio. The landlord was nice, but we were three months behind on the rent and he was sounding grim about kicking us out. "Guys," he said, "I have to make a living too."
Tammy stood up and said, "Hey, I have some ideas. But first, I need to show you my new workout routine that is going to put your studio on the map."
She whipped off her t-shirt and wrap skirt to reveal this incredible body. Bending over to get shoes from her duffel gave us a close up view of a world class ass. She had her own mix tape which she plugged into the sound system and started.
"Ok, you are the first customers for the new routine, let's get going."
Twenty minutes later, Toby and I were on the floor, gasping and hurting. As the music faded, she leaned over, dripping sweat on us, and said, "You got a shower here?"
We had a unisex shower because we didn't do coed classes. She dragged us in there and took her own outfit off and threw it on the floor. The package was even better. She soaped us, and we soaped her.
"I'm glad you've at least got proper size dicks," and got down on her knees. Pretty quick, both of us were shooting most of the way across the shower.
"I don't swallow, and I don't fuck management." She had the sweetest, most devilish smile I had ever seen.
I pulled her up with her back to me and wrapped my big hands around her jugs. Tammy not only had a terrific butt, she had great tits. Perfectly matched to her body. Not too big, not too small. High and firm. Nipples that liked to hide and then pop out at the right moment. Toby and I are not unacquainted with the female body, but we were drooling.
Over lunch, which she said was on us because she was giving out so much free advice, not to mention all the action in the shower, Tammy laid out the game plan. About every thirty seconds, she had another wild idea that froze Toby and me with our forks halfway to our mouths. She hailed the waitress, "Bring us two beers, ice tea is not doing it for my friends."
I'll spare you the details, but the whirlwind had us back in the black in a month, and actually putting her on the payroll the month after that. "I'm going to work for peanuts, because one of these days, in a moment of weakness, you are going to make me a partner." She laughed at our open mouths.
For once, the two of us had an idea she liked. There was an annual Ms. Fitness USA contest. Nobody in Brooklyn knew about it, much less trained for it. I had one of our customers who was a graphic artist sketch out a poster. At the top, in bold black, was "TRAIN HERE," matched at the bottom by the same letters saying "MS FITNESS USA." In between, over graphics of attractive women in workout clothes, were the details. The training program would be ten weeks, three times a week for an hour. The cost was $500. Anyone who placed in any of the contest categories would get their money back. In prominent cursive blue was a line that said the Chief Trainer would be Ms. Tammy Swartz.
She looked at it, then squinted at us. "You mean this? No shit?"
A few seconds later, she followed up with, "Can I be the Chief Trainer and enter too?"
Toby and I looked at each other, trying to figure out if that was going to create problems.
"If the clients don't mind, it's fine with us."
While the poster was being printed, Tammy did some research. A couple of mornings later, she came in with her coffee and said, "Guys, that contest had some incredible babes in it last year. I mean seriously kickass broads. It's like ice skating, you do a required routine, and then you do a free dance routine. And to get to the finals, you have to do a qualifying round of strength exercises that fails 90% of the contestants!"