Reminiscing the first video
Someone asked me the other day, when did I make the first Iceland Fitness video.
I actually had to take a couple of minutes to think about it. The first Iceland Fitness video we ever did was in Oktober 2011.
I wanted to try to help my clients, the Iceland fitness girls, to get published abroad. So we made this female fitness motivation video with a few of my bikini fitness competitors.
Most of them were going to compete in 6 weeks at the 2011 IFBB Icelandic cup so their physique was pretty good, not stage ready but in good shape.
My friend the director Ari Alexander Ergis Magnússon volunteered to help me with the video. He suggested that we recruited one of the best camera men in Iceland mr Bjarni Felix Bjarnason to shoot it.
At first we did´nt really know what we were going to shoot. I lined up a few exercises for the girls and the director called action. 4 hours later we had enough of material to make 2 videos. The amazing Eva Lind Höskuldsdóttir edited the video and most of the Iceland fitness videos ever since.
An Icelandic store, called Altis, sponcered the girls with Under Armour clothing and ever since that day they have helped me with Under Armour sportswear for my videos.
This video has had 141.000 views in Vimeo and 5.000 in my youtube account. When I was looking for my video I noticed that a few people have published this video as their own and the views there were almost 300.000.
So in total the view count is almost 500.000. This is actually not the most watched video we´ve done because our Harlem shake video went up to 1m views.
It´s really interesting to look at these girls now only three and a half year later and what they have accomplished.
Kristrún Sveinbjörnsdóttir:
2012 Arnold Classic USA bikini fitness 5th place.
2012 IFBB Icelandic cup Junior bodyfitness 1st place
Today she has a little boy and workes as a personal trainer at World class Turninn.
Magnea Gunnarsdottir:
SciTech international sponcered athlete
2011 IFBB Icelandic championships. Junior bikini fitness 2nd place
2012 Arnold Classic USA. Bikini fitness 3rd place
2012 Arnold Classic Europe. Bikini fitness 6th place.
2012 IFBB Icelandic championships. Junior bikini fitness 1st place.
2014 Arnold classic USA. Bikini fitness. 2nd place
Kris J:
QNT sponcered athlete.
2010 IFBB Icelandic cup. bikini fitness 2nd place
2011 Arnold Classic Europe. Bikini fitness 2nd place
2011 IFBB Icelandic championships. Bikini fitness 2nd place
2012 Became a WBFF pro
2012 WBFF Pro. Bikini fitness 5th place
2013 UKBF Welch championships. 1st place
2013 Britich finals. Bikini fitness 5th place
2014 UK nationals. Bikini fitness 2nd place.
2014 Amateur Olympia. Bikini fitness 9th place.
Today Kris J has a little 3month old boy
Katrín Edda Þorsteinsdottir:
PEScience sponcered athlete
GYM aesthetics sponcered athlete
2011 IFBB Icelandic cup. Bikini fitness 1st place.
2013 IFBB Austrian International championships. Bikini fitness 2nd place.
2014 IFBB Hungarian International cup. Bikini fitness 2nd place
2014 IFBB Austian International cup. Bikini fitness 1st place and overall title
2014 IFBB Icelandic championships. Bikini fitness 2nd place
Sandra Ásgrímsdóttir:
2011 WBFF European championships. Bikini fitness 1st place
2012 IFBB Icelandic championships. Bikini fitness 2nd place
2014 IFBB Icelandic championships. Bikini fitness 3rd place
Since 2011 Sandra has had a baby and now there is another one on the way.
Sigríður Ómarsdottir:
2010 IFBB Icelandic cup. Bikini fitness 3rd place
2011 IFBB Icelandic championships. Bikini fitness 2nd place
2012 Arnold classic USA. Bikini fitness 8th place
Today Sigríður has a little 1 year old girl.
Julia Steff:
2011 WBFF european championships. Bikini fitness 1st place and a Pro Card
2011 IFBB Icelandic cup. Bikini fitness 4th place.
Anna María Halldórsdóttir:
2011 WBFF european championships. Bikini fitness 1st place and a Pro card
2012 WBFF World championships Pro.
Today Anna has a little girl.
Inga María Eyjólfsdóttir:
2011 IFBB Icelandic championships. Bikini fitness
2011 IFBB Icelandic cup. Bikini fitness
2013 IFBB Icelandic championships. Bikini fitness
Inga María is learning contemporary method in acting and performing arts in CISPA in Denmark