Personal Trainer or Trained Killer?

My gym is convenient as it is in the building where I work.  For its size, it is well-stocked with Nautilus machines, treadmills, free weights and other torture devices.  They have a number of personal trainers on staff, and from what I can tell, they are hired assassins.  Or they were formerly Navy Seal drill sergeants – I’m not sure which, or maybe a little of both?

One of the “best”, depending on how you rate your trainer, is a tiny girl, possibly 5’0” and 105lbs (on her worst day) from Russia.  Now, I’m sure that personal training classes are completely different than the courses they give in the good ole U.S. of America.  I’m pretty sure that she cut her teeth on flipping semi-truck tires, ala CrossFit.  Then graduated to running up mountains with logs across her shoulders.  Think Rocky when he was training in Russia.  And then triple that.

She is actually a very nice person, even if I want to punch her in the face just for being rock solid.  One day, I caught her jump-squatting onto a wooden box approximately 3 feet high, just “for fun”.  If that’s fun for her, I’d hate to see her bored.  Her clients love her – she pushes them above and beyond their limits.

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