Sarah Kochlis Works Her Magic

August 20th, 2007 at 05:11am Michael Conniff 2

The only problem with people telling your how good you look today is that's a way of saying you really did look like crap the day before.

Just about all of us have been there before: the temporary breakthrough, the "diet" that seems to be working, the wondrous changes made manifest for five minutes at the most, the national obsession with losing weight at the expense of getting fit.

Still and all, thanks to Sarah Kochlis, my personal trainer at the Aspen Club & Spa, I have to confess to a myriad of compliments about the new me. One comely young woman at the club even said I looked "buff."

Now buff is really not a word that has belonged with me in the same sentence since I lay down my lacrosse stick, but what the hey. Two of my friends have even gone so far as to ask me (politely) what the hell happened to the body they used to diss.

My answer is that Sarah Kochlis happened. With nary a heavy weight, with push ups and clever crunches and all manner of combo exercises, Sarah has at the very least given me hope again. The truth is that I had all but given up on myself as I contemplated the long downward slide into physical oblivion. Now I don't see what I can't get better and stronger.

The only thing standing in the way between me and buff is me. I know, I know--I've been here before and then look what happened. But this is different, maybe even the start of something small.

The proof is in the pudding, Buffy. Either you look marvelous, or you don't.

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