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FITNESS Fitness Center Happenings

Claudia Verde FREE equipment demonstration

Personal Trainer Join us for an inside look at a piece of fitness equipment,
– Cooper Institute Certified Fitness Specialist including proper set-up and how to use it most effectively.
– Cooper Institute Biomechanics Specialist Texas Drive Sept. 14 | Rowing Machine
– Run Specialist Reebok University Cowan Creek Sept. 28 | Rowing Machine
– Spin Specialist Reebok University
Personal training tutorial
For an appointment with Claudia, call 512-630-9952
or email [email protected]. Monday, Sept. 12, 9 a.m. CC

Sun City Texas Personal Training Coordinator John
Rutan will answer your questions about personal training.

Group fitness tutorial

Monday, Sept. 12, 9:45 a.m. CC

Sun City Texas Group Fitness Coordinator Beth White
will answer your questions about group fitness classes.

Athlete of the Month By Lynda Dufour
Listen up, all you guys in Sun
City Texas. Fellow resident John
Boydston is on his soap box with
some valuable advice for you: “Divorce
your recliner.”

“Get off your posterior. You CAN be active John Boydston• Personal Trainer: Claudia Verde
again,” says John, a former preacher who
feels right at home offering his counsel and So I called John Rutan (Personal Training self was exactly Claudia’s plan. “It can
encouragement – whether on a soap box Coordinator) and asked if he had a trainer be a challenge to focus on yourself when
or in the pulpit. Our September Athlete who would accept a new victim as a client. you spend so much effort helping others,
of the Month pastored a small church in but it’s important to be proactive and to
central Texas for eight years after he re- “My trainer’s name is Claudia Verde,” he respect your own health and wellbeing,”
tired from the military. “I spent almost 25 adds, “and she’s been in the fitness busi- says Claudia, who initially trained John
super years in the United States Air Force, ness long enough for me to respond to her twice a week until she “cut him loose” to
and where did all that conditioning go?” with ‘yes ma’am’ and ‘no ma’am.’ I’ve been work out on his own. They now meet up
he asks, sounding mystified. “I could have working with her only a few months and every few weeks to check his progress,
and should have been more active, and her motivating skills have helped me fo- renew his training program, and keep him
now I’m paying for it. Many, many years cus on exercise, fitness and general good moving forward – fit, focused, and forever
ago I was active in basketball and track, health.” divorced from his recliner.
including cross country. I also worked as
an EMT in Travis County several years Encouraging John, 77, to focus on him-
ago and remember responding to many
calls and finding someone’s husband on
the floor due to a heart attack.”

You can almost hear John pound the po-
dium as he delivers his message: “Gentle-
men,” he says, “Sun City is a blessing for
us. The Fitness Center has great equip-
ment and it has some great trainers. If
you’re worried about your age, I’ll bet you’ll
find someone there older than you are. Just
don’t try to keep up with them until you’re
really ready. I’m reasonably certain that,
in a fit of male dominance, I could have
handled any of those machines without
difficulty. However, what I needed was
someone to encourage me to participate on
a regular basis with a consistent routine.

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