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The Trouble With Ideals Of Appearance

Kevin C. Brown
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90.5 WESA
Personal trainer Nkem Chikwendu demonstrates a medicine ball toss for a client at the JCC in Squirrel Hill.

Sadly, fitness does not work by the property of osmosis. Sitting next to an Adonis on the bus does not turn us all into museum-worthy Greek statues. It is a tough reality that means there is plenty of work out there for personal trainers. Still, the osmosis theory dies hard: personal trainers often face “pressure to look as fit as … clients hope to be,” says Nkem Chikwendu, a trainer at the JCC in Squirrel Hill.

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