Often while I am at the gym — LA Fitness in Lake Highlands as well as every other health club facility I have patronized — I see trainers subjecting members to strange exercises.
Surrounded by hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of exercise machines, the guests perform strange squat walks, lift, toss and balance on balls and large rubber spheres, hop on and off benches, prostrate themselves on a filthy floor before thrusting legs and hips and pelvis into the air.
At a glance, it’s bizarre, but most of them appear to be in superior shape, so, thrust on!
However, one Dallas woman is claiming that the personal trainers at LA Fitness (the Plano, not the Lake Highlands location) went too far.
They made inappropriate comments during the prescribed workouts, she tells a television news reporter, leaving her feeling “embarrassed, ashamed and violated.”
Jaimie Johnson is suing LA Fitness because trainers had her carry out “strange exercises,” she says, adding that one told her he wanted to “see her chest move.”
She also claims harassment by another trainer — the one she switched to after the first incident — who allegedly sent her “vulgar text messages.”
The lawsuit alleges “deceptive trade practices” according to a CBS news story.
The reporter attempted to get a comment from LA Fitness, but no luck.
I’m not disputing Johnson’s claims, but strange exercises are a part of the program. Any accompanying vulgarities, of course are unacceptable. (I do have to wonder why, if she was so traumatized, she kept working out at the same facility.)
I will be disappointed if this means I will no longer be entertained while on the treadmill by people and their strange exercises.
