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Twenty years ago, Staff Sgt. Rosalind Roger was full of energy. Greeting strangers down every hall she walked, she had a bounce in her step and spoke to people like everything was new and amazing, and her energy knew no bounds.
Two decades later – nothing has changed.
“The Army was very good to me,” she said, following her Total Gym class at Milam Physical Fitness Center at Fort Bliss, Texas, Aug. 28. Although
she’s traded her Army green for workout Tshirts, the ball of energy that served 20 years as a radio technician, and unsurprisingly raised a daughter who also became a Soldier and earned her Ranger tab in January, the
NCO in her remains.
Today she teaches Total Gym for the Fort Bliss Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation sports program. Total Gym is a commercial product endorsed by model Christie Brinkley and Hollywood butt-kicker Chuck
Norris. According to the company, the idea for the system, a collection of accessories that attach to a rolling board, started in rehabilitation centers as patients needed highly-customized exercise regimens following injuries.
“Let’s go!” Roger encouraged as a group of women pulled and heaved their Total Gym machines to life last week. While sweat rolled off of her students’ brows and hit the floor, she counted down repetitions with the glee
of a New Year’s Eve ball drop. She said she had the same exuberance toward teaching fitness when she taught Physical Education to
elementary-school-aged private school kids.
“I said ‘P-E,’” she remembered with a laugh and included exclamations on the letters P and E. “You will be physically-educated.
“We try to work every area of the body during the class,” she said. “Because you’re using your own body weight as the main resistance [with Total Gym] there’s never any need for jerky movements that can cause injury.”
Although she may operate at a high speed, she said her Total Gym class suits new students at their own speeds because of the degrees of difficulty afforded by the Total Gym system, as well as the students’ prerogative
to modify their movements to limits they feel most comfortable with.
True-to-form to her white-soled sneakers that have “Teach Love” and “Teach Peace” drawn into the rims with a black permanent marker, 20 years after retiring from the Army, the Soldier and NCO who enjoys teaching indeed remains.
“I try to ‘keep them pumpin’,” Roger said before pinballing her way out of Milam following her class Aug. 28. “The keywords are movement and motion. My job is to help you learn about your body and just get better every day.”
For more information on this class and the variety of others available, visit https://bliss.armymwr.com/categories/sports-and-fitness.
| Date Taken: | 08.28.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 09.06.2019 16:05 |
| Story ID: | 338740 |
| Location: | FORT BLISS, TX, US |
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