Photos by Bonnie Heater Kimberly Hawthrone, a Fort Gordon Fitness Center trainer, and Andrew Kassheimer, Fort Gordon Fitness Center’s general manager, assume the T-stabilization starting position. Few people on post have made a New Year’s resolution to either lose weight or get fit. Andrew Kassheimer, the general manager of the Fort Gordon Fitness Center, Bldg. 29607, on Barnes Avenue wants to help Fort Gordon’s population accomplish this goal. Each week he or one of his personal trainers will be demonstrating a different exercise aimed at firming, toning, and trimming a specific area of the body. The exercises will be feature in the new column, “Extend to the Left,” in The Signal newspaper.

To kick this new column off Kassheimer and Kimberly Hawthorne, a personal trainer and Olympic hopeful, volunteered to demonstrate the T-Stabilization exercise.

Trainers do a push-up, return to the starting position. “The purpose of this exercise is to strength the chest and core muscles,” said Kassheimer. “Anyone who can do a pushup should be able to do this exercise. I recommend starting with 15 to 20 repetitions.”

Kassheimer advised everyone to check with their family physician first before starting any exercise program.
Trainers demonstrate the next T-stabilization step and put their body weight on one arm, return to the starting position, continue and switch arms.