Gartrell White, owner of Total Fitness Control is not your ordinary personal trainer. This week I celebrate my 65 birthday feeling great and in good health. I'm 12 pounds lighter than one year ago (114), my low density lipoproteins dropped 35 points, an accomplishment for someone with genetically high cholesterol, and I have dropped two pant sizes. My transformation began about five months ago, when I saw Gartrell for an assessment to help me improve my golf swing. I already swam 3-4 miles a week, practiced Yoga, and worked out with light weights, so I thought I was in good shape (wrong). In those five months I have worked with Gartrell twice a week on what seemed a new routine each time and with challenges that seemed to be just what my body and mind could handle (even though I wasn't so sure at the time). I look forward to each work out knowing that Gartrell will focus on me, will assess what I need, and watches carefully to prevent injury. The facility at Total Fitness Control is immaculately clean and has the best equipment I have ever used. Let me tell you how I think Gartrell works his magic, although only he knows the truth. First, he is a professional with experience, great knowledge of how the body works, and knows how to trick muscles into working hard and responding with growth and strength. He also has the ability to really "see" me and to monitor and encourage behavior to make me stronger with increased endurance. In addition to training casual fitness enthusiasts, Gartrell also trains body builders and has competed successfully in that arena himself. So who better to train an aging body than someone who has knows the extremes of weight training and dieting and has the ability to teach and encourage the "civilian". And I have a new body (without dieting by the way) for this birthday.