A short but touching tale in which our intrepid blogger shares a trainer with NL MVP Jimmy Rollins and tries to prove that she's got game.

My trainer, Aaron Sistrunk, just got back from spring training with his star client. It's not easy to share a personal trainer with a professional athlete.  Especially when you're a new Mom trying to get her pre-pregnancy body back.  "Baby keep you up?"  he asks as I skulk into the gym, looking tore up from the floor up.  Honest answer?  The child sleeps twelve hours a night.  But when she sleeps, I work, cook, clean, try to have a meaningful conversation with my husband.  So I'm seriously behind in my beauty sleep and well, it shows. 

Then there's the matter of my coordination.  Despite the fact that I have, at different points in my fitness life, run ten milers, kickboxed and played tennis (not very good at the latter, but I enjoy it), I am a hopeless klutz.  It's not for nothing that I wrote a book called "The Joy of Doing Things Badly."  So when Aaron asks me to jump back into a push up position, then jump up in one smooth movement -- well, it's not happening.  "Oh yeah" he says, with a smirk.  "I forgot about the coordination problem."

The thing about Aaron is that he's a really great trainer.  I'm way stronger than I was nine months ago, when we started working together. And he's always changing it up.  We never do the same thing twice.  I especially love it when he brings in the gloves and we do an intense boxing session. He understands that as a new Mom, I've got a lot of pent up tension.   "You've got a lot of aggression to get out," he says, when I hit him as hard as I can.  "That's cool."

But when Aaron left for a week to go down to spring training with Jimmy Rollins, I got really nervous -- and kind of needy. 

"Are you going to sign so many professional athletes that you won't have time to train me anymore?"  I texted him. 

"No," he wrote back. 

"Are you going to fire me? Because I really, really need you not to fire me before I get back into my pre-pregnancy Prada." 

He wrote back, "Not firing you." 

I've decided to stop being intimidated by the fact that Aaron trains the NL MVP and be inspired instead.  This month, Aaron and Jimmy are featured in Stack Magazine. There are also a number of cool strength training videos on the site. 

I'm particularly interested in trying the speed lunge and the kettleball swing --  just as soon as I conquer my little coordination problem.