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July 18, 2005
Bad Trainer
Last week I pointed out a misleading headline about personal training which made matters looks worse than they were. But there’s no getting around the facts of this story: Personal trainer convicted of assault.
Here, it’s actually worse than it sounds: the guy attempted to murder his client by drugging her and then trying to suffocate her with Saran wrap. And take a look at these facts:
Wenskunas [the client] said Kelavos [the trainer] came to her Orange Tree condominium on April 4, 2002, to help her try to sell her treadmill. Wenskunas nine months earlier had hired Kelavos as a personal trainer through 24-Hour Fitness.When he came to her home, Wenskunas said he offered her a pill to help her lose weight.
She later said during an interview that the pill made her feel as if someone had given her anesthesia, and the next thing she knew she was in her upstairs bedroom with no clothes on and wrapped in a blanket.
She was able to struggle free from Kelavos by jumping off a 12-foot high balcony, she said.
Can you imagine the kind of advice he had been giving her for nine months if he was able to convince her that selling her treadmill and taking diet pills were good fitness moves?
And it gets worse: although the original story said he faced almost five years in jail, this follow-up piece indicates that he served only 120 days. However, one silver lining is that the victim was so outraged by the outcome that she’s founded a victim’s support group, Crime Survivors Inc.
Posted by Kristen at July 18, 2005 01:06 PM