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I Did Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Workout. It Nearly Broke Me.
Pumping iron with RBG's personal trainer is no joke.Source: Politico
In the early hours of Nov. 9, as stock markets began to rally on the news of Donald Trumps upset win, there was another dramatic spike afoot. Interest in the bone density and cholesterol levels of an 83-year-old woman from Flatbush, New York, was also soaring.
Many people wanted to know whether two-time cancer survivor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the oldest and perhaps the most liberal justice on the Supreme Court, had enough gas in the tank to outlast the Trump presidency, or whether Trump would get a chance to fundamentally alter the balance of the court by replacing her, a possibility he dangled successfully to entice wary Republicans to vote him.
As it turns out, the answer to that question lies largely in the hands of a staffer in the clerks office of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Asked earlier this month about the most important person in her life, Ginsburg, who was widowed in 2010 and lost a close friend with the 2016 death of Justice Antonin Scalia, responded, My personal trainer.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/rbg-ruth-bader-ginsburg-workout-personal-trainer-elena-kagan-stephen-breyer-214821
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I Did Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Workout. It Nearly Broke Me. (Original Post)
demmiblue
Feb 2017
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)1. We need RBG and her allies as healthy as possible until
after the impeachment and the mid-terms!
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)2. RBG does 20 Marine push-ups?
She is healthier than most people 25 years younger, awesome.
WheelWalker
(8,943 posts)3. Kick
JudyM
(29,122 posts)4. Really impressive!
yurbud
(39,405 posts)5. if her body gives out, we should keep her brain alive in a jar so Trump can't replace her
Skittles
(152,963 posts)6. I do more than that daily, with relative ease
whether I could do it at her age remains to be seen