to get that raise, if you want to better that relationship with people in your life, if you want to get stronger, faster, lose weight — it all takes you pushing yourself further.”
AMANDA BARNES KIM BECKING On any given workout with Kim Becking, trainer Amanda Barnes knows “the two of us are going to discuss something that’s close to both of us, vent if we need to, come up with ideas about this and that, and it’s going to help me with the rest of my day.” “I had a male trainer while living in Kansas City, and we did not have this type of relationship,” Becking says. She felt her old trainer was good at focusing on strength training, but didn’t tailor his training in Barnes’s style, which is more holistic, focusing on being emotionally and physically healthy in equal parts. “It’s the physical, it’s the emotional, it’s the nutritional aspects, all of it, because I’m a whole person with different things going on in my life,” Becking says. “But it’s all connected,” Barnes interjects. “I think everything is connected, whether it’s our muscles connecting throughout our body or what we’re doing in our lives connected to what our lives are becoming. . . . We are women in our 40s, and we need to not worry so much about the number on the waistband or the number on the dress.” After battling breast cancer, Becking began exercising because “it took me a while to rebuild and get back to a point where I felt strong again. Now that I’m 46, I want to be healthy and I want to be strong.” Her success is evident. “Kim has gotten stronger,” Amanda testifies, “and she is setting such a good example COLUMBIABUSINESSTIMES.COM 43