When Sally Haas moved from Chicago to St. Louis three years ago to be near her grandchildren, the experience took a toll. Moving at age 69 was exhausting, and Haas, a former stand-up comic, lost her spark. “After seeing how much I was not doing, my husband suggested I join a gym,” she recalls.
Never having been a “gym rat,” Haas joined The Edge Fitness Clubs in Shrewsbury and tentatively began walking on a treadmill, intimidated by the equipment she didn’t know how to use. After a few months, her daughter urged her to hire one of the gym’s trainers to expand her knowledge. “So I got a trainer, and things started to change—dramatically,” she says.
“I always set a really big goal for myself,” Haas says. “So I thought, I’ll be a bodybuilder. Then I went to a bodybuilding contest and realized I’d basically have to get naked,” she says with a laugh. Haas rethought her goal…