ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, January 28, 1996 TAG: 9601260008
SECTION: ECONOMY PAGE: 9 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: MEGAN SCHNABEL
Carole Corne gets up at 5 a.m. Mondays through Fridays so she can open the gym at 6 a.m. She works at the front desk, answering phones and greeting people, until noon.
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, she goes home at lunchtime and comes back at 4 p.m., when she starts working with her personal clients. She trains them on free weights, Nautilus, cardiovascular equipment - whatever they need.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, she teaches aerobics at lunchtime and in the evening. It's a ski conditioning class, and she helps both snow- and water-skiers stay in shape. She usually has about 18 people at her noon class and 10 to 12 regulars in the evening. She doesn't get home until after 8:30 on these nights. The rest of the week, she usually heads out around 7 or 7:30.
She's her own boss when she's training; she's only on the gym's payroll in the morning, and when she teaches aerobics.
She helps with laundry - lots of sweaty towels - at the club, too. But everybody does, she says. They're all jacks of all trades and masters of none, she says with a laugh.
"We all do a little bit of everything," she says.
On weekends during the winter, she drives three hours to Showshoe ski resort, where she teaches individual and group skiing lessons.
"Yeah, I'm busy," she says.
LENGTH: Short : 36 lines ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO: Cindy Pinkston. Carole Corne/Floor manager and personalby CNBtrainer, Downtown Sports Club, Roanoke. color.