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Personal trainer might help you jump-start a stalled fitness plan.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Byline: Linda H. Lamb

COLUMBIA, S.C. _ Hiring a personal trainer might seem like a luxury for the likes of Oprah and Madonna, Sylvester and Jean-Claude, Keanu and Tobey.

But it also worked out nicely for Becky and Whitney.

"We just needed someone to get us started on a training regimen," said Becky Martin, a legal secretary from Lexington, S.C.

"I didn't really want to spend the money to go to a gym," she said. "I wanted something we could do at home, something my daughter and I could do together."

Martin, 51, and daughter Whitney, 17, enlisted the help of personal trainer Tim Graham to develop a summer shape-up plan.

Thanks to his diet and fitness ...

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