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Breaking up is hard to do ... with your personal trainer.(Arts and Lifestyle)

Byline: LAUREN BECKHAM FALCONE

There were weeks of canceled dates, ignored phone calls and avoiding the usual hangouts.

Not to mention the stress, the guilt and the weight gain.

Breaking up is hard to do, but when you're saying goodbye to your personal trainer - he of the 20-rep sit-up sessions or she of the three sets of curls - it's brutal. And most people do it badly.

"I just avoided the situation until it went away," said Joe McGuigan, 31, of Somerville, a cameraman at WFXT-TV (Ch. 25) "We also had a little bit of a personal relationship, so it was kind of a multiple breakup. But the reason I couldn't see her as a personal trainer was because I couldn't ...

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