I found the following request this morning on a Yahoo message board. It was posted on October 11, 2006. Any male trainers who are interested please contact Brett Martin. Contact info is below.

Hi,
I'm a writer for GQ magazine. I'm writing an essay about men's relationships with their personal trainers—how it can be a very intense partnership. I'm looking for trainers' stories about clients who get too attached, clients you get too attached to, weird clients, clients from hell.etc. And also clients' stories on the same? Has anyone ever had to "break up" with a client/trainer? Tips, referrals, wisdom are all welcome.

Obviously, I don't need to use names in the article, if that's a problem.

You can email directly at gqtrainerstory@brettmartin.org.

Many thanks. Looking forward to it.

Brett Martin