<p>Fitness Connexion trainer Nicolette Isaacs instructs Katie Barling on how to use a weight machine for a step up exercise at the gym in Bloomington, Ill., Dec. 1, 2014. The routine boosts heart rate and firms leg muscles. Barling has made drastic lifestyle changes to her life since joining the gym in the summer of 2012.</p>
January 17, 2015
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January 17, 2015 8 p.m.
Long-term solutions key to keeping weight off
Katie Barling, of Bloomington, Ill., loses 62 pounds with fitness program
BLOOMINGTON (AP) - Katie Barling waved battle ropes, walked sideways using resistance bands, performed sumo squats and did lat pulldowns, step-ups, squat presses, hip adductors, stairs runs, Romanian dead lifts, crunches, Russian twists and reverse torso curls.