Updated: September 26, 2020 1:22:20 pm
Johnson had trained the women’s rights warrior for more than 20 years and kept her strong (source: @rbgworkout, @ cspan / Instagram).
How did Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died at the age of 87, stay so active and energetic? This was one of the questions on many people’s minds after the judge’s death on September 18. And the answer was her personal trainer, Bryant Johnson, and the special training regimen he designed for her.
In a fitting tribute on Friday, Johnson flung himself to the ground in front of his coffin and performed three push-ups. The moment, captured on camera, was a moving tribute to their long shared history of working together for more than two decades. It touched many online; the video is now viral.
With over 2.6 million views on one of the clips shared online, the footage has quickly spread across social media.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s coach says goodbye by doing push-ups in front of her coffin. pic.twitter.com/SHT5aoNxZB
– The count (@therecount) September 25, 2020
According to CNN, Johnson, an Army reservist, became Ginsburg’s personal trainer in 1999 after she underwent surgery for colorectal cancer. They have worked together ever since and didn’t slow down either during the pandemic now that she was receiving chemotherapy for cancer.
Ginsburg, one of the Supreme Court’s favorite octogenarians, had shared details of her famous fitness formula earlier, saying she would do push-ups, “front and side” planks and weight-bearing exercises with Johnson.
In 2017, Johnson also published an exercise book titled ‘The RBG Workout’, which allowed fans to learn his routine – it consisted of planks, squats, and push-ups. The rigorous routine became the talk of the town after the book was published, as many who tried it said it nearly broke them.
For most exercises, RBG would do three sets of 10 to 13 reps, depending on Johnson’s judgment of what his body could handle on any given day. She would do strength exercises starting with a bench press machine, where she normally lifted 70 pounds, according to a report from Political.
Politicians and staff paid tribute to Ginsburg, who made history posthumously as the first woman to lie in state on Capitol Hill.
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