Beth Horn: Warrior Princess
Beth Horn is a fitness model, fitness celebrity, fitness guru and a National Fitness Champion. We spent the day hanging out yesterday. It’s like being friends with Xena: Warrior Princess. One minute I’m standing there talking to her and the next minute she’s picking me up off the ground and carrying me around like a sack of potatoes.
Good thing I left my Man Card at home.
She’s delightful, honest and has a real passion for what she does. And she will apparently hurl you into a wall if you get in her way.
A few years ago, Beth was chosen to be on NBC’s reboot of “American Gladiators”. She starred as Venom. Her character was billed as sweet and congenial, but – watch out – she’ll still strike when you least expect it. Had I not actually seen the show where Beth hurls a contestant over her head, I would NOT have believed it.
When she’s not hitting the airwaves (pun intendend), she teaches personal training students the who/what/when/where of the industry. We’ve worked together for a few years now. When I work with Beth, she’s the model of tact and decorum. A true professional. Hard to imagine her body slamming people off platforms or impaling them with a giant Q-Tip.
The students ate her up with a spoon yesterday … peppering her with questions and asking her opinions on this exercise or that exercise. I didn’t. I wanted all the behind-the-scenes Gladiator dirt. I’m no fool. Turns out there was NO dirt … well, at least nothing lurid. I was crushed that Crush didn’t have an arrest record or something.
Beth and I are tight. Fast-friends. Both of us have Midwestern roots and mega-watt smiles. And we both have fitness backgrounds. I teach 40-50 people in my delightful group exercise barbell class. And she shoves people off ledges to their doom. See? We were practically separated at birth.
