Now 30 years old, Mr. Hall, a fitness director for a major health and racquet club in Detroit, says that "the drug nearly killed me."

Bob Cullen, the fitness director at the Osborn, said that people who need walkers on land can sometimes swim with relative ease.

They brought in Bryan Healy - a former personal trainer - as the franchise's fitness director.

"It's really one-stop shopping," said Patty O'Neill, the fitness director.

Take Barry Shingle, 40, the fitness director.

"Appointing fitness directors is a tremendous change in the culture of the schools," Benson said.

Virginia Matthews, another regional fitness director in Brooklyn, said: "There are some things we have to correct.

"We have a lot of constraints," said Lori Benson, the newly appointed fitness director.

"The world's largest appetizer plate," said Noah Rowland, assistant fitness director.

"We have a banked track," the fitness director, Patti Cummings, said.