02 Aug I GOT MY ASS KICKED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG’S PERSONAL TRAINER

Keeping Ginsburg healthy and alive is more than a joke — it’s a job. And Bryant Johnson knows better than anyone what would happen if he were to slip up.

As I get to know both sides of him, it becomes clear why Ginsburg has kept him around as her trainer for 20 years, and why Johnson jokes she’s the longest relationship he’s ever had. They just get each other, something he tells me comes from growing up with a deaf grandmother who taught him to communicate by feeling and intuition, not with words. And as the Notorious RBG is Notoriously Taciturn, he’s perhaps the only person in her life she can speak to without saying a word. Twice a week, the two meet in the Supreme Court gym for a 90-minute workout she schedules with him months in advance, always at night, and always around 7 p.m. because, as Johnson laughs, “That woman isn’t a morning person.” In fact, he’s just come from training the 86-year-old night owl to exact her signature workout on me.

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