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By GEORGE BARTON
Arcom Special Writer
Tony McGee, a 13-year veteran of the National Football League, readily admits that his interest in physical fitness developed slowly.
In fact, he played several seasons with the Chicago Bears before he began to take fitness and conditioning seriously.
“I was always a pretty good player, but early in my career I wasn’t as good 51s 'I could have been,” McGee says.
He also notes that back in the early 1970s when he began his career, teams had no conditioning programs for players.
Now, physical fitness is a way ofi, life for McGee, who runs Tony McGee Health and Fitness, an executive fitness facility in Loudoun County’s CountrySide Professional Center.
He also manages a physical therapy operation at the same location where his trained therapists help people recover from injuries.
McGee says he always seemed to be athletically inclined, but for many years he just got by on natural ability.
For instance, even at 6 feet 3 inches and around 250 pounds, he was once one of the fastest linemen in the NFL, able to run a 40-yarddash in 4.4, or 4.5 seconds.
However, between playing seasons he constantly struggled with his conditioning and with his size.
“One year after the season I ‘bloomed’ to 270 (pounds) with a 20inch neck, a size 50 coat and (size) 42 pants,” he says. He adds he always seemed to be able to “make weight,” but he was troubled by the fact that he was “fast, but weak.”
In his third, and what would be his final, season with the Bears, he began to run and lift weights.
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