Gwyneth Paltrow owes amazing body to celebrity trainer
How did Gwyneth Paltrow get the new curves she’s seen sporting on the December cover of Gotham Magazine? Paltrow, whose latest film, Two Lovers, comes out in February, says she owes it all to celebrity trainer and friend Tracy Anderson. The pair have been working together for 2 years, since shortly after the birth of Paltrow’s son Moses.
“It got me to really move my body again. Especially doing the dance aerobics and sweating out all those hormones,” says Paltrow, who boasts that she lost 11 inches in the first 10 days of working out with Anderson. So what is it that makes Anderson’s workouts different from other celebrity trainers? According to Paltrow, she uses a new and more versatile kind of Pilates machine that guarantees results. She also designs a custom exercise program for each client. “A certain number of arm, abdominal, and leg exercises, all done on the machine” and that changes every 10 days”, says Paltrow.
Anderson got her start as a dancer but gained weight in her teens and then again years later with the birth of her son. “I’ve been a dancer since I was three. At 19, I started packing on weight”40 pounds, actually.” No matter how much she exercised, she just couldn’t lose the weight. The only time I could ever lose weight was if I literally ate two steamed chicken breasts a day or something insane like that, she says.
That weight gain prompted the trainer to start doing research of her own into what it takes to get and keep a sculpted body. It took ten years for her to perfect the new training techniques she uses to transform her clients’ bodies.
She says one of the most important things she discovered is that a person’s body should be challenged in different ways. “People don’t understand that they’re completely a result of how they exercise,” she says and adds that she wants her clients exercising for a minimum of one hour, six days a week. Everybody should take a day off.
Anderson now devotes most of her time to the research and development of her exercise method while on the road with clients, including Madonna, whom she met through buddy Paltrow.
Early next year, Anderson will open her first NYC gym, the Tracy Anderson Method, where she’ll offer her exercise system and products. In the meantime, she has three DVDs available, The Tracy Anderson Method Presents: Dance Cardio Workout, Mat Workout, and Post-Pregnancy Workout.
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