Courtney Cox needs no introduction, as we all know she’s the sexy star of Cougar Town and at the age of 41 she looks incredible. She recently spoke with People magazine and told them a few secrets about how she keeps the weight off. She is currently practicing the Tracy Anderson Method workout which is a combination of dance aerobics and toning all performed in a hot room so that you will sweat. Courtney said,

“The whole process is about working your accessory muscles, not just your major muscle groups that get worked all the time. You never stay in one constant motion so you don’t get bulky in one particular area. I was turned onto it in July, and I’ve seen a big change in my body.”

She also shared a few of her favorite meals. On healthy days she will typically have at a diner some scrambled egg whites, turkey bacon, sliced tomato, cottage cheese or a ’scooped-out’ onion bagel with cream cheese. She obviously has a hearty appetite! She also mentioned that her favorite meal is New York grilled steak with sautéed garlic spinach and broccoli.

“I like anything green and I love steak.”

She also revealed that she likes to workout to Michael Jackson and Red Hot Chili Peppers songs.

Celeb Diet Doc…
Courtney looks fantastic! I would ditch the bagel though… a better option would be celery and cream cheese.

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First there was The Biggest Loser then Dancing With The Stars and how many other reality TV weight-loss contests/shows. Now celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson – the woman who gave Madonna those sinuous arms but Gwyneth Paltrow that hot mama body – will be filming her own series.

The CW network announced last week that it would be developing a TV show around Tracy, in collaboration with Ryan Seacrest Productions. The show has been billed to be a docusoap, which will follow Tracy as she works with her celebrity clientele (including Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox and Kate Hudson), whipping them into shape.

Although there’s been no official word as to when the episodes will air, it’s been speculated that Tracy’s project could be greenlighted for mid-fall or even as soon as summer.

Last year Tracy was dumped by one of her biggest clients, material girl Madonna. But it seems her other clients like Gwyneth are still singing her praises. And now with this new show on its way, the celebrity trainer could become very busy very soon – and her client list even longer.

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Celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson may have lost her most famous client Madonna after the two had a falling out, but that hasn’t stopped others like Gwyneth Paltrow, Courtney Cox and Kristin Davis from singing her praises.

“Many of you may already know of my passion for the Tracy Anderson Method and my investment in it,” Gwyneth says in her latest GOOP newsletter. “She has kicked my formerly sagging ass into shape and I will be forever grateful.”

In the video above Tracy demonstrates the arm workout Gwyneth did to whip her guns into shape for the Iron Man movie. But further in the newsletter Gwyneth also gets some of Tracy’s clients to sing her praises too.

Courtney says she’s seen results she never thought were possible. Her butt is lifted, her arms are sculpted and her skin clings to her muscles again. And the workouts are always a challenge; as soon as she masters one routine, she gets given something new and more challenging to do.

Sex & The City actress Kristin Davis says The Tracy Anderson Method DVD really does elongate as well as tone your muscles, without leaving your looking bulky. Kristin says she too gets bored easily, especially when it comes to cardio, but Tracy’s routines are always new and challenging and fun.

So while Tracy may have lost her biggest client, she certainly has more to fall back on.

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Over the past few months Madonna has been criticized for her seeming obsession with fitness. And who could blame the media? First the 51-year-old single mom steps out with killer, overly-muscular arms, reportedly injects herself with vitamins, buys a 6 million pound house and turns it into a gym, and then fires her long-time trainer Tracy Anderson because the celeb trainer wouldn’t go on tour with the material girl.

In an interview with GMTV, Madonna defends herself saying that she has to work out as much as she does to be able to make it through her concerts.

“[I do it] for health reasons and for aesthetic reasons. If I have to go out on stage and, you know, jump around in a pair of hot pants I better look good,” she says on the British TV show. “And also when I perform I’m like an athlete and I have to be in good shape. I’m not panicked, I just know what my job is and I know that if I want to be able to wear whatever I want to wear on stage, then my body better look good.”

The ultra-atheletic Madonna has reportedly given her trainer Tracy Anderson the axe. They have been training together for the past three years but it seems that all good things must end and the two have decided to part ways. According to a source for the New York Post Tracy was carrying ‘baggage’ that Madonna was tired of dealing with. In addition, Tracy skipped the final leg of the Sticky and Sweet Tour because she has hooked up with Philippe van den Bossche, the head of Madonna’s Raising Malawi charity and the two are now living together. Others speculate it’s because the two have different opinions on exercise, for example Madonna’s veiny arms that she sported over the summer and Tracy claimed she told Madonna to lay off the yoga and lift lighter weights. Tracy’s publicist did release a recent statement in regard to the claims made by the New York Post:

“This is not true. After working together for three years, Tracy and Madonna mutually parted ways because Tracy wanted to look after her son.”

It probably was mutual to a certain extent, but considering Madonna’s reputation for being a control freak, perfectionist, etc… she probably felt like Tracy’s new found stardom as a celebrity trainer was too much of a threat and decided to let her go.
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Celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson is not reinventing the wheel, she’s simply jazzing up the treadmill. For those who thought the bulky piece of gym equipment was only for walking and running, think again.

“I developed [this routine] so anyone can take my method anywhere,” Anderson told Maggie Rodriguez on CBS’ The Early Show. “I don’t like it when people use the treadmill in the same way over and over and over because that creates bulk.”

The celebrity trainer, who has worked wonders on actress Gwyneth Paltrow, has created a ‘dancing’ treadmill workout, which consists of very simple moves that target your muscles through different rotations to help create a long, lean and feminine body.

A few of the dance moves include a push up leap (intended to connect your entire body), skipping (not as jolting as running) and side-stepping (tones legs and lifts your butt). You should spend 30 seconds with each move, or put on some music to really get into the workout.

On the show, Anderson also slammed “doctored” photographs of one of her biggest clients, Madonna, saying they simply do not look like the superstar in real life.

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They may not be weapons of mass destruction but more and more female celebrities are showing off their guns and are proud of it.  Michelle Obama was the first to be lauded as she has a tendency to wear tank and sleeveless dresses that show off her great triceps.  Brooke Shields gave a tearful speech at Michael Jackson’s funeral and instead of getting credited for her speech, the media decided to praise her toned arms that she flashed while presenting on stage.  Last but not least, we’ve got Madonna who has been under fire because of her sinewy arms that her personal trainer Tracy Anderson claims is a result of too much yoga.

A body composition specialist told the Daily Mail that Madonna’s look is a result of having lifted heavy weights in the past but is now on a different workout routine that uses less weight but her body is trying to keep that old muscle.  He explained,

“Even if she’s using lower weights now, she’s still using her muscles enough to warrant her body keeping them.  Her new regime of one hour of cardio work will reduce her body fat level, which is why she’s so defined and you can see her muscles and veins. Even if she is using only her own body weight during exercising (such as doing push ups), it is still a form of resistance training. It won’t build her muscles to the optimum, but it will keep them as they are.”

As for Madonna’s current training with Tracy Anderson they do an hour of cardio as well as an hour of pilates-style muscle toning and Tracy never goes above a 3-pound weight.  But considering the arm portion of training is about 30 minutes and the fact that Madonna has such low body fat the result is what you see in the photo above.

Be it the First Lady, Brooke Shields or Madonna these three women look great.  They are healthy, they exercise and eat right.  Maybe it’s time the media stop worrying about the celebrities’ arms and instead be more concerned about real guns and weapons in the community and how that’s effecting society.

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Last week Tracy Anderson, the fitness trainer for Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow, gave some fitness advice to the ladies of Wales about eating properly and getting exercise.  She did start off by saying that anyone could look like Madonna and not by being a gym hog.  Yes Madonna does work out 2 hours a day 6 days a week but Tracy explained that’s because the performer has to be super-fit for the rigorous dance and choreography she does on stage.

What Tracy does explain during the interview though is that women need to have an exercise plan that they are committed to, not just random trips to the gym or jogs around the block.  She said,

“Women confuse their bodies because they’re confused themselves. They go to the gym one day, and running another – you’re never going to get results that way.  Work on your butt and abs for 30 minutes a day and you’ll see the difference – but you have to be committed and you have to apply it.”

Tracy also spoke of her well-researched methods for losing weight, and it’s not about starving yourself but making healthy choices.  She explained,

“I’ve spent 11 years researching this and working out how women with poor economic backgrounds, or who have become mothers, can get their bodies back or change them into something amazing they’ve never been before.”

She then goes on talking about herself, Madonna, Gwyneth and their eating habits.

“None of us diet.  I had bread last night, I had chocolate souffle and Gwyneth and Madonna do too.  The key is just not to eat bread for four days before a photo-shoot, don’t eat processed food and put it this way, we’d never go near fast food.  We prefer green juice, fresh vegetables, fish, rice and lean proteins.”

Tracy ended the interview explaining that by using her methods women will get shapely and sexy figures.

“You don’t have to be super-skinny to be sexy.  You don’t have to be muscular and defined. You can be curvy – but you don’t want cellulite, you don’t want to be dumpy. There’s curvy and there’s sloppy.”

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Tracy Anderson, the fitness trainer to Madonna and Gwyenth Paltrow, is rapidly gaining celebrity status as her fitness empire grows.  She continues to produce work for Ms. Paltrow, release DVDs, she will open a gym soon, and now she has new webisodes for sale on her fitness website. There are three webisodes that focus on a body part; arms, abs, and butt and thighs. They are meant to be a compliment to her existing DVD series but these can be uploaded to your laptop or ipod so that there is never an excuse for not getting a quick workout in.

What makes these webisodes extra special is that 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the charitable organization called Raising Malawi. This non-profit organization strives to end the poverty and poor conditions that the one million orphans of the country have to endure.  Madonna, who has an adopted son from Malawi, is working with the organization to build a school for girls, and the proceeds from the webisodes will go toward this.  Each webisode can be purchased at her website and cost $10 each.

It’s so great that Gwyneth Paltrow shares her workouts with the masses via her own website.  Yes, we’ve all heard how some people in the media shun the GOOP website because they think Gwyneth should stick to acting instead of educating the rest of us on health and fitness through the internet, but on the other hand, she has really shared some great tips.

In her most recent online newsletter she acknowledges that spring is in the air and bikini season is closer than ever so it’s time to melt off some fat.  She wrote,

“As it is wholly unrealistic to follow those ‘10 Days to a Bathing Suit-Ready Body’ routines expecting to actually achieve a drastic change, I asked the cutest, most motivated, most genius trainer on earth to jumpstart our spring fitness regimes. Here is a spanking new dance cardio routine from Tracy Anderson to get our heart rates up and the inches melting away. Do dance cardio five times a week for at least 30 minutes and by summer you will see a change you will be proud of!”

This really is a good workout and being that you can get it online for free it’s even better!