Fitness Swellness: A chat with Tracy Anderson

June 2, 2014

A few weeks ago Samsung Canada hosted a workout lead by none other than Tracy Anderson (yes, the fitness trainer that Gwyneth Paltrow works out with) to help launch their Samsung Galaxy S5 and Gear Fit.

The workout was tough…but I have an audio recording of Anderson telling me I did great in the class. Whaaaat?!? I’ll take that, thank you, Tracy!

I grabbed a minute with the fitness guru to ask what misconceptions there are about her workouts:

“It’s about the content and the strategy behind the content. I don’t think that people realize how much my content is supporting science, creating balance within the body. You can work out and create further imbalance in your body if you compartmentalize by isolating muscle groups and and thinking you can spot reduce-this can actually create further imbalance in your body.

The message is about the potential for longevity that they have through fitness, the brain’s connection to their body and using their own body as a form of resistance.

It’s not a trend–that’s one thing that’s tough for me to communicate. I don’t want people flipping through magazines and–I could care less if celebrities come to my gym; if they come, they do and that’s great but I’m  here to speak to people straight about their health, what it really takes to be healthy andwhat it takes to understanding your own body.

So when people are like, ‘I want to look like that person or that person,’ just because they’re in the public eye doesn’t mean that’s the picture of beauty. The picture of beauty is taking care of yourself, knowing yourself, knowing your own biological constraints from food sensitivities to your workout, which is why I did Metamorphosis, which is customized where you can identify, “Wow, I’m out of balance here,’ not ‘This is a problem area,’ but ‘I’m out of balance here so I’m going to do this program here to I can fix it.’

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