Kathy Kaehler's Celebrity Workouts: How to Get a Hollywood Body in Just 30 Minutes a Day
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- ISBN13: 9780767916172
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Description
A-list personal trainer Kathy Kaehler reveals the body-sculpting secrets of the stars in a breakthrough fitness regimen guaranteed to deliver your best body yet.
Ever wonder how Hollywood’s hottest names manage to achieve their knock-out bodies? It’s not money, and it’s not just great genes—it’s having access to truly stellar fitness expertise. Top personal trainer Kathy Kaehler has trained dozens of today’s most glamorous, shapely celebrities, including Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Cindy Crawford, and Sarah Jessica Parker. Now, for the first time, she reveals her workout secrets—the same body-sculpting and fat-busting strategies she uses to prepare Hollywood’s leading ladies for photo shoots, action movies, red carpet moments, and more.
Kathy knows that to keep her clients happy, she needs to provide a workout with enough variety to help them stick with it day after day—and most importantly, one that gets maximum results.
Celebrity Workouts presents seven action-packed routines that draw on cutting-edge fitness practices and target different parts of the body, each based on Kathy’s work with a different client, and geared toward giving you the physique of your favorite stars. You’ll find:
The Early Morning Start-up Workout with
Michelle Pfeiffer: a simple, energizing workout, perfect for new exercisers or for those looking to jump-start their day.
The Supermodel Lower–Body Conditioner with
Claudia Schiffer: sculpts from head to toe using Pilates and other hot fitness techniques.
Rachel’s Super-Sexy Upper Body–Workout with
Jennifer Aniston: delivers great shoulders and arms, perfect for tank tops and strapless dresses.
The Pretty Woman Leg Workout with
Julia Roberts: focuses on thighs and calves for sexy, slender legs.
The Charlie’s Angels Boot Camp Workout with
Drew Barrymore: a full-body workout using kick-boxing moves that emphasizes strength and stamina.
The Amazing Abs Workout with
Cindy Crawford: builds core strength and an amazing waistline—even after pregnancy.
Plus: The Hidden Hills Workout, inspired by Kathy’s weekly class at Hollywood’s most exclusive country club.
Inside you’ll also find slimming, delicious recipes from chefs that cater to the Hollywood elite—including Wolfgang Puck, Jamie Oliver, and personal chefs who specialize in keeping their high-profile clients fit and trim—along with realistic nutrition advice to help jumpstart your metabolism and melt away extra pounds. With entertaining behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and in-the-gym photographs of her biggest clients,
Kathy Kaehler’s Celebrity Workouts is the ultimate guide to having fun while getting fit—and achieving superstar results.
Customer Reviews
great for the hard to motivate
I have always been the type who has a hard time sticking to an exercise routine. After the birth of my third child, the pounds didn't melt away as easily as with the others and I got Kathy's postpartum DVD with Cindy Crawford.I got addicted and loved Kathy's down to earth approach-she gives reminders about form but is not overly exuberant like some trainers. After several weeks I loved the results so much that I checked out this book from the library. There are parts that are still extremely challenging for me,even after about 6 weeks, but I am doing her daily routine faithfully. I ended up purchasing the book from Amazon after enjoying my library copy so much. She really stresses fitness as a lifestyle and gives some great advice and recipes in the book. Plus I can't help but love the celebrity tidbits.
2005-08-18
| haggard momof 3 (cincinnati oh) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5
Anticipating mental fatigue...
I returned the book. Cumbersome. Not what I expected after a promo on TV had gotten me interested. Signed up and doing Jazzercise instead.
2005-07-24
| Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 2
Excersizes that work, and easy to do at home
Great book, I recommend it. There are a lot of excersizes that I'd never tried before, as well as some old but good ones. Really tageted the muscles that are the most troublesome, and hard to get to, like back of thighs and arms.
2005-07-19
(Australia) | Helpful Votes: 6 | Rating: 5
I'd give this more than 5 stars if I could
I really enjoy Kathy Kaehler's approach. The jazzy title aside, she has a very friendly and encouraging way of telling us to be real about genetics and what we can and can't change. For instance, she turns it to herself, saying that she will never have the slim hips of Claudia Schiffer or the long, long legs of Julia Roberts. BUT, as she also says, we can all improve what we DO have. We can, with consistent good nutrition and a fitness program, become our OWN best selves.
Why the jazzy title, then? Well, for one thing, like it or not, celebrities sell...they grab our attention. But there's also a more "noble" reason. As Kathy says, while it's counterproductive to try to look just like any of these Hollywood women, we can use some of them as examples of people who make a commitment to health and fitness and fit this into very busy lives.
Also, there are stories of improvement that can be inspiring. Claudia Schiffer who went from being barely able to do one push-up to doing three sets of fifteen. Jennifer Anniston, whom Kathy says she considers "a perfect example of how you can change your body with regular exercise and a healthy diet." But she makes the note that "she wouldn't have been successful if she had altered her habits for a few weeks or months, then stopped." All through the book, you get the message that these are real women, just like us, with the exception that they're famous...and if they can improve, so can we.
I just checked this out of my library two days ago, so I haven't actually done any of the exercises yet...I'm planning to follow the plan this week. But based on my experience with Kathy's "Workout Class" video, I have no doubt that they'll be both challenging and effective!
I do plan to buy this book because I really appreciate the combination of Kathy's sensible, realistic way of looking at things, her friendly and encouraging way of expressing herself and her obvious skill as a trainer.
2005-04-04
| marmalade-cat (Framingham, MA United States) | Helpful Votes: 15 | Rating: 5
Easy to do @ home or on the road
I first saw this book while walking by the book store...quite accidentally really. I LOVE the exercises in this book. They are easy to do, and they can be done while watching TV or in your hotel room. Kathy mentions something about doing exercises while watching a half hour TV show and it stuck with me...why wouldn't I? She loves jumping rope and I never realized how much fun it really is. I use to do it all the time as a kid and it brings me back to those youthful times =) Although I am not crazy about the name dropping of the celebrities and her entire 'how I got here & who I know' story, the exercises are easy to follow and gives a good workout with items you would have around the house even! When I go on the road I take my jump road and a deck of cards (used in a few of her exercises) and I am set! I also like the fact that she lists what muscles are being targeted with each exercise. She has an early morning workout, arms, legs and abs. There is even a boot camp workout.
If you want some exercises that are fun and effective that you can do anywhere in 30 minutes, this book would be worth taking a look at.
2005-03-26
| robyyc (Canada) | Helpful Votes: 9 | Rating: 4
