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FITNESS 2012
THE INCREDIBLE
SHRINKING MAN
It’s more than a New Year’s resolution: Guys finally are getting with
the program that women have been following forever By Merle Ginsberg
T
HE SCENE: E. BALDI RESTAURANT
in Beverly Hills. Overheard during
the course of a meal: “I’ll have the
sole, no meuniere sauce, no butter,
very little salt please; steamed veggies on the side; just a green salad,
no dressing, just lemon. And a Pellegrino with
lime. … Can you take the breadbasket and butter
away, please? … I’ll have a very skinny latte. … I’ve
gotta drop at least 20 by the end of the month. I
need to get down two waist sizes by the Oscars.”
A toothpick-sized Hollywood wife in leggings?
A would-be actress itching to borrow size-4 Dolce?
A female movie producer detoxing from too much
craft services?
Guess again. It’s a male executive in a suit, at a
business meeting with an agent who’s also watching his post-holiday waist. A similar scene played
out last year at the Natural Resources Defense
BEFORE
AFTER
Fans of Moneyball and Superbad might be startled
by Hill’s dramatic transformation.
Council benefit at the Malibu beach house of Ron
and Kelly Meyer, where 48-year-old record producer
and Columbia Records co-chairman Rick Rubin
queried waiters about the ingredients in every
sauce. He’d lost more than 130 pounds in less than
a year and a half on a fish-, egg white- and protein
shake-heavy diet.
Men in the industry are boarding the body-conscious bandwagon, perhaps a gut reaction to all of
the actors — Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen and Jerry Ferrara
most prominent among them — who seem to have
lost half their body weight. Obsessive conversations about diets are no longer strictly the domain
of the best actress in a mini category.
The 5-foot-10 Seth MacFarlane wasn’t fat — but he
did weigh 205 pounds, says his trainer Bobby Strom.
“A year and a half ago,” says Strom, “Ryan Reynolds,
who I’ve worked with for nine years, did an episode
of Family Guy. When Seth saw him, he said, ‘Hey,
man, who’s your trainer?’ Now Seth weighs 170,
works out seven days a week and eats things like egg
whites and Greek yogurt; but then, Seth had Vikki
Krasinsky, a healthy chef who’s cooked for many
celebs. Mostly, I make my male clients get home
food delivery so they have some discipline. Not just
actors come to me: I have entertainment attorneys,
concert promoters, executives at Interscope.”
Brett Davidson, a 40-year-old executive producer
of Truth About Kerry (out in March) and a key-art
graphic designer, lost 40 pounds in four months
recently after getting to 195 on his 5-foot-8 frame.
He did it with fat-burning drinks in the morning
(with appetite-suppressing cactus-flower extract),
followed by egg whites, then a lunch of lettuce with
tuna and tomato with balsamic vinegar. Dinner
The Best Luxury Boot Camps
From a stylish fitness retreat center in Malibu to a redone
Golden Door, where the industry goes to tone for its sins
SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED TO GET
away from it all to break bad habits
and get back in shape. But why not do
it in style and enjoy a few indulgences
between bone-crushing workouts?
In the L.A. area, it used to be that
the height of gulag-getaway chic
was Calabasas’ THE ASHRAM (2025
McKain St.), a hard-core and notably
spartan eight-room retreat and boot
camp favored by A-listers from
48 | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 01.20.12
Shirley MacLaine to Ashley Judd. But
a more posh, if just as serious, retreat
has opened its doors in Malibu. Tucked
in the wilderness beyond and above
Zuma Beach on the former estate of
Hopalong Cassidy star William Boyd,
the 16-month-old RANCH AT LIVE OAK
(12220 Cotharin Road) lures guests with
rustic cottages offering French limestone bathrooms and handmade Italian
linen bedding, meals sourced from
is a grilled chicken breast, steamed broccoli and
brown rice. “I made sure never to allow myself to
get hungry,” he explains. “Eating throughout the
day keeps your metabolism high. I lost my love
handles, gut — I feel more comfortable walking
into pitch meetings with folks I don’t know.”
Dieting has become a manly pursuit. Hence
Weight Watchers’ new ad campaign: “Lose Like a
Man.” To kick it off, who manlier than NBA Hall
of Famer Charles Barkley? He joined because, as
he says, “I don’t want to be a fat old man taking
lots of pills. Men don’t like to diet — they like to
eat. But I’ve already lost almost 50 pounds.” He
also might lose the nickname he earned in college:
“The Round Mound of Rebound.”
Dropping 30 pounds allowed blowsy sidekick
Rogen to go leading man in The Green Hornet and
Entourage’s Ferrara to get cast in the upcoming
Screen Gems sex comedy Think Like a Man.
“Dieting in general is always important in the
Hollywood scene,” says nutritionist Carrie Latt
Wiatt of Diet Designs, who works with James Franco
and Christian Bale. “But new pressure is coming
from the abundance of tabloids and TMZ-type
media.” But then, says Simon Doonan, author of
Gay Men Don’t Get Fat, a new tome that promotes
a “gay diet” of lighter food as opposed to “straight”
the Santa Monica Farmers Market and
onsite gardens. It then pummels them
during weeklong minimum stays with
a strict “no options” policy of 5:30 a.m.
wakeup calls, five-hour morning hikes,
grueling afternoon fitness sessions
and yoga galore — punctuated by
massages. Women average six to eight
pounds of weight loss; men, nine to 12.
(Cost: $5,600 per person.)
Three well-known retreats north
of San Diego have received recent
facelifts. At the 377-acre GOLDEN
DOOR SPA RESORT near Escondido
(777 Deer Springs Road) — offering a
selection of 40 classes, gourmet meals
A room at the
Ranch at Live Oak.
and daily in-room massages — all
40 of the Japanese-style guestrooms
were renovated in 2011. For a change of
pace, Dancing With the Stars’ Karina
Smirnoff will lead a dance-focused
week ($7,750) from Feb. 5 to 12.
BOOT CAMPS, FROM LEFT: COURTESY OF THE RANCH AT LIVE OAK; COURTESY OF RANCHO LA PUERTA; THOMAS HART SHELBY/COURTESY OF GOLDEN DOOR SPA.
FROM LEFT: KRISTIAN DOWLING/GETTY IMAGES; JASON MERRITT/GETTY IMAGES; MILAN RYBA/LANDOV; CRAIG BARRITT/GETTY IMAGES.
heavier food, “L.A. men have always been the most
self-critical in the world. They would sell their soul
to get back down to birth weight. Most straight
men will still get laid even if they look like Shrek,
but no Hollywood dude wants to end up on the
‘Worst Beach Bodies’ list. No actor wants to have
that conversation with his agent.”
How did these male stars do it so fast? Hill, who
has said that when he eats something unhealthy
now, “I kind of feel a little weird, and my body
hurts,” worked with a nutritionist and trainer.
BEFORE
AFTER
Rubin, who slimmed down by more than 130 pounds in less than
a year, would be unrecognizable if not for his trademark beard.
A few miles away in Vista, CAL-A-VIE
(29402 Spa Havens Way), popular with
the likes of Tom Ford, Shailene Woodley
and Tyra Banks, added a block of eight
Mediterranean-style suites in 2011,
bringing the intimate property’s total
number of accommodations to 32. Upon
arrival, guests meet with a wellness
consultant upon arrival who designs a
customized fitness program for them.
Carlsbad’s four-star Spanish Missionstyle LA COSTA RESORT AND SPA (2100
Costa Del Mar Road), which houses the
CHOPRA CENTER FOR WELLBEING,
recently underwent a $50 million stemto-stern makeover that included all
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
Leif Parsons
Rogen has claimed he dropped 30 pounds by “just
eating cheeseburgers. I have no regimen. I did
have a trainer [Harley Pasternak], but I’ve since
set him free. I don’t know if I can keep the weight
off. I want my food, and I have a lot of tantrums.
Yet so far, so good.” We have to believe Rogen
had his cheeseburgers without the bread. As for
Pasternak, he proudly proclaims of Rogen, “I
took him from a doughy stoner to a handsome, fit
superhero.” Pasternak advises his clients to eat
three light meals and two snacks a day of low-fat
protein and whole-grain rice.
Seems these versatile funnymen don’t want to
be pushed into a comedy fat-man corner like predecessors Chris Farley and John Candy, who never
slimmed down (and died young). Farley feared he
wouldn’t be funny if he lost weight.
When The Zone Diet took center stage around
1995, guys who needed to drop pounds fast consumed quantities of steaks, cheese and eggs. That
seemed a more masculine way to shed pounds —
but utterly unhealthy and possibly dangerous to
one’s heart. Diets such as Atkins, Ornish and South
Beach followed. These days, all the rage is what’s
known as the Paleo or Hunter-Gatherer Diet,
which restricts food to what early man ate thousands of years ago: meat, seafood, vegetables, fruit,
474 rooms and suites and the addition
of an adults-only pool. The six-day
Perfect Health program at the center
($3,775) features daily Ayurvedic
massage, detox therapies, meditation
instruction, a medical consultation,
Hiking
at Rancho
La Puerta.
yoga and more. (Hotel stay, $169 a night
for Chopra clients, not included.)
Just south of the border in Tecate
(about a three-hour drive from Los
Angeles without traffic jams), the tony
RANCHO LA PUERTA resort (476 Tecate
Road) recently partnered with The Bar
Method on a comprehensive seven-day
mind-body program. The workout
sculpts bodies with a combination of
isometric exercises, dance conditioning,
physical therapy and interval training.
Actress Annabeth Gish (Texas Killing
Fields) is a recent participant. “I will go
back as often as I can because not one
minute felt indulgent,” she says. “There
seeds and nuts — forbidding dairy, grains (even
quinoa), potatoes, processed sugar and beans. You
have to admit, our forefathers didn’t suffer from
hypertension, diabetes and arthritis very much —
and they certainly were macho.
Experts caution against fad diets and that
overall calorie count is what matters. A new study,
out Jan. 3 from the Journal of the American Medical
Association, shows that a high-protein diet isn’t
more likely to lead to weight loss than any other
diet. “So many fad diets claim that if you eat more
protein, you will lose weight faster because protein
doesn’t turn to fat very easily,” says NBC4 L.A.
chief medical editor Bruce Hensel. “That’s not the
whole story. The truth is that a gram of fat has nine
calories, while a gram of protein has four calories.
So if you eat a lot of protein, you may think that it’s
the protein that’s doing that to your metabolism.
It’s really that you are just eating fewer calories.”
With expense accounts shrinking these days,
it is easier for men in the industry to forgo big
lunches and dinners. “In restaurants, men need
to stay away from the bread bowl,” advises Wiatt.
“Fill up on a salad or a non-cream-based soup
before the main meal. Choose a dish of six ounces
of lean protein and lots of vegetables. And most
importantly, men need to be portion-savvy.
Restaurant portions are huge! Women know this
and usually order appetizers and no entrees.”
Of course, there are downsides to downsizing.
The already-svelte Michael Fassbender went on a
600-calorie-a-day diet during a 10-week period to
play IRA member Bobby Sands, who went on a
hunger strike, in 2008’s Hunger. “People thought
I had cancer,” Fassbender has admitted. “And
my libido disappeared for about six weeks. It felt
very liberating. You don’t realize how distracting
all that stuff can be. Your body streamlines and
focuses on what’s important. I suppose that’s why
monks and religious people do it.”
Seems a lot of men are starting to realize what
women learned long ago: Compliments are more
fulfilling than food. The Kate Moss adage “Nothing
tastes as good as skinny feels” seems to have
crossed the sex barrier. Finally, Mick Jagger and
Steven Tyler have some company.
Massage
at Golden
Door.
were physical fitness options at every
hour, but also fitness of the mind and
heart, too.” (About $3,500 per person,
double occupancy.)
Not new, but an under-the-radar
discovery, is SOMA GET FIT, a
customizable single- or multiday excursion in Santa Barbara for one to
six people. One recent jampacked
program included — in a single day! —
5:30 a.m. yoga, followed by an organic
breakfast, farmers market visit, canyon
hike, meditation at Montecito’s Vedanta
Temple, core work on the beach,
lobster-taco lunch, biking, paddle
surfing, more yoga, more biking, a
healthy cooking class and dinner. The
day ended with a body treatment and
facial at a local spa. (From $799 per
person, $599 for two or more; accommodations not included.) — GARY BAUM
www.thr.com | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
| 49
FITNESS 2012
THE INCREDIBLE
SHRINKING MAN
It’s more than a New Year’s resolution: Guys finally are getting with
the program that women have been following forever By Merle Ginsberg
T
HE SCENE: E. BALDI RESTAURANT
in Beverly Hills. Overheard during
the course of a meal: “I’ll have the
sole, no meuniere sauce, no butter,
very little salt please; steamed veggies on the side; just a green salad,
no dressing, just lemon. And a Pellegrino with
lime. … Can you take the breadbasket and butter
away, please? … I’ll have a very skinny latte. … I’ve
gotta drop at least 20 by the end of the month. I
need to get down two waist sizes by the Oscars.”
A toothpick-sized Hollywood wife in leggings?
A would-be actress itching to borrow size-4 Dolce?
A female movie producer detoxing from too much
craft services?
Guess again. It’s a male executive in a suit, at a
business meeting with an agent who’s also watching his post-holiday waist. A similar scene played
out last year at the Natural Resources Defense
BEFORE
AFTER
Fans of Moneyball and Superbad might be startled
by Hill’s dramatic transformation.
Council benefit at the Malibu beach house of Ron
and Kelly Meyer, where 48-year-old record producer
and Columbia Records co-chairman Rick Rubin
queried waiters about the ingredients in every
sauce. He’d lost more than 130 pounds in less than
a year and a half on a fish-, egg white- and protein
shake-heavy diet.
Men in the industry are boarding the body-conscious bandwagon, perhaps a gut reaction to all of
the actors — Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen and Jerry Ferrara
most prominent among them — who seem to have
lost half their body weight. Obsessive conversations about diets are no longer strictly the domain
of the best actress in a mini category.
The 5-foot-10 Seth MacFarlane wasn’t fat — but he
did weigh 205 pounds, says his trainer Bobby Strom.
“A year and a half ago,” says Strom, “Ryan Reynolds,
who I’ve worked with for nine years, did an episode
of Family Guy. When Seth saw him, he said, ‘Hey,
man, who’s your trainer?’ Now Seth weighs 170,
works out seven days a week and eats things like egg
whites and Greek yogurt; but then, Seth had Vikki
Krasinsky, a healthy chef who’s cooked for many
celebs. Mostly, I make my male clients get home
food delivery so they have some discipline. Not just
actors come to me: I have entertainment attorneys,
concert promoters, executives at Interscope.”
Brett Davidson, a 40-year-old executive producer
of Truth About Kerry (out in March) and a key-art
graphic designer, lost 40 pounds in four months
recently after getting to 195 on his 5-foot-8 frame.
He did it with fat-burning drinks in the morning
(with appetite-suppressing cactus-flower extract),
followed by egg whites, then a lunch of lettuce with
tuna and tomato with balsamic vinegar. Dinner
The Best Luxury Boot Camps
From a stylish fitness retreat center in Malibu to a redone
Golden Door, where the industry goes to tone for its sins
SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED TO GET
away from it all to break bad habits
and get back in shape. But why not do
it in style and enjoy a few indulgences
between bone-crushing workouts?
In the L.A. area, it used to be that
the height of gulag-getaway chic
was Calabasas’ THE ASHRAM (2025
McKain St.), a hard-core and notably
spartan eight-room retreat and boot
camp favored by A-listers from
48 | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 01.20.12
Shirley MacLaine to Ashley Judd. But
a more posh, if just as serious, retreat
has opened its doors in Malibu. Tucked
in the wilderness beyond and above
Zuma Beach on the former estate of
Hopalong Cassidy star William Boyd,
the 16-month-old RANCH AT LIVE OAK
(12220 Cotharin Road) lures guests with
rustic cottages offering French limestone bathrooms and handmade Italian
linen bedding, meals sourced from
is a grilled chicken breast, steamed broccoli and
brown rice. “I made sure never to allow myself to
get hungry,” he explains. “Eating throughout the
day keeps your metabolism high. I lost my love
handles, gut — I feel more comfortable walking
into pitch meetings with folks I don’t know.”
Dieting has become a manly pursuit. Hence
Weight Watchers’ new ad campaign: “Lose Like a
Man.” To kick it off, who manlier than NBA Hall
of Famer Charles Barkley? He joined because, as
he says, “I don’t want to be a fat old man taking
lots of pills. Men don’t like to diet — they like to
eat. But I’ve already lost almost 50 pounds.” He
also might lose the nickname he earned in college:
“The Round Mound of Rebound.”
Dropping 30 pounds allowed blowsy sidekick
Rogen to go leading man in The Green Hornet and
Entourage’s Ferrara to get cast in the upcoming
Screen Gems sex comedy Think Like a Man.
“Dieting in general is always important in the
Hollywood scene,” says nutritionist Carrie Latt
Wiatt of Diet Designs, who works with James Franco
and Christian Bale. “But new pressure is coming
from the abundance of tabloids and TMZ-type
media.” But then, says Simon Doonan, author of
Gay Men Don’t Get Fat, a new tome that promotes
a “gay diet” of lighter food as opposed to “straight”
the Santa Monica Farmers Market and
onsite gardens. It then pummels them
during weeklong minimum stays with
a strict “no options” policy of 5:30 a.m.
wakeup calls, five-hour morning hikes,
grueling afternoon fitness sessions
and yoga galore — punctuated by
massages. Women average six to eight
pounds of weight loss; men, nine to 12.
(Cost: $5,600 per person.)
Three well-known retreats north
of San Diego have received recent
facelifts. At the 377-acre GOLDEN
DOOR SPA RESORT near Escondido
(777 Deer Springs Road) — offering a
selection of 40 classes, gourmet meals
A room at the
Ranch at Live Oak.
and daily in-room massages — all
40 of the Japanese-style guestrooms
were renovated in 2011. For a change of
pace, Dancing With the Stars’ Karina
Smirnoff will lead a dance-focused
week ($7,750) from Feb. 5 to 12.
BOOT CAMPS, FROM LEFT: COURTESY OF THE RANCH AT LIVE OAK; COURTESY OF RANCHO LA PUERTA; THOMAS HART SHELBY/COURTESY OF GOLDEN DOOR SPA.
FROM LEFT: KRISTIAN DOWLING/GETTY IMAGES; JASON MERRITT/GETTY IMAGES; MILAN RYBA/LANDOV; CRAIG BARRITT/GETTY IMAGES.
heavier food, “L.A. men have always been the most
self-critical in the world. They would sell their soul
to get back down to birth weight. Most straight
men will still get laid even if they look like Shrek,
but no Hollywood dude wants to end up on the
‘Worst Beach Bodies’ list. No actor wants to have
that conversation with his agent.”
How did these male stars do it so fast? Hill, who
has said that when he eats something unhealthy
now, “I kind of feel a little weird, and my body
hurts,” worked with a nutritionist and trainer.
BEFORE
AFTER
Rubin, who slimmed down by more than 130 pounds in less than
a year, would be unrecognizable if not for his trademark beard.
A few miles away in Vista, CAL-A-VIE
(29402 Spa Havens Way), popular with
the likes of Tom Ford, Shailene Woodley
and Tyra Banks, added a block of eight
Mediterranean-style suites in 2011,
bringing the intimate property’s total
number of accommodations to 32. Upon
arrival, guests meet with a wellness
consultant upon arrival who designs a
customized fitness program for them.
Carlsbad’s four-star Spanish Missionstyle LA COSTA RESORT AND SPA (2100
Costa Del Mar Road), which houses the
CHOPRA CENTER FOR WELLBEING,
recently underwent a $50 million stemto-stern makeover that included all
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
Leif Parsons
Rogen has claimed he dropped 30 pounds by “just
eating cheeseburgers. I have no regimen. I did
have a trainer [Harley Pasternak], but I’ve since
set him free. I don’t know if I can keep the weight
off. I want my food, and I have a lot of tantrums.
Yet so far, so good.” We have to believe Rogen
had his cheeseburgers without the bread. As for
Pasternak, he proudly proclaims of Rogen, “I
took him from a doughy stoner to a handsome, fit
superhero.” Pasternak advises his clients to eat
three light meals and two snacks a day of low-fat
protein and whole-grain rice.
Seems these versatile funnymen don’t want to
be pushed into a comedy fat-man corner like predecessors Chris Farley and John Candy, who never
slimmed down (and died young). Farley feared he
wouldn’t be funny if he lost weight.
When The Zone Diet took center stage around
1995, guys who needed to drop pounds fast consumed quantities of steaks, cheese and eggs. That
seemed a more masculine way to shed pounds —
but utterly unhealthy and possibly dangerous to
one’s heart. Diets such as Atkins, Ornish and South
Beach followed. These days, all the rage is what’s
known as the Paleo or Hunter-Gatherer Diet,
which restricts food to what early man ate thousands of years ago: meat, seafood, vegetables, fruit,
474 rooms and suites and the addition
of an adults-only pool. The six-day
Perfect Health program at the center
($3,775) features daily Ayurvedic
massage, detox therapies, meditation
instruction, a medical consultation,
Hiking
at Rancho
La Puerta.
yoga and more. (Hotel stay, $169 a night
for Chopra clients, not included.)
Just south of the border in Tecate
(about a three-hour drive from Los
Angeles without traffic jams), the tony
RANCHO LA PUERTA resort (476 Tecate
Road) recently partnered with The Bar
Method on a comprehensive seven-day
mind-body program. The workout
sculpts bodies with a combination of
isometric exercises, dance conditioning,
physical therapy and interval training.
Actress Annabeth Gish (Texas Killing
Fields) is a recent participant. “I will go
back as often as I can because not one
minute felt indulgent,” she says. “There
seeds and nuts — forbidding dairy, grains (even
quinoa), potatoes, processed sugar and beans. You
have to admit, our forefathers didn’t suffer from
hypertension, diabetes and arthritis very much —
and they certainly were macho.
Experts caution against fad diets and that
overall calorie count is what matters. A new study,
out Jan. 3 from the Journal of the American Medical
Association, shows that a high-protein diet isn’t
more likely to lead to weight loss than any other
diet. “So many fad diets claim that if you eat more
protein, you will lose weight faster because protein
doesn’t turn to fat very easily,” says NBC4 L.A.
chief medical editor Bruce Hensel. “That’s not the
whole story. The truth is that a gram of fat has nine
calories, while a gram of protein has four calories.
So if you eat a lot of protein, you may think that it’s
the protein that’s doing that to your metabolism.
It’s really that you are just eating fewer calories.”
With expense accounts shrinking these days,
it is easier for men in the industry to forgo big
lunches and dinners. “In restaurants, men need
to stay away from the bread bowl,” advises Wiatt.
“Fill up on a salad or a non-cream-based soup
before the main meal. Choose a dish of six ounces
of lean protein and lots of vegetables. And most
importantly, men need to be portion-savvy.
Restaurant portions are huge! Women know this
and usually order appetizers and no entrees.”
Of course, there are downsides to downsizing.
The already-svelte Michael Fassbender went on a
600-calorie-a-day diet during a 10-week period to
play IRA member Bobby Sands, who went on a
hunger strike, in 2008’s Hunger. “People thought
I had cancer,” Fassbender has admitted. “And
my libido disappeared for about six weeks. It felt
very liberating. You don’t realize how distracting
all that stuff can be. Your body streamlines and
focuses on what’s important. I suppose that’s why
monks and religious people do it.”
Seems a lot of men are starting to realize what
women learned long ago: Compliments are more
fulfilling than food. The Kate Moss adage “Nothing
tastes as good as skinny feels” seems to have
crossed the sex barrier. Finally, Mick Jagger and
Steven Tyler have some company.
Massage
at Golden
Door.
were physical fitness options at every
hour, but also fitness of the mind and
heart, too.” (About $3,500 per person,
double occupancy.)
Not new, but an under-the-radar
discovery, is SOMA GET FIT, a
customizable single- or multiday excursion in Santa Barbara for one to
six people. One recent jampacked
program included — in a single day! —
5:30 a.m. yoga, followed by an organic
breakfast, farmers market visit, canyon
hike, meditation at Montecito’s Vedanta
Temple, core work on the beach,
lobster-taco lunch, biking, paddle
surfing, more yoga, more biking, a
healthy cooking class and dinner. The
day ended with a body treatment and
facial at a local spa. (From $799 per
person, $599 for two or more; accommodations not included.) — GARY BAUM
www.thr.com | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
| 49
HOW TO SWEAT IN STYLE
Some new ideas for the new year to spruce up your workout wardrobe
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GYMS
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Boutique trainer-only workout sanctums lure the
industry with perks and, more important, privacy
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1. Power Y tank with stretch fit by
Lululemon, $52, shop.lululemon.com
2. Lightweight ClimaSpeed jacket
with front and back reflectivity,
$65, shopadidas.com
3. Reversible yoga mat by
Lululemon, $68, shop.lululemon.com
4. Canvas yoga bag by Stella
McCartney, $80, shopadidas.com
5. Ultra-light Free Run +2 running
shoe with flex grooves for barefootlike strides, $100, nikestore.com
6. Drawstring-waist Run Perf
short shorts by Stella McCartney,
$75, shopadidas.com
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1. TRX suspension training nylon
straps (lightweight and portable to
do squats and arm/leg pulls using
resistance of your body weight);
$200 for Pro Kit with instructional
DVD, trxtraining.com
2. Air Max 90 extra-cushioned
running shoe, $100, nikestore.com
3. Supima cotton-blend shorts by
James Perse, $110, mrporter.com
4. Wind and water-resistant Storm
Fly jacket in Dri-FIT material, $135,
nikestore.com
5. Lightweight 3000 Series
watch with glow-in-the-dark dial
(designed for U.S. Navy SEALs) by
Luminox, $335, mrporter.com
6. Seamless mesh Metal Vent Tech
LS top with antibacterial finish, $72,
shop.lululemon.com
— CAROL McC0LGIN
4 New Classes to Kick Your …
Stars and execs are flocking to these workouts of the moment,
including the latest in sweat-drenching spinning
PAIN & PLEASURE AT THE
NEW DAVID BARTON GYMS
Bodybuilding impresario David
Barton — known for his stylish
NYC and Miami gyms (members
include Marc Jacobs and Sean
Combs) — is coming to Los
Angeles with two gyms opening in February. Among his
most popular classes is Pain
& Pleasure, 45-minute group
workout that focuses just on
50 | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 01.20.12
building muscles. Multiple sets
target three muscle groups. His
35,000-square-foot Westside
location (12100 W. Olympic
Blvd.) will feature live DJs, while
a 22,000-square-foot spot
will open in Century City (1950
Century Park East). Membership
rates aren’t finalized.
MISSION POSSIBLE AT
THE SANTA MONICA STAIRS
When she isn’t on call 24/7 as Ben
Stiller’s on-set trainer, Jenna
Phillips leads packs of aspiring
actors through Runyon Canyon
and groups of Palisades moms
up and down the Santa Monica
stairs in her 50-minute training
sessions. The workouts include
running, lunging, hiking, sprinting
and resistance bands. “I like that
it’s outdoors,” says Maureen
Kenny, senior director for A&R
at Columbia. Phillips is a walking
advertisement for her regimen —
she was diagnosed with type
1 diabetes in 2000 but now says
she is almost insulin-free. ($25 a
session, jennaphillips.com)
REV CYCLING
Thanks to its location in the same
building as WME Entertainment,
the members-only Sports Club/
LA is a top destination for execs
and celebrities; group classes
kick off at 6 a.m. to accommodate agents who want to squeeze
in a workout before their first
morning meeting. The newest
pulse-pumping class is REV
Cycling, which features Schwinn
A.C. Performance bikes with a
FOR HER, TANK AND MAT: COURTESY OF LULULEMON (2). ADIDAS JACKET, SHORTS AND BAG: COURTESY OF ADIDAS (3). SHOES: COURTESY OF NIKE. FOR HIM, TRX: EMILY HAGOPIAN/COURTESY OF TRX. NIKE JACKET: COURTESY OF
NIKE. TOP: COURTESY OF LULULEMON. WATCH AND SHORTS: COURTESY OF MR. PORTER (2). HOLMES: STEPHEN LOVEKIN/GETTY IMAGES. WHITESELL: CRAIG BARRITT/GETTY IMAGES. ON-SET PERK: COURTESY OF MOBILE PHYSIQUE.
ViPR AT EQUINOX
V
console that measures
The simple-looking ViPR
speed, distance, heart
tube forms the basis
rate and calories
of a full-body workburned. Sessions are
out at Equinox West
50 minutes. Katie
Hollywood that’s drawn
Holmes, who attends
Holmes
the likes of Bradley Cooper.
REV three days a week,
The hollow rubber tube, which
often brings along her stylist
has cutouts in the center that
Jeanne Yang (also her partner
function as handles, can be held
in fashion brand Holmes & Yang)
over the head, to the side or in
to talk shop. After that morning
class, grab breakfast at Walter’s, front of the body while the user
performs various core exercises
the hidden-away sandwich shop
including squats and jumping
and unofficial WME commisjacks with no breaks. (8590
sary inside the building. (9601
Sunset Blvd.) — MEG HEMPHILL
Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills.)
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
Leif Parsons
three-bedroom penthouse at his disposal
OLDFACED NAMES INCREASINGLY
for those who want to focus round-theare sweating without sweating
clock on sculpting their physique. (Call
the paparazzi waiting outside or a
it the lats of luxury.) It’s a steep fee for
camera-phone-enabled jock on the next
clients to bulk up or slim down while living
treadmill.
there, but Musico believes it’s worth it. “If
For years, West Hollywood’s trainer-only
a production company wants the star of
THE GYM ON NEMO (9041 Nemo St.) has
their movie to look his or her best, $25,000
been a go-to choice, with owner Fedele De
per month is not that much money,”
Santis welcoming the likes of Cameron
says Musico. “The suite is a training
Diaz and Charlize Theron to his
camp; I can police them there.”
discreet storefront for Pilates and
The hottest gym in town at the
boxing alike. Over on La Brea, the
moment, however, might be the
no-nonsense ULTRA BODY FITNESS
nearby referral-only BUNKER (465
(828 N. La Brea Ave.) lures such
Whitesell
N. Roxbury Drive). The aptly named
stars as Shia LaBeouf and Chris Pine. windowless basement space, reachable
More exclusive rivals are cropping
via a secure parking garage, is hidden down
up. Gunnar Peterson — who has rocked the
an alley. Owner Adam Ernster, a Peterson
bodies of Jennifer Lopez and Hugh Jackman
protege, allows only up to three trainers
— quietly has run an unlisted-number
and their clients inside at a time — the
space (9975 S. Santa Monica Blvd.) for the
extreme exclusivity is a draw for the likes of
past three years above the Sonya Dakar
Nicole Scherzinger and ICM’s Carol Goll.
spa in Beverly Hills, where valet parkBut not all trainers believe that intimate
ing and protein bars are complimentary.
gyms are best. “Gyms with people around
Another big-time trainer with his own gym
really inspire people to work hard,” says celebis Jason Walsh, who has worked with Justin
rity trainer Ashley Borden. “I like the energy
Timberlake and WME’s Patrick Whitesell.
there.” — GARY BAUM AND LINDSAY FLANS
“My facility is very private — it’s good for
people that need an inviting
and calm environment,” he
ON-S
says of his RISE MOVEMENT in
PERKET
WeHo (8906 Melrose Ave.).
Opened in mid-2010, LEAF
WELLNESS STUDIO (1617
Broadway St., Santa Monica)
handles just 12 clients at
any time and insists on a
three-month commitment
($3,600 for 24 classes). Leaf,
IN MAY, WILL SMITH TRUCKED A SHINY 55-FOOT STAND-ALONE
whose clients include Rock
gym trailer to Men in Black III’s Manhattan filming that was the talk of
of Ages up-and-comer Diego
Soho for several days. Smith is said to own the mobile workout unit himself.
Boneta and XXX writer Rich
However, for the past few years, trainers have outfitted equipment-packed
Wilkes, also runs a Lifestyle
trucks that are rented to productions, and the recession hasn’t killed
demand for them. One of the more coveted is the mobile unit offered by
Transformation program
trainer Ramona Braganza (Jessica Alba, Halle Berry). “Hugh Jackman
with nutrition counseling and
trained in there to become Wolverine for the first X-Men,” says Braganza.
personal coaching.
“On The A-Team, everybody from Jessica Biel and Liam Neeson to Bradley
Even more cloistered:
Cooper trained in the trailer. It makes it easy.” (Cost: $2,500-$3,000 a
Trainer Danny Musico (Ron
week.) Another roving ab lab is The Muscle Truck ($1,800-$2,000 a week,
themuscletruck.com), run by Valerie Waters (Cindy Crawford, Benicio
Fair, Doug Ellin) has created
Del Toro). The 18-wheeler — designed for on-location use by Jim Carrey
a gym at the chichi Crescent
— boasts soft lighting and $50,000 worth of equipment. It’s often a boon
Hotel (403 N. Crescent
to the rest of the cast and crew. “In my experience,” says Waters, “my
Drive) in Beverly Hills,
clients have allowed other actors or people on the production to use the
where he keeps a furnished
trailer as well.” — G.B.
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HOW TO SWEAT IN STYLE
Some new ideas for the new year to spruce up your workout wardrobe
FOR
HER
1
HUSH-HUSH
GYMS
2
2
1
Boutique trainer-only workout sanctums lure the
industry with perks and, more important, privacy
FOR
HIM
B
3
6
1. Power Y tank with stretch fit by
Lululemon, $52, shop.lululemon.com
2. Lightweight ClimaSpeed jacket
with front and back reflectivity,
$65, shopadidas.com
3. Reversible yoga mat by
Lululemon, $68, shop.lululemon.com
4. Canvas yoga bag by Stella
McCartney, $80, shopadidas.com
5. Ultra-light Free Run +2 running
shoe with flex grooves for barefootlike strides, $100, nikestore.com
6. Drawstring-waist Run Perf
short shorts by Stella McCartney,
$75, shopadidas.com
3
6
4
5
4
5
1. TRX suspension training nylon
straps (lightweight and portable to
do squats and arm/leg pulls using
resistance of your body weight);
$200 for Pro Kit with instructional
DVD, trxtraining.com
2. Air Max 90 extra-cushioned
running shoe, $100, nikestore.com
3. Supima cotton-blend shorts by
James Perse, $110, mrporter.com
4. Wind and water-resistant Storm
Fly jacket in Dri-FIT material, $135,
nikestore.com
5. Lightweight 3000 Series
watch with glow-in-the-dark dial
(designed for U.S. Navy SEALs) by
Luminox, $335, mrporter.com
6. Seamless mesh Metal Vent Tech
LS top with antibacterial finish, $72,
shop.lululemon.com
— CAROL McC0LGIN
4 New Classes to Kick Your …
Stars and execs are flocking to these workouts of the moment,
including the latest in sweat-drenching spinning
PAIN & PLEASURE AT THE
NEW DAVID BARTON GYMS
Bodybuilding impresario David
Barton — known for his stylish
NYC and Miami gyms (members
include Marc Jacobs and Sean
Combs) — is coming to Los
Angeles with two gyms opening in February. Among his
most popular classes is Pain
& Pleasure, 45-minute group
workout that focuses just on
50 | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 01.20.12
building muscles. Multiple sets
target three muscle groups. His
35,000-square-foot Westside
location (12100 W. Olympic
Blvd.) will feature live DJs, while
a 22,000-square-foot spot
will open in Century City (1950
Century Park East). Membership
rates aren’t finalized.
MISSION POSSIBLE AT
THE SANTA MONICA STAIRS
When she isn’t on call 24/7 as Ben
Stiller’s on-set trainer, Jenna
Phillips leads packs of aspiring
actors through Runyon Canyon
and groups of Palisades moms
up and down the Santa Monica
stairs in her 50-minute training
sessions. The workouts include
running, lunging, hiking, sprinting
and resistance bands. “I like that
it’s outdoors,” says Maureen
Kenny, senior director for A&R
at Columbia. Phillips is a walking
advertisement for her regimen —
she was diagnosed with type
1 diabetes in 2000 but now says
she is almost insulin-free. ($25 a
session, jennaphillips.com)
REV CYCLING
Thanks to its location in the same
building as WME Entertainment,
the members-only Sports Club/
LA is a top destination for execs
and celebrities; group classes
kick off at 6 a.m. to accommodate agents who want to squeeze
in a workout before their first
morning meeting. The newest
pulse-pumping class is REV
Cycling, which features Schwinn
A.C. Performance bikes with a
FOR HER, TANK AND MAT: COURTESY OF LULULEMON (2). ADIDAS JACKET, SHORTS AND BAG: COURTESY OF ADIDAS (3). SHOES: COURTESY OF NIKE. FOR HIM, TRX: EMILY HAGOPIAN/COURTESY OF TRX. NIKE JACKET: COURTESY OF
NIKE. TOP: COURTESY OF LULULEMON. WATCH AND SHORTS: COURTESY OF MR. PORTER (2). HOLMES: STEPHEN LOVEKIN/GETTY IMAGES. WHITESELL: CRAIG BARRITT/GETTY IMAGES. ON-SET PERK: COURTESY OF MOBILE PHYSIQUE.
ViPR AT EQUINOX
V
console that measures
The simple-looking ViPR
speed, distance, heart
tube forms the basis
rate and calories
of a full-body workburned. Sessions are
out at Equinox West
50 minutes. Katie
Hollywood that’s drawn
Holmes, who attends
Holmes
the likes of Bradley Cooper.
REV three days a week,
The hollow rubber tube, which
often brings along her stylist
has cutouts in the center that
Jeanne Yang (also her partner
function as handles, can be held
in fashion brand Holmes & Yang)
over the head, to the side or in
to talk shop. After that morning
class, grab breakfast at Walter’s, front of the body while the user
performs various core exercises
the hidden-away sandwich shop
including squats and jumping
and unofficial WME commisjacks with no breaks. (8590
sary inside the building. (9601
Sunset Blvd.) — MEG HEMPHILL
Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills.)
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
Leif Parsons
three-bedroom penthouse at his disposal
OLDFACED NAMES INCREASINGLY
for those who want to focus round-theare sweating without sweating
clock on sculpting their physique. (Call
the paparazzi waiting outside or a
it the lats of luxury.) It’s a steep fee for
camera-phone-enabled jock on the next
clients to bulk up or slim down while living
treadmill.
there, but Musico believes it’s worth it. “If
For years, West Hollywood’s trainer-only
a production company wants the star of
THE GYM ON NEMO (9041 Nemo St.) has
their movie to look his or her best, $25,000
been a go-to choice, with owner Fedele De
per month is not that much money,”
Santis welcoming the likes of Cameron
says Musico. “The suite is a training
Diaz and Charlize Theron to his
camp; I can police them there.”
discreet storefront for Pilates and
The hottest gym in town at the
boxing alike. Over on La Brea, the
moment, however, might be the
no-nonsense ULTRA BODY FITNESS
nearby referral-only BUNKER (465
(828 N. La Brea Ave.) lures such
Whitesell
N. Roxbury Drive). The aptly named
stars as Shia LaBeouf and Chris Pine. windowless basement space, reachable
More exclusive rivals are cropping
via a secure parking garage, is hidden down
up. Gunnar Peterson — who has rocked the
an alley. Owner Adam Ernster, a Peterson
bodies of Jennifer Lopez and Hugh Jackman
protege, allows only up to three trainers
— quietly has run an unlisted-number
and their clients inside at a time — the
space (9975 S. Santa Monica Blvd.) for the
extreme exclusivity is a draw for the likes of
past three years above the Sonya Dakar
Nicole Scherzinger and ICM’s Carol Goll.
spa in Beverly Hills, where valet parkBut not all trainers believe that intimate
ing and protein bars are complimentary.
gyms are best. “Gyms with people around
Another big-time trainer with his own gym
really inspire people to work hard,” says celebis Jason Walsh, who has worked with Justin
rity trainer Ashley Borden. “I like the energy
Timberlake and WME’s Patrick Whitesell.
there.” — GARY BAUM AND LINDSAY FLANS
“My facility is very private — it’s good for
people that need an inviting
and calm environment,” he
ON-S
says of his RISE MOVEMENT in
PERKET
WeHo (8906 Melrose Ave.).
Opened in mid-2010, LEAF
WELLNESS STUDIO (1617
Broadway St., Santa Monica)
handles just 12 clients at
any time and insists on a
three-month commitment
($3,600 for 24 classes). Leaf,
IN MAY, WILL SMITH TRUCKED A SHINY 55-FOOT STAND-ALONE
whose clients include Rock
gym trailer to Men in Black III’s Manhattan filming that was the talk of
of Ages up-and-comer Diego
Soho for several days. Smith is said to own the mobile workout unit himself.
Boneta and XXX writer Rich
However, for the past few years, trainers have outfitted equipment-packed
Wilkes, also runs a Lifestyle
trucks that are rented to productions, and the recession hasn’t killed
demand for them. One of the more coveted is the mobile unit offered by
Transformation program
trainer Ramona Braganza (Jessica Alba, Halle Berry). “Hugh Jackman
with nutrition counseling and
trained in there to become Wolverine for the first X-Men,” says Braganza.
personal coaching.
“On The A-Team, everybody from Jessica Biel and Liam Neeson to Bradley
Even more cloistered:
Cooper trained in the trailer. It makes it easy.” (Cost: $2,500-$3,000 a
Trainer Danny Musico (Ron
week.) Another roving ab lab is The Muscle Truck ($1,800-$2,000 a week,
themuscletruck.com), run by Valerie Waters (Cindy Crawford, Benicio
Fair, Doug Ellin) has created
Del Toro). The 18-wheeler — designed for on-location use by Jim Carrey
a gym at the chichi Crescent
— boasts soft lighting and $50,000 worth of equipment. It’s often a boon
Hotel (403 N. Crescent
to the rest of the cast and crew. “In my experience,” says Waters, “my
Drive) in Beverly Hills,
clients have allowed other actors or people on the production to use the
where he keeps a furnished
trailer as well.” — G.B.
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| 51