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Fit Travel Tip: Running From the Paparazzi

FitSugar — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:00:00 -0700

Traveling to LA anytime soon? Then you can head for the Hollywood Hills and still keep your body red carpet ready.

Running from the Paparazzi is a 4-mile running tour that goes from Wilshire Boulevard to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, then through Hollywood and past eclectic shops on Robertson Boulevard. You'll be able to do some quick window shopping, celeb watching, and calorie burning all at the same time.

The cost for this 4-mile tour is $60 per person, which includes an exclusively designed Running From the Paparazzi T-Shirt, bottled water, fresh fruit, and ends with a sweet reward: A frosted cupcake!

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Katie Holmes to Run in NYC Marathon

FitSugar — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:30:00 -0700

Instead of hitting the red carpet in NYC this weekend, Katie Holmes will be hitting the pavement, literally.

Somehow between being a mom to her adorable daughter Suri and fending off the media from following her everywhere she goes, Katie found time to train for the NYC Marathon that she is running in this weekend (Sunday November 4th). I am beyond shocked that we have not seen pictures of her training since the paparazzi manages to take pictures of every move she makes, but good for her.

I am always impressed with anyone who runs a marathon. It's such an incredible test of one's endurance. While I wish I could join the likes of Katie Holmes and Lance Armstrong at the marathon this weekend, I'll be cheering them on in spirit. In the meantime, I'll be running my own marathon in segments.

Good luck to them and anyone else who will be running it this weekend!

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Tyra Boxes Her Way into a Bikini

FitSugar — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:12:24 -0700

We've all seen Tyra go on her ty-rades about her body and how the media perceives her. Ever since the whole bathing suit drama, I think she's been looking pretty fabulous these days and I've been wondering what she's been up to...

Well, her trainer Martin Snow of The Trinity Boxing Club gives UsWeekly the scoop on what Ms. Tyra's been doing to get bikini ready and to really give the paparazzi something to talk about:

US: What kind of moves do you do with Tyra?
Martin Snow: I have a boxing gym so I basically do the moves with her that a fighter would do. She tends to get bored just doing conventional stuff. She has an athletic body, so I just try to bring it out. She responds very well to exercise. I do old-man Charles Atlas workouts. Stuff that old-time fighters used to do to get in shape.

US: What kind of client is Tyra? Is she really motivated?
MS: She is fantastic. She is very driven and works hard and is super nice. If someone is really enthusiastic, that charges up the trainer. I have to motivate someone, but then I get motivated again.

US: When she came to you six weeks ago, did she have a specific area that she wanted to workout?
MS: We don’t target-train people. If you train like an athlete, a byproduct of that will be looking good. She will do what it takes to get in shape.

US: What is a typical routine?
MS: I bring her over to the park. We will do some warm-ups, some running drills, a parachute run, where I put a parachute around her and she runs with it. We will do some medicine work where she will take heavy medicine balls and run and chase after them, and throw them at at different angles. We challenged these guys to handball but they punked out. A game like handball is great. And then we do kettle bells. I bring them out to the park. They are fantastic tools. For women, they are awesome. They target the core and you can do it every day. She is getting a pair for home and for work.

US:How often does she workout?
MS: She comes in around three times a week now. And each time it’s different. We will take these old tractor tires and she will swing sledgehammers. We do bags filled with sand. And of course the boxing.

US:How long do the sessions last?
MS: Around and hour to an hour and half. She is not afraid to get dirty. She is not afraid to go to the park and have people look at her like she's crazy. She is not worried about image.

US: Does she do crunches?
MS: No, I really stay away from doing anything you would find in a health club routine. We're very low frills. If you can plug it in, we probably don’t use it. And if it was invented after 1950, we don’t use it. It’s very effective. You don’t need expensive equipment or high tech stuff. Just hard work.

Exercise Flashback: Madonna's Still Jogging

FitSugar — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:00:00 -0700

I know Madonna has been one active chick for years, but I had no idea that she's been photographed running for at least twenty years now. I recently found some amazing pictures of Madge running in 1987 (after the break) and thought it was a fabulous contrast to those pictures of her running now (pics below), 20 years later, in 2007.

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Aside from the Body By Jake gear and the addition of three kids and musical/fashion empire, not much has changed -- She is still jogging, she is still surrounded by paparazzi and apparently she's still loving baseball hats. Personally, I think she looks way more muscular and healthy now than she did then, but it just goes to show you what a few decades of eating healthy and exercising regularly can do for your looks.

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