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| For “Biggest Loser” trainer, diet trumps exercise in weight loss Posted: 19 Aug 2013 01:15 AM PDT The Los Angeles-based trainer, who was born on a cattle farm in Tennessee and arrived in California some 20 years ago, said gone are the days when he believed it was possible to just exercise the pounds away. "It is all about your diet," Harper, 48, said during a break from filming Season 15 of the long-running US show. "I used to think a long time ago that you can beat everything you eat out of you and it's just absolutely not the case." Harper has spun his TV fame improving the fitness of people who are 45 kg or more overweight into an empire with DVD workouts and the best-selling book "The Skinny Rules," which offers tips to drop excess weight. He said if the 'Skinny' of his book titles and fitness DVDs is meant tongue-in-cheek, it is also the word that his morbidly obese clients attach to most. "People say, 'Shouldn't I be fit? Shouldn't I be healthy?', and I say 'Yes, absolutely. But what I always hear from my contestants on the show is, 'I just want to get skinny.'" In addition to promoting a healthy diet, a big part of his exercise routine includes lunges and other core-strengthening moves to burn enough fat to let the inner six-pack shine through. Harper said the workout is aimed at getting the heart rate up because that's when people are going to be able to burn fat and when fat is burned off, the abdominal muscles are exposed. He also adheres to the no-frills strength and condition program called Crossfit, which is a series of timed, ever- changing physical challenges that he says are suitable for everyone. "I'm working with people who are 227 kg and doing Crossfit on a regular basis," said Harper, who described the approximately 20-minute workout as well-balanced. "To me Crossfit just completely makes sense (as long as) you work at your level doing the things you can do with proper coaching," he explained. But Dr. Mark Kelly, an exercise physiologist at the American Council on Exercise, said that even with supervision, Crossfit can be risky if the fitness groundwork isn't in place. "Crossfit has very ballistic training. You're asking people to move fast through a large range of motion. Even with coaching, the foundation of stability, mobility and psychomotor skill has to be laid (first)," he said. Kelly agrees that diet is the main factor that can lower weight, but it's exercise, he adds, that allows that lower weight to stick. He cited the National Weight Control Registry, a research study that includes people 18 years or older who have lost at least 13.6 kg of weight and kept it off for at least one year. Ninety percent of those in the study exercise regularly. "They're the biggest losers across the nation," Kelly said. "And the No. 1 thing they did was exercise on a regular basis. Many simply through walking." Harper said he values working with people who have gotten far off the diet and fitness track more than the celebrity status conferred upon him by reality TV. "Of course with everyone being on a television show, from people working on fishing boats to people being interior designers, you get this platform," he said. "But I think for me, celebrity trainer is not who I am." He is, he said, someone who has found what he loves to do. "When you find your passion, it makes for a good life." - Reuters, August 19, 2013. |
| Lindsay Lohan says she’s an addict, aims “to shut up and listen” Posted: 18 Aug 2013 08:48 PM PDT "I'm my own worst enemy, and I know that and I admit it," Lohan, 27, told Oprah Winfrey in an interview on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). She said she only realised she had a problem "over a period of time" rather than at any one moment. Asked whether she was an addict, Lohan replied "Yeah," adding that her drug of choice was alcohol, which she said had been a "gateway to other things." Lohan, who shot to fame as a child star in "The Parent Trap" before huge success in hit films such as "Mean Girls," has seen her image tarnished by a string of arrests, court appearances, bouts in rehab and a stint in prison, not to mention nearly continuous media coverage of the scandals. She recently sought treatment at the Betty Ford Center, then finished treatment at another facility. Lohan told Winfrey she had often felt shame, and "tons of guilt" over her frequent relapses with substance abuse, public quarrels with her parents and scrapes with the law. When Winfrey asked what was different about this latest time in rehab, Lohan said that she no longer takes adderal, which she took for ADD (attention deficit disorder), saying being on the drug was "all I know" but that she was now calmer without it. Lohan said she now only takes vitamins. And she said her attitude had evolved. "I just need to shut up and listen. In this case (in rehab) I wasn't fighting at all," she said, adding that it was clear that her idea of what works hasn't in the past. Lohan spoke of a life steeped in chaos, starting with her home life, although she differed with a common perception that her parents had exploited her talents for financial gain. "Nobody's perfect," she said of her parents, themselves tabloid fodder, adding "I love my family." "I don't think anything was intentionally done ... they're just parents," Lohan said when Winfrey asked about the possibility of her parents having exploited her. "I don't blame anyone for my mistakes," she added. "I did that, and I'm not proud of it." But Lohan said she felt many of her demons have endured due to "all the chaos around me, that I was so comfortable with." Since completing a court-ordered 90-day stint in rehab on July 31, the actress has enlisted a "sober coach" to help her stay clean and guest-hosted comedienne Chelsea Handler's talk show "Chelsea Lately" on U.S. cable network E!. Her latest film, "The Canyons," was excoriated by critics, but many praised her performance. Lohan, who will also be the subject of a reality series on OWN next year, is required to attend weekly therapy sessions over the next 15 months to comply with a court order for a reckless driving charge. - Reuters, August 19, 2013. |
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