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by Alfa - Losing Weight Zone
09-10-2010

Celebrity Weight Loss

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Brad Pitt’s Diet and Exercise Plan – Getting His Body Ready for the Movie, “Troy”

Brad Pitt has a body most women want to touch and most men want to emulate. Most of us want to believe that he is just lucky enough to have good genes. Sorry my friends but that is not the case. To get ready for a movie role, Brad works with personal trainers to create a diet and exercise plan that will provide him with the optimal body for that role. For the movie, “Troy,” Pitt quit smoking and drastically reduced his intake of beer and chips (his favorite). He went on a low-carb, high-protein diet at a rate of four high-protein, low-carb meals.

As for his exercise plan, he worked with personal trainer Gregory Joujon-Roche owner of Holistic Fitness and writer of The Action Hero Body. He started preparing for the role a year prior with intense workouts. Pitt worked out 2-3 hours per day at the gym with two hours of sword work. This hard work gave him 10 extra pounds of muscle.

Here is the routine he followed:

The workout:

Chest:
Bench press – 5 sets, 6-10 reps
Incline bench press – 6 sets, 6-10 reps
Cable crossovers – 6 sets, 10-12 reps
Dips – 5 sets, to failure
Dumbbell pullovers – 5 sets, 10-12 reps

Back:
Front wide-grip chin-ups – 6 sets, to failure
T-bar rows – 5 sets, 6-10 reps
Seated pulley rows – 6 sets, 6-10 reps
Straight-leg deadlifts – 6 sets, 15 reps

Legs:
Squats – 6 sets, 8-12 reps
Leg presses – 6 sets, 8-12 reps
Leg extensions – 6 sets, 12-15 reps
Barbell lunges – 5 sets, 15 reps

Calves:
Standing calf raises -10 sets, 10 reps
Seated calf raises – 8 sets, 15 reps
One-legged calf raises (holding dumbbells) – 6 sets,12 reps

Forearms:
Wrist curls (forearms on knees) – 4 sets, 10 reps
Reverse barbell curls – 4 sets, 8 reps
Wright roller machine – to failure
Biceps:
Barbell curls – 6 sets, 6-10 reps
Seated dumbbell curls – 6 sets, 6-10 reps
Dumbbell concentration curls – 6 sets, 6-10 reps

Triceps:
Close-grip bench presses (for the all three heads) – 6 sets, 6-10 reps
Pushdowns (exterior head) – 6 sets, 6-10 reps
Barbell French presses (interior head) – 6 sets, 6-10 reps
One-arm dumbbell triceps extensions (exterior head) – 6 sets, 6-10 reps

Shoulders:
Seated barbell presses – 6 sets, 6-10 reps
Lateral raises (standing) – 6 sets, 6-10 reps
Rear-delt lateral raises – 5 sets, 6-10 reps
Cable lateral raises – 5 sets, 10-12 reps

Abs:
30 minutes straight until failure.

by Alfa - Losing Weight Zone
09-04-2010

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Maria Menounos Gives Us “Access” to Her Diet and Exercise Plan

Maria Menounos is a journalist and correspondent for The Today Show and Access Hollywood. Her body is the envy of many women but she didn’t always look that way. In college she was much heaver – hitting a top size of 14. She blames over eating and too many food indulgences for her weight gain. So, she decided to take charge of her diet and exercise plan and has kept both in check all these years later. As for her diet plan, Menounos said she didn’t give it all up at once. She learned portion control over time. She started by limiting the amount of junk food she consumed and then she started supplementing a side salad instead of going back for seconds. The secret was she didn’t deprive herself of the tempting foods. Instead, she just limited the amount she consumed and over time she reduced it down to eating it sparingly.

As for her exercise plan, she practices the Israeli martial art, Krav Maga, which means ‘close combat’ in Hebrew. The student learns to neutralize an oncoming threat with crippling attacks to the most vulnerable of body parts. Maria said, “It’s the ultimate triple threat. It’s an amazing overall body workout, it’s fun, and empowering – and you’re learning how to protect yourself in any situation.” Besides turning her body into a weapon via martial arts training, she also likes to mix it up by doing fund and engaging exercise. Menounos said, “My goal is to feel like I’m not exercising. My trainer may come over, but we’ll go outside and run. Or I’ll have basketball games at my house with guys from Access. I’m tireless when playing sports. Have me do 20 reps of something in a gym, though, and I’m dying.”

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Alicia Keys – Staying in Tune With Her Diet and Exercise Plan

Alicia Keys has tried several diets including the master cleanse diet plan (a diet plan where for 10 days you are only allowed to ingest a “lemonade mixture”). However, she found that too difficult to stick to this diet plan. She has since found success on the 5 Factor Diet Plan by the celeb fitness trainer, Harley Pasternak. She has said that this plan is easy to follow because you’re never hungry….On this diet plan, you eat 5 meals per day (see my review of this diet plan). Keys praises the diet plan saying it is addicting because she feels amazing and tells us that it is the best diet plan for anyone wishing to lose weight, maintain their current weight or just eat right and healthy. Keys has also decided to give up fast food (after watching a documentary, “Food Inc.”). However, she is not ready to give up her one weakness – bread. Keys said, “Delicious, warm soft bread is an indulgence of mine.” Hey, it’s all good – so long as it is in moderation!

As for her exercise plan, Keys hits the gym 4 – 5 times a week. In order to keep from getting bored, she also does a lot of running, switches up her cardio exercises, biking, rowing and hits the exercise machines. One of the exercises Harley Pasternak has Keys do to burn maximum calories is the following: Exercise with only one arm or one leg at a time when strength training with exercise equipments such as dumbbells. This way, while you’re resting one side of your body, you’ll keep the other side going strong. Your heart will also have to keep pumping hard through your entire fitness training exercise, which means that you’ll actually burn more calories overall.

by Alfa - Losing Weight Zone
08-23-2010

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Forest Whitaker Diet and Exercise Program

The 49 year old actor, producer and director has always been a bit on the heavier side. However, within the last year or so, Whitaker quietly slimmed down, losing about 80 pounds. How did he do it? Through a serious diet and exercise program (a theme here on my website).

Whitaker knew it would take a lot of sweat and dedication to his exercise program to lose that kind of weight. He does cardio exercises such as hiking and martial arts on a regular basis. Nothing fancy but he keeps active in order to keep the weight off. His diet plan has gotten more publicity…

Whitaker knew that in order to lose the weight, he would have to drop some of the unhealthy foods he was consuming. So, in 2007, he decided to adopt a vegetarian diet, though he only cut meat out of his diet at this point. Not only is this diet a great way to drop weight but Whitaker also notes that this lifestyle will also help ward off diseases like heart disease, diabetes and cancer. He said, “The vegetarian diet plan for me has to be the best diet plan and the best healthy weight loss program I’ve ever tried.” Whitaker acknowledges that the vegetarian diet plan alone won’t get you to your ideal weight (especially since chocolate and chips can be consumed). Rather, you have to drop unhealthy snacks or at least drastically reduce your intake of those foods. Whitaker simply came to realize that in order to lose the weight, he would have to change his mindset about what is healthy, have a balanced and healthy diet plan and he would have to regularly exercise. Way to go Whitaker!