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Wouldn't you love to have the body of a movie star without spending countless hours working out to get there? Top Hollywood trainer and Weekend Today fitness expert Steve Zim shows you how to sculpt a phenomenal physique faster and easier than you ever thought possible. In just thirty minutes a day, three times a week, Zim's revolutionary combined cardio and weight-training program will help you ramp up your metabolic rate, burn fat faster than conventional workouts, and produce the body of your dreams.
Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1. What is the Celebrity Makeover Miracle.

Chapter 2. Celebrity Makeover Strength.

Chapter 3. Celebrity Makeover Cardio.

Chapter 4. Celebrity Makeover Nutrition.

Chapter 5. Getting Started.

Chapter 6. Celebrity Makeover Exercises.

Chapter 7. The Celebrity Makeover Walking Phase - Weeks 1 and 2.

Chapter 8. The Celebrity Makeover Marching Phase - Weeks 3 and 4.

Chapter 9. The Celebrity Makeover Jogging Phase - Weeks 5 and 6.

Chapter 10. The Celebrity Makeover Stepping Phase - Weeks 7 and 8.

Chapter 11. The Celebrity Makeover Lunging Phase - Weeks 9 and 10.

Chapter 12. The Celebrity Makeover RAW Workout.

Chapter 13. Your New Present and Future.

Index.

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	28 mars 2008
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780470231418
Langue	English

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The 30-Minute
Celebrity Makeover Miracle
Also by Steve Zim 6 Weeks to a Hollywood Body Hot Point Fitness
The 30-Minute
Celebrity Makeover Miracle
Achieve the Body You’ve Always Wanted
STEVE ZIM with STEVE STEINBERG

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Copyright © 2008 by Steve Zim and Steve Steinberg. All rights reserved
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada
All photographs by Nicolas Sage
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The information in this book is not intended to serve as a replacement for professional medical advice. Any use of the information in this book is at the reader’s discretion. The author and the publisher specifically disclaim any and all liability arising directly or indirectly from the use or application of any information contained in this book. A health care professional should be consulted regarding your specfic situation.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Zim, Steve.
The 30-minute celebrity makeover miracle : achieve the body you've always wanted / Steve Zim.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-470-17403-6 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Exercise. 2. Physical fitness. 3. Bodybuilding. 4. Nutrition. 5. Celebrities—Health and hygiene. I.Title. II.Title: Thirty minute celebrity makeover miracle.
RA781.Z538 2007
613.7'1—dc22
2007039343
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
To my mother, Cookie Zimelman, who is always in my heart.
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 What Is the Celebrity Makeover Miracle?
2 Celebrity Makeover Strength
3 Celebrity Makeover Cardio
4 Celebrity Makeover Nutrition
5 Getting Started
6 Celebrity Makeover Exercises
7 The Celebrity Makeover Walking Phase—Weeks 1 and 2
8 The Celebrity Makeover Marching Phase—Weeks 3 and 4
9 The Celebrity Makeover Jogging Phase—Weeks 5 and 6
10 The Celebrity Makeover Stepping Phase—Weeks 7 and 8
11 The Celebrity Makeover Lunging Phase—Weeks 9 and 10
12 The Celebrity Makeover RAW Workout
13 Your New Present and Future
Resources
Index
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Tom Miller for shepherding this project from the beginning to the end. To Steve Steinberg, a great writer, who turned my words into a book. To Nicolas Sage for making my exercises pop off the page. To Maria Yip for her hard work producing great segments on the Weekend Today show and allowing me to educate millions of people about how to stay healthy. To Ivorie Anthony, Pat Robertson, and Kristi Watts at the 700 Club for allowing me to share my knowledge with their viewers. Thanks to the TV Guide Network for inviting me to explain how to really get a Hollywood Body. To Dennis Weiss for always making me think bigger. To Chuck Dalaklis, Teresa McKeown, Dennis and Sharon Dugan, and the Brokaw brothers—your support means the world to me. To Mel Berger, William Morris agent extraordinaire, for bringing Tom and me together. To Dr. Abraham Zimelman, my dad and medical adviser for my fitness segments, and Dr. Alice Zimelman. To Shirley Rubinstein for being more than family and always giving me great ideas for segments. To Irv Rubinstein for proving my theory correct by exercising and coming back from his stroke better and stronger than ever. To my wife, Jodi, who always supports me and is the best partner I could have ever dreamed of. To Carli and Taylor, who are the cutest gymnasts and sweetest daughters in the world. To Hank, my new running partner, for keeping me moving. To the gang at the gym: Salter Giddens, Chris Yackley, Alyson Sanders, Enrique Collazo, Danika DaMatta, and Deana Fletes. To the Wiley team: production editor Lisa Burstiner and freelance copy editor Patti Waldygo. Last, but not least, to our models, Jodi Zimelman, Alyson Sanders, and Sarah Koplin.
Steve Zim
Thanks to Steve Zim for letting me be a part of his latest project, and thanks to these folks for keeping life fun while I was doing it: Anddy, Andre, Benny, Patrick, Michele, Sabunim, and Wendy.
Steve Steinberg
1
What Is the Celebrity Makeover Miracle?
T ime—there’s never enough of it. Most of us already have too much to do. We’ve gone beyond just burning the candle at both ends; our candles are fully engulfed in flames. Work, kids, school, shopping, cleaning. You get the picture. Sadly, when time gets tight, the first thing we sacrifice is taking proper care of ourselves. We try to get by on less sleep, we skip meals, and we cut back on the time we spend at the gym.
As a trainer, the two biggest questions I get are “Can I really change my body if I only have thirty minutes to work out?” and “Should I be doing cardio or lifting weights?” Happily, I know the answers to these questions. My job is to transform bodies. If there’s one thing I know, it’s makeovers. I’ve done them on the Weekend Today show, Access Hollywood , Entertainment Tonight , VH1, and the USA Network, to name just a few places. What makes these makeovers unlike the ones you see in magazines is that they are done on video, not in still pictures. Pictures can be studied and chosen to show off the model at his or her best. Unflattering shots end up in the trash, or they get touched up until they’re more flattering. Video, on the other hand, doesn’t lie. What you see is what you get. When a TV crew comes into my gym, A Tighter U Fitness Studio, with cameras, they want to expose everything and see whether I can really pull off a seriously jaw-dropping makeover. My reputation is on the line every time, and thank God, I always get the job done.
Even though there’s added pressure on me when I’m doing a makeover for a high-profile actor or actress, it’s actually easier than doing a similar makeover on a regular person like you or me. They have more time and we don’t. If I’m getting an actor ready for a part, he has six or eight weeks to get in shape. During that time, his only responsibilities are to learn a script and get in shape. He doesn’t have to worry about wrapping up the year-end accounting numbers, waiting for the plumber to show up, or shuttling four kids to soccer practice, chess club, and karate class the way you do.
Doing these makeovers for people who aren’t celebrities, as I do for many shows, is where I get some of my biggest thrills because most people don’t think they can do it. These are normal people. They have jobs. They have kids. They don’t have an entourage. And they don’t have countless hours to work out every day. They may have 30 minutes a few days a week to exercise—and that’s it. These makeovers get done—with dramatic results—because I understand that there are three vital components to a successful makeover: aerobics, strength training, and proper nutrition. All three are necessary to get your body to change quickly.
The strategies that I use in my TV makeovers are in this book, so you can get the same impressive results at home.
Cardio or Weight Lifting?
When most people work out, they either lift weights or do an aerobic activity like the treadmill or the elliptical. It’s one or the other. But let’s look at some numbers.
If you lift weights for 30 minutes, you can get your heart rate into the 50 to 55 percent range of its maximal rate. If you do cardio, you can raise your heart rate into the 65 to 80 percent range. What happens when we take the two activities and combine them? What if three days a week we did a cardio-weight program? These are rhetorical questions because I already know the answers: you lose weight, tone up, and look and feel great—all in just a half-hour only three days a week. I call it the 30-Minute Celebrity Makeover Miracle, and it’s the ten-week program that I’ve used to transform celebrities and noncelebrities alike. How did this whole thing come about?
In the late eighties, I was a student at Boston College. My father had a doctor friend who was using cutting-edge infrared technology to track the progress of his patients recovering from injuries. My father knew I was into working out, and he figured that since the doctor’s work involved muscles and working out involved muscles, a visit to this doctor’s office would be the most exciting afternoon a twenty-year-old could possibly have.
After about an hour of watching the doctor scan patients to monitor blood flow into their various injured areas, I had an idea. I asked the doctor, “Is there any way this can be used to track blood flow during exercise?” I told him that a lot of the time when I worked out, I didn’t feel things where I knew I was supposed to—my muscles didn’t feel the way I thought they should. Was it because I wasn’t doing the exercises correctly? Or maybe the exercises weren’t as good as they could be.
We used very expensive equipment to test a standard overhead shoulder press—the press that everyone considers the ultimate shoulder exercise. What we came up with was interesting.