Tracy Anderson

Tracy Anderson (born March 3, 1975 in Noblesville, Indiana, United States) is an American multi-platform fitness pioneer and author. She is best known for her Tracy Anderson Method, with clients including Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicole Richie, Lena Dunham,[1] Courteney Cox, Shakira, Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ashley Greene, Jennifer Lopez, and Bethenny Frankel.[2][3][4]

The daughter of dance instructor Diana Ephlin,[5] Anderson trained in dance from an early age in Noblesville, Indiana. She initially hoped to become a professional dancer in New York City. After a 40 lb. weight gain during her first year in New York City, Anderson switched her focus to weight loss/fitness training as a career. Anderson has gym locations in Los Angeles, New York City, The Hamptons, and London and has a DVD collection for at-home training. In 2015, Tracy Anderson launched an online fitness program called TA Video Streaming. Each week, subscribers receive new workouts filmed in real-time at one of her studios.

She has launched a pregnancy workout DVD collection aimed at women in the pre-and-postnatal periods. [6]

Criticism

Perhaps the most contested claim by Anderson regarding her method is her assertion that women shouldn't lift more than three pounds. This has led to rebuttals from various fitness experts. Shawn Mozen pointed out that weight lifting increases bone density and that many things women lift in their every day life weigh more than that,[7] an argument concurred by personal trainer Kat Whitfield.[8] Tony Gentilcore has stated that for women "lifting heavy WILL NOT make you big and bulky."[9] Fellow trainer Dean Somerset states that, "women are at a disadvantage due to lower circulating levels of testosterone, different muscle architecture than men (think of how men can have a very prominent biceps peak where women typically can’t), and a lower relative release of growth hormone. Aside from that, women typically need much more volume than men to make any kind of substantial gains in muscle size."[10] Alfonso Moretti also takes issue with, "Tracy [Anderson's] claims [that] she can take any woman’s body and transform it into a tiny, dancers physique... [I]n my opinion that is completely impossible, unless of course she has devised a time travel technique to go back in time and change who your parents are."[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Lena Dunham Looks Amazing! Girls Star Reveals Why She Loves Working Out with Celeb Trainer Tracy Anderson".
  2. ↑ "Tracy Anderson Celebrity Clients". FitSugar.
  3. ↑ "Trainer Aims for Celebri-teeny Bodies". ABC News.
  4. ↑ "Tracy Anderson Chats About Her Star Clients and Endorses the Occasional Glass of Wine". FitSugar.
  5. ↑ "Tracy Anderson". The Dancin Place.
  6. ↑ "Tracy Anderson Launches Pregnancy Project". Celebrity Baby Scoop.
  7. ↑ "“NO WOMAN SHOULD LIFT MORE THAN 3 POUNDS”".
  8. ↑ "Buyer beware: Jennifer Lopez’s new Body Lab challenge and the racket of celebrity fitness marketing".
  9. ↑ "“NO WOMAN SHOULD LIFT MORE THAN 3 LBS.” IN OTHER NEWS: BOSTON BASED STRENGTH COACH/TRAINER JUST WENT POSTAL".
  10. ↑ "A Logical Argument Against the Tracy Anderson Method".
  11. ↑ "ATF Classic: The Tracy Anderson Method!".
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