Gwyneth Paltrow's trainer

Holy crap! I just checked out her site and maybe I'm a little prudish & naive, but I am :eek:!

You're right Gayle. I could snap that woman like a twig. And enjoy it in the process. :p

I would never hire her to train me. That's what I looked like before I became a serious exerciser, thought the end goal was being skinny & only being skinny, & had no idea how to spell nutrition, much less understand it.

Hey Gwyneth, if you're out there, join us & learn what REAL exercise is! ;)
 
Oh and I loved it in the video when Gwyneth was like "I work REALLY hard".

Ya. Sure. Spend a week with Cathe or some of us and maybe then you'll know what it means to work hard. :p
 
Only 3 pounds!?! My 19 month old daughter "does Cathe workouts" with me using two 2 pound weights. She loves to lug them around the room and screams when I try and take them away from her. My daughter could kick Gwenyth's butt and she only weighs 20 pounds. And the heat thing, what's up with that? The only time I know heat to be good is when I train for a fall marathon. If I run in warm weather all summer it makes it that much easier to run far on a cooler fall day, but I certainly don't wait till it's hot to run. Last thing...her pictures...she looks like she doesn't know how to pull her underwear up all the way. My husband thinks that skinny women look ridiculous and that they need to eat. He always joked that men need to go out with women who eat because they are happier because they are not hungry.
 
crazystepr said:
The sad part is that many of the women who watch Oprah religiously and saw that video are now going to follow Tracey's ridiculous workout advice and toss their heavy weights.
Click to expand...

Those would be the same women who read in Good Housekeeping that vaccuuming burns 300 cals an hour & therefore believe they do not need to do cardio. :D:eek::p
 
Rant...sorry

I just watched that video and felt like puking afterwards. I can't get over how skinny and unappealing Gweneth looks. And the comment about 3 pounds, never lift more then 3 pounds absolutely angered me! I don't want to look like a stick, and I don't want to look like that trainer either. Fake. Her website photos are a ridiculous collection of soft porn geared towards men, and once again women *think* they are supposed to look like that for men. As women, we are inundated daily with pictures like that and I believe that boys of today are growing up believing that is what they deserve and what all women should look like. Very skinny, but somehow magically endowed with an over-sized chest. Did I say fake somewhere before?

I don't CARE what celebrities are wearing, what their kid is wearing, what they buy for Christmas, etc. Even when I was looking up the sliding discs just out of curiosity, the creator of them defines herself as a "celebrity trainer". What impresses me are people that make it work without the hype and get results with what they have in hand, not huge heated gyms and personal trainers and a pool out front to hear the kids playing in. Yeah, I'm happy for anyone who is that fortunate, but don't tell the rest of the population THIS is the way to get it done. I hope I don't sound resentful, but think of all the women that don't have the ability of staying home, that work 8 to 12 hours, or the moms that don't have hired help, a chef and have kids they actually take care of sometimes over 18 hours a day (I so remember) and then fit in their workouts before the birds get up anyway. This is why I don't care about most of what's on Oprah anymore.
 
LauraMax said:
Those would be the same women who read in Good Housekeeping that vaccuuming burns 300 cals an hour & therefore believe they do not need to do cardio. :D:eek::p
Click to expand...

It does?? How did I miss THAT article? I am so going home to vacuum instead of doing the CC workout I had planned for tonight:eek:.

Carrie
 
No doubting from me. I get a kick out of reading about all of the calories I burn while cleaning house and working in the yard. If I ironed, I'd be burning a lot there too. Now, if I washed clothes with a scrub board thing, that would burn some calories! Our poor grandmothers. And without A/C. That freaky trainer would probably advocate house cleaning without the A/C. Oh wait, a vacuum would be too heavy. How much does a bottle of cleaner weigh? That may be out too. Guess I better hire a maid and just watch her work in the non A/C so I can burn more calories as I lift my pen to write a check. Whew - now that would be a workout :rolleyes:
 
The website AND video are just saaaaaaaaad. :( I know there is a lot to be said for band workouts (um, thinking about my GS workout this morning using the band for t-back row things and when Cathe makes us do the bonus burns for kickbacks - OUCH) - but you need to use good form when doing band work and it looks like they are both all over the place ... form on all the workout moves looked sloppy and haphazard... Poor Gwyneth - if only someone had her address we could send her a Cathe DVD!!
 
My thought here is that Gwyneth Paltrow must have SO much money that she can pay other people to do everyday activities for her.

E.g. lifting heavy grocery bags at the store and getting them into the house - or hauling a gas-filled lawn mower out from behind a pile of boxes/stuff in the garage to get it outside to mow the lawn, and then pushing it around for the time necessary. Or, as someone mentioned, lifting your own child!!! Good grief! Oh a P.S. later - that 2 1/2 gallon container most people have in the garage to hold the gas for the lawn mower - weighs 20 pounds when full.
 
Last edited:
Three pound weights make sense to me ...

Maybe 3 pounds is all you can lift if you eat only 800 calories a day! :D

But seriously, nobody wants to be around me if I'm eating only 800 calories a day! I am not a nice person when I'm starving (literally)! :mad: I'll stick with Cathe's workouts and a healthy, fairly clean diet. It's working great for me!

--Kathryn
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Our Newsletter

Get awesome content delivered straight to your inbox.

Top