Hot Bodies by Us

This time last year, Us Weekly did its annual “bikini season” issue that focused on “Diets That Work!” for the stars with the “hottest bodies.” This year the theme is pretty much the same Hot Bodies 2011: Stars share their favorite diet & toning secrets to get sexy fast. But most of the featured stars didn’t really share anything, or anything useful. As you’ll see from the table below, only 4 of the 15 celebrities featured (pages 76-98) said anything at all about their exercise regimen and only one said anything about diet. Most of this non-information was just self-centered silliness accompanied by about two dozen pages of pictures of the stars’ semi-naked, “hot” bodies.

Next was a feature (pages 100-102) called Bachelorette Getaway that promised to reveal how these reality show stars “stayed sexy after the cameras stopped rolling.” Roberto Martinez, 26, and Ali Fedotowsky, also 26, hike, bike and swim and Ali is trying to get Roberto to try hot yoga although the golfer’s” downward dog is not up to par.” Trista, 38, and Ryan, 36, Sutter do cardio DVD workouts and crunches while their kids are napping. Firefighter Ryan also does mountain biking. Ashley Hebert, 26, teaches jazz, ballet and hip-hop dancing.

According to the next article (page 106), Lady Gaga wasn’t Born this Way with rock-hard abs, sleek arms and totally toned legs and works hard for her physique. According to her trainer, Harley Pasternak, Gaga does 35-minute strength-training sessions 5 times a week, including

1. Bicycle crunches for her abs (six sets of 20)
2. Reverse lunges for her legs (six sets of 20 holding a 10 lb weight in each hand)
3. Overhead dumbbell triceps extensions (six sets of 20) for her arms
4. Lateral dumbbell presses for her shoulders
5. Skater lunges (six sets of 20) for her butt

The next story (pages 108-111) describes the “Shapes of [the stars of] Glee.” Former wrestler Mark Salling works out with co-stars Chord Overstreet and Harry Shum Jr. doing pushups, pullups and cardio. Chord, 22, does 90 minutes of weight-training 5 days a week and follows a strict diet that eliminates flour, dairy, sugar and a lot of carbs. Heather Morris practices “Piloxing” classes which are a mix of Pilates, dance and boxing.

There are two times in women’s lives when slimming down is a high priority. Vanessa Minnillo describes her wedding workout to get ready for that big day (pages 112-114). There’s another story (pages 122-124) on how several “hot mamas” got back in shape after delivering their babies:

• Kourtney Kardashian, 32: gained 40 pounds but got back to size 0 with breast-feeding and Pilates
• Kendra Wilkinson, 25: lost 40 pounds with 5 hour-long workouts a week
• Miranda Kerr, 26: Yoga and healthy eating
• Padma Lakshmi, 40: lost 38 pound by running and boxing
• Minnie Driver, 41: surfing and yoga
• Heidi Klum: running and staying away from carbs

In a feature called Small Screen Stunners (page 126) and Hunks (page 128), we learn that

• Blake Lively, 23, does strength-training workouts
• Cheryl Burke, 27, swaps egg whites for eggs and wheat bread for white
• Emmanuelle Chriqui, 33, does circuit training, eats fruit & veggies and sleeps a lot
• Scott Caan, 34, loves to surf
• Stephen Moyer, 41, rides bikes together with his wife Anna Paquin
• Penn Badgley, 24, practices martial arts with a lot of hand stands

The last story we’ll describe is The Bodies that make The Bodies (pager 116-117) about the “celeb trainers … [who have] bossed around the best in the biz.”

We’ll end with the same conclusion that accompanied our review of Diets That Work!

We have no doubt that these celebrity diets and exercise programs work provided that you’re born with a certain body type, your livelihood depends on your appearance, you’re younger than 40, you are wealthy enough to afford personal trainers and/or chefs, and you have enough spare time to work out for 60 to 90 minutes per day, 5 to 7 days per week. It’s that simple!

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