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Personal Trainer
As Close As The TV

JACK WIWAMS SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

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or millions of morning TV
viewers, the inspiration to
exercise is just a remote
control button — or is it a
belly button? — away.
Denise Austin is their wiggling
wake-up call. Visual caffeine with
lots of sugar. Hold the half-and-
half.
For all those tropical two-piece
outfits that adorn her taut 110
pounds, Austin's long suit is
durability.
After nine years of ESPN's
"Getting Fit with Denise Austin"
— the longest-running fitness
show on cable TV — she's etched
into the American consciousness
like a dimpled deltoid.
She fields about 600 letters a
week from viewers and fans, who
have bought enough of her latest
video, "Hit the Spot-Abs," to lift
it to No. 1 on the industry hit pa-
rade.
While she insists that, at 39,
she keeps camera-friendly and
fit on 30 minutes of exercise a day
("before my two daughters get
up"), she's in constant motion.
"Right now," she's saying by
phone from her Alexandria, Va.,
home, "I'm doing my 'saddlebag
slimmer,' a leg lift designed to
tone the outer thigh."
It's on Page 306 of her latest
book, Jump Start (Simon &
Schuster), she says. So are
dozens of "in-a-hurry exercises"
she suggests for the person on the
go.
Somehow these exercise alter-
natives — suggested with the
panache of a cheerleader as in-
tent on improving your attitude
as your anatomy — hit home. At
least, with an audience that
needs equal doses of reassurance
and motivation.
Three years ago, a journalist
monitoring the proliferation of
fitness TV shows counted no less
than 63 congratulatory "great"
and "good" comments by Austin
to her invisible audience during
a 30-minute show.
"I'm truly their personal train-
er," she says. "Each day it's a dif-
ferent body part — thighs,
tummy, arms, buns. You can do
these things without equipment."
But if it's exercise equipment
you're looking for, she has that,
too — a whole line of it. Check
out QVC once in a while. "One
day I sold 38,000 aerobic riders
at $110 each," she says.
"But for somebody just starting
out, going out for a walk is just
as good."
And for somebody without
much time for exercise?
"In the course of a day you can
burn calories just standing and

moving — 2.5 per minute stand-
ing, compared with 1.5 per
minute sitting. If you're moving
you burn up to 7 per minute."
And yes, she says, she does sit
down to three meals a day — in-
cluding a king-size breakfast —
cereal, toast, fruit, juice and cof-
fee. But she tries to eat like a
pauper after sundown.
Austin devotes three mornings
a week to 20 minutes of low-im-
pact aerobic exercise. Two days
are for strengthening and toning.
Three minutes of every day are
devoted to the one area in which
she seems to take greatest pride:
the abdominals. -
"Everybody wanted to know
how I got a flat tummy again af-
ter my last baby (her daughters
are approaching 2 and 5)," she
says.
Answer: No shortcuts, fancy de-
vices or arcane exercises. Just
your basic crunches, curls and
twists — slow and controlled
"like you're pressing your belly
button into your back," she says.
Because much of the audience
Austin addresses is more intent
on dropping weight than lifting
it, the emphasis is on slimming.
Whether reprogramming the
palate or jump-starting the body,
it takes 21 days to solidify a com-
mitment and instill new behav-
ior patterns, Austin insists,
echoing the observations of be-
havior specialists.
"So I designed a 21-day pro-
gram to lose weight for the 1,000
people who sent me letters, peo-
ple from 16 to 75," she says. 'The
average person lost 8 pounds."
Among Austin's command-
ments: daily exercise, beginning
with as little as 10 minutes a day
the first week, 15 minutes the
second week and 20 minutes the
third week.
While 10 minutes a day of ex-
ercise is not much more than a
warm-up for the truly commit-
ted, it's a stretch for overweight
beginners.
Says Austin: "A new study of
obesity patients at the Universi-
ty of Pittsburgh found they lost
more weight in 12 weeks by do-
ing two sessions a day of 10-
minute exercises than they did
doing one 20-minute session.
"For some, 20 minutes is too
much to ask, but they can last for
10 minutes."
As for table matters, "the hard
part," concedes Austin, her regi-
men for rejuvenation includes
eating three mr, als and two
snacks daily — nothing after 8
p.m. ❑
Jack Williams writes for Cop-
ley News Service.

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