Celebrity Fitness Trainer Opens Water Mill Studio

If you’re looking for a new fitness program to attempt to whittle away those last few pounds for the beach, look to celebrity fitness trainer Tracy Anderson, who is opening a studio in Water Mill for the summer.

Anderson’s roster of clients includes Courtney Cox, Molly Sims and Gwyneth Paltrow, who was so impressed with Anderson’s techniques that Paltrow and Anderson became business partners.

Anderson will be offering private training and public classes in Water Mill based on the fitness methods she has developed over the past 12 years. She says this is a special gym because “it’s the only place that we allow people to come from all over and actually take classes from me or my trainers. The other two gyms have waiting lists, and you have to be a member.”

Anderson began her fitness journey as a dancer trying to make it in New York City. She said she found that many dancers wanted have bodies woman do not typically have past their teenage years. After many years of research, she designed choreography that focuses on “keeping the small muscles awake and alert.”

Anderson finds her movements more beneficial than just running because “yes, [running] has a lot of benefits, but you’re doing the same movement over and over … and only using your larger muscles, and all the little muscles say I guess you don’t need us anymore,” which she says causes the skin to sag and the large muscles to bulk.

In the beginning of the year, Anderson introduced a DVD titled, Metamorphosis by Tracy. “Metamorphosis is my new project I’ve been working on the last few years so that every woman at home can really have what the people they read about have," she said. "You get a series of DVDs, which is your first 90 days, and there are nine different routines that change every 10 days.”

With Metamorphosis you can identify your own problem area, and “what’s great about it is that it is only one hour per day,” Anderson said. 

Diet plays a part as well. “Food is a huge part of our life, but it is the biggest failure in terms of achieving the body of your dreams and keeping it," she said. "The worst thing we can do for ourselves is to diet to look good every once in a while, and then gain weight the rest of the time. You’re better off holding on to a little bit of weight instead of yo-yoing.”

Anderson also has studios in Los Angeles and New York City and trainers available in London, but if you can’t get to one of these locations or afford it, there’s always her DVD series.

To register for a class and for more information, visit http://tracyandersonmethod.com.