By Laura Medina
Chris & Heidi Powell, https://www.tastemade.com/@the_arriviste/tU8a65W-SoeublAgv9oOBA
OK! Magazine is well-known in Hollywood for throwing some smashing parties in the hottest spots then stocking them with celebrities they actually do profile in their magazines. This scribe ain't complaining about that.
But washing down cute cupcakes with vodka concoctions can take a toll on your system...and you really want to live the next day to go party the next night.
OK! Magazine felt the same way too. This is why they expanded their parties into a new angle, celebrating and highlight the fitness/personal trainers to the stars who become fitness celebrities in their own right. Say hello the second annual "OK! Magazine Body & Soul."
Now, it is officially "Bikini Season," can't think of a better time to do some intense bursts of different varieties of work-outs on the beach, specifically Santa Monica Beach in front of the historically elegant Casa Del Mar Hotel.
The magazine is nice enough to throw, what is essentially, a fitness expo in the hotel's ballroom displaying the different work-outs and gear that celebrities actually use and wear while exercising. If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for us mere mortals.
And what mere mortals we guests are, they started Saturday morning with the toughest work-out, Box n' Burn.
Thank God it was in the sand, out on the beach. The throwing punches toned the arms and twisting tones the abdominal oblique muscles, aka, "the corset." The "crab crawl" was unforgiving for this back-aching scribe but everything else burns,...burn baby burn.
Each fitness segment comes in intense 30 minutes of intense bursts.
The following segment was actually the most gentle and wished it was the first exercise segment. Heidi Powell, Chris Powell's fitness instructor wife, led a very gentle-as-a-lamb warm-ups which precede their book signing.
The third segment was "Get SWOL." A partner-involved exercise program for couples when one is the weight on top of the push-up then holding other's legs while doing another set of push-ups.
The fourth and last one was Buti Yoga, a sexed-up version of yoga that this scribe did not participate at all, not ready for thigh-slapping out in public.
After two hours of burning calories and getting dehydrated, the restaurant staff watched me from afar then served me protein-packed Eggs Florentine for lunch then decadent but healthy Caramelized Grapefruit with a dollop of Lime-Mint Creme Fraiche.
Fit and Fab, Fueled,...and Fed, no dried-up anorexia here.
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