Exclusive: Cameron Diaz's Trainer: How to Get Her Legs
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How did Cameron Diaz prep her legs for those super short shorts she donned while filming Bad Teacher over the weekend?
Her longtime trainer, Teddy Bass, tells UsMagazine.com they mix up weight training and Pilates.
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"That seems to be the best combination for women over 30," he explains. "Women need weight -- it's great for building the butt. And elongation and smallness is tapped by doing Pilates."
The two hit the gym "as often as possible," depending on Diaz's work schedule. "You can do a great Pilates session in 45 minutes. If you have an hour-and-a-half, we'll do half weights and half Pilates and flexibility work."
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Diaz's gams are worked out by a series of compound exercises, such as a step-up with a reverse lunge, a squat with a curtsy, a side-reaching lunge with a side step, in which you slowly step your feet together. The combination of moves really works the upper thighs, Bass explains. "You can do fewer reps with heavier weights," adds the trainer, who recommends at least 10 to 20-pound weights for lower-body work.
They also do mat Pilates and use the reformer machine. "I keep the workout as high-paced as possible because of time restraints. Generally, it has a cardio element."
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You can do the moves without leaving your house.
"Everyone says, 'I don't have money, I can't join a gym.' Most of the work that I do doesn't use a gym," Bass tells Us. "I don't have a reformer machine when I go to set. We don't carry leg presses. You just need 10-pound dumbbells and a four-by-six space."
He continues: "As long as you're doing cardiovascular [work] three to five times a week, leg exercises that build your glutes and working on your elongation with yoga and Pilates, you'll change [your] appearance."
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5Do not do weighted workouts for your legs unless you want them to be huge and to NEVER wear skinny jeans. Cameron Diaz represents less than 1% of the female population that will not build muscles in her legs. Stop being lied to! Find out the truth! Life in Synergy
...now if her trainer could only tell her how to get an a$$...
working out will NOT make you tall and skinny.... what a bunch of crap
Be born tall and gorgeous.
Sorry but I am older than she is and when you have long legs and are thin I can attest it doesn't take that much work to keep them that way- just a lot of walking will do the trick when you are tall and thin with long legs anyway. Plus, you can't get someone else's legs!