Alicia Keys’ Fitness Training Exercise Program and Diet Plan

Alicia Keys is a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter who knows that being healthy does not mean having to slim down to a size 0. She loves her curves and will never give in to the weight loss pressure of Hollywood. But she also understands that like most celebrities, she’s always in the spotlight and sometimes celebs need to lose weight – at least a few pounds either for some sort of big premier, an event or even a video shoot. So for her fitness training exercise program and weight loss plan, she turns to Harley Pasternak, fitness trainer to the stars.

Alicia Keys Weight Loss Diet Plan

The RnB singer once went on the Master Cleanse Diet plan, otherwise known as the Lemonade Diet Plan. This diet is held a minimum of 10 days (with each day, you can lose weight of at least 1 pound). Although this diet plan is very hard to keep up, it’s a great way to cleanse your body and lose weight. During this time, the dieter is only allowed to ingest the lemonade mixture (at least 8 glasses a day), The Master Cleanse Diet plan is comprised of a mixture of freshly squeezed lemon juice, grade B maple syrup, cayenne pepper and water. But since the Grammy winning singer had found it hard to stick to this weight loss diet plan, she switched to the 5-Factor Diet plan of fitness trainer, Harley Pasternak.
The 5-Factor Diet is a weight loss diet plan and fitness exercise program that gets you to stop counting calories, carbs, food measuring as well as time consuming exercises. The 5-Factor Diet consists of eating 5 healthy meals per day. Harley Pasternak, fitness trainer to a lot of Hollywood celebrities and creator of the 5-Factor Diet plan offers an online option where dieters can use interactive and customized tools to create their individual weight loss program. Alicia Keys says it’s easy to follow this weight loss program because you’re never hungry since you eat 5 meals per day and it is actually an addicting diet because you feel so amazing! The singer says this is the best diet plan for anyone wishing to lose weight, maintain their current weight or just eat right and healthy.
The singer has also said in numerous interviews that meat and dairy are not part of her diet plan. Now, after watching the documentary Food Inc., she has also decided not to eat fast food either. But she confesses that she has a dieting weakness: bread. She explained, “Delicious, warm soft bread is an indulgence of mine.” She also said that she likes to eat foods that make her feel good afterward.

Alicia Keys Fitness Training Exercises

Alicia Keys once trained with fitness trainer, Josh Zitomer, the creator of myfitstream.com, who has also been the fitness trainer to celebrities like Jessica Simpson, Eva Mendes, John Mayer, Bono and Tobey Maguire. Alicia Keys told OK! Magazine that her most dreaded exercise with Josh was, The Ab Test. Fitness trainer, Josh explained how to do this fitness exercise: “Lie down on your back, draw your knees towards your chest. Put the palms of your hands on the side of your head near your ears. Crunch up and touch your knee caps with your elbows. With your feet off the ground, elbows touching your knees and shoulder blades off the ground, roll into a ball. The key is to keep your elbows on your knee caps. Once in position, the fitness trainer holds and pulls on the knees.”
Her new fitness trainer, Harley Pasternak also gives some fitness training exercise and weight loss tips on how to burn more calories: Exercise with only one arm or one leg at a time when strength training with exercise equipments such as dumbbells. This way, while you’re resting one side of your body, you’ll keep the other side going strong. Your heart will also have to keep pumping hard through your entire fitness training exercise, which means that you’ll actually burn more calories overall.
Aside from going to the gym 4-5 times a week, Alicia Keys also runs a lot and uses other forms of cardio exercises in her fitness training exercise program to prevent boredom. To mix it up, she does biking and rowing plus she does exercises on fitness machines like the treadmill.

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Julie Benz, the American actress best known for her role as Rita Morgan on Dexter is taking on the challenge of becoming a Desperate Housewife as she joins the Teri Hatcher, Eva Longoria and Marcia Cross on the hit series. But since she can’t share the juicy plot lines of her new show, she gamely discusses another topic – her fitness secrets. Read on as the new Desperate Housewives star gives the details on the kind of fitness exercise program and diet plan she has that’s making her one hot Housewife.

Julie’s Fitness Training Exercise Program

While celebrities like Brooke Shields completely shun any fitness exercise program that involves weights, it’s all that stars like Julie Benz use. The Housewife star shared that heavy weightlifting is her tried and tested fitness training exercise program. “There’s this misconception that if you involve lifting heavy weights in your fitness exercise program, you’re going to bulk up,” Julie Benz told People. “As a woman, I can attest that you don’t bulk up – you actually trim down with this kind of fitness exercise program.” And the 37 year old actress is stepping up her fitness training exercise program now that the killer TV series has begun airing its fourth season with heavy weight lifting exercises as one of the key components to her four day exercise program.
But there’s another fitness exercise program that the star is into which she considers her secret fitness exercise weapon. Unlike most celebrities who turn to Yoga exercises or Pilates exercises, the star confesses her fascination with pole dancing as a form of exercise. Pole dancing is a form of performing art, a combination of dancing and gymnastics. It involves dancing sensually with a vertical pole. It’s now regarded as a recognized form of exercise and can be used as both an aerobic and anaerobic exercise.
In fact, the actress has recently bonded with Playboy Hugh Hefner’s former girlfriend when Julie Benz confessed to being a fan of the latter’s Sport Pole. “I wanted a stripper pole and I tweeted about it and then Kendra Wilkinson, who is coming out with her own line of poles, sent me one so I got lucky. She even signed it. It’s called a Sport Pole. I love it! It’s such a great fitness training exercise.” ” And Julie Benz has certainly been getting quite the sexy fitness exercise as of late with her super hot lesbian stripper role on “Desperate Housewives.

This Desperate Wife’s Diet Plan

Aside from her fitness exercise program, Julie Benz also recently gave some insight into what a daily meal diet plan looks like for her on a busy schedule. To start her day, she has a big breakfast since she has to be on her way to filming by 4am. Below is a sample of her diet plan:

Breakfast

Coffee, Fiber One cereal with yogurt and then later an egg and veggie burrito with fruit.

Lunch

Tuna fish with brown rice, avocado with a squeeze of lime, cooked broccoli and water with lemon.

Snack

KIND brand fruit and nut bar of almond and apricot.

Dinner

Persian chicken with a salad and a glass of pinot grigio and for a light ‘dessert’ a cup of chocolate chip mint tea.
Julie Benz also takes in diet supplements. She likes to drink Intelligent Nutrients’ organic Intellimune products to up her antioxidant intake. “I am stricter on set because I don’t want to have the sugar crashes so I stick to healthy choices like hard-boiled eggs, apples and peanut butter, and vegetables and hummus. We work fifteen hour days…” Julie Benz also admits to OK! that sometimes cast mates also need an energy boost. “Everyone eats everything. I have even seen some women eating doughnuts. Sometimes you need the energy!”

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