Tracy Anderson sucks the fun out of everything. She’s simply not content to suggest that everyone is different and people might enjoy doing different things, working out in different ways, or following different diets or even – GASP – following no diet at all. Tracy Anderson has never been followed a “You Do You” life philosophy. Why would she? She’s too busy trying to sell you food, exercise, ritzy dance classes and whatever else. It doesn’t even occur to her that she could promote all of her sh-t without bad-mouthing other people’s choices and lifestyles. So what’s Tracy up to now? Telling women that they have to exercise while they’re on vacation, and that there’s literally nothing worse than – GASP – gaining a few pounds while on vacation. Great, because women don’t have enough guilt in their lives.
You can have fun on your vacation, but only if you work out regularly: “I like for people to loosen up a little bit on their food and still get their workout in. That’s way you can come back from vacation at least staying the same [weight] and not gaining.”
The disappearing bikini body: “This is the picture that’s going to happen: You’re going to work really hard, you all of the sudden capture a healthy lifestyle in a few weeks and you’re going to see the results that are going to be positive. Then you’re going to drink margaritas and eat chips and guacamole on the beach and you’re going to lose those results before your very eyes.”
You can indulge a little bit: Even though she says it’s OK to compromise on eating and drinking — “have three drinks throughout the night or more if you dare”— Anderson says to be picky about deciding when to treat yourself: “I think that if you’re someone that struggles with your weight and you’re on vacation, pick your meals that everyone’s going to have fun at, like the restaurant that everyone can’t wait to try and don’t sit there and order like a dieter, indulge in that experience.”
Make sure that you disrupt everyone’s schedule to get a workout in: “I personally believe that if you’re going on vacation with family or dear friends, the purpose of the vacation is to let down but also connect and create meaningful experiences with people, [so] put on your big-girl healthy pants, look at the itinerary and be the least disruptive of everyone’s time to find the quiet time to connect yourself. The more you involve other people in taking care of your health the worse the connection.”
Here’s my advice to women who are going on vacation: enjoy yourselves. Life’s too short. Accept who you are, accept your body and go and have fun. Get some sun. Go swimming. Go for a hike. Catch a fish. Read a good book. Go on an adventure. Don’t f–king worry about your g–damn “bikini body” the entire time you’re supposed to be de-stressing and taking it easy. My life advice for everyone out there is to read what Tracy Anderson has to say and then do the exact opposite because she’s a joy-killing hobgoblin.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I do not know who this person is, and already I do not like her.
Eat healthily or do not
Exercise or do not
Your life is yours for your living. Do not allow a ‘wellness’ weasel to dictate how your vacation pans out
God
Yes, just enjoy life the way you want to. I don’t see anything wrong with exercising while on vacation if you do what you enjoy. I always try to workout when I’m vacation. I do a set of simplest exercises in the morning every other day and whether I’m at home or not. Nothing special – sit-ups, an crunches, all the things that Cindy Crawford did in her workout video. It makes me feel great by and it keeps my body look nice.
As for “bikini body” goal to show off, that a very stupid obsession. I find that at women are too preoccupied witty being perfect in everything- work, looks, marriage,
motherhood.
A wellness weasel – I like that.
A wellness weasel with one hand in your wallet. Her biggest fear is we discover we don’t need her or any member of the evil weight loss industry.
@Mrs. Wellen-Melon: “Her biggest fear is we discover we don’t need her or any member of the evil weight loss industry.”
– You nailed it right on the head.
Wellness weasel.
Wellness weasel.
This will never not be funny.
Why is her head too big for her body in the last pic?
I think she must be a terribly unhappy person. She would like to be a tall, elegant Park Avenue-style swan, but she must fight every day with a short, stumpy body — her head looks big because she has a wide face that no amount of starving will change, it’s bone structure. She also has no neck, which heightens the contrast between her head and her emaciated body. She doesn’t have muscle tone because she starves herself. It would be utterly pathetic if she wasn’t preying on vulnerable women.
She’s not a good advertisement for what she preaches.
What ELX says. I hate that Goopy gives her a platform too.
Wide face or bulimia jaw?
You tell me.
I don’t find anything really offensive in what she is saying. The way I read it is have fun, try to make time for yourself if you want to work out, and enjoy a few margaritas during your vacation. The way I read it is that if you overindulgence yourself by a lot and not exercise you’ll gain a few pounds which is probably true. I didnt read any judgement against gaining a few pounds during vacation.
Also, I’m not a fan of hers but I don’t get why its ok to attack her looks just because she is not liked. Attack her ideas and outlook but going after her looks that she has no power to change such as her stature is mean and frankly anti-women IMO. Very 1950s
Also
I think it’s bulimia jaw
She’s selling her looks. “If you do what I do you will look like me.” Uh, no thanks.
Carol,
I totally agree – I don’t find what she says offensive at all. She’s right – if you go on vacation and dramatically change your eating and exercise habits, you will gain weight. I’m not a huge fan of beach vacations for that very reason – I feel like a slug once I return. I’d much rather go skiing and return feeling healthier.
Cool it, ELX. I look nothing like Tracey Anderson, but at least half of terrible body shaming things you just said hit me where it hurts. Curb your hatred before you shame an entire group of people. Heading off to pilates to stretch my neck out. Thanks.
Thank you, Carol!
@Kix: Because maintaining an unnaturally low body weight makes the head look disproportionately large. (See: Susan Lucci, Giada DeLaurentiis, and many others.)
it always looks like that.
lol, this is someone who enjoys her workouts too, but you can tell she’s like hate working out in her method mat workout. And especially during the arms section, she looks like a bobblehead. But I will say that her workouts are good and definitely show results for me, I just think she seems like a miserable person too.
It’s interesting for someone who is a personal trainer, she just looks skinny, no muscle tone insight. I known I’m comparing her to others, but most females trainers I’ve seen have muscle you can clearly see.
I thinks it is a fine balence of health and disordered behaviors for people like her.
Don’t you know that muscles on a woman aren’t sexy?!? Plus they weight a lot so you really don’t want them…
Yeah, seriously, this woman has a messed up relationship with her body, and everyone else’s, and seems like the last person I’d go to for training advises. She can probably make ppl lose weight, but not in a healthy way.
That’s a feature and not a bug for her.
Lmao!
Her whole deal is getting women to be “tiny”. It’s nothing to do with health or strength It’s all about Hollywood standards of thinness.
I confess about a decade ago I did a 30 day challenge she had. I only did about half the exercise and I ate about twice as much as she recommended because I am a grown woman and not a 6 year old girl. But the results were still undeniable if you want to focus on thinness.
Not a 6 year old girl? That just made me cackle out loud.
She used to encourage two hours of exercise and 800-1000 calories a day, so not much to support muscle growth
Personally cannot stand her. However, she does have muscle tone. You don’t have to have muscles popping out like Jillian Michaels to have muscle tone. Her muscles are just smaller and she has less fat on her. It’s the type of working out she does. And her starvation diet which is not good and I do not advocate it.
I have a similar body type to hers- not that thin though, my muscles are small and long and lean because it’s in my genetics.
I gave up the gym and weightlifting for ballet you tube workouts and Pilates/arms/upper body workouts with 3 lb weights doing isometric movements. Sometimes you don’t even need weights. It is repetitive movements and after a while it BURNS. I have noticed I have become smaller in the arms and legs but have not lost muscle tone. A lot of this is so to fat burning from the ballet cardio I do which is an excellent workout.
I genetically have a smaller framed body. When I lifted weights my muscles were slightly bigger in the arms and legs but definitely not bulky.
It’s whatever works for you. Personally I love ballet and it makes me feel good. I don’t follow any sort of diet. I’ll eat a pint of ice cream if I feel like it. But I do try to stick to a healthy balanced diet or I feel sick and miserable. I just don’t enjoy the look weight lifting heavy weights gives me I prefer to have a dancers body. If you want to do weightlifting and prefer that I see nothing wrong with that look either all power too you because you are strong. But I am too.
Obviously her advice to restrict calories and such is stupid and dangerous. And exercising and dieting on vacation is stupid. I exercise occasionally on vacation only because I sometimes get cranky when I don’t work out.
I did her post baby workout routine after my first baby. I gave up three weeks in. It was insnanely difficult and not the right workout for a post cesarean recovery! I did it with a friend of mine who ran the Copenhagen marathon 3 months after having her baby (and places 12th)!!!!! Neither one of us could complete the routine. It was insanely difficult. I remember lying on a mat, staring at the sprinklers when my friend also gave up. Say what you want about her, she must have muscles- I suspect a lot of the ones most of us don’t use on a regular basis. She produces results but super duper unenjoyable experience.
Hah I just posted a similar comment. I had a personal trainer at one point, and she looks NOTHING like the trainers I’ve seen. She just looks thin.
While I think people should wear whatever they want, strapless dresses don’t work for her. She looks like she’s one sneeze away from a wardrobe malfunction in those pics.
It’s because they aren’t properly tailored, they should sit higher, you can see how it bulges at the waist. I understand that finding stuff that fits must be difficult when you’re tiny with bolt-ons, but that’s why you have to get clothes tailored to your body! She has time and money to do it.
But yeah, thoses dresses look super uncomfortable on her.
I can’t stand her. But I don’t read her shit. I guess this “article” is meant for self obsessed types who don’t usually have much fun, anyway. Why let her in, just to irk??
Agreed, and “put on your big-girl (healthy) pants” is a ohrase usually spoken by anyone anywhere in a condescending manner, to intimidate and guilt trip someone. Makes me feel homicidal.
Whoever made up that phrase needs to be sanctioned. And why do i feel that whoever made it up is a misogynistic female (not male)?
Oh I feel the same way. I’m out as soon as the big-girl pants are brought up.
Thanks, I had a feeling that some other women feel the same way about this “big girl pants” bullshit. Because that’s what it is. We’ve been putting on our “big girl pants” for thousands and thousands of years, and here we are in 2018 with this high school mean girl b— telling us how to live our lives, as if she knows how! Let’s start with the strapless dresses that don’t fit properly! That photo with the Love printed on the front gives me the creeps. Typical high school mean girl look, pose (and outfit).
See, I can be mean too (finally). I used to take that shi- silently. Not anymore.
Well yeah,if you want a body like hers you have to limit yourself constantly,even starve at certain times.Unless you have a crazy metabolism in which case good for you,I hate you,but good for you.
Me,I’ve made peace that I’ll always have a big ass and some belly fat.
I have never heard ‘put your big boy pants on’ . Infantilising women AGAIN
Right. Good point. You know, I was so lucky and I knew it and was grateful. I had a great figure until I got older (51, to be exact). I could cut back and exercise more and get the body back in 2 weeks. I knew that i was lucky. I mean, I did deny myself a fair amount, but not to the point of severe unhappiness or poor health. I’d eat a small quick breakfast, huge salad lunches at work and little or no dinner, but it came naturally. So not all women have to suffer to have a body like hers.
Natalia, you seem like a very nice lady, but I’d like to point out that a tiny breakfast, salad for lunch, and no dinner isn’t ‘coming nautrally’, it’s bordering on disordered.
Ha, was kind of thinking the same thing re Natalia. Not a lot of calories in a day. Two little meals. Too little for this girl! Considering how obnoxious Tracey usually is, I didn’t find this article to be quite as annoying as it could/should be. Guess getting dumped pre wedding has humanized her a little??
I went on vacation and tried to be moderate. But I didn’t stick to my diet either. The whole point of vacation is to enjoy yourself.
Same! When I was into my diet, I always took the pressure off when I went on vacation. For one thing, it’s hard to eat healthy foods when you’re eating out nearly every meal, especially in the US. There’s sodium and sugar in practically everything, and the portion sizes are enormous. Try to eat fresh good food where you can, but it’s unfair and unkind to beat yourself up over it if you can’t.
On the flip side, because I tend to travel to other cities for vacation, I walk practically everywhere so it helps work off a lot of the food. If I come back from a fantastic vacation with a couple of extra pounds, so be it. The point was to relax and enjoy myself, not scale-watch.
The kind of clientele she deals with doesn’t just go on vacation for a week or two once a year, so for the people she’s speaking to she’s pretty on point really.
I don’t know why she gets so much flak compared to other personal trainers. There’s a bunch of famous trainers whose whole deal is screaming at you about lifting heavier, and others who aren’t happy if you’re not choking for air after a cardio session. Even a lot of the yoga people straight up mock the idea of wanting anything other than a ‘yoga body’. In the end they all want you to do their program exclusively, so they say whatever they need to to convince you they’re the best option. It’s up to people to pick the poison that suits them best. Obviously if you’re looking for something other than ‘lightly toned’, you don’t pick Tracy.
This, plus she’s right to point that out. Skipping any sort of workout for about a week makes you loose your muscles immediatley. Two weeks would be a major throwback. And what happens too, if you are used to workout and you suddenly stop, you tend to eat more because your body trys to make up for the lack of energy the workout gives him normally.
I know this from a friend who does bodybuilding and is working as a personal trainer. So not skipping everything if one worked for weeks for getting a bikini body one is happy with, is actually reasonable.
I wouldn’t mind the same advice from a different trainer or personal health type person. It’s just Tracy Anderson has always been so extreme particularly with her diet. Does any remember all the baby food that she was having people eat? And by people I mean women of course, not babies. It was 500 calories a day. Bunny mouse would lose weight on that.
That is also a good point – sometimes it just boggles my mind, how people who are having the knowledge that she’s clearly having can still go against every health and medical advice when it comes to dieting. It is just sad, because one can get hooked on extreme dieting too which is actually also a form of anorexia.
She’s actually not that extreme with her diet advice. For years her whole thing was that she loves junk food and that’s why she works out so much. Now she’s a bit healthier, but she still talks about eating French fries and so on all the time.
The ‘baby food’ diet isn’t something she’s ever talked about publicly. It’s not some diet program she sold to the public. It’s actually unclear if it was ever more than a tabloid rumour (it originates from an old Star article about Jennifer Aniston’s supposed weightloss), but assuming it’s real it’s basically a 10 day juice cleanse that keeps the fiber and includes a proper dinner. Silly and gimmicky, but not very extreme as far as these things go.
She’s actually not very focused on diet at all. She has some protein bars and shakes, but that’s it. Unlike other trainers she doesn’t sell a whole diet plan nor mention any kind of diet plan in her videos. The most she says is try to be healthy and not waste the work you’re putting in exercising, and in most of her videos and streamed classes there’s zero mention of diet at all. Again, there’s a lot of famous trainers out there who make half their money selling people diet plans they copied and pasted after googling and ‘diet pills’ made out whatever fruit or bean no ones heard of yet, so I’m not sure why Tracy gets so much flak.
I’m not going to lie, it felt good to read she was dumped by her fiancé. She’s a vial person who stokes insecurities in women for financial gain.
And can I just say 2 years ago I got sick and I lost a load of weight. I had trouble all my life to lose weight and I did it and more because I was ill. I’m getting close to 50 years old now. And what I’ve noticed is that if you get too thin as you get older you actually LOOK a lot older. Maybe when you’re 20 you want be like 5% body fat but now I would be happier with a few more pounds on my ass if my face didn’t look so Haggard. Any one feel the same?
@moe
Definitely. At a certain age, we have to choose: ass or face. Older women who get really skinny always look much older than they are because their faces look haggard. A few extra pounds fulls out the face.
It’s true. Some women still try to stay super skinny and then combat the wrinkles with face lifts, Botox, fillers. But nothing like a few extra pounds to give you a more normal, younger face. I’m in my 60s btw.
I have a low amount of body fat and work out 6 days a week and am fairly well toned but only weight about 130 lbs at 5’ 8”. I find have to do some fillers in the cheeks to fill my face out so I don’t look haggard. Nothing crazy, just what I had at 30 years old. I’m 47 years old and this is the only way I found I can keep my ass and my face.
It’s true Moe. Unless you can do fillers (and hope they look natural), you do look haggard in the face as you age if you don’t have some flesh on your body. I must keep reminding myself of that.
Last I heard she was pregnant as well, I guess nothing came of that.
“. . . you’re going to drink margaritas and eat chips and guacamole on the beach.” LOL, count me in.
Sorry but I’d much rather look like me with my extra 30lbs and clothes that fit than this fish mouthed goblin who can’t be bothered to find a good tailor or hait stylist. She always looks a sloppy mess.
Agree! She doesn’t have a great body at all IMO. Plus she looks absolutely miserable and dead eyed. No thanks.
Like a prison… I can’t even enjoy my life because I’m ruled by the need for my body to look perfect at all times. Hello no!!
And I actually like to work out on vacation because it FEELS GOOD, not because I’m afraid of a few vacation pounds. It feels good to be somewhere new and be active and I deserve to do things that feel good for my body, not do things so my body will LOOK GOOD for other people.
I love a good vacation jog… except that time I ran uphill in St. John in full humidity… ended up puking Hahahaha. But I love it because it’s for ME and it’s what I want.
I work out on vacation because
1. I actually have some time to do it. And
2. I want to eat all the chips and drink all the margaritas
But that is my personal choice. No one should feel guilty for not doing it.
Yes! I love working out, so I like doing it on vacation! Especially running new places, or trying out a new gym. But if you don’t like doing it – well… it’s your holiday! You get like 2 weeks of the year away from work and stress and feeling like you SHOULD be doing something, so don’t waste it being miserable because some dumb bobble head wants to shill you her diet.
What is with her hair in that pic of her in the colorful dress?
For the record. The reason I go on vacation is to totally enjoy myself, enjoy the food, culture, surroundings.
Her advice is ridiculous.
There is not one thing about this troll that I find attractive or inspiring. Not her body, her face, her personality.
As someone who works out regularly and attempts to eat well most days, a few things …
– Body needs rest. So I use my vacation to take a break from my generally intense exercise routine (mostly running).
– I tend to walk a lot on vacation, often more than I do when home.
– I generally do not crave to eat crap on vacation bc I don’t eat it at home. Also, when I travel, just for budget and culture, I get at least one meal a day at the local grocery store.
– If you’ve been exercising regularly, 1-2 weeks of going to town on treats isn’t going to destroy your body.
– I don’t have a job where what my body looks like matters so whatevs.
– Tracy is most likely disordered so who cares what she says (even though I’m commenting on this story, hehe).
Cheers!
She doesn’t promote health. That’s obsession.
Working out on vacation is fine.
Not working out on vacation is fine.
Self righteously, sanctimoniously, shaming people in a passive aggressive way and insinuating that they’ve failed themselves by not carving out time on vacation to get a workout in IS wrong and she needs to stop. What a joyless existence.
She has always reminded me of the client in Legally Blonde who would rather go to prison for murder than admit that she had *gasp* LIPOSUCTION!
That scene is so Funny!
If it means helping to attain a body likes Tracy’s–no thank you. She has little muscle tone, boxy because she does boxy making ab movements, and skinny in her limbs. Her body isn’t the awesome in shape person she portrays. Read her food recommends, recipes, choices, its on the verge of starving the calories out and not healthy. Don’t trust her recommendations at all on exercise or food.
I’m going on holidays in three weeks and I’m already planning my workouts. Instead of doing 1 full hour high intensity work out, I’ll keep it at 30 mins and only muscle as I’ll be walking a lot during the day. I’ll also keep an eye on food (for health reasons) – I don’t want to unravel 5 months of dedication and the effort I made from being someone who could barely make 5 rope jumps, to what I can do today. I don’t want to go back.
Which is all she’s suggesting. I could have used her advice one summer where I worked out and lost some weight for a vacation then went ham for a week and gained it all back. All she’s advocating for is moderation. How does that make her a goblin?? This website is becoming very nasty.
Tracy has a history of nasty remarks about other womens body size, she also does the body shade women do to one another, the whole “but your body could always be better”. It is passive aggressive body shaming.. and her so called specialized exercise & food routines are money making hacks with little science behind it. She is ripping off tons of women, shades women larger than her, so have zero respect for her advice because of it.
1. The best way to have a “bikini body” is to go to a store/online, buy a bikini, and then put it on your body. That’s it! And anyone who tells you different, is either body shaming you to make you feel bad about yourself, or body shaming you to sell you diets/workout plans/etc.
2. This bitch! She comes from such a world of privilege, that she probably assumes that most people have similar lifestyles to her: the ability to take multiple luxury vacations a year. Most Americans can afford to take maybe one or two maximum. Some people find working out to be relaxing, others do not.
3. Telling women they should spend what few precious hard earned moments they have to relax, working about to achieve a “bikini body” (that will never be good enough), is bullshit misogyny. Don’t fall for it! You’re beautiful as you are! Enjoy yourself! Wear the bikini, drink the margaritas, eat the guacamole, work out, don’t work out… do whatever makes you happy (and doesn’t hurt yourself or anyone else)!
You’re at a resort? Take part in an exercise class or don’t. Your choice. Lay by the pool then come in and have gorilla sex. It’s up to you. Eat, drink, enjoy, and relax. Have fun. Have more gorilla sex. Recover. When you go home your body will feel loose and free of stress. You’ll have reconnected with your loved and will smile when someone asks how your vacation was. Good memories.
Tortilla sec. Now that’s a holiday workout I could follow! (Ps. Sorry for the multiple postings but i am in fact on my holiday in Portugal so am in the mood for thoughts on the matter!)
Most of the famous trainers fail to tell people they also employ a plastic surgeon and have disordered eating. I met someone who dished a lot of dirt on these “gurus” several years ago so when they talk they are just selling something false. I was shocked at the duplicity and side eye ALL OF THEM.
I exercise nearly every day and when I go on holidays I do the same. I like to take my bike and my husband and I like to ride around or we run or do water sports. If we go somewhere so he can surf, we do that. I stick to the kiddie waves but still, it is fun.
Part of my daily exercising is a habit from when I had to and part of it is it helps me keep my mind balanced and clear.
However, I refuse to spend time in a hotel gym when there are opportunities to do something physical and still have a good time. We took our children to Canada and had a great time canoeing, hiking, and horseback riding. I didn’t worry about my biceps. It seems absurd to take that kind of mindset on a break from life.
I think her message is rather toxic considering the source. Women who don’t make their money based on their bodies and looks don’t need to spend unnecessary time trying to force their bodies into something that will be stressful to maintain. Nearly impossible if genetics aren’t on board. If a woman feels like her hour in the hotel gym is invigorating and staying on her exercise plan makes her feel good then that is different. We make our choices.
She’s a fraud and that is what I dislike about her messaging.
I don’t really change my eating habits on vacation – I may eat a bit more but I stick to healthy choices instead of loading up on empty calories. However I don’t exercise while I’m on vacation because I don’t want to be inside a smelly gym doing crossfit. Furthermore, most hotels have swimming pools so I tend to get a morning swim in before I start my sight-seeing. We hike and bike, and I also like swimming/snorkeling/scuba diving if I’m in the tropics near the ocean. That’s exercise, amirite? Then I want to go to museums and art galleries and historical sites. I actually want to “see” the country I’m visiting. The benefit is that you WALK a lot. Jeez this woman makes me gnash my teeth in anger…
If I were as anal as her about exercise and diet, I’d have WAY better arms.
Also, I went on a tropical vacation and ate and drank what I wanted in a country that has five, yes five meals a day, and all of them fried, and I lost eight pounds.
I usually don’t care for her, but I didn’t really find any of this particularly insulting. I mean, if your goal is to have and keep a perfect body, this is probably sane advice. And who would be reading her if that wasn’t their goal? I mean, I’m a ‘life is too short’ kind of person. I stay active and eat healthy but sometimes I’ll eat the hell out of some cheeze puffs. And I’m a healthy weight but my body isn’t what it used to be nor what it could be – but I don’t care. That’s just not my thing, so I’d never pick up her book to read it. It’s kindof funny, because I probably get more exercise in when I’m ON vacation, with hiking, walking everywhere instead of driving, biking. I’m fortunate that my regular job is relatively active. Anyway, I can’t see the harm in these particular quotes; she seems to leave a lot of leeway for enjoying yourself.
When on vacation, summer usually, don’t know why I move a lot (not exercise), I eat what I can and I loose weight. I actually gain weight when I exercise, during winter time mostly. Training is good if you feel like it. I actually envy those who never give up it but here where I live summer is hard for me because of the heat during August (40-45 degrees) and I have to go to work so I stop training at all and I feel sorry because I loose some of my hard gained form but sure as hell I don’t cry over it. This body hasn’t failed me yet as it is with all it’s defects and I can enjoy small things like eating like a pig when I want. Also my boyfriend tells me, when I complain about my cellulite, that I sound stupid and that I am fine as I am. He does that with his head between my…so not really interested about the surroundings I might add.
Joking aside, I read somewhere about a couple of “fitness gurus” in the UK who were out of shape and before doing training videos were sent to boot training camps in Switzerland where they were put on a diet of 1000 calories and trained all day to get in shape before filming the “transformation”. It was kind of a scandal and there I learned the amount of money in play. There were a lot of people behind the scenes gaining an obscene amount of money and pushing them to shill their videos and supplements. So this lady here is shilling hard because I thinks she is the face of a bigger industry that doesn’t forgive. Training comes with equipments, supplements, clothes, memberships, special foods etc. It wouldn’t surprise me if her gyms are part of a big corporation and she is just a tiny part of that.
I don’t like her because she doles out health advice while not looking or seeming like a healthy, happy person. She’s clearly driven by vanity more than health. But that doesn’t mean she’s totally wrong about everything. Yes, you’re going to bloat up if you go on vacation and sit around, drinking heavily and eating a lot of decadent food. If that’s your prerogative, enjoy…but you may wind up feeling gross. If you’re someone who needs to do the same kind of exercise thing every day (my roommate is a miserable grump if she can’t fit in her daily morning run) to feel stable, do what you gotta do to feel “right” in your body.
For me, on vacations, the goal is to eat whatever the best food that particular place has to offer, drink a little but not a lot, sleep and actively explore a place. Travel stresses me out, so I need to work off some of that edgy or groggy energy. If you’ve come to a city, walk around everywhere; in rural areas ride a bike; in foresty/mountainy spots go for a hike; in snow ski or whatever; at the beach go swimming or surfing. Walk a friend’s dog, play with some kids, go out dancing. All of these things are fun, healthy and much better memories to make than sneaking down to the hotel gym to trudge away on a treadmill.
Doesn’t seem like joy killing advice to me? I throw some exercise in while I’m on vacation anyway, it makes me depressed to just eat a ton of good food and drink and not get exercise in. I feel all gross if I do that a whole week.
Right? My husband and I always get some form of physical activity in. Little jogging, light runs, long walks. I feel better and more energized when I stay active. And it does take some of the gravitas out of eating not so healthy foods. Don’t need anyone to tell me what to do. Don’t care what other people think of my body. I do it for me and it’s a choice I’m happy with. I actually view exercise as a choice I make to take care of and love myself, mentally as much as physically.
I think if it came from anyone other than Tracy it would seem fine, but she has a history of promoting extreme diet/exercise and shaming women, so from her, it sounds preachy.
Personally, I like to stay active on vacation and I maybe don’t eat 100% clean but I do make an effort to pick and choose my indulgences–no point in piling on calories eating food that is only “meh”, . I actually usually drop some weight while on vacation because I don’t have work stress driving me to snack on chips and chocolate, and because I usually walk around a lot more than usual.
I have the same issue with her as I do with goop which is I think both make women feel anxious about their bodies, exercise, food – they judge the f out of other women. They tell you you should want to be lean but not too lean, muscular but not too muscular, have fun but not too much fun on vacation. F off. Seriously.
Exactly.
Ugh..”all of the sudden”. Shudder.
YES! Thank you for being bothered by that too.
Exercising on vacation is a good idea. I know with all the food I laid back on our family vacation to the Bahamas back in April, it felt good to do a bit of exercise to offset all the eating. Eh..she is plying her trade. I ain’t mad at her.
Can this woman find tops that fit her? Her bust area always seems ill-fitting.
Aaaah Tracy! Her workouts are great, fun, and slimmed my body, just doing them three times a week, and no weird restrictive diet bulll.
But she should really not give interviews. Just shaddap and dance Tracy!
She’s a jackass, but honestly, if you exercise routinely, you probably should. You’ll feel the let down from the drop in endorphin levels otherwise.
Not joy killing at all omg
I would not enjoy my vacations if I don’t feel that I am looking my best. Vacations include taking nice pictures in nice outfits which means that I need to look my best. After all, youth is short. I make a point to sample local cuisine whenever I travel, not to overindulge. (Except in Vegas, but the effect on the body afterwards is just too horrible to repeat)
I’m confused by her. For a ballet dancer who works out all the time she has no muscle. No sinewy arms etc.
I have about the same and I live on twizzlers and hardly move.
Hell no! Hell no, Tracy!
I going to have pizza, pasta, gelato and wine!
I deserve IT!
Personally cannot stand her. However, she does have muscle tone. You don’t have to have muscles popping out like Jillian Michaels to have muscle tone. Her muscles are just smaller and she has less fat on her. It’s the type of working out she does. And her starvation diet which is not good and I do not advocate it.
I have a similar body type to hers- not that thin though, my muscles are small and long and lean because it’s in my genetics.
I gave up the gym and weightlifting for ballet you tube workouts and Pilates/arms/upper body workouts with 3 lb weights doing isometric movements. Sometimes you don’t even need weights. It is repetitive movements and after a while it BURNS. I have noticed I have become smaller in the arms and legs but have not lost muscle tone. A lot of this is so to fat burning from the ballet cardio I do which is an excellent workout.
I genetically have a smaller framed body. When I lifted weights my muscles were slightly bigger in the arms and legs but definitely not bulky.
It’s whatever works for you. Personally I love ballet and it makes me feel good. I don’t follow any sort of diet. I’ll eat a pint of ice cream if I feel like it. But I do try to stick to a healthy balanced diet or I feel sick and miserable. I just don’t enjoy the look weight lifting heavy weights gives me I prefer to have a dancers body. If you want to do weightlifting and prefer that I see nothing wrong with that look either all power too you because you are strong. But I am too from ballet.
Obviously her advice to restrict calories and such is stupid and dangerous. And exercising and dieting on vacation is stupid. I exercise occasionally on vacation only because I sometimes get cranky when I don’t work out.
That’s the thing though … I’ve never thought her to look particularly fit, herself … just skinny. She doesn’t look like any personal trainer I’ve ever seen.