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The Body Noble
A Holistic Approach to Fitness
By Kelly Burgess
When the federal government released new guidelines on exercise calling for 60 to 90 minutes of vigorous exercise per day for weight loss, couch potatoes everywhere settled deeper into the recliners and changed channels. Women, in particular, had to laugh. Who has 90 minutes a day for anything, much less exercise? We're lucky if we have 90 seconds. The very demanding nature of the guidelines made exercise seem overwhelming and unapproachable.
Derek Noble has one thing to say to those women: chill. Noble, the star of Urban Fitness on FitTV and personal trainer to such celebrity bodies as John McEnroe, Tatum O'Neal, Michael J. Fox and John Cusak, says exercise isn't about big chunks, it's not about trainers like himself, which he admits most people don't really need, and it's not about making big investments in either time or equipment. Rather, he posits in his new book, The Body Noble: 20 Minutes to a Hot Body with Hollywood's Coolest Trainer (Wiley, 2005), getting fit should be something that already fits into our modern, busy lifestyle. Noble goes for a simple, holistic approach to lifestyle as well: natural foods, natural moves and natural beauty. Not really what you might expect from the celebrity fitness trainer du jour.
You've eaten nothing but rabbit food for three months and have gained half a pound. Your best friend eats more Italian food than Garfield and looks positively gaunt. But both of you would have the same recommendations for diet and exercise in most programs. With Noble's approach, body types are divided up into three categories that acknowledge that different shapes have different results. What Noble says is that they should have different goals as well.
