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Summer fitness guide: Blake Lively’s trainer teaches you how to get lean
What sort of workouts would you do with Blake?
Strom: “I would do a combination of everything. I did circuit training. I would do a combination of stability work. So anything unilateral—one leg, one arm—and then plyometrics, jumping using Bosu balls, the TRX and medicine balls.”
What would you say is the most effective workout method?
Strom: “I like blending everything. It makes it more fun. When I trained Scarlett Johansson for Iron Man 2, she said to me one day, ‘Bobby, I’ve been training with you for two months. Why isn’t this getting easier?’ And I said, ‘Scarlett, I’m making it harder all the time.’ She’s like, ‘Oh, good, because I was really feeling like a loser here. It’s been two months and I’m still out of breath.’ And that’s kind of my thing. I sneak it up on them so they’re improving, but they don’t realize that.”
In terms of repetitions and weight, what is ideal?
Strom: “I find it effective to achieve [a lean, toned body] by doing high repetitions, 20 to 30 repetitions, and I’ll just have [my clients] doing squats and jumping squats with their own body weight, or I’ll have them use a medicine ball. It may be six pounds or four pounds. What really helps change the shape of the muscle and work the muscle is the duration of time the resistance is on the muscle.”
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