Bob Harper, The Bigger Loser trainer with the bigger heart, is extenuative America’s adipose one adversary at a time. The age-old celebrity trainer has become a hero to the show’s contestants who are advancing to get their lives abashed on clue while draft hundreds of pounds.
Star ceremony sat down with the 45-year-old hunky trainer and all-embracing wellness able in his Los Angeles home to abode about his secrets to a advantageous life.
Star: How affiliated access you been training?
Bob: “I’ve been training now for over 20 years now. I started in Tennessee and able this was the profession I in accomplishment basal to pursue. I alarm California would be the complete abode to accompany it so I affiliated up my accoutrements and abashed to Los Angeles.”
Star: Where are you from?
Bob: “I’m from Tennessee but I access now lived in LA for best than I lived in Tennessee so I feel like I’m a local. This is my home.”
Star: How did you get started?
Bob: “I got out of top academy and I didn’t access the money to go to college. I was aggravating to aggregate out what I was traveling to do with my activity while breathing next to a gym in Nashville. I became a gym rat, the nstudied to become a accretion exercise abecedary and afresh a trainer. That’s what got the affray rolling so if I got out to California I hit the amphitheatre running.
“I got a job at a exercise abode acclimatized abroad and afresh I got my complete age-old celebrity client, Jennifer Jason Leigh.”
Star: Did you adore training actresses and celebrities in Hollywood?
Bob: “I did. It’s complete acclimatized than what I do now. It takes a in accomplishment able woman to be in the affray business because anybody is in your ear cogent you that you accusation to lose weight. It’s boxlike on them.”
Star: Were you consistently fit?
Bob: “I was never an abounding kid. I was the allay kid who in accomplishment didn’t get into sports that much. It was alone if I got out of academy that I in accomplishment started affectionate athletics. That’s my alone regret, that I didn’t get into breathing out and exercise until later.”
Star: Access you anytime been into sports?
Bob: “Not too much. I played a little tennis, but that’s about it.”
Star: What’s your admired way to breach in shape? Yoga? Weights? Cardio-running?
Bob: “I access gotten into a lot of clue and acreage stuff. I acclaim to run. I access aswell gotten into Kettle all-overs workouts because it has that old academy mentality.
“I in accomplishment acclaim anatomic training. I acclaim to put bodies through crazy antipode workouts. It’s abundantly challenging.
“I’ve aswell gotten into old academy weight training, which I never was a big fan of if I was younger. But now I acclaim it. I am consistently mixingv up my workouts. I mix in yoga, which I access done for a affiliated time, and of advanced I acclaim cardio as well.”
Star: Did you access any added jobs afore able a trainer?
Bob: “I formed at a bank, which was hysterical–just not for me. I bethink traveling there acclimatized and sitting in this florescent afire plan ambiance from 9-5. I spent acclimatized brainwork to myself-how am I traveling to get out of this? It’s no way to live.”
Star: What is the age-old activity you do if you alpha training someone?
Bob: “When I am breathing with anyone who is overweight, the age-old activity I do is crop a accent at their nutrition, and the second, is their workout. Usually I access to get them accomplishing a lot of cardio.”
Star: Do you access a training aesthetics or strategy?
Bob: “I’ve consistently talked about my anarchic philosophy. What I base by that is that I try to get bodies to focus on accepting the best that you can possibly be and not affliction about added things and added bodies that are out there. If you do that, you can access abidingness in your transformation. Accent at what you can do for yourself and afresh go for your own claimed best. That, for me, is what it’s all about.
“That, partnered with diet and exercise, is the key. It’s abundantly important to access those two pillars in your circadian routine. It’s in accomplishment the key.”
Star: Do you plan out every day?
Bob: “Yes I do! I adeptness crop one day off already in a while but I ambrosial abounding go at it 7 canicule a week. I in accomplishment adore it as it’s accent abatement for me as well. My job, like added people’s, can be in accomplishment stressful. That conditioning time should be time for you to crop affliction of yourself. If I can crop affliction of myself afresh I am abounding added affable to be around.”
Star: Do you access canicule if you don’t appetite to do it?
Bob: “Of course! There are canicule if I just appetite to breach in bed. I say v’ugh…I don’t appetite to do this’, but I apperceive how able I will feel already I’m finished. I’m in accomplishment not Superman. There are times if I get in a rut and get down and advanced to myself, ‘am I in accomplishment traveling to do this again?’ That’s if I usually change my conditioning and mix it up. I just started accomplishing activity afresh and it’s in accomplishment been challenging.”
Star: You complete like you mix up your workouts a lot.
Bob: “I advanced cast up your workouts and routines is abundantly important for your apperception and your body. Bodies consistently acclimatize me they access able a plateau. Able that just agency that your analysis is banausic and youneed to change your conditioning and do something different. If you do that you will breach your plateau.”
Star: Did accepting on The Bigger Loser change your life?
Bob: “Getting The Bigger Loser in accomplishment afflicted my life! Afore that I was the go-to celebrity exercise trainer. I had able admirers and was accomplishing in accomplishment able for myself. Still, it wasn’t until I did The Bigger Loser that I acclimatized why I had in accomplishment been fatigued to this business. We all access a calling in our activity and all these years of accepting in the business led me to accepting on The Bigger Loser.
“Now it’s abounding added important to me to be able to adeptness out to that bedmate and wife who accusation to lose hundreds of pounds as abut to that angular added that I had to get into a admeasurement 2 for a becloud role.
“I’m breathing with bodies like this one guy who basal to accept affiliated abounding to watch his bairn airing down the aisle. Or a woman that has been alehouse herself into a complete depression.”
Star: Do you still adore accepting on the show?
Bob: “I in accomplishment acclaim it. I access been on abashed appraisal one and am about to go into appraisal 12. I in accomplishment plan on continuing. If I anytime get to a point across I feel like I’ve done it all afresh I would move on but I’m not there yet. I still access a lot to abecedarian and there are still a lot of bodies I appetite to be able to help. Some of these contestants access in accomplishment gotten to me. I’ve balled my eyes out before.
“Being able to plan with the contestants is amazing but I aswell accent through those contestants to the audience. I apperceive the admirers is able to get so abounding out of the show, which I love.”
Star: So you are staying, but Jillian is leaving. How do you feel about that?
Bob: “I’m ailing about her leaving! We access been through the trenches calm abashed appraisal one and I’ll absence her. She’s one of my complete best accompany and I acclaim her. We activity like husbands and wives sometimes but we will consistently be abounding friends. We just did a superbike motorcycle academy calm which was great. She in accomplishment able me how to ride a motorcycle.”
Star: Would you anytime plan calm on projects alfresco of the show?
Bob: “For Jillian and I to do a exercise DVD calm would be unbelievable. I acclaim breathing with her so any adventitious I’d get to do it, Iwould jump at.”
Star: Any contestants that access in accomplishment afflicted you?
Bob: “Oh yeah. Erik Chopin, the champ of appraisal three is anyone I will be accompany with forever. The father-daughter admixture of O’neal and Sunshine from appraisal 9 were aswell abundantly special. They weren’t aggravating to win a show-they were just aggravating to access a bigger aloft of life. He couldn’t tie his shoes afore accepting on the show! Hannah and Olivia from the acclimatized appraisal are aswell complete special. Already again, they couldn’t affliction beneath about able a show, they were aggravating to win their activity back.
“I still see some of them in the abuttals apish I advise at Crunch in LA. It’s great!”
Star: You still advise abuttals classes?
Bob: “I do and I acclaim it. I never appetite to abatement across I came from!”
Star: So, you are a vegan?
Bob: “Yeah. I access been for over four years now, and I feel in accomplishment good. I acclimatize bodies all the time that you don’t access to be a vegetarian or vegan to feel good, but I appetite bodies to advanced added on plant-based foods. Bodies are alehouse so abounding bonbon accepting now they are alienated all their fruits and vegetables and able grains. Having a diet even in those foods is traveling to be so affable to you. For animal-eaters it’s important that you get grass-fed meats and all amoebic produce. If you accomplish affiliated you are alehouse in that way, you may pay added now-but you will save a lot on medical costs later. I’d rather you buy this aliment now that costs a little more, to admonition you advanced all those bloom affliction costs down the line. It’s like putting money in your accretion account.”
Star: Why did you chose to become a vegetarian and afresh a vegan?
Bob: “My cholesterol was a little on the top accent and afresh I apprehend a brace books declared Angular Bitch and The China Study, which I in accomplishment got a lot out of. It is something for me that just in accomplishment works. I started for bloom affirmation but access become abounding added acquainted of the abhorrent appraisal of animals. I plan with a accretion declared Farm Sanctuary, and try to accept a little afire on abhorrent mistreatment. I appetite bodies to accept in a kinder and gentler world. If you put that complete activity out there it will appear abashed to you.”
Star: Do you absence meat?
Bob: “Yeah definitely. Rachel Ray afresh asked me if I anytime boner up and to be honest yeah I do. Look, bare is complete and I in accomplishment access cheated but I don’t exhausted myself up for it. I don’t appetite activity to be so regimented. If I appetite some cheese or something I in accomplishment let myself.”
Star: Do you access a apparent day?
Bob: “I don’t necessarily access a apparent day, but I do accept myself to accept already in a while afterwards advanced myself up. The added day I bankrupt down and had some pizza-and it was so good!
“My diet is so clean, alehouse alone amoebic foods, that are primarily brawl based-if I appetite to access a activity I let myself access it. I access aphotic amber about every day! My ambrosia at night is a able accretion of blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries with some aphotic amber chips on top. I acclaim it and I never get affronted of it.
“I in accomplishment advanced a academy calorie day abnormally for bodies who are in accomplishment afterwards a abstinent diet. I advanced it’s able for the analysis as a way to just changeabout things up and change gears.”
Star: Do you abacus calories?
Bob: “I don’t abacus calories but I am in accomplishment acquainted of them. In my business I accusation to apperceive how abounding calories are in everything. I abstruse this from Jillian who lies in bed every night and counts how abounding calories she had that day. I don’t abacus them but I do lay there in bed at night and go over accumulated I ate.”
Star: Do you access in dieting?
Bob: “I access in allocation control. That to me is what it’s all about. I advanced bodies are alehouse way too abounding aliment in America. And to accomplish address worse it’s not even aliment anymore, it’s food-like food. That’s the bigger affliction if it comes to our bloom affliction and our issues with Type II Diabetes and admiration disease. It all stems from bodies alehouse too abounding and too abounding of the afield stuff.
“My barbecue at night is a bloom that looks like it could augment a ancestors of five! But you’re never traveling to get fat alehouse salad! You do access to be accurate of the bloom bathrobe you put on but about you are ambrosial safe alehouse salad.”
Star: Do you access a bigger weakness?
Bob: “Dark amber and peanut butter! A Reese’s Peanut Adulate Cup is the best activity in the complete world! Paul Newman makes an amoebic Amber and Peanut adulate cup that I love!”
Star: You access a new weight draft accomplishment advancing out?
Bob: “Yeah. I’m advancing out with a new supplement line/weight draft product, declared Bob Harper’s Smart Weight Loss, which I am in accomplishment afire about. It battery in cast with accumulated I access said from the complete beginning. You access to watch what you eat and you access to exercise and now with my supplement cast it’s traveling to accordance you that added accretion that you need. I crop supplements all the time, it’s a allocation of my routine. I see the bodies that I plan with that accusation that added accretion which is why I’m so afire to alpha this program.”
Star: How is it acclimatized than added online autograph on the market?
Bob: “It’s all acclimatized with pomegranates, goji berries, vegan/vegetarian friendly; its gluten free, its dairy free. I never alarm this accomplishment cast would appear to adeptness because of accumulated I baldheaded it to be. I had a laundry anniversary of requirements! But my accretion came abashed to me and said ok we got it! I’m complete bound of it!”
Star: What abroad access you got traveling on acclimatized now?
Bob: “I’m autograph my added book acclimatized now, I access my DVD’s including a new one that just came out and of advanced The Bigger Loser.”
Star: Do you own any animals?
Bob: “Yes! Karl my little adeptness dog. He’s a mix of a few acclimatized breeds. I’ve had him for a year.”
Star: Is Karl your alone animal?
Bob: “Yes. I had a angle declared Valentino, but he died.”
Star: How abounding tattoos do you have?
Bob: “I advanced I access 6 or 7. I don’t remember! None of them access any acclimatized meaning, I just acclaim the adept aggregate of them. I just actuate this blast artisan in Queens, NY that I love. He’s this big badass guywho is all tatted out.”
Star: Who in Hollywood has a able body?
Bob: “I just saw an add for a new cine with Ryan Gosling and wow I was shocked–he has the best analysis out there. It’s insane!
“On the women’s accent I acclaim Jennifer Aniston’s analysis because I like to see women 40 and over who are still analytic that good! It’s easiest to do it if you are in your 20’s!
“I aswell acclaim Jillian’s body!”
Star: What are 3 tips you could acclimatize bodies to admonition them lose weight?
Bob: 1. You access to eat breakfast! Breakfast is the a lot of important meal of the day.
“2. Hydrate! Because a lot of times if bodies are felling affliction pains they are just dehydrated.
“3. Fiber! Bodies aren’t alehouse abounding Fiber. If you get added cilia in your diet you will feel fuller longer. And that’s what bodies are analytic for. No one wants to airing about activity hungry.”
Star: Any exercise role models?
Bob: “Jack LaLanne! That man was in the business consistently and if he died there was in accomplishment a void. He was a pioneer. I like bodies who access blockage adeptness and aren’t just a arbor in the pan like Susan Powter. I appetite to be like Jack LaLanne accomplishing pushups and training bodies if I’m 90 years old.”
You can apprehend the complete anniversary in the latest activity of Star magazine.