Now you can take classes with trainer to the stars Tracy Anderson in the comfort of your own living room — for a fraction of what J.Lo and Gwyneth Paltrow pay.
Just in time for the New Year, the petite powerhouse has launched the streaming version of her master classes, attended by the likes of Paltrow, Kirsten Dunst and other A-listers who have been known to haunt the fitness pro’s studios.
“I don’t know if I’ve ever been more excited about really anything,” Anderson, 39, told the Daily News about her new service, which gives subscribers new videos once a week.
The master trainer and creator of the Tracy Anderson Method knows her services are high-end — she runs a $900-a-month gym, after all. But “that doesn’t mean I want to shut anyone out,” she told the Daily News. Her streaming service is a way to increase access without compromising her brand.
To wit, a six-month streaming subscription is, at $475, about half the fee for a month at the gym, and lets fitness enthusiasts follow along in real-time to Anderson as she teaches at her studios in New York, L.A. and the Hamptons.
But what makes these streaming classes any different than sweating to one of her workout DVDs?
“You can’t do one fitness video for very long. Your body gets smart to it,” Anderson explained. “And if you hop from fitness program to fitness program, you lose the strategy that my method brings to you. If you are in my gyms you get new strategic content from me every day.”
A new class sent to subscribers every week, in addition to a message from Anderson and a video that break down the moves. Users have a week to perfect the sequence and then it’s on to the next week.
The streaming option appealed to the pint-sized pro much more than the throngs of requests she got for an app or a branded gym.
“I’m not just teaching, I’m creating content, so it’s like you’re getting a song as its being created,” she said. “I love it because no one’s standing in the way of me and the people.”
And it allows her to keep up her private teaching, where she remains as in-demand as they come. Jennifer Lopez has her booked well into January, and as Paltrow’s private trainer she’s been getting the actress in shape for her next big flick, “Mortdecai,” opposite Johnny Depp.
“If you look at her back in the trailer, the part where she’s getting into the tub with Johnny Depp, her back muscles look so beautiful,” Anderson said of her famous client, 42. “Gwyneth just keeps showing up for herself. I’m so proud of her. She has a timeless, beautiful body.”
But she doesn’t have positive things to say about all of her clients. Some unnamed celebs have been quite difficult to work with over the years, she told The News.
“I’ve been so disgusted by some people that have come in,” she said. “Just to be able to go to (one of their) movies, I had to pretend I didn’t know these people. Either they’re really involved in drugs or they’re really entitled or they’re really narcissistic. (It’s like), ‘You’re not really an artist, you just wanted to be famous.'”
Thankfully, the good clients outweigh the bad clients, said the trainer, like Taylor Swift, who loves to play with Anderson’s 2-year-old daughter Penny in between sweat sessions. Anderson will even train certain celebs pro bono if they have a lot of pressure riding on them for a big movie or concert. She said she feels their bodies are her responsibility.
But all that hard work pays off. Anderson thinks that Paltrow and Lopez, as well as other clients such as Victoria Beckham and Hilary Rhoda, are killing it in the sexy sphere these days. She also loves Kim Kardashian’s famous kurves, because it proves you women can be voluptuous and famous.
“She’s lovely and darling, and she’s 5-foot-1,” Anderson said of Kardashian, 34. “And what I love is seeing her as a petite and voluptuous girl being featured in fashion ads. That proves you don’t have to be 5-foot-10 with a negative body weight to appeal to someone in a fashion sense.”
Though Kardashian’s now-infamous Paper magazine derriere shots may have been “a little bit over the top” for the fitness maven, Anderson hopes that 2015 will be the year that bodies are appreciated, regardless of dress size.
“I feel like going to extremes on diets is going to go out,” Anderson predicted of 2015 fitness trends. “I definitely think we’ve hit enough is enough, and it’s a sending an incredibly unhealthy message to our young and developing girls.”
But Anderson is hoping the booty trend that dominated 2014 doesn’t go away in the new year.
“As Jennifer Lopez’s trainer, I hope that the butt stays in.”