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Rita garcia pics fox 11 hot body12/11/2023 Kayla Itsines is the Taylor Swift of situps. “We just love her!” says Marissa McGinn, 24, part of the Washington squad. They cheer for their idol the way other people do for pop stars. Sixteen women from Washington, D.C., showed up in matching green tank tops emblazoned with a picture of a flexed bicep and the words “Squad Goals.” Many of the women wore the same style of black Adidas shoes (Adidas sponsored Itsines’s tour the events were free). “The guy at the airport looked at me funny when I told him I was traveling just to work out,” says Stef Jakubowski, 22, who arrived from Toronto. Itsines rarely leaves Australia, so when she does-usually to host events like this in cities such as London and Los Angeles-her followers flock. I’ve freed myself from that mindset.” Wells flew to New York specifically for the Pier 36 event she’s one of many die-hard BBGers who volunteered. Still, she adds, “The biggest change has been my confidence. I wanted abs like Kayla’s,” says Kelsey Wells, 26, who’s from Houston and has accomplished her goal. “I started her program because I wanted to be thin. Of course, people don’t do pushups and eat kale only to be empowered. Her followers post before-and-after gym selfies of their shrinking waistlines on Instagram, with comments like “the sweat…went up my nose” or “now I’m actually dead.” About 150,000 women are so devoted to Itsines that they’ve formed what they call the BBG community, or sometimes, Kayla’s Army, “empowering” themselves one pushup at a time. It’s about feeling happy: A flat stomach boosts your confidence. While some celebrity trainers shame clients into slimming down- The Biggest Loser head trainer Bob Harper once imitated overweight contestants by fake crying, “Waah, I want pizza! I want cookies!”-Itsines offers a message that isn’t about abstention. Itsines has more than 5.3 million Instagram followers, twice as many as Gwyneth Paltrow and almost eight times as many as TV fitness coach Jillian Michaels. Her $52 BBG PDF guides and $20-per-month Sweat With Kayla app, released in November, are full of 28-minute strength-and-cardio workouts so hard they’ll make your muscles shake. Paging through Us Weekly for 30 minutes on the elliptical doesn’t count. In the past few years, Itsines has become a one-woman fitness phenomenon based on a simple, time-tested, and pretty obvious idea: To get in shape, you have to eat well and exercise. “You look amazing!” Itsines cries as she jumps and lunges onstage, leading the women through four circuits of three to four exercises each. She’s wearing her straight, brown hair in two French braids, and the only thing whiter than her teeth are her Adidas sneakers. When she sweats, her skin shimmers like golden sand. Her brows are shaped, her nose is straight, her frame is simultaneously muscular and supermodel slight. Itsines is the type of woman other women want to be. They’re following the instructions of Kayla Itsines, the 25-year-old personal trainer from Adelaide, Australia, whose Bikini Body Guide (aka BBG) fitness program has become not just a workout but a way of life for many of them. The three basketball courts in New York’s Pier 36 recreational complex are packed with women huffing and grunting their way to fitter bodies, their coordinated athleisure outfits soaked with sweat, their formerly coifed ponytails glued to the backs of their glistening necks. Twelve minutes into the Sweat With Kayla boot camp, after the mandatory hug-the-stranger-next-to-you icebreaker but before the series of 30-second, full-body planks, an exasperated cry comes from somewhere in the sea of 4,000 women doing burpees on yoga mats: “This is soooooo hard!”Īnd it is.
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