Empower Yourself Through Your Workout! Meet Hilary Swank’s Trainer
Jan. 3 2012, Published 11:00 a.m. ET
By Leah Ornstein - Breaking Celebrity News Style & Beauty Editor
Need a little inspiration to get into shape in 2012?
Breaking Celebrity News spoke exclusively to Hilary Swank’s personal trainer of several years, Franklin Westbrooks, who revealed how his empowering approach to staying in shape can transform your body as well as your mind this upcoming year!
Westbrooks -- who’s been training the New Year’s Eve star two days a week for several years at Equinox in Santa Monica, California -- maintains that the best way to get committed to a fitness regiment is by focusing on empowering yourself, rather than obsessing over numbers and sizes. and he doesn’t suggest New Year’s Resolutions!
“Some people are motivated by how they feel, others by numbers and others by the amount of weight they can lift. How you move and how you feel are the best indicators of the shape you are in. You don’t appreciate your body as much when you lose 10 pounds as when you watch yourself do amazing things with your body that you didn’t think you would ever be able to do.”
Instead of making New Year’s Resolutions, which often don’t make it into February, the fitness guru suggests simply making fitness a part of your lifestyle by focusing on where you want to go and working your way backwards.