{"id":27003,"date":"2021-06-18T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T12:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=27003"},"modified":"2021-06-18T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T12:15:51","slug":"tracy-anderson-shaping-a-better-future","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/tracy-anderson-shaping-a-better-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaping a Better Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tracy
Marina Moscone jacket, $1,750, marinamoscone.com; Tiffany & Co. T1 earrings, $7,500, pendant, $7,000, wide diamond bangle, $199,000, narrow diamond bangle, $99,000, wide diamond ring, $3,800, narrow diamond ring, $1,700, narrow ring, $900, tiffany.com. Heart drop necklace, her own.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BY\u00a0CASEY BRENNAN
\n<\/b>PHOTOGRAPHER RYAN LOWRY
\n<\/b>STYLIST<\/span> WILLYUM BECK
\n<\/b>HAIR<\/span>\u00a0KOREY FITZPATRICK
\n<\/b>MAKEUP<\/span>\u00a0ELENA MIGLINO<\/b><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get one thing straight: Tracy Anderson<\/a> is never going to give you an Instagram squat challenge. She\u2019s not going to share the secret to A-list abs in ten days. She\u2019ll never lend her name to the latest detox gummy bear. What millions of fans have learned over the years, however, is that if you\u2019re looking to forgo ephemeral trends for sustainable full-body transformation, then she\u2019s got it \u2014 and all in a perfectly toned package.<\/p>\n

Anderson, an innovator and pioneer of the fitness industry, has managed to survive, thrive, and emerge as an unparalleled thought leader over decades in the competitive fitness and wellness space. The secret to her staying power? Continual evolution and a commitment to techniques and products that actually work: whether it be her dance cardio programs, or exercise gear like bands, hand weights, and air hoops.<\/p>\n

Anderson says that the diversity of her business empire has stemmed naturally from her mission to help people do more than just get better body parts. Instead, she\u2019s trying to help them get better lives all around.<\/p>\n

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Christopher John Rogers bodice top, $1,676, maxi skirt, $2,656, net-a-porter.com; Alighieri earrings, $395, choker, $1,098, bracelet, $655, Echo ring, $430, Ombra ring, $557, Unreal City ring, $296, shop.alighieri.co.uk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cFor me, it\u2019s about progress and me wanting to do all that I am capable of to help contribute to progress,\u201d she tells\u00a0GRAZIA Gazette: The Hamptons<\/i>. \u201cThe human race needs a lot of progress, and I want to make sure that I do my part\u2014so that my children and my children\u2019s children have the opportunity to not get hip replacements when they\u2019re 30; or to not have disconnected physical feelings; to be able to be and to become their most balanced self and to do it for the right reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s world of social media \u201ctrainers\u201d and celebrity-endorsed diets, that\u2019s a perspective that is increasingly rare.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of making progress, most people just want to have a gimmick,\u201d she says. \u201cIf they have a gimmick and they look relatively hot, or if they can buddy up to a celebrity, then that\u2019s enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, many people know Anderson for her relationships with A-list clientele including Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lopez, and others. Still, Anderson has never been a \u201ccelebrity trainer\u201d intent on hunting down fame. Instead, the quality of Anderson\u2019s work is what has brought her fans and fame of her own. For her, the spotlight is a side effect of groundbreaking fitness work.<\/p>\n

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Versace top, $695, pants, $895, pumps, $795, versace.com; Bvlgari Serpenti hoops, $3,350, ear cuff, $1,550, choker, $19,600, watch, $40,100, bracelet, $7,800, ring with full pav\u00e9, $12,000, ring with semi pav\u00e9, $4,650, bulgari.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWhat inspires me is the mathematical challenges, the scientific challenges, the historic research of,\u00a0Where did we go wrong? Where did we derail our health? Where did we start kidding ourselves? Where did we start becoming so denatured, physically distanced? Where, when, and why did this happen in our history and how do we get it back on track so that I can help contribute to our longevity and quality of life?<\/i>\u201d she explains.\u00a0\u201c<\/i>So it really comes from this:\u00a0How can I help?<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n

What if, however, people don\u2019t want help transforming as much as they want an easy solution? It\u2019s a problem that keeps Anderson up at night. \u201cI struggle now more than ever with how to make a meaningful statement or connection in a world that seems to be more interested in superficial connections and quick fixes,\u201d she admits. \u201cAll this research, all this strategy, it\u2019s mind boggling to me when people will just be like, \u2018Oh, but that\u2019s too hard for me.\u2019 Or \u2018I\u2019d rather have four-minute apps,\u2019 or \u2018I\u2019m just going to hop on a bike and ride all day long because it\u2019s easy for me.\u2019 They don\u2019t want to, you know, really be academic with their bodies.\u201d So many people refuse to look below the surface.<\/p>\n

While Americans have long been \u201csort of beauty-obsessed over health-obsessed,\u201d though, that\u2019s changing\u2014and largely due to people like Anderson (not to mention the scars of COVID-19). From her revolutionary Tracy Anderson Method<\/a> workouts to her eponymous magazine, Anderson has brought scientific data, expert perspectives, and creative energy to the world of fitness and wellness, even if some people know her mainly through her celebrity devotees.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve truly done and forged a life\u2019s work that is really meaningful to the fitness industry,\u201d she says, admitting, \u201cI do believe that you can\u2019t change a culture before it\u2019s ready, and I think that that\u2019s why\u2014with all of my meaningful research and studies and work\u2014I still got pushed into a superficial space where people wanted to call me a celebrity trainer over a pioneer. They wanted to know how to get Jennifer Lopez\u2019s butt in three moves instead of how I could help them find their balance with all of my research.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fleur du Mal dress, $1,195, fleurdumal.com; Bvlgari earrings, $4,700, bulgari.com; Alighieri choker, $987, bracelet, $987, shop.alighieri.co.uk. Shoes, her own.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most recently, that research has led Anderson to create what is perhaps her most ambitious and impressive undertaking yet: the Anderson Moto Air Pro Reformer. Set to launch at the East Hampton Studio this July, the full-body device is less an iteration of a Pilates reformer than a complete reimagination of how to approach strength work. \u201cIt\u2019s always about doing the next thing that is right for the audience that I serve,\u201d Anderson explains. \u201cHow do I show up for them in the most meaningful way? I can innovate. I can create all day. I\u2019m a research junkie; I love to study, and I love to create. But I really\u00a0<\/i>love to\u00a0make a difference in people\u2019s lives more than all of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, when I first designed my very first reformer, it wasn\u2019t because I had some great love affair with Pilates or wanted to go into that space,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was that the forces end up in muscles in different ways, and it was evident to me that weight resistance is very damaging to the joints. It\u2019s not great for longevity, and it\u2019s really, really difficult to design with dead weight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe superficial powerhouse muscles love it, but the deeper layers don\u2019t. It\u2019s like trying to do an intricate painting with a big roller, right? The beauty can\u2019t come out with the wrong tool. So the spring system that Joseph Pilates put into his reformer is brilliant, but I realized that if he was still alive, he would probably be continuing to innovate. What didn\u2019t serve my purpose well, was that [a traditional reformer] only pulls from one point of resistance and I needed to customize for so many different people. So I invented a moving pulley system 20 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

From there, she made it even better. \u201cWe created an air resistance system, which will allow for incredible design with resistance, without damaging the joints and without damaging the muscle fibers in a way that will create more bulk,\u201d she says. \u201cI also can control the air for every specific person and purpose. I invented what I think is going to be the most important thing to everybody that\u2019s aging in fitness. What everybody\u2019s trying to go run to surgery for, I can do naturally.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dior bra, $1,150, brief, $1,750, dior.com; Brunello Cucinelli cardigan, $2,995, shop.brunellocucinelli.com; Laura Lombardi hoops, $90, chain, $300, lauralombardi.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anderson herself may be her very best advertisement. At 46 years old, she has the toned frame and natural glow of a teenager\u2014even more impressive considering that she has a 23-year old son, Sam, and daughter Penelope, 9.<\/p>\n

Some of Anderson\u2019s happiest memories\u2014with and without her children\u2014come from time spent in the Hamptons, and this summer will surely be no different. \u201cWhen I first went to the Hamptons, I was working with Gwyneth and she wanted me to come out with my family for a summer, like over 15 years ago,\u201d she explains. \u201cThat summer, my son learned to surf and he loved it and he didn\u2019t want to go back to Indiana where I lived. He was like, \u2018I really want to stay here.\u2019 We stayed and I raised my son there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me this summer is a big deal because I just bought a home there for the first time,\u201d she reveals. \u201cSo even though I raised him there, I always rented. I never really committed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anderson is now the proud owner of an historic 19th century home in Sag Harbor that once belonged to a whaling captain. Perhaps not coincidentally, the property is located nearly equidistant between her two Hamptons\u2019 studios: Water Mill and East Hampton.<\/p>\n

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Ambush\u202fdress, $2,705, ambush design.com; Jennifer Fisher hoops, $450, bracelet, $375, jenniferfisherjewelry.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Anderson, those locations are like home, too. \u201cThese are women and men that have been with me for, you know, 15 years,\u201d she says. \u201cThese are people that have moved with me and achieved and accomplished with me for so many years.\u201d<\/p>\n

One thing is for sure: Anderson plans to keep moving and transforming people around the world\u2014starting with herself. A practice of mindfulness and connectedness keeps her personal life and business empire grounded and operating from a position of strength.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t always do it perfectly,\u201d she admits. \u201cI\u2019m doing better at it because we all have our things that we need to improve on. The thing for me that I needed to improve on the most was that I hold things inside that bother me. I don\u2019t vocalize enough the things that upset me.\u201d<\/p>\n

With her business booming and family looking forward to a summer out East, there are fewer of those than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28100,"featured_media":27053,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"\nShaping a Better Future - Grazia USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/tracy-anderson-shaping-a-better-future\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shaping a Better Future\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BY\u00a0CASEY BRENNAN PHOTOGRAPHER RYAN LOWRY STYLIST WILLYUM BECK HAIR\u00a0KOREY FITZPATRICK MAKEUP\u00a0ELENA MIGLINO Let\u2019s get one thing straight: Tracy Anderson is never going to give you an Instagram squat challenge. 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