LaReine Chabut - Core Strength For Dummies

Core Strength For Dummies

by LaReine Chabut

Core Strength For Dummies

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2008940717

ISBN: 9780470464069

Manufactured in the United States of America

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About the Author

LaReine Chabut is a fitness and lifestyle expert, model, and mom, as well as the author of Exercise Balls For Dummies (Wiley), Lose That Baby Fat! (M.Evans) and Stretching For Dummies (Wiley). LaReine is a leading contributing fitness expert for Shape and Fit Pregnancy magazines and is most recognized as the lead instructor for Americas number one exercise video series The Firm (with more than three million copies sold worldwide). She has graced the covers of such high-profile magazines as Shape, Health, New Body, and Runners World, and has recently appeared on Dr. Phil, Chelsea Lately on E!, CNN, ABC, FOX News, EXTRA, Access Hollywood, Good Day LA, and KABC.

LaReine and her Lose That Baby Fat programs can be found at www.podfitness.com/lareinechabut, where she is a premier trainer for iPods, along with Kathy Smith, David Kirsch, and other top trainers in their field.

As an actress, LaReine penned a sitcom with Meg Ryan entitled Below the Radar for the Fox Network and Castle Rock Entertainment. She has co-written and starred in two short films: Separation Anxiety, which broadcast on Lifetime Television, and Good Jill Hunting, which aired on the Sundance Channel. Her series regular and guest-starring appearances include Dr. Phil, Chelsea Lately, Lincs, Nash Bridges, The Secret World of Alex Mack, USA High, The Single Guy, Strange Luck, Murder She Wrote, and Quantum Leap, to name a few.

To read more about LaReine, log on to her Web site at www.lareinechabut.com or www.losethatbabyfat.com.

Dedication

This book is dedicated with lots of love to my daughters, Bella and Sofia, who compete for my attention every time I sit down at my desk to write! I do love you both so much... and of course to the readers who make it all worth it and buy my books. I thank you all!

Authors Acknowledgments

Writing a book requires a lot of teamwork and, again, I have to thank Rob Dyer at Wiley for encouraging me to write my first book. Who would ever guess that this would be my fourth? Thanks, Rob!

Id also like to thank the entire staff at Wiley, including Jennifer Connolly, my project editor, who was just great to work with and a busy mom like myself (I could tell by the noise in the background, she started working from home!). Lindsay Lefevere, acquisitions editor, really is good at what she does and was always there for me when I needed her. Krista Hansing, my copy editor, who made everything look nice and consistent and encouraged me to use spell check! My agent at ICM, Andrea Barvzi, to be able to convince me to write a book in a few months! And photographer Nick Horne sat on an exercise ball as he shot the photos and still managed to make me look good. Make-up artist Mina Kang made me look really tan, which is always nice. And last, but certainly not least, Linda Shelton was on my first cover shoot for Shape magazine and served as director for this shoot thanks, Linda, you really are the best!!

Special thanks to all the models who look so hot! Robert Check is shirtless in all the pictures in this book, and when you see him, youll know why (thanks to his agent, David Levine, for bringing him to my attention:). Chris Gann took time off from shooting a film to do the shots in Chapters 8 and 10 and filled in as my senior model. And, of course, my beautiful daughter, Bella, and her friend Elizabeth Bartle-Steere did the kids exercises for me. Last but certainly not least, baby Sofia Gallachi was the best baby Ive ever worked with and never made a peep!

Publishers Acknowledgments