Page 100 - Tracy Anderson Magazine – Summer 2020

Method for years, but I always thought it was for physically Mentally: I think more positively about my own strengths
fit women who wanted to emphasize their toned physiques, and my ability to improve. I began to believe in the power
not for everyone, and definitely not for me. I started the I had to shape my physique and thoughts, and to create a
Method in August 2018 when Tracy created a challenge life in which I was healthy.
for her streamers, and my competitive side kicked in.
Immediately I saw results. Emotionally: I finally found a healthy balance between
giving every bit of my energy out into the world and
Physically: My arms became more defined, my core creating some for myself. Over the past year and a half,
became stronger, and my chronic lower-back pain was I have learned that if I contribute some energy into my
significantly reduced. I have since lost 40 lbs by combining own self-care routine (which includes working out), I
this method with a diet that works for me (low sugar due to simultaneously create more energy for my family, career,
life-long elevated blood-sugar levels). and social life.
believe what I had achieved from a fitness perspective—I
THEN NOW
actually posted my stomach on Instagram.
I am now a 39-year-old athlete who is much happier,
healthier, balanced, and confident. I stream my workouts
every day, and I host Ask TAmily interviews every
Saturday live on Instagram. Without my BFF Nichoel and
all the #TAmily members who participate, I would never
have gotten where I am today. This community is the
most positive group of supporters I could ever imagine.
In my first year of TAM, I lost 50 pounds and achieved
strength, flexibility, and endurance that I never thought
possible. I did Advanced almost every day for two years.
I began to balance my career and became a puppy mom.
SUZANNE MOORE It’s all a journey, though, because I got promoted in
September 2018 and had to start traveling four to five days
Location: Fort Mill, SC (formerly Tampa, FL) a week, which changed my workout routine and reversed
IG: @tampasuzanne many of my results over 10 months. A year later, I sought
Years Practicing TAM: 5 advice from Tracy at a Vitality Week when I really wanted
comfort and reassurance. Instead of comforting me, she
Since faithfully practicing this method, I have gave me accountability. She told me to follow the recipes
transformed as a person in several ways. When I started in her Performance magazine and do my workout daily
Metamorphosis in the summer of 2015, I was an out- to lose the unhealthy weight I had gained back. I listened,
of-shape, unbalanced, unhealthy, stressed 34-year-old and shockingly I lost 17 pounds in 42 days. Now I am
workaholic with high-blood pressure and acid reflux. I back on the AtTAin track and building my athleticism
finished the 90 days of Metamorphosis and then did a bit every day. Sometimes I even include five minutes of
of Continuity. I even purchased a Vitality Week, thinking dance cardio. Some days I am still surprised that it’s really
that would help me be consistent, but I still struggled with me in those post workout selfies, but I am more grateful
doing the workout six days a week. Once I found the for the way I feel, my ability to handle stress, and being
#TAmily on Instagram, I started streaming in January healthier as I approach my 40th birthday than I was on
2016 with the first Got Your Back Girl challenge. That day my 20th birthday. I have reached a place of balance again.
was the start of my nearly daily workout. I knew Tracy was I know exactly where I would be without Tracy and the
the method for me, but it took the community to inspire #TAmily, and I will never be there again. You have me
me to be consistent. By August 2017, I literally could not for life, Tracy.
MARIAM PARINEH I’m 43 years old, Iranian born, California raised, and
current resident of Malaysia for the past 19 yrs.
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
IG: @tamalaysia The Physical Game
Years practicing TAM: 12 My first transformation with Tracy happened with my
(from the original mat dvd in 2008) first Tracy Anderson DVDs in 2008. Tracy said for best
results do the program four to six times a week. So I did
98
order to hit the movements she was asking of my body. It
was nothing short of extraordinary, how her methodology
changed my body, how precise and accurate she was in
telling me what was going to change and how.
The Online Studio has taken everything to a completely
different level for me. The definition in my body is
incredible, the way my twin skin has pulled in (which I
still don’t completely believe), but it’s 100 percent a brain
game for me now. Both my body and mind are here to
play, and I am as addicted to streaming as my 8-year-old
son is to Zelda on his Switch. I use my mind exhaustively
in my work and home life daily. My brain is so incredibly
engaged through the one-hour class that I can’t possibly
mentally process anything else. After class, I know there
is nothing I can’t handle. And aside from being in the
THEN NOW best shape of my life at 43, I actually feel myself getting
sharper mentally.
six. Everything she promised happened, and she never
promised it would be easy. Within a month, I dropped 16 The Emotional Game
pounds from doing the two DVDs. I saw my body lean- The last and dearest component of this method for me is
out all over. the #TAmily. This community is completely responsible
for the shift in my adult emotional well-being. Like many
And then I got pregnant with twins and gained 77 pounds of us, I’ve had interesting life challenges and somewhere
and fell off the face of the planet. When I came out of between adjusting to a new country, marriage, and
what I call “twin fog” in 2015, after trying trainers and motherhood, a part of me got lost, dimmed. The TAmily
circuits, I managed to lose some weight but my body was changed that. The instant I opened a private TAM IG
way different—rolls of twin skin, shrunken boobs, back account, I found support from like-minded people.
pain from pregnancy. I knew I needed more than weight From my first post (of just my shoes) and the hashtag
loss. Enter TRACY! I had completely forgotten about #tracyandersonmethod, I received encouragement
the fairy ninja genius from what felt like my previous from people I didn’t know. I started to feel I had a small
place that was full of women just like me. The TAmily
life. I popped online, joined a Facebook group, and
updated myself on all things Tracy. I found out she had supported one another, showed their best selves, showed
come out with the Metamorphosis project, a ton of other their most vulnerable selves, and showed up daily. It
DVDs, had a baby and created a pregnancy series! I dove was EVERYTHING MY SOUL NEEDED. That was
into Metamorphosis (90 days) and BOOM, my second almost five years ago. I was lucky enough in 2016 to
transformation happened within two weeks of following attend my first Vitality Week in Las Vegas, where I got to
the program. I shed every pound I had gained and my meet Tracy and connect with the TAmily that I had been
body changed even more drastically. My back pain was communicating with on IG for more than a year. And
gone, my bum had form, my back and waist fat cinched it confirmed everything I believed. Tracy is BEYOND
in, and I started getting TA signature ab lines. Finally, I (talented, generous, and grounded), and the TAmily
pulled the trigger and opened a TAM Instagram account are AMAZING! We workout daily, post daily, connect
in my last month of Meta and I got hooked following DAILY from all over the world. Within the TAmily,
#TAmily on IG. While I ordered the entire Continuity you find ladies you sync with instantly, ones you admire
bundle—because by now I was an official Tracy Anderson fiercely, and ones you can’t help but wake up and go to
content hoarder and I wanted all of it—and I appreciated their page to cheer them on because that was once you.
the education of the Method via Meta, alas the streaming I’m blessed to be able to travel, and for the past four
FOMO was just too much. I felt it was time to join the years, wherever I’d go, I’d look up TAmily. I have had
team. This had been the missing link for me. the privilege of meeting and working out with more than
200 TAmily in over 16 different countries. I have met the
The Mental Game most incredible women around the world, and I am proud
There is a truth about who I am and why I cannot survive to call many of them dear friends. You ladies and T are
EVERYTHING TO ME. You support me and celebrate
a day without this method. I am a bit of an “everything me for just being myself. I will always be grateful.
has to be efficient and right and with a strategy” kind
of person. I’ve applied this to most everything in my Sometimes you get stuck in your life and might feel like
life, but I wasn’t even aware there could be a strategy to you can’t find your people. I promise you that they are
fitness. Meta taught me how powerful Tracy’s strategy waiting for you in the TAmily. You just have to reach out
in sequencing was. How engaged my mind had to be in and find them.
99