• June 25, 2007
• Vol. 67
• No. 25

Body Watch

500 Number of Calories the Average New Mom Burns Daily by Breast-Feeding

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From PEOPLE Magazine

BIKINI BODY—AFTER BABY!

At 35 and having my third baby," Brooke Burke admits, "I didn't know if I was ever going to get back in my bathing suit!" But only five months after giving birth, the 5'7", 125-lb. TV host fits easily into a bikini—and size 27 waist jeans. To help drop the 30 lbs. she gained, Burke started Pilates classes three times a week only days after the baby's delivery and has stuck to low-carb, low-sugar foods, supplementing frequent small meals with almonds and protein drinks to keep up her energy for breast-feeding. "I didn't do anything crazy," she insists. Burke did, however, take the advice of her future mother-in-law (she's engaged to actor David Charvet) and wrap her postpartum stomach with a wide ACE bandage for a month to reduce swelling. "I swear it helped everything go back—I definitely got in shape quicker the third time around," says Burke, who is only 10 lbs. from her pre-baby weight. "I'm happy with the way I am right now—but I have a little ways to go!"

• Contributors:
• CONTRIBUTORS Reagan Alexander,
• Amy Elisa Keith,
• Ashley Williams.

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Eva's Wedding Workout

Eva Longoria may already be fit—but like many brides she wanted to "turn it up a notch" for her July 7 wedding to Tony Parker, says her trainer Patrick Murphy. His solution? Adding supersets—three sets of 20 reps of exercises targeting specific muscle groups—to her regular hour-long strength workouts. Here's a sampling: 1) TO STRENGTHEN DELTOIDS: "We'll do a squat with a lateral raise, and a shoulder press right after." 2) TO TONE PECS: "Eva will do a chest press lying on a balance ball, then immediately do push-ups." 3) TO TIGHTEN GLUTES: The actress performs one-legged squats followed by jump squats. "Eva loves training the glutes," says Murphy. "That's her favorite muscle."

"She doesn't want that butt to fall" —TRAINER PATRICK MURPHY ON LONGORIA'S WORKOUT GOALS