Most of the personal trainers to the stars- they know who they are- indulge in the sort of crunchy claptrap California is famous for. 'It's more about wellness," says trainer Valerie Waters, in a tank top at the Workout Warehouse in West Hollywood. Client Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects, Smilla's Sense of Snow) is on the phone in her office, where there's a Fair Game poster (Cindy Crawford's feature-film debut) with the personal inscription: "Valerie, Thanks for the bod. Love, Cindy."
"I know you hear that word 'wellness,' everywhere. But really, it's about feeling good physically and emotionally. Exercising really does help that." No doubt, but a cross-training, one-hour-twice-a-day-for-six-weeks regimen also can help a movie star look especially fetching in a back-less dress. "Out here," says Byrne, who's been working with Waters for about a year, "it verges on a cult-of-the-body thing, which I don't like. People are obsessed with having a certain percentage of body fat. It's important to accept your body the way it is, keep it working, functional. But I see people around me obsessed with the way their body looks, and nobody seems happy with the way they are."
