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After giving birth, busy actress Elisabeth Rohm (she stars in four movies this year!) needed to get in shape. The only problem: She hated gyms. Now she owns one.

By Chris Mann

Television and film star Elisabeth Rohm has always been active. While growing up, her late hippie-chic mom encouraged her to regularly hit the nature trail on foot and on horseback. But with a red-hot career as an actress—a two-year stint on the TV hit Angel helped her nab her the role of Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn on Law & Order in 2001—Rohm, 38, lived the kind of hectic bi-coastal lifestyle that doesn’t allow for hours of pastoral exercise. While staying fit has always been a goal, she has always resisted pervasive industry pressure to exercise and diet herself to toothpick thinness, preferring to retain her naturally athletic build (especially her strong legs) with outdoor running and horseback riding.

But Rohm found it increasingly difficult to maintain her fitness level after adding 70 pregnancy pounds following the birth of her daughter, Easton, three years ago. She knew she needed to do more. One problem: Rohm was determined to avoid health clubs, describing herself as a confirmed “gymphobe.” And then one day—as she planned to start competing in dressage (a sport she’s called “ballet on horseback”)—Rohm stepped into trainer Jay Wright’s Peak Performance gym in New York. The competitive, athletic atmosphere and community feeling encouraged her to lift some seriously heavy weights while dropping her even weightier health-club inhibitions.             

Later, the sporty blonde beauty gained a new guru in Circuit Works trainer and founder Raphael Verela. Verela specializes in a high-energy, fast-moving mix of cardio and weights in his daily circuit training classes.

“When I moved to Venice about four years ago, I was sort of longing for a greater challenge,” she says, “a discipline that’s lacking when you’re like, ‘Oh, it’s a beautiful day! Let’s go for a bike ride.’ You can say it’s pretty healthy to live that way, but I had really grown to love being challenged, as if I had a coach and was on a team. That’s how it felt training with Jay.”

Rohm credits his system for getting her back into fighting shape after her pregnancy. The workouts also helped keep her centered after losing her beloved mother, Lisa Loverde, to a heart attack in November 2009. In fact, Rohm loves her Venice-based gym Circuit Works so much, she’s now an investor. (The company also has locations in Brentwood, Calif. and New York).

“What you do for your body is a gift to your body for your life and for the people that love you because you’ll have a sustained, long, healthy life,” she says. “Not that it’s not about aesthetics (too), but it really should be looked at as an investment in your future as opposed to a way to analyze your value.”

Today, Rohm juggles an active lifestyle (including tennis with fiancé Ron Anthony and nature hikes with Easton) with a burgeoning film career. Among her features slated for release this year: the indie comedy-drama “Chlorine,” the thriller “Transit” and the drama “Abduction,” in which she plays mom to “Twilight” hunk Taylor Lautner. In this exclusive interview with Get Active!, Rohm shares her inspiring journey from gymphobe to gym star on a life-affirming mission.

Get Active: You used to be a gymphobe?

Elisabeth Rohm: A major gymphobe. I just left the gym and was actually laughing to myself because I’m so social in the class and am such a changed person. I’m like, “Hi! Good morning!” and am on a first-name basis. This girl in my class today—it wasn’t spoken, but I could feel us feeding each other to run faster. We weren’t competing; we were inspiring each other. We’re in this (circuit training) class together and were on the treadmills and we run. And I could see us sort of feeding off of each other’s energy. Seven years ago I was striking outside of gyms—not enjoying my productive social life in the gym.

GA: Why the aversion then?

ER: I was raised by a hippie mom who was a beautiful woman. She was not a thin woman but she was stunning. And she raised me to believe that my education should come first (and) that I should not pride myself on any vanity. That I should get outside in the woods and take a walk, go run or go horseback riding. To be part of nature. It really wasn’t about hitting the gym and being the thinnest or the prettiest. I wanted to look really natural and healthy and embrace my blueprint, whatever that may be. All of our bodies are different types. You can decide that there is this one body that is perfect and aspire to that, but that’s not true. It’s not healthy, and it doesn’t appreciate your natural blueprint enough.

GA: What motivated you to embrace the gym culture?

ER: I got into training with a trainer named Jay Wright who owns an amazing gym in New York called Peak Performance. When I started working out with him, I really started to transform—not only the way my body strength looked but also my love of a gym environment and how community-based it is and how much we motivate each other. I realized the gym wasn’t a place where you vainly sculpt your body all hours of the day. It’s a strong community where the trainers are far more athletic than you are. And my trainer in particular strengthened me for my sport. To be a great (horseback) rider you really do need to have great core strength.

What about Peak Performance made you a believer?

ER: It has more of an athletic feeling to it. There’s just a little bit more free weights, dead weights, kettlebells, bands—you can really feel in touch with your body. Not that I don’t love the elliptical—I do. But I think to have that control with weights really kind of silences your mind and makes you feel good. The equipment there was so different and so much fun.

GA: As an athletic girl, how liberating was Jay’s concept of a “physiological blueprint”?

ER: It was really great to have the support from Jay at the time—that my body was beautiful and I didn’t have to be neurotic about my strong legs. I have a really strong core body that he made me feel totally accepting of. I already sort of was that person anyway, but I think I was deep down inside a bit intimidated to start the gym experience. Because then I felt it was a process of picking myself apart: “Five more pounds!”

But I really landed in the right place because Jay himself is an athlete, so his perspective wasn’t on being thin. Yes, he’d say, “Be conscientious of your diet.” But New York is a food city, so he’d say, “Just work out everyday.” He wasn’t so neurotic about it. I tend toward a vegan diet anyway a lot of the time. But I still think people need to eat and enjoy life.

GA: And how does your current gym compare?

ER: I took a Circuit Works class when I moved to Venice about four years ago, and it was so hard. I was hooked! There isn’t a ton of cardio. There is but it’s broken up, and you’re doing this circuit training, which seems it would be easier because you’re doing a minute of running, a minute of lifting, a minute of biking (repeatedly) for 45 minutes. But when you’re just about to say, “Oooh!” and want to turn that machine off or drop the weights, you’re done with your minute and just move on to the next place. So you never fatigue any of your muscles so much that you just can’t do it.

GA: Was your eventual pregnancy a factor in you starting circuit training?

ER: No. I really just wanted to be in great condition, and I felt I had lost some of that strength and conditioning. I found the challenge very exciting. And I love the trainer, Raphael Verela; he’s really compelling. He’s an ex-marine, and is really about pushing you. And I really wanted to be pushed because I had been missing that. And I wasn’t the kind of person to go to a gym and push myself.

            What I love about Circuit Works is it’s really approachable.  It looks like there’s lots of different body types and ages. You can go at your own pace. You can be a professional athlete and be extremely challenged in the class. But you can be someone like me after I had the baby—I had 70 lb. to lose and I took it really slowly. If I walked into Equinox on Sunset Blvd. with every famous person working out in there, one thinner than the next, I might have walked out.

GA: How do you stay fit with your daughter?

ER: One of my New Year’s resolutions was to exercise together. Of course, she’s 3, so I can climb the mountain but she only wants to walk 100 yards on the path, like back and forth ten times. But I still think it’s really important at a very young age. That’s a big part of why I’m athletic. Because my parents got me into riding at 5, and the first time I went skiing was at 5. I had a very athletic family on my father’s side, always going hiking and stuff like that. So I share that love of being physical with her and work out together. I like to say, “Let’s go on a walk. Let’s go on a bike ride. Let’s go swimming.”

GA: What encouraged you to become a co-owner in Circuit Works?

ER: My mother passed away suddenly at 60 years old last year. She wasn’t in the greatest health or condition. She wasn’t that active. I think a big part of why I got involved in the gym (as an owner) is because of her death. A friend of mine who’s a trainer asked me a short time after she passed away. And it just seemed like the right thing to do. I was just so grateful to Raphael and the gym for helping me get back into shape.

GA: So circuit training has helped you on multiple levels?

ER: Yes. And now I sort of know both sides of the coin. I know what it’s like to be super healthy and I know what it like is to have borderline gestational diabetes. I know how hard it is to push past the weight and have the energy and desire and the humility to be vulnerable in a gym environment. It was very, very hard to walk in and be there during those 12 months or more that it took me (to lose the baby weight). You give yourself a million excuses for not going and working out. But you don’t have to a hard body; I’m still not. I’ve got some junk in the trunk, I’ve got strong legs, I’m flat-chested; I’m just not a hard body. I’m healthy and I’m strong because I’m committed to going.

GA: What are some of your gym’s other advantages?

ER: It’s really quick—Circuit Works is like the Starbucks of gyms. It’s perfect for franchising because it’s not different anywhere you go. The workouts are the same; you know you’re going to move through it really quickly. The music’s blasting, Raphael is yelling, the stations don’t last longer than a minute. It’s like a whirlwind. By the time an hour’s passed it feels like it’s just been 20 minutes. I think working out feels like one of those things that you just don’t allow yourself to have the time for. This type of workout feels like it doesn’t take that much time at all, so you’ll find that you’ll go there a lot.

GA: How does working out in a class factor in for you?

ER: There’s never more than 20 people in a class. Classes are great because there’s a community feeling and once you’re in the class and it starts, you don’t want to be the one walking out. I think this particular type of workout is so inspiring because you can do it at every level. You’re never really going to tire of it, you’re just going to change it based on your needs and level.

Your cardio intervals can (vary from) running at breakneck speed to walking up a hill. When you bike or are on your treadmill, you’re in control. All of these various people have different needs and the trainers run around and adjust the weights. When you come in you take important (health) tests to help them help you. You’re not just thrown in to the mix and doing things that could hurt you. They want you to be at your level. It’s appropriate for everybody. There’s always going to be somebody in better shape than you, but you can just quietly admire and say to yourself, “I could be like that.”



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