Background
Austin was born on February 13, 1957, in San Pedro, Los Angeles, United States.
(Denise Austin workout video.)
Denise Austin workout video.
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2001
(A clip from Denise Austin's "Hit The Spot Pilates" workou...)
A clip from Denise Austin's "Hit The Spot Pilates" workout video appearing in the movie "Step Brothers".
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2008
entrepreneur journalist personal trainer
Austin was born on February 13, 1957, in San Pedro, Los Angeles, United States.
Austin initially attended the University of Arizona on a gymnastics scholarship, reaching the rank of Number.
She started gymnastics at the age of 12, which led to an athletic scholarship at the University of Arizona. 9 in the National Collegiate Athletic Association on the balance beam. She later transferred to California State University, Long Beach, graduating with a bachelor's degree in physical education, and a minor in exercise physiology.
Since then, she has been teaching classes, producing fitness shows, creating exercise videotapes, and writing books and columns on exercise and staying fit.
Examples include Shrink Your Female Fat Zones, Pilates for Every Body, and Eat Carbs, Lose Weight. Austin is known for her emphasis on staying fit naturally, emphasizing that she herself exercises only about 30 minutes a day and does not skip meals.
She also prefers the use of sugar and butter over artificial sweeteners and margarine, though she does emphasize portion control, proper nutrient balance, and exercise. Austin encourages people to stay fit at all ages and conducts research with experts in nutrition, to emphasize realistic, real-life solutions to weight control and fitness.
Austin supports a balanced program of exercise and proper diet and encourages people to stay away from fad diets or "crazy claims" for quick fixes.
Austin had a long-running exercise television program Getting Fit with Denise Austin on ESPN2, reruns of which can currently be seen on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Classic and Altitude Sports and Entertainment. The show moved to weekday mornings on Lifetime Television where it was renamed Fit and Lite and Denise Austin's Daily Workout. Austin produced these shows each fall spending four months on location in resorts in the Caribbean and Arizona.
Lifetime canceled the shows in April 2008.
Austin said she was developing a new television show later that year. It was in the planning stages for 2010.
According to The Washington Post, Austin was headed back to Lifetime in January 2011. She is on the morning program The Balancing Act.
Austin before had said on her website that she was getting a new show ready for debut in the fall of 2008, though the show did not debut.
When she was interviewed by Erin Whitehead in 2009, it was reported her new show would be back on in the fall of that year. In April 2007 a Washington, District of Columbia alternative weekly newspaper called the Washington City Paper featured an article under their sports column Cheap Seats on Austin where she was questioned about how some of her exercise shows on YouTube are like pornography to some people. Austin said that she was totally unaware. She also reportedly said, with a giggle, that she was worried about it.
Austin also made a cameo in the beginning of the movie Step Brothers (2008).[23] She was sent a copy of the script and approved the scene.
(Denise Austin workout video.)
2001(A clip from Denise Austin's "Hit The Spot Pilates" workou...)
2008In 2002, Denise was named as a member of the President"s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and began her second term in 2006.
