Getting Fit with Celebrity Trainer Harley Pasternak

Welcome to younghollywood. com. RJ here, hanging out in Malibu, California with the trainer to the stars, Harley Pasternak. Now, you've worked with everybody. I mean, Lady Gaga, Megan Fox, Halle Berry, like literally the hottest people out right now. How do you differentiate what the workout's going to be based on on which celebrity you're working with?

Well, all my clients do a variation of a five-factor workout, but we personalize it based on their injuries, their health status, their goals at the time, uh what kind of projects they're working on. Some of my clients happen to be getting married soon, some of my clients are working on music videos, on concert tours, on films. And so we really tweak the program just a little bit to personalize it for them.

And let's talk about hydration. So, you know, we recently launched our Young Hollywood studio at the Four Seasons. We've been having everybody come through, and the one thing everyone's talking about is hydration. Why why is water so important to all these celebrities?

Well, all the books I write, all the five-factor books, the fifth factor in all the books is always hydration. It's always drinking, uh staying hydrated, and making sure that you're getting all the essential electrolytes that you need, because too many people forget to drink. They remember to eat, they forget to drink, and then they mistake hunger for thirst. Uh so your body is 2/3 water, you want to make sure you you stay hydrated all the time, 2 to 3 L a day, 6 to 8 glasses a day, to all my clients.

And um So you say 2 or 3 L, you're talking about these. You got to have Uh you know, That's a lot of water.

Well, I I kind of measure it more through These are pretty simple. So I'll have four to four to six of these a day. These are half a liter each, but it doesn't only have to be water. It can also be uh a sports beverage, it can be um uh flavored water, it can be a diet soda, it can be many different things. And on my free day, believe it or not, I have regular soda.

And now let's get back to electrolytes, cuz I've always wanted to understand that. You always hear, you know, electrolytes are so important. Why? Why? What do the electrolytes actually do?

Well, um our body always has to stay in balance, you know. We have to have the right amount of amino acids, we have to Everything has to stay in constant balance. And electrolytes or minerals, which they really are, they have to be in our body in a certain balance. And um if we don't have the right balance of electrolytes, our body can lose water, our body can lose its nutrients. Um we can cramp up, especially if we're doing physical activity. So it it's important we get the right amount of sodium and potassium and all the other things that you find in um in good water.

So how do you differentiate good water? Because a lot of people think, okay, water is just water. I'm drinking it.

Well, for me, good water is water that tastes good, first of all. And so we had a lot of our celebrity clients coming by the studio and bringing their own smart water. And didn't matter which brand I had in there, I would usually get the cheapest brand. Uh but they would ask

It's still on the Smart Water. Makes it nice.

I think water's water, they're like, no, it tastes different. And the other thing is the way that it's filtered. And I think the way that it's filtered is is essential in determining the quality of water. You have so many different forms of filtration, and the way that Smart Water is filtered is very similar to that of nature. You know, the way that it's turned into basically a gas, and then it basically rains down, and when it rains down, it's free of anything. It's just pure H2O, and then the electrolytes are added back into it.

All right, so last thing we want to know, Lady Gaga. Now, we've interviewed her a ton of times at Young Hollywood. What is she like working out, though? I can't imagine, because when we talk to her, she is Gaga even off screen. I mean, that's just her.

Gaga's always Gaga. She is amazing. She is original. She has a work ethic unrivaled. I mean, unparalleled to anybody. She works so, so hard in everything she does, including her workouts in the gym. She's constantly focused, she never complains, no matter how hard you push her, she'll do it. You know, she's a lot like um Kanye West is the male version of that. Nobody has a work ethic like him. He puts his head down and he just goes, goes, goes. The two of them obviously are very different physiques, but uh Gaga's amazing to work with.