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"  An exercise regimen you can just as easily do in a park as in your own home or gym? An exercise regimen that strengthens, lengthens, and de-bulks any body type? An exercise regimen that has virtually no impact on your joints, improves metabolism, and alleviates the specific sort of lower back pain caused by sitting behind a desk all day? I was skeptical, but that&amp;#039;s what LA-based trainer to the stars (and a few title-winning cage fighters) Ashley Borden swore her three-pronged fitness approach could and would accomplish. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m only in LA for a couple of days,&amp;quot; I warned her. &amp;quot;No problem,&amp;quot; she assured. &amp;quot;Just give me two, one-hour sessions.&amp;quot; As someone who&amp;#039;s always favored more high-impact sports like running, basketball and boxing, I went into the first of my two sessions with Ashley with an attitude of, great, an hour of glorified stretching. Convinced I wouldn&amp;#039;t even break a sweat, before I left I packed my iPod and mapped a multi-mile running route from West Hollywood&amp;#039;s Fitness Factory (Borden&amp;#039;s home training base) back to my hotel. &amp;quot;Today, I thought we&amp;#039;d just focus on the TRX,&amp;quot; Ashley said, pulling out a heavy-duty looking harness covered in handles, buckles and straps. &amp;quot;O.K.,&amp;quot; I replied warily, as I watched her attach the suspension training contraption\u2014which, according to her was first developed as a portable workout tool for soldiers\u2014to a sturdy, low-hanging tree branch. After only 10 minutes and two exercises, my abs, quads, triceps, even my calves were involuntarily quivering. After the full 60 minutes, my butt, which Ashley straight-faced told me &amp;quot;should be way tighter given how much [I] exercise,&amp;quot; had gone numb from muscle burn. Humbled and sore as hell, I hobbled away from our meeting feeling about as out of shape as I ever have. Needless to say, I skipped that run. The following morning, Ashley introduced me to rolling out (essentially, deep massaging your muscles with a two-foot tube of PVC pipe) and rebounding (a series of jumping exercises on a soft-bounce mini trampoline). Rolling out, she explained, &amp;quot;opens up your muscle tissue, which improves blood flow and makes for better muscle contraction.&amp;quot; This leads to less tightness and a more efficiently burning metabolism. All that&amp;#039;s great, I told her, but what about on the outside? &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ll develop a much leaner look\u2014less bulk, more lengthened, striated muscles,&amp;quot; Borden says. What about stubborn spots? Can I target train with rolling out? Instead of answering me directly, she told me a story about a client of hers who &amp;quot;was at least 4 sizes bigger on bottom than she was on top.&amp;quot; For years she&amp;#039;d tried every combination of diet, exercise, and product regiment she could find, but no matter what she did, her legs and hips remained significantly larger than her upper body. It was only after months of targeted rolling out that, for the first time in her life, she was able to finally achieve a proportionate figure. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t even recognize her from her `before&amp;#039; photos,&amp;quot; Ashley said. &amp;quot;The transformation was shocking.&amp;quot;  Once I was completely rolled out, which, pleasant as it sounds is actually quite painful, we moved to the rebounding portion of the session. &amp;quot;10 minutes on here is more effective, blood circulation wise, than going for a 45 minute run,&amp;quot; Borden tells me as she climbs on the small trampoline. &amp;quot;Plus, the impact on your joints is almost zero.&amp;quot;  At the end of that second session, though more than a little bruised from my PVC massage, I was convinced Ashley was onto something. Not only did my muscles feel lighter and looser, but my entire body felt a kind of all-over, equally distributed strength I had never experienced after a long run or workout at the boxing gym. And if Ashley&amp;#039;s body and healthy, moderation-emphatic attitude toward diet and exercise are a result of her taking her own advice, well then, count me converted. To learn how to integrate Ashley&amp;#039;s workout into your cross training, click here for a slideshow of her demonstrating some of the many exercises you can do with one or all three components of her TRX/rolling out/rebounder system. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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