If you vowed to tone up and lose weight this year but just can't face pounding the pavement in the rain, help is at hand in the form of the pocket-sized dancer behind Gwyneth Paltrow's dramatic body overhaul and Madonna's gravity-defying bum. Personal trainer to the stars, Tracy Anderson has been coming to the rescue for celeb body nightmares for years and has now released her own dance DVD so those of us who can't afford personal trainer fees can still reap the benefits in the comfort of our own homes. Made up of eight different dance sequences which target difference areas of your body, the DVD combines the theory of Pilates with calorie burning dance movements so you can tone up without bulking up. The DVD is proving to be such a huge success that Tracy is joining forces with pal Gwyneth to open up her own chain of gyms here in the UK, so there really is no excuse to break that resolution.

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