After giving birth, busy actress Elisabeth Rohm(she stars in four movies this year!) needed to get in shape.
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The only problem: She hated gyms. Now she owns one.
P R O P E R T Y
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 the role of Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn on “Law & Order” in 2001 — Rohm, now 38, lived the kind of hectic bicoastal lifestyle that doesn’t allow for hours of pastoral exercise. While staying fit has always been a goal, she has resisted pervasive industry pressure to 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 calls “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.
BY CHRIS MANN | PHOTOGRAPHY BY KIMBERLY METZ GET ACTIVE! 19
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