Carol Ann has been one of the busiest print journalists in the fitness industry. She has written and maintained several monthly columns in Muscular Development, Physical, Oxygen, Energy and Fitness Rx. Her story published in Muscular Development, “Muscle Beach Memoirs: A Return to Camelot,” is on file at the Smithsonian Institute as an historic resource document. She also appeared as the expert on women’s sports and fitness on television shows such as “The Montel Williams Show” (three times), “Shape Up L.A.!,” “Geraldo” and “Now It Can Be Told.” Her current recurring columns in Fitness Rx are “Yoga World,” and “Club Scene” and she consistently writes the cover story for every issue.
Carol Ann received the “Best Columnist of the Year” award from the Academy Awards of Bodybuilding and Fitness in 1992 and her cover/feature articles have appeared in Muscle & Fitness, Flex, Muscle Mag Int’l, Ironman, Women’s Physique World, Official Karate, Physical, Oxygen, Let’s Live,American Health & Fitness, Energy, Extreme, Fitness Rx,Fitness Rx for Men and Penthouse. Her sports coverage has appeared in Bert Sugar’s Fight Game and newspapers including The Los Angeles Sentinel, as well as on the internet at boxinginlasvegas.com, infinityboxing.com and womenboxing.com. A highly respected sports commentator, she appeared regularly on Las Vegas television’s “Sports Corner,” maintained a radio spot on Joe Hawk’s “Game Time,” and appeared occasionally on Al Bernstein’s “Sports Party” on ESPN radio.
She has published stories on athletes such as Shaquille O’Neal, Jamal Anderson, Olympic sprinter Maurice Greene, Olympic swimmer Dara Torres, and the women of the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks; boxing champions Riddick Bowe, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, and Roy Jones, Jr.; NFL teams the Atlanta Falcons and the San Diego Chargers; and celebrities including fitness icons Jack LaLanne and Billy Blanks, Lorenzo Lamas, Montel Williams, Demi Moore, Jessica Alba, Kim Bassinger, Jennifer Garner, Madonna, Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Jessica Simpson, Eva Longoria, Kathryn Heigl, Jennifer Lopez, Kim Kardashian and Beyonce. For her Fitness Rx column, “Training Secrets of the Stars,” which ran for almost two years, she interviewed the A-list of Hollywood trainers such as Jillian Michaels, Harley Pasternak, Gunnar Peterson, Kathy Kaehler, Valerie Waters, Mike Alexander, Rob Parr, Patrick Murphy, Ashley Borden, Jason Walsh, and Ramona Braganza. Ms. Weber has also written a book with Ms. Braganza regarding the training methods used with superstars Jessica Alba and Halle Berry, look for it to be published sometime next year!
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Check out Carol Ann's Cover Story on Jackie Warner!
Jackie Warner, who has achieved cult figure status because of her intriguing Bravo! reality tv series, "Work Out," was so much fun to interview. She's so candid, unassuming, and spontaneous to the point I didn't know where the interview was going next, but I fastened my seat belt and got ready for the ride. The cover story for the August issue of Fitness Rx was, of course, about her training as well as the specific exercises she planned to use for the photo shoot. Our interview started on her cell phone in her car on the way to her exclusive Beverly Hills gym, SkySport, and then went up the elevator into her office. We were at the point in the interview where I needed the exercises when Jackie put me on speaker (she called me back from her office phone), grabbed a few pieces of equipment, and began devising exercises right on the spot. I could hear her in the background grunting, moving equipment around, and saying things like, "Maybe I'll try it this way," or "this might be good." She basically invented several of the exercises as I recorded the interview, which were immortalized in her photo shoot, which took place the next day. And as they say, the rest is history.
I can't tell you how excited I am (I'm doing my happy dance right now) to actually interview for the second time the amazing and ageless Olympic gold medalist in swimming, Dara Torres. She's been on the cover of USA Today, the New York Times, and Time magazine (and that's the short list) as well as all over the tv news, mainly because at 41, she's competing for the U.S. in her fifth Olympic competition, which is unprecedented in Olympic history. And, everyone is expecting her to break more records and come home with the gold. In the midst of my other assignments for the October issue of Fitness Rx, my publisher decided that because Dara was making headlines everywhere, we should get a story on her for the next issue, which comes out in September, right in the wake of the Olympics.
