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Travolta is one of Isaacson's major projects. The actor will soon be getting ready for Far from Over, or Saturday Night Fever III. A self-described "reluctant matador" when it comes to exercise, Travolta has developed some unaesthetic handles around his hips. "When I'm not being paid a lot of money to do a movie and to get in shape, I'm like Marlon Brando," he confesses. Says the determined Isaacson: "There's no question as to whether we can produce the shape and the look." After all, Isaacson came to fame, or more precisely to the attention...
...movie was no wow, Travolta's body was. The rebuilt dancer persuaded his trainer to go West and put up some of the money to get Isaacson started in a 1,200-sq.-ft. studio that features $50,000 worth of equipment and, no less important, wall-to-wall mirrors for checking oneself out. But his star customers are not interested in a convivial health club. They want the personal touch, and they get it. If Mickey Rourke requests an after-midnight workout, Isaacson opens the gym. If Danny Sullivan asks him to fly to Indianapolis, he gets...
Christopher Reeve is flaunting a sleeker look thanks to Isaacson. The actor had pumped iron to beef up for his role as Superman, but a new movie role he wanted to play required a leaner line. Last June, Isaacson trekked to Williamstown, Mass., where Reeve was playing in summer stock, to set up a rigorous six-day-a-week trimming program. It began before breakfast with ten to 15 miles of bicycling, went on to lunchtime weight-lifting, some racquetball, running or tennis and finally, a half-mile swim before most of the evening performances. Reports the proud teacher...
...Isaacson is quick with encouragement and compliments, but carefully avoids hyperjock competitiveness or withering comparisons.[*] A member of the American College of Sports Medicine, he draws from a variety of sources (the Pritikin Program, Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible, The Sports-medicine Book by Gabe Mirkin and Marshall Hoffman) and serves it all up with a commonsensical approach that stresses his four Ds: decision, determination, discipline and diligence. His unballyhooed fifth D, of course, is deference. He ministers to egos as deftly as to flesh, and he is sympathetic to the open-pore scrutiny and pressures faced by performers. "They...
...admits that he does not get to spend enough time with his actress wife Kim. The work "is long and hard and at times gets very tough," he says. So what does the trainer do to relax? When he gets too edgy with his earthbound heavenly bodies, Isaacson, a licensed pilot, sometimes just takes a plane up for a couple of hours of solitary communion with the real stars. --By Anastasia Toufexis. Reported by Michael Riley/Los Angeles