Getting trained by a CELEBRITY PERSONAL TRAINER | ATU Mobile Review (Alivia D'Andrea Workout)

hey guys what’s up welcome back to my channel 
in today’s video i will be getting trained by  
celebrity personal trainer steve zim also known 
as the hollywood trainer so basically just the  
personal trainer to the stars he has trained 
likes of models actors singers maybe i don’t  
know but basically the gigi hadids and the kendall 
jenners of the world i don’t know if he’s actually  
trained them i’m just making that up but i did 
see that he trained jessica biel because she  
left a testimonial for him in some article that 
i read steve owns a gym in l.a called a tighter  
u where you can pay to train with steve so you 
don’t actually have to be a celebrity to trade  
with the celebrity trainer most recently i came 
across olivia de andreas slow up series video  
in which she shares her 34 pound weight loss 
journey and i’ve seen actually a lot of criticism  
of her video on youtube but i’m not going to 
talk about that because this video is about steve  
and she was training with steve and as i was 
watching her video i saw steve talk about his  
website atu mobile it’s basically an ad 
so atu mobile became something that i  

/> decided to do because so many actors and 
actresses ask me when they go on location  
what do i do i i sometimes you’re sleeping i can’t 
talk to you i really need a program i can just do  
and so i came up with an idea i’m gonna make a 
website that acts like an app on your phone so  
either you can use it on your tablet your computer 
or your phone what i do is when you pick your body  
type and there’s five body types to pick from 
i know by that what is over developed what is  
underdeveloped then i create a program to make 
sure it’s balanced front to back right to left  
safe to say that the ad worked on me because i 
was intrigued and i was curious and i want to know  
can i really train with a celebrity personal 
trainer 24 7 anytime i want i want to do a little  
review of it see if it’s worth it so how much does 
it cost to train with steve zim himself the man  
the myth the legend so i couldn’t really find any 
prices on the gym’s website but i did find this on  
yelp which basically says to train with steve 
is 200 an hour or he does one package you buy  
15 you get 16 for 3 000. i think that means like 
15 sessions and you get a bonus 16 for the low  
low rate of 3 000 okay so this rate was also three 
years ago so i don’t know how accurate it is the  
200 an hour price tag is i would assume it’s gone 
up by now but that’s the only thing i could find  
because there wasn’t any information about payment 
on their website i’m sure if you email you could  
find out but i was too lazy to do that so anyway 
why pay that when you can literally get the app  
atu mobile and have access to steve 24 7 for only 
20 a month on a 12-month plan the 12-month plan is  
20 a month the six-month plan is 24.99 a month 
which seems pretty affordable but the thing is  
you have to pre-pay for 12 months or six months 
and that’s a big commitment and i wasn’t ready  
to commit because i didn’t know if i was going 
to like it or not so i opted for the 30-day plan  
which is 30 a month it’s a monthly membership that 
you can cancel anytime and i thought it was worth  
trying out but you should know that these prices 
are in u.s dollar and i being a canadian it’s a  
little bit more costly for me the thirty dollar 
and ended up being about 38 something so closer  
to 40 a month which is kind of just kind of pricey 
but i was like hey you know what forty dollars a  
month to train with a celebrity personal trainer 
seems reasonable right so this is what you get in  
the 30 plan you get a personalized workout program 
for you at home or at the gym and and if you’re  
going to be doing it at home you need dumbbells 
resistance bands a gym ball kettlebell skateboard  
and a boxing ball so basically just everyday items 
that you have at home right no big deal um sorry i  
don’t know why i’m being so sarcastic today like 
you can get this stuff yeah i’m sorry but anyways  
um so when you sign up you have to take this 
introductory quiz and basically what this quiz is  
it’s sort of like a body profile asks you like 
your age your height your weight your body type  
and then it curates a personalized plan tailored 
to your body type my body type is a rectangle  
meaning that i have a very straight body type and 
then you can also choose how many days a week that  
you want to work out and the options are three 
times a week four times a week or five times a  
week which i think is fine because you don’t 
really need to work out more than that but if  
you wanted to add in a sixth day you could do that 
yourself so once you’re in the app this is kind of  
what it looks like you have your information in 
here and if you go to the workout page you have  
all of your workouts listed for you right off the 
bat i just want to say that i personally didn’t  
enjoy the mobile experience i found that it froze 
a lot at least i don’t know i did on my phone i  
had to refresh a lot and overall it’s just kind 
of annoying to navigate and let me explain what  
i mean so basically at the top of your screen 
you have all of your workout videos basically  
explaining all of the exercises that you’re 
going to be doing that workout and how to do them  
i really like that the website gives you these 
because if you don’t know a lot of these exercises  
and a lot of them were new to me it’s a great 
way to learn them because steve really goes into  
detail about how to do the exercise how long 
to hold and exercise and how to breathe while  
doing the exercise which i really like that he 
also talks about breathing and you also have the  
option to switch from gym to home exercises and 
if there’s an exercise that you’re doing at the  
gym and maybe they don’t have that machine you 
can swap it for an alternative exercise as well  
and i really like that about the app is that it 
gives you options so you’re not limited to just  
the initial set of exercises listed out for you 
then if you scroll down you can see a checklist  
of all of the exercises you are going to be doing 
this day and it also includes stretches between  
exercises which i love because i hate stretching 
at the end of my workout i tend to just skip it  
which is really bad i know but i really like that 
these stretches are included in here because it  
did sort of force me to do them and as you can see 
you have the option to enter how many reps you did  
how much weight you use etc and once you’re done 
with an exercise you can check it off and then if  
you do that exercise again on another day it does 
show you how you did last time and then you can  
see your improvement as time goes on but what is 
most frustrating to me about this is that once  
you start making your way down the list in order 
to watch the video of how to do the exercise you  
have to scroll all the way back up to the top go 
to the right exercise and then watch that video  
and then scroll all the way back down to fill out 
your results and check it off and then when you  
move on to the next exercise you have to scroll 
all the way back up again and do this over and  
over again i found this very tedious and very time 
consuming especially when i’m doing my workout i  
just wanted to be quick i just want to look at the 
video check it off look at the video check it out  
i really wish that the videos were right beside 
where the exercise is listed so that it’s really  
easy to just switch back and forth between the two 
or just have them both laid out in front of you  
it would just make it so much more user friendly 
and another thing i wish was that the videos were  
filmed from different angles as well so you could 
properly see if you are doing the correct form  
all around and i also wish there was a little sort 
of like a map or like a body sort of chart which  
highlighted the muscle groups that you’re going to 
be targeting during this exercise so that you know  
that you’re feeling the burn in the right places 
because a lot of it is just kind of like i think  
i’m doing it right but i’m not sure and i feel 
like if you’re a beginner having that little map  
would be so so helpful because then you’d know 
where you’re supposed to feel the exercise because  
if you’ve never lifted weights or you’ve never 
really done too much training in general you  
probably won’t be sure if you’re feeling it in the 
right place or not and i’ve been lifting weights  
for a long time and there were still times where i 
was uncertain if i was doing it right i would feel  
something but was i feeling the right something 
i don’t know what i do love about this program  
is that there are so many unique exercises that 
i had never done before tailored to my body type  
like i mentioned earlier when you sign up for the 
program you do fill out information like your body  
type and then it creates a program based on that 
because my body is very straight like a ruler  
i have a rectangular body shape notice there 
was a lot of shoulder exercises in my program  
which is fine the thing is when it creates 
your personalized program it doesn’t ask you  
what your goal is for example the program might 
be tailored in a way to help you lose weight  
when your goal is to gain weight or for example 
for me i’ve put on muscle very easily especially  
in my arms i already have defined shoulders i’m 
not looking to build them anymore like i am happy  
with where they are right now and i’m fine with 
maintaining them but i don’t want them to grow  
any more than they are it just wasn’t a goal that 
i was particularly interested in and so much of my  
program had shoulders in it the program assumes 
that your goal is a certain aesthetic which it  
might not be you might have a completely different 
goal your goal might be to build your booty or to  
strengthen your quads you know even though you 
have a certain body type you might just have  
a different goal that is not the same as what the 
program assumes it is i did wish that in the intro  
it asked you like what are your goals just to make 
it a little bit more fine-tuned and a little bit  
even more personalized to you and your specific 
goals rather than just what your body type is now  
and that being said i didn’t mind too much 
doing all of the shoulder exercises because  
there was a lot of new ones in there that i really 
enjoyed learning and enjoyed doing steve mentioned  
that his workouts are designed to isolate specific 
muscles rather than doing compound movements which  
target multiple muscle groups at one time at 
first i really like this idea because i know  
it is important to isolate your muscles especially 
when you want to get a sort of specific shape to  
your body and you want to have defined lines and 
to find let’s say triceps and biceps and shoulders  
it’s really good to isolate those specific 
areas to create an even look all around however  
i recently watched abby sharp do a review on 
olivia de andreas video and she made a comment on  
how steve’s program is focused on the isolation 
of muscle groups while she is not an expert in  
the training side of things she did reach out to 
a colleague who is and basically they said that  
workouts that are designed to isolate muscle 
groups tend to work better for those people  
who have already been training for a long time and 
who already have some muscle definition built if  
you’re new to working out you’re better off 
doing compound movements that work multiple  
muscle groups because it’ll raise your heart rate 
and give you a better workout you’ll see better  
results and you won’t have to be at the gym for 
as long that brings me to my next point the length  
of the workout according to the app you have the 
option of doing one to three sets of each exercise  
if you do one set of each exercise the workout 
should take you about 20 minutes and if you do  
three sets of each exercise it should take you 
about an hour i did not find this to be the case i  
wanted to do three sets of each exercise because 
i wanted to get the most out of the program  
and i wanted to make sure that i did everything 
as much as i could so that i could properly give  
you guys my opinion on it so i did three sets of 
each exercise and it took me a long time it took  
me about an hour and a half to sometimes almost 
two hours to complete a workout and that’s not  
including any cardio at first i thought i would 
get faster because i thought it’s taking time  
because i have to go through and review each video 
and learn the exercises and that’s why it’s taking  
me so long but it it still takes me really long 
i’m now i’ve did a month of it and it still takes  
me an hour and a half to get through a workout 
so that’s a lot of time and that’s not a lot  
of time that people have so if you’re a really 
busy person and you don’t have a lot of time to  
work out i wouldn’t recommend this as the workout 
for you and even if you did one set per exercise  
i feel like maybe you’re not going to be getting 
the most out of your workout plan especially when  
you’re paying so much money because it’s really 
not that cheap and especially if you’re pre-paying  
or paying month to month like it adds up if you’re 
busy or you have a really on the go don’t have a  
lot of time to work out i wouldn’t recommend this 
program you can find really good quick efficient  
workouts online you can even kind of learn to 
eventually create your own plan just by doing  
a little bit of research oh that is the downside 
to this line is that it does take a lot of time to  
do those isolation movements compared to when 
you’re doing compound movements you’re working  
multiple muscle groups at once and you can kind 
of get through your workout quicker and like i  
mentioned the time that it took me didn’t include 
cardio because there was no cardio included in  
the program i don’t know if this is the case 
for everybody but for my program there was no  
cardio included and i just assumed at first that 
that meant that like i didn’t need to do cardio  
because i know not everyone thinks that you need 
to do cardio but i like to do cardio because i  
like to get my heart rate pumping and i just feel 
really good after because it didn’t include cardio  
in my workout plan i just did cardio myself two 
to three times a week and included it in the plan  
that way however as i was doing research for this 
video i kind of went through the whole website and  
made sure to just read everything so i didn’t 
miss anything and i came across the faq section  
in which the question about cardio was answered 
and it mentioned that you should be doing hit  
cardio with your workout and i really wish this 
was more clear and like more easily accessible  
or mentioned right in the beginning of your 
workout rather than having to search through  
and go through the faq section and then finding 
the answer to the cardio question because honestly  
if i wasn’t doing the research for this video i 
probably would have never gone in that section and  
i would have never known that you know i should 
be doing cardio with this workout plan so if  
somebody is brand new and they’re just going off 
workout schedule they’re not gonna know like hey  
cardio is also important i should be incorporating 
it or they might not know that hit cardio is  
better for this plan rather than steady state 
cardio so i do wish it’s told you right away  
like hey you need to do this and lastly i really 
wish there was a nutrition plan included with this  
like i said it’s not cheap and when i’m paying 
this much for a workout plan that’s supposed  
to be tailored to me and meant to give me really 
great results i kind of expect it to come with a  
nutrition plan or at least a meal guide or meal 
ideas of some sort which it doesn’t at all and  
again when it asked about nutrition it does lead 
you to buy this book by written by steve as well  
and that’s an additional 22 cost american more 
if you’re canadian and that’s not something that  
i personally would like to pay on top of already 
paying for the workout it just adds up and i kind  
of just wish it was included to make it that much 
easier and make it more worthy initial price tag  
so to conclude how did i feel about this workout 
overall i didn’t mind it did i love it honestly no  
did i see really good results no i didn’t and i’m 
really disappointed and yes maybe a month is not  
long enough to see results but i would have liked 
to see at least some results i didn’t really see a  
significant difference of my body before and after 
and it just really wasn’t targeted toward my goal  
like i said sure doing shoulders is great and i 
incorporate them into my workout regularly but i  
don’t want my workout to be so heavily for focused 
on that and for you it might not be but like for  
me it was and that just wasn’t my goal and i was 
honestly really disappointed when i did these  
workouts i never really felt like i had a good 
workout if that makes sense don’t get me wrong  
like i did find the exercises challenging and it 
would feel the burn especially after doing endless  
wraps just at the end of the workout i just 
really didn’t feel like i had a good workout in  
the sense i don’t really feel like i got to push 
myself to my full capacity and when i work out i  
like to have that like feeling of like wow like i 
really did it and maybe that’s because these are  
isolation moves and they’re more like specific and 
they don’t really get your heart rate popping but  
when i do a workout i want to get my heart rate 
pumping i want to work out hard and i want to see  
the results that way like i said i didn’t really 
see the results that i wanted to see and i’m  
really disappointed and also just want to touch 
one more time on the accessibility of the website  
i do understand that it is a website designed to 
perform like an app but honestly i wish they would  
just make it a app i find that it glitches so much 
on the website i have to refresh a lot it freezes  
on me it logs me out and i have to relog in and 
it’s just really inconvenient to do that in the  
middle of your workout i just want an app that i 
can click on i’m always logged in and it’s really  
easy to access all of the information is laid out 
in a nice neat way it doesn’t take time away from  
the actual workout do i recommend this app do i 
feel like it was worth the 30 40 dollar price tag  
honestly no and this is not to like bash on steve 
because i’m sure he is a great personal trainer i  
would love to train with him one day this is just 
my experience somebody asked me would i recommend  
using this program i would say no i feel like 
there are better ways to spend your money you  
can easily search up routines based on your goals 
on the internet and get free exercises and watch  
videos that way you might have to do a little bit 
more research but once you do that research and  
you get into your routine it’ll be really easy to 
flow into your routine because you’ll already know  
what to do other than that i really hope that this 
video was helpful to anyone considering signing up  
for this program i mean i don’t want to like say 
don’t sign up for it because you might like it  
if you’re new to working out and you don’t 
really know things like you don’t really know  
a lot of exercises you don’t really know where 
to start it might be good for you but again as  
abby sharp mentioned isolation workouts tend to 
be better for those who are already working out  
so i don’t really know i guess that’s a decision 
you can make for yourself but i did enjoy a lot  
of the exercises and i will incorporate some 
of them into my workout just not all of them  
and yeah other than that i hope this video was 
helpful if it was please give it a big thumbs up  
subscribe if you haven’t and i 
will see you guys in the next one
bye you

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