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Bikini Ready Workout!

“Ladies First” Mara-thon Run (inside

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Welcome to our May issue, featur-ing our gorgeous cover model Shawn Johnson. Johnson is one of the most FIERCE athletes in the world and we were thrilled to have the opportunity to shoot her on location. She won the 2008 olympics. She currently is work-ing on a stretching workout for the Nike Training app.

I’m also happy to introduce you to our newest home-grown supermodel, Shanina Shaik, this month in our story “Ahead of the curve” (page 172). Some of you may know Shanina, as her road to Vogue Australia has been a stellar series of successes: after emerging as the runner-up in the television show Make Me a Supermodel, she went on to become a member of that model elite, a Victoria’s Secret angel, and has walked for Chanel in Paris. Shanina is a stunning melange of Australian, Lithu-anian, Pakistani and Saudi, a truly global beauty, and one model who liter-ally stopped me in my tracks when she dropped by the Vogue office, she was that special. Click here for a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Shanina on the Vogue set (check out the fab hair by Kevin Mancuso).

Another feature I love this month is the “Bikini Ready” workout on page (12-14) Vanessa Minnillo shares an exclusive personal workout with our magazine. Her personal trainer Rodney Stilleto is one of the most prestigious trainers in Hollywood. The workout is a tough one that benefits all body types.

Editor’s Letter

May 2012

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ContentsEditors LetterAimee Adams

Smoothie of the MonthBlueberry Bomb!

Ladies FirstA Nike Sponsored EventCover Story

Bikini Ready Workout featuring Vanessa MinnilloCover story

Monthly Inspiration Impossible is nothing. Inspired by Muhammad Ali

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Serve immediately.

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I have to admit, heading to Cali to hang out with 20,000 women who all love to run sounded pretty good to me from the start. Toss in a couple of Nike's brightest young track stars, a marathon legend, and a killer course, and you had enough to make this RunReporter's head spin.

2010 marked the seventh annual Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco. I was a first-timer, and the incredible energy around this event made my first trip to the City by the Bay one I will never forget.

In the days leading up to the race, Nike set up shop in Union Square in the heart of downtown San Francisco. The Expotique was unlike anything I had ever seen: ladies gearing up for both the full marathon and the half were treated to free smoothies, foot massages, and PowerSongs to get them ready for race day.

Aside from meeting tons of incredible women, I also had the chance to meet and talk with U.S. track elites Nick Symmonds and Shannon Rowbury. Nick and Shannon are both mid-distance pros who represented the U.S. team in Beijing, and both are coming off huge years on the track. They helped prep the runners all weekend with advice and tips, and even joined me for a couple laps around Union Square to show off the new Nike+ GPS app for the iPhone. Luck-ily, they went easy on me.

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I teamed up with the Nike Field Reporter, Gevrina Seferaj, for all the weekend's festiv-ities. Gevrina is interviewing inspiring ath-letes and blogging about her experiences for Nike Women all year long. We served as honorary emcees for a special college dinner, where Nike and Hurley celebrated all the California college girls that were tackling the course. Gevrina was an athlete at UCLA, so she was super excited to give some love to all the Bruins running.

Race day was absolutely crazy. This might have been the only time in my life I was excited to hear my alarm go off at 4:30 AM. The start line was already buzzing when we arrived, and it's safe to say that nobody living above Union Square was getting much sleep. Droves of women,

some running the distance for the first time, descended upon the square to get loose for their big run, and when 7 o'clock hit the party was on. Seeing the excitement on the

faces of thousands amazing women, all running for a great cause, made it

hard to stop smiling.

I got to catch all the runners again at the 11.5 mile mark, where Nick and Shannon joined me for some mid-race motivational cheers. I suspect that not too many women can say they were

cheered on by two Olympic athletes during a race. Despite

some blustery winds and rain, the racers were in great spirits, giv-

ing us waves, big smiles, and urging on their friends. The race finished right along the Pacific, and the view made for a pictur-esque end to an incredible run through the

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hills of San Francisco. Finishers who braved the elements were not given your run-of-the-mill medals, since this is the Nike Women's Marathon after all! So naturally, they es-chewed mundane hardware in favor of cus-tom race day Tiffany & Co. necklaces handed to them by Bay Area firefighters in tuxedos.

Despite all the fanfare, the star of the show was still the inspiration for the race, Joan Benoit-Samuelson. The legendary mara-thoner was everywhere in the days leading up to the race, talking about what drives and inspires her. Joanie just set another mara-thon record in Chicago last week and jumped in the U.S. 10k championships the following day! But that didn't stop the ageless wonder from joining in on the fun on Sunday; she ran with her daughter Abby, and the mother-daughter duo took the challenging course in stride. Joan is the complete embodiment of Nike's "There is no finish line" mantra, and in the last few weeks she has single-handedly

altered my concept of "peak years."

Her spirit is truly at the heart of the event, which has now helped raise over $105 mil-lion for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. There were only a handful of men who hopped in the race, but I was pretty jealous of the few who did. Tiffany necklaces and chocolate aid stops aside, there is no race quite like this one anywhere in the world!

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Lean-leg Lunge

Stand with feet hip-width apart, a weight in left hand, elbow bent, palm facing out, so weight is at shoulder level; place right hand on hip. Lunge forward with right leg, left heel lifted, then press weight straight up (as shown). Return to start for one rep. Do 12 reps. Switch sides; repeat.

* works butt, thighs, hamstrings, calves, shoulders, biceps, triceps, upper back, chest

Your Fat-burning Beginning

Choose any heart-pumping activity you enjoy (like jumping rope). Did you know Minnillo was actually a jump rope phenom back in the day? "When I was living in Turkey as a kid, I was on a traveling team and performed all over the coun-try," she says. Warm up for five minutes. (On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is super easy and 10 is superhuman, work at level 3 or 4.) Next, go as hard as you can (about level 9) for 20 seconds, then slow down (level 2) or stop altogether for 10 seconds. Repeat the sequence (minus the warm-up) eight times for a total of four min-utes. You can do it!

Bikini

Hot-body hop

Stand with feet hip-width apart. Crouch down, placing hands on ground under shoulders. With hands planted, jump feet behind you (as shown), landing in a plank. Hop feet back to hands, then quickly return to standing for one rep. Do 20 reps.

* works shoulders, back, abs, butt, thighs

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Rear Raiser

Time to tone: Complete the indicated number of reps for this and the next two moves, then repeat the cycle two more times.

Stand with feet hip-width apart, a weight in each hand, palms facing thighs. Squat, lowering weights toward feet (as shown). Return to start. Do 12 reps.

* works butt, back, abs, thighs, hamstrings, calves

Bikini ready Jiggle-free jump

Squat with arms extended in front of you at shoulder height, palms down. Jump up, throwing arms behind you (as shown), then land in squat position. Repeat 20 times without rest.

* works abs, butt, thighs

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Power punch

Circuit 2: Do this and the next move, then repeat twice.

Sit on ball with a weight in left hand, elbow bent 90 de-grees, palm facing out so weight is at shoulder, feet hip-width apart on ground. Roll forward into a tabletop posi-tion with upper back and elbows resting on ball, hips lifted. Drive right elbow into ball as you lift upper body off ball and punch left arm up (as shown). Return to tabletop for one rep. Do 12 reps. Switch sides; repeat.

Flat-belly Finale

Lie faceup, arms extended on ground over-head. Contract abs and crunch up, lifting legs and raising arms until parallel with thighs (as shown). Return to start. Do eight sets of 12 reps, resting for 10 seconds be-tween each set.

* works abs

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Yoga

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“Impossible is just

a big word thrown

around by small men who find it easie

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to explore the p

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dare. Impossible

is potential. Im

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temporary. Impossible

is nothing.”

-Muhammad Ali

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