The Fools Gold actress has been spotted twice this week leaving dance classes at a Pacific Palisades, Calif. dance studio. This isn't the first time Kate has been known to dance for fitness, she's also taken Sheila Kelley's S Factor  poll dancing classes. Kate seems like a fun girl and dancing seems like a fun way to get physical and super toned.

Is Dancing for you? Try these Dancing DVDs (Available in the BEFIT STORE powered by amazon.com):

• Jamie King- Rock Your Body
• Dance the Chakras Yoga Workout
• Dancing With the Stars - Cardio Dance

Want a body like popstar Rihanna? With the help of her choreographer Jamie King you can try. Jamie is responsible for whipping Rihanna into perfect shape through dance.

“It’s enjoyable,” Rihanna says convincingly of her workout of choice. “You lose weight without even knowing it because you’re having a great time.”

Jaime wants people to know that dancing is a valid method to a perfect body. “Dance is a sport. Absolutely,” he says. “Dancers are athletes. I understand that people are skeptical, but because I traveled with Nike for the last two years, I saw people change. I saw that the idea of what dance was changed for them."

In 2005, King paired with Nike to create the Nike Rockstar Workout, a high-energy cardio class that focuses on the athleticism of dance and is available at Crunch gyms and other fitness locations around the world. His muse for this endeavor? None other than the pop princess Rihanna herself, whose video for her debut hit 'S.O.S.' features dance moves straight from the workout.

Following the enormous success of the Nike collaboration is King’s most recent project -- the “Rock Your Body” workout, a book and DVD combo featuring hip-hop inspired dance moves devised to help tighten your trouble spots and shed pounds. More importantly, it was created so that he could share his passion with the rest of the world.

He proves his point further that dancing is an effective avenue to shaping up. “Look at 'Dancing with the Stars'," says King. It’s a perfect example of how dance fitness can make you look better, feel better, act better. You learn a craft. You lose weight. You feel better about yourself.”

Rihanna, like many other performance artists, relies on dance to maintain her flawless figure; constantly touring makes working out with her trainer difficult. “When I’m performing, I’m dancing so much that it helps me to stay in shape," she says. "I’m supposed to eat a certain way, but sometimes I slip up. Sometimes I wonder how I don’t gain weight after several days of eating too much chocolate ice cream and pasta. And then I remember: 'I just came off tour.'”

King's program isn’t just a ‘quick fix.’ There’s no guarantee that you’ll get washboard abs or lose 10 pounds in 10 days. In fact, he stresses the importance of nutrition and a well-rounded diet. “You have to have balance," he says. You can’t just eat really poorly and then dance.”

So what does Rihanna think about her mentor’s methods?

“He’s amazing," she gushes. "I’ve always been a fan of his work, so it was intimidating for me to work with him at first. But right after I got in there, he had me dancing -- I didn’t even know it. He just gets it out of you so naturally.”

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Tori Spelling has a bad ass body these days. Tori didn't achieve those abs sitting on her butt. Along with following the NutriSystem diet plan, she also enjoys having high energy kickboxing sessions with husband Dean McDermott.

 What is kickboxing?

Kickboxing refers to the sport of using martial-arts-style kicks and western-boxing-style punches to defeat an opponent in a similar way to that of standard boxing. Kickboxing is often practiced for general fitness, or as a full-contact sport.

 Cost: Kickboxing DVD’s range from $10-$15; classes typically range from $10-$40.
 Time Commitment: Aim to start slow. Begin with 15-20 min. of a typical workout DVD or class 2-3 times a week and build up workout frequency and intensity.
 Location Limitations: If doing a DVD, make sure that you’re working out on a shock-absorbent mat or surface.
 Special Equipment Required: A good pair of cross-training shoes, special kickboxing gloves.
 Potential Pitfalls: Avoid if you have back or joint problems.
 Boredom Rating: This workout mixes boxing, martial arts and aerobics, leaving boredom potential very low.
 Potential Injury Risk: It’s advised that people with back or joint problems (like arthritis) avoid this workout.
 Level of Fitness Required: N/A.
 Calories Burned (based on a 150 pound woman exercising at a moderate intensity for 30 minutes): Up to 125-250 calories per hour.
 Body Parts Worked: All upper and lower body parts, including the core.

You can buy Tori's pink boxing gloves HERE for $34.99

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Exercise physiologists say there is little in the world of exercise as wildly exaggerated as people's estimates of the number of calories they burn.

Despite the displays on machines at gyms, with their precise-looking calorie counts, and despite the official-looking published charts of exercise and calories, it can be all but impossible to accurately estimate of the number of calories you burn.

You can use your heart rate to gauge your effort, and from that you can plan routines that are as challenging as you want. But, researchers say, heart rate does not translate easily into calories. And you may be in for a rude surprise if you try to count the calories you think you used during exercise and then reward yourself with extra food.

One reason for the calorie-count skepticism is that two individuals of the same age, gender, height, weight and even the same level of fitness can burn a different amount of calories at the same level of exertion.

Claude Bouchard, an obesity and exercise researcher who directs the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., found that if, for example, the average number of calories burned with an exercise is 100, individuals will burn anywhere from 70 to 130 calories.

Part of that is genetic and part is familiarity with the exercise. The more familiar you are with an exercise, the fewer calories you use at the same level of effort, he found in a research study. Subjects rode stationary bicycles six days a week for 12 weeks. They ended up burning 10 percent fewer calories at a given level of effort after their training. The reason, he said, is that people perform an exercise more efficiently as they become more accustomed to it.

There also is a seldom mentioned complication in calculating calories burned during exercise: you should subtract off the number of calories you would be using if you did nothing. Almost no one does that, Dr. Bouchard said. But for moderate exercise, the type most people do, subtracting the resting metabolic rate can eliminate as much as 30 percent of the calories you think you used, he added.

Resting metabolic rates, though, differ from individual to individual and also differ depending on age, gender, body mass, body composition and level of fitness, so guessing at your resting rate also is fraught with error.

Even if you wanted to get a rough estimate of the calories an average person your size might burn at the gym, you might not want to trust the displays on cardio machines, with the possible exception of treadmills, said William Haskell, an exercise physiologist at Stanford. And with treadmills, the calories are not accurate if you hang on the bars.

Dr. Haskell once studied people using treadmills. Hanging onto the rails reduced the number of calories burned by 40 to 50 percent. The same thing happened with stair-climbing machines.

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For instructional workouts from the Ford Models themselves visit Ford Models TV. You'll find several model workout routines under the "Model Fitness" tab. I wouldn't have super high expectations of yourself when trying these routines that are designed for extremely physically fit women.