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The Wharf's Fitness Columnist Laura Williams tells us how to get the look of actor Matt Damon through tough bursts of high intensity training.

Pounding the pavement and pumping iron isn'tfor everyone. If you need more a different kind of routine to make you get in your gym kit on, then classes can spur you on to get in shape.

Zumba Toning launches at Reebok Canary Wharf this month. The toning part refers to the addition of small hand held weights (toning sticks) the Zumba to the dance based workout set to Latin beats.

Dance your way to a better body with a pool party workout. Aqua Zumba takes the Latin rhythms and simple to follow moves of the biggest dance workout craze in recent years and drops them in the water.

I often find dance-based classes intimidating and an uncomfortable opportunity to highlight my lack of co-ordination so I haven't given Zumba a go yet.

It's not difficult to convince ourselves we are too busy to exercise.

In an era when people who are perfectly capable of trotting to the supermarket have their shopping delivered to their door, we like to ignore the fact that if we spent lest time frittering away the hours on Facebook we might have more time to focus on ourselves.

Get the look: Lily Cole

If there were ever a case of someone being more than a pretty face, Lily Cole is it. Actress, model and now Cambridge graduate (with a double first no less), Lily's found she has to rely on healthy eating over exercise to stay in tip-top physical shape.