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Actor and fitness guru Greg Plitt has died in a train accident in California.

Greg Plitt, 37, was struck on Saturday afternoon on the tracks near Burbank Metrolink station.

Several radio stations are reporting that the former model may have been filming with friends at the time.

Police have confirmed they seized recording equipment from the scene.

Greg Plitt recently starred in the Bravo show Work Out and is due to feature in a new reality series called Friends to Lovers later this month.

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Photo Getty Images

A Bravo spokesperson said: “This is a terrible tragedy. Our thoughts and deepest sympathy are with Greg’s family and friends.”

Fellow workout guru Rob Riches has tweeted that the world has lost a fitness icon.

Greg Plitt acted in a number of movies, appearing alongside Robert De Niro and Matt Damon in The Good Shepherd, and with Christian Bale in Terminator 4.

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Ruby Carter-Pikes, also known as “Miss Ruby”, is a great grandmother with a six pack that even a college athlete would be jealous of and a cabinet of bikini competition trophies to prove it.

64-year-old fitness fanatic from Los Angeles, California, who calls herself a health expert and fitness guru, is a familiar face on the body-building and fitness competition circuit and most recently picked up two winning shields at the FitSciences Championships in Atlanta, Georgia.

Strutting the stage in a skimpy, string two-piece, Ruby Carter-Pikes scored a second place win for the category titled Women’s Figure, as well as claiming a prize as Women’s Super Masters Winner.

In Women’s Figure judges rated the contestant on her shoulders, latissimus dorsi and quadriceps.

“Abdominal development is very important as well,” spelled out the rules on the website.

“Definition with a limited amount of striated muscles.”

Ruby Carter-Pikes, also known as “Miss Ruby”, is a great grandmother with a six pack that even a college athlete would be jealous of and a cabinet of bikini competition trophies to prove it

Ruby Carter-Pikes, also known as “Miss Ruby”, is a great grandmother with a six pack that even a college athlete would be jealous of and a cabinet of bikini competition trophies to prove it

Other categories in the contest hosted by the healthy lifestyle management company, were Fit Mom, Female Fitness Model, Bikini Spokesmodel and Junior Fitness Spokesmodel.

Fresh from her victory at the Atlanta’s 14th Street Playhouse venue, the muscular great-grandmother told FitSciences competition organizers: “It was fantastic. Overall I’m having a blast.”

Her enjoyment of the event is hardly surprising for someone whose challengers are less than half her age.

Ruby Carter-Pikes has been eating well and exercising for years, inspired by the tragic health issues suffered by several family members, problems that she attributes on her blog to poor nutritional education during childhood.

“I am the oldest of twelve siblings and the first granddaughter of 45 grandchildren. We lived in a rural and remote area in Mississippi,” she explains on BodyProud.org.

Growing up on a farm, she continues, though the family was active and regularly held dances and horse riding games, the food produced from the land consisted primarily of white flour, sugar and meals were often fried.

She had also been born with a heart condition that affected her ease of breathing and so attention to health had always been a priority.

After having four children and seeing how precious life could be when she lost family to cholesterol complications and diabetes, she upped the ante and fitness became not just a priority but her life.

Though a post dated 2008 claims she ran a gym in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, Ruby’s Fitness Gym proved an elusive establishment, untraceable on the web.

What is certain however, is that this great-grandmother’s “dedication to the fitness industry”, as one impressed You Tube commentator put it, is nothing short of remarkable.

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Health guru Jennifer Nicole Lee, who has built a career around her incredibly toned body which has inspired people around the world to get fit and shed weight, has revealed her personal weight loss journey was anything but easy.

Jennifer Nicole Lee, 36, a mother-of-two, had tipped 200 lbs on the scales after the birth of her second child. Shown here in the midst of her hard work, she dropped more than 70 lbs to become the image of health she is today.

The weight loss champion told Foxnews.com that she had to “let go of wanting my weight loss success to happen overnight”.

The fitness author and former Miss Bikini America said her biggest challenge was letting go of excuses.

Jennifer Nicole Lee said: “I banished all the myths and got real with myself… all the excuses such as <<I don’t have enough time>> or <<it’s expensive to live healthy>>.

“I also had a hard time giving myself the gift of time as I wanted to see the results instantly.”

Fitness guru Jennifer Nicole Lee had tipped 200 lbs on the scales after the birth of her second child

Fitness guru Jennifer Nicole Lee had tipped 200 lbs on the scales after the birth of her second child

Jennifer Nicole Lee, who has appeared on the cover of more than 40 magazines, had been fed up with being out of shape especially once she had two children to care for.

She said: “Being a new mom really hit me hard… I was sick and tired of being fat with little to no energy.

“I made a commitment to learn everything possible about how super fitness models and serious athletes ate and trained.”

Now known as a fitness guru after publishing several books, releasing a swimwear line as well as workout DVDs, Jennifer Nicole Lee learned to focus on persistence rather than looking perfect.

It landed her a spot on Oprah where she encouraged other mothers to take her lead.

Jennifer Nicole Lee said: “We, as moms, suffer from wanting the best for everyone but we must aim to put ourselves back on our to-do list.”

During the early stages of her weight loss, Jennifer Nicole Lee put a large emphasis on building strength as opposed to shedding fat, telling Fox: “Women, especially moms, must rate their health level on how strong they are mentally, emotionally and physically.

“Being fit does not equal a size or being thin. But being strong means you are healthy and fit.”

Jennifer Nicole Lee said it is common for women to set themselves weight loss goals without actually following through. Her training method, which has been titled JNL Fusion, focuses on “doable” workout techniques.

She trains her clients to do “six circuits of three sets of 30-second strength moves followed directly by 30-seconds of a body weighted cardio blast”.

It forces the metabolism to race up and down intensely, which helps to burn fat.

Jennifer Nicole Lee said: “I urge women to do more strength training than cardio as lean muscle tone is the fountain of youth.”

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