DENISE AUSTIN is the host of Lifetime Television's Denise Austin's Fit and Lite and Denise Austin's Daily Workout, the number-one daily fitness show in America. The creator of more than thirty bestselling exercise videos and the author of the national bestsellers Jumpstart, Hit the Spot!, and Lose Those Last 10 Pounds, she had written for the Washington Post and Healthy Living magazine. She has been twice appointed Chairman of the Virginia Governor's Commission on Physical Fitness and Sports and was awarded the title of Healthy American Fitness Leader by the President's Council on Fitness and Sports. She lives outside Washington, D.C., with her husband and two daughters.