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Maria Menounos--TV personality, Fitness Magazine Cover Girl--is crazy about Krav Maga

Maria Menounos is an NBC News reporter . . . Access Hollywood reporter, and now--she's this month's Fitness Magazine cover girl. How does she work out? Here's an excerpt from FitnessMagazine.com:

Recently, she took up Krav Maga, an Israeli martial art. "I started it last year when I was preparing to go to Iraq. I wanted to be able to defend myself if I needed to, God forbid," explains Menounos. "But what I found was that it's the best overall workout I've ever experienced. It's cardio. It's strength. It's reflexes. It's everything."

Fitness Magazine has also published a video that showing Maria doing a Krav Maga workout. Watch it if you'd like to see what she means by an "overall" workout.