Fitness
Best of celebrity fitness—10 exercises Kareena Kapoor Khan, Deepika Padukone, and more loved in 2023
She further revealed, “Ananya loves a good challenge, be it handstands or arm balances.” While Ananya Panday’s sessions, often involving pole workouts, focus on lower body strength, for Alia Bhatt, it’s all about back and chest openers, with a special nod to the Kapotasana, affectionately dubbed the ‘Alia pose’. Breathwork, as Parwani emphasised, is crucial across all routines, with practices like Kapalbhati and Anulom Vilom offering a serene conclusion to any workout.
Below we round up the 10 exercises loved by your favourite celebrities that you can add to your regime:
Pilates perfection
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Pilates, with its focus on controlled movements and core strength, has become a fitness mainstay among many and Janhvi Kapoor’s choice of the reformer adds an extra layer of intensity. With its intricate system of springs and pulleys, the reformer transforms traditional exercises into dynamic challenges, making it a perfect fit for those seeking a comprehensive and sophisticated fitness approach.
Serene strength
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WHEN ERNIE HUDSON walked the red carpet at the premiere of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire—40 years after he starred in the first Ghostbusters movie—the internet could not get over how buff he looked, and had all kinds of questions about how he maintains such a fit and youthful appearance at the age of 78. In the latest episode of Gym & Fridge, Hudson invites Men’s Health into his Los Angeles home to break down the diet and training routine that keep him feeling good.
Firstly, Hudson is an intermittent faster, and won’t eat before noon. His first meal of the day tends to be oatmeal, or smoked salmon and eggs. But while salmon is an almost-daily staple, you won’t find many other varieties of fish or seafood in his fridge; he has a severe shellfish allergy. It’s so bad, in fact, that it proved to be one of the most dangerous parts of his service in the U.S. Marine Corps.
“My drill instructor made me eat a piece of shrimp. I kept saying, I’m allergic! He couldn’t believe that little piece of shrimp would be a problem,” he says. “I ate it, and I had an awful asthma attack, and I was eventually discharged from the military.”
Allergies and intolerances aside, there is not much that Hudson would 100% exclude from his diet. Similarly, he avoids fad diets these days. As he’s gotten older, he mainly tries to keep moderation in mind.
“I don’t have any rules of ‘I don’t eat.’ When I make a rule, every part of me wants to break it, so I don’t make rules,” he says. “There’s a price to pay for everything, and unless I really want to pay that price, it’s best to just leave it alone… The problem with diets is, as soon as you get off them, the weight starts to come back. The toughest diet I ever tried was called the Beverly Hills diet; grapefruit, cottage cheese. It was stupid!”
“I think as I’ve gotten older, you realize that you’re never going to do the things you know you should do,” he continues. “You’re never going to eat the way you should. I’ve done every diet you can imagine. At some point you have to just try to be a little bit better.”
Hudson hits the gym three times a week, working out at Studio G Fitness, where he’s been going for the last 25 years. “I’m not the kind of guy who can get motivated to work out,” he explains. “I need someone else to tell me what to do.”
He keeps his sessions to an hour or less, hitting strength, mobility and balance on different days, and on the occasions when he can’t get to a gym, he’ll make sure that he does at least 100 pushups.
“At a certain stage in life, it’s just common sense stuff; I don’t want to break anything, I don’t want to overpush anything,” he says. “You only get one body, so it’s very important for me to keep it as functional as possible. Also, I’ve been married close to 50 years, and I don’t want my wife pretending that I’m attractive. I want at least to have a smile when I take off my shirt!”
Fitness
I lost 80 pounds and became a fitness instructor — thanks to one piece of exercise equipment
She’s on a roll.
A New Jersey woman is revealing how she shed 80 pounds and achieved her dream of becoming an indoor cycling instructor. Amanda Hinds, 31, loved the sport but ended up taking an extended break during the COVID-19 pandemic because her gym closed and she lost motivation.
“A little after COVID, I went on vacation, and I couldn’t even walk. My feet hurt just from walking and standing. My athleticism was really bad,” she told Today.com last week. “I went to the doctor, and I saw that I had gained 100 pounds in a year. I couldn’t believe it. I was so frustrated and disgusted with myself.”
She got back in the saddle in June 2021, documenting her weight loss and confidence building progress on TikTok to her 29,300 followers.
She started on her Peloton at 300 pounds and had dropped to 245 by August 2022. “I love cycling! Find something you love and stick with it,” she captioned one TikTok.
According to Harvard University, a 125-pound person can burn 315 calories riding a stationary bicycle vigorously for 30 minutes. That translates to 278 calories for a 155-pound person and 441 calories for a 185-pound person.
Those calorie counts drop between 200 and 300 if the cycling is done at a moderate pace over the half hour.
Hinds took baby steps, focusing on getting through one song at a time until she had enough courage to audition to become a CycleBar instructor. She announced in June 2023 that she had reached her goal.
Now she’s proud to represent “plus-sized women of color” as an instructor.
“I used to think riding here, people that don’t look like me, I maybe won’t fit in, I maybe can’t do the class well… so seeing people see that I am on the podium, so now they feel inspired that they can come to take a class and they feel motivated, less afraid,” Hinds told News 12 New Jersey in February.
The Belleville resident teaches in Jersey City and Montclair, per News 12.
She’s also taken up running, even signing up for a half marathon after being able to run 4 miles at a time.
“If you told me last year I was going to be jogging for an hour, I would not believe you. I’m definitely proud of myself when it comes to my fitness level,” she told Today.com.
Indoor cycling isn’t the only way to drop pounds — others have recently credited a weighted sled and a jump rope for their significant weight loss.
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