Kim Kardashian-West : Weightlifting
Love her or hate her, Kim’s hourglass figure is undeniably impressive. The KKW Beauty founder and mom of three is super dedicated when it comes to her diet and fitness routine, especially since she enlisted trainer Melissa Alcantara in 2017 to help firm and tone her body. The two train five or six days a week and wake up at the crack of dawn for intense body-building workouts that anywhere between one and two hours, according to Women’s Health. Unsurprisingly, Kim’s favorite body part to train is her butt, which they target with squats, deadlifts, and lunges while carrying heavy weights, Alcantara told People, adding that her favorite move for working glutes and hamstrings is weighted hip thrusts.
Jennifer Lopez : HIIT
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Jennifer Lopez’s abs are no joke. Seriously, the woman has been ripped since 2001. J. Lo works with multiple trainers—depending on which coast she’s on—and she often switches up her workouts to keep things fresh and challenging. She’s a big fan of HIIT workouts with planks, ab workouts that utilize a stability ball, full-body weight training, and moves that tone her butt, like the platypus walk. Plus, Lopez never skips a workout—like ever—and she hits the gym first thing in the morning to make sure her busy schedule doesn’t get in the way of her fitness.
Kristen Bell : At-home workouts
As a mom of two who’s also involved in multiple TV and film projects at once, Bell finds creative ways to work fitness into her everyday routine. Some days, she might follow along to a 10-minute YouTube workout before she has to jet out the door; other days, she’ll sprint up and down her driveway 10 or 15 times. Bell is a big believer in carving out tiny slots of time for exercise, even if that’s jogging for just 10 minutes.
Gigi Hadid : Boxing, ballet, barre, core work
As a world-famous supermodel and spokeswoman for Reebok, Gigi Hadid knows a thing or two about staying in shape. The 23-year-old covergirl does boxing every single day and told People she enjoys the sport so much, it doesn’t even feel like exercise. “When you’re boxing, you get so into it mentally that you kind of forget what’s going on,” she said.
“Boxing is “similar to Muay Thai and kickboxing with much less focus on lower body,” Matheny says. “It’s good for general conditioning, upper body strength, power, quickness, and agility.”
But while boxing is Hadid’s passion, she also switches things up with other types of workouts like ballet-inspired floor exercises, barre, and core-building moves like crunches and planks, according to Insider.
Halle Berry : Yoga, boxing and Muay Thai
At 52, Halle Berry has the body of a 25-year-old, and it’s due in large part to her rigorous routine at the gym. The actress often shares inspirational messages on her Instagram for #FitnessFriday, which offer a glimpse into her intense workout regimen. For starters, Berry can pull off some insane yoga poses, which she uses to stay limber, improve mobility, and avoid injuries. Boxing also features heavily in her posts, and she often works up a sweat using a jump rope—200 to 500 skips in a row! Berry usually pairs exercise with meditation to help herself relax, focus on her breathing, and release stress.
Her trainer Peter Lee Thomas recently told E! that the actress has a “bulletproof battle plan” for being as fit as possible. “You better believing we are doing some boxing, some kickboxing, some Muay Thai,” he said. In case you’re not familiar with it, Muay Thai is a form of martial arts that uses your entire body as a weapon. The sport focuses on “dynamic total body conditioning, coordination, balance, body weight strength, mobility, reaction time, and high intensity aspects,” says personal trainer Albert Matheny, MS, RD, CSCS, a nutritional advisor to Promix Nutrition and co-founder of SoHo Strength Lab.
Taylor Swift : Body By Simone, Tracy Anderson Method
Taylor Swift is regularly seen heading to NYC’s Body By Simone studio in Chelsea to get her sweat on, and she’s also known to work out with celeb trainer Tracy Anderson. While Swift is clearly blessed with naturally long, thin legs, she keeps them slim and toned with moves like the “Froggy,” which involves laying facedown while squeezing a ball between your feet and slowly raising and lowering your knees to work your hamstrings, inner thighs, butt, hips, and back.
Gwyneth Paltrow : The Tracy Anderson Method
Trainer Tracy Anderson is the brains behind the Tracy Anderson Method, a combination of dance cardio and muscular structure classes—and Paltrow is a huge fan. “I’ve been a Tracy Anderson fanatic for over a decade, I’m an investor in her company, so yeah, I go every morning,” she told Women’s Health. “I drop the kids at school, work out, go to work.” The Tracy Anderson Method “focuses on cardiovascular and body weight strength,” Matheny says. It’s also a total-body workout that works on your overall mobility, he says.
Jennifer Aniston : Yoga, battle ropes, The Class by Taryn Toomey
Jennifer Aniston is almost 50 years old, and she’s not slowing down one bit. The actress is known for loving yoga, but she also goes hard in the gym, “throwing heavy boulders around and pushing medicine balls and wiggling and shaking that big rope thing [battle ropes],” she told Vogue.
Battle ropes largely target your upper body—mainly your shoulders and arms—but you can work your core and lower body with some related movements, Matheny says.
“Then I do 45 minutes of intervals on my elliptical. I raise the incline, run for two mins, walk for one, run for two…and I do it for 20 minutes straight until I’m just drenched.” Aniston also does The Class by Taryn Toomey, described on its website as a combination of calisthenics and plyometrics that builds a “lean, resilient body.”
Nikki Bella : Barre
Bella has repeatedly raved about barre, a fitness class that uses the ballet barre and incorporates movements from ballet. “I like to do barre classes a few days a week and in between, I go to the gym,” she told Us Weekly. Bella also once shared on Instagram that it’s “crazy when you don’t drink for a few days and do @pure_barre how the pounds come off!” As a whole, barre “can be good for total body general control and bodyweight strength and balance,” Matheny says.
Beyoncé : SoulCycle, full-body workouts
By looking at her figure, it’s hard to believe Beyoncé has given birth to three children, including twins, but the iconic pop star works hard for those curves with regular SoulCycle sessions and, of course, those insane dance moves she pulls off on stage. She also embraces full-body workouts involving standing oblique crunches, medicine ball sit-ups, lunges, dumbbell punches, and more.
Jenna Dewan : Dance, resistance bands, total-body toning workouts
Actress and dancer Jenna Dewan squeezes in a 45-minute power workout whenever she can, which leaves her full of energy, she told Women’s Health. When she can, Dewan gets her heartbeat up through dance, and she loves working with trainer Jennifer Johnson. Their sessions involve 15 minutes of nonstop dance cardio, following by resistance band work, squats, lunges, planks, and ab work with core sliders.
Nicole Kidman : Indoor cycling, yoga
At 51, Nicole Kidman looks better than ever. The Australian actress is naturally tall and slender, but even while juggling responsibilities as a successful actress and mom of four, Kidman finds time to work out and stay fit. She grew up in a family of marathon runners, so running is still a huge part of her routine, according to Women’s Health. She also swears by indoor cycling and yoga—particularly ashtanga and vinyasa. “You need all that and, particularly as you’re getting older, you need to do the things that are not high impact,” she explained.
Lady Gaga : Bikram and hot power yoga, TRX bands, crunches
No matter how crazy her schedule gets, Lady Gaga always makes time for her trainer, Harley Pasternak, with whom she works out five times a week for at least 25 minutes per session, according to Popsugar. Her ab routine is particularly intense, starting with basic crunches and leading into harder variations like the reverse crunch and double crunch. Gaga also does bodyweight exercises on TRX bands, which are excellent for strength training and easy to use at home, and she’s a longtime fan of yoga, particularly Bikram and hot power yoga.
Kylie Jenner : HIIT, paddleboarding, walking
The youngest Jenner has never been as passionate about fitness as her older sisters, but since the birth of her daughter Stormi in February, Kylie has become more dedicated to working out consistently, a source told E! News. Apparently, the 20-year-old beauty mogul has been doing a lot of HIIT training while “constantly switching up the moves.” She also loves paddleboarding and taking her daughter for walks, as seen in her Instagram posts.
Jessica Alba : Hot yoga, resistance bands, kettlebells
Some people are night owls, while others are mornings risers—and Jessica Alba is definitely falls in the latter category. The actress and Honest Company CEO likes to rise and shine at 5:15 am. for a sweaty hot yoga session. “I feel really good after. It gives me energy and it just sets a good foundation for the day,” Alba told Self. She’s also known to hit the gym multiple times a day, using bands and kettlebells to work the upper body along with doing classic squats, resistance band sidesteps, and intermittent cardio.
Blake Lively : Total-body toning workouts, elliptical training
Actress Blake Lively works out five to six days a week with NYC trainer Don Saladino, who does full-body workouts with Blake, including forward to reverse lunges, one-legged dead lifts, pushups, rows, and kettlebell swings, he told Harper’s Bazaar. Even if she can’t make it to the gym for a full 30- to 75-minute workout, the mom of two hops on the elliptical for about 10 minutes, which is enough to “put gasoline on the fire, the fire being her metabolism,” Saladino told Cosmopolitan.