Exercise is key, of course, and people wrongly think you have to spend hours a day in the gym. Actually, you don't. All you need is simple equipment, and you can train in your living room.
All I've been doing is shooting in my driveway and playing one-on-one with my Rottweiler.
I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
I try to squeeze in a workout whenever I can, even if it's doing squats with my 7-month-old in the kitchen or jumping on the trampoline with my 5-year-old.
I have a quad rep in my house, so I'm doing bench presses and pull ups on that, any sort of basic strength movements I can do at home.
During COVID, I was still training, working on my fitness and my tennis. I was able to practice and play near where I live in Orlando.
I don't need a gym. You can do a lot without the gym, so that's what I've chosen to do.
We live in the countryside, 15 minutes from the closest town, so I would never have time to drive and go somewhere. So I have a personal trainer come to my house, normally three times a week, and we do circuit training depending on what I need.
It's a quiet life. Normally it's training, house, gym.
When I'm training at home, I have five meals for the day that I just heat up. It's all planned, and that's what I eat.
Home workouts are great, but if you can get out, that's even better. If you tell yourself you're going to go do planks in the spare bedroom, you might get interrupted and not get your workout in.
I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.
Obviously it's great to train at home and not have to travel and stay in the same time zone. That's always great.
People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.
I've had to focus on the fact that a lot more people don't want to work out in the confines of a gym anymore.
I have a personal trainer who comes home. I work out three times a week for an hour each and focus on concentrated body weight training and cardio. Honestly, I don't always work out if I am too busy with shoots.
Fitness is getting creative as gym equipment is not available at home. I am making do with the resources I have. I'm being given a schedule I can follow by my trainer. Of course it is not close to the exercises I can do in the gym. But I am trying to do as much as I can to maintain my strength.
I don't bother with gyms, I just workout where I happen to be whether it's in the garden or at home.
Bring a workout DVD with you everywhere. I always have one in my bag.
If you don't have the time or money to get to the gym, work out at home. It saves tons of time and makes life more efficient.
When I first moved to L.A., I didn't have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all.
As well as Pilates, I like doing little YouTube videos on my phone. Sometimes it can just be a five or 10 minute little workout.
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