Celebrity fitness secrets

Ever wonder how celebrities like Natalie Portman, Madonna and Elle stay rocking fit? We reveal how the hottest celebs get their lean sculpted bodies. From five-hour workouts to Kung Fu, here are some of the ways A-listers prepare for their next big roles.

For her Oscar-winning role in Black Swan, actress Natalie Portman had to get into ballerina shape. Natalie trained for a gruelling five hours a day, six days a week with Mary Helen Bowers. The routine combined mat work, cardio, ballet and swimming. Her efforts paid off, 90 percent of the dancing you see in Black Swan is Natalie.

Julia Roberts gained 4.5kg while filming Eat Pray Love, gorging on pasta and pizza in Italy. To shed the weight, Roberts turned to her long-time trainer Kathy Kaehler. Her tailored work-out focused on legs, with 40 minutes of step aerobics followed by 40 minutes of strength body work, including lunges, crunches, planks and push-ups. Julia reportedly loves step as it’s the best way to tone and define her Pretty Woman legs.

Nicole Richie signed up for bridal boot camp with celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson to tone up for her big day. Richie undergoes high-impact cardio routines that include dancing, kicking, boxing and stretching.

Miranda Kerr relies on LA-based trainer Justin Gelband for her lean, fit body. Kerr works out three to four times a week for 75 minutes each time. Her work-out will vary with boxing, medicine balls and resistance bands. She also runs twice a week.

Madonna’s latest fitness method is Barre3, a vigorous work-out that combines elements of yoga, Pilates and ballet barre. Madge loves it so much, she has been flying her new trainer Sadie Lincoln to New York. With tonnes of variety built into the work-out, the ‘Material Girl’ singer doesn’t get bored as the class focuses on achieving balance, strength and flexibility.

Actress-singer Jennifer Hudson amazed the world when she dropped from a size 16 to a size six. Jennifer teamed up with trainer to the stars Harley Pasternak, whose 5-factor work-out plan combined with a low-calorie, healthy diet gave her great results. Watch out for Jennifer’s rocking new bod in her role as Winnie Mandela in an upcoming biopic.

To stay long and lean, Gwyn says she works hard with her trainer Tracy Anderson. The pair do 45 minutes of dance aerobics and 45 minutes of Tracy’s “muscular design program”, which Gwyn said fixed her “batwing problem”. The star described her program with readers in her newsletter, GOOP: “I am not going to lie, the process was an arduous one.”

America’s sweetheart looks better every year, thanks to regular yoga sessions with her long-time trainer, Mandy Ingber.

Model-turned-mom Gisele Bündchen dropped the pregnancy weight in minutes. Her secret? Kung-fu and yoga. Gisele told Vogue she did kung-fu up until two weeks before her son, Benjamin, was born. She also did yoga three days a week.

How does the actress keep her killer bod? The California babe loves surfing. But also helping her along is a lot of work-outs with her personal trainer Teddy Bass.

To maintain The Body, Elle credits trainer and nutritionist James Duigan who created the Clean & Lean Diet. Elle also leads an active lifestyle, cycling in London, or surfing in her native Australia.

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