I recently came across an article on munfitnessblog.com, detailing Jessica Biel's workout and now I see how she maintains such a great level of fitness. Sometimes you hear about woman in Hollywood and the entertainment industry taking drastic unrecommended measures to lose weight or jumping on some fad diet that depletes the body of nutrients and all other types of madness. Jessica basically eats many small meals a day (like you will hear a 1000 types from fitness gurus) which are primarily organic base. And no junk food of course.
For her workouts she pretty much mixes things up. Again, something I favor and you will hear me preach this over and over. Her workouts incorporate sprinting, plyometrics (plyo), weight training, and regular workouts at the gym.
Sprinting and plyo are serious calorie burning exercises. The good thing is that it does not take much to get the job done. These are high intense exercises that simply send your metabolic rate soaring. My favorite plyo exercises are jump squats, stair running/jumping, and jump roping. Sprinting I love but this has to be approached carefully because one gets older sprinting can be burdensome on muscles and joints if you are not properly warmed up and stretched. Even so trying to go all out like Usain Bolt is not recommended either. Leave that to the world class athletes. And even they sometimes get sidelined with sprinting related injuries. I would say going about 80% of full sprint is enough to get the heart rate up and your metabolism revived up. Even 75% full speed if you are 45 or older to prevent pulling a hamstring. Bottom line is you want to be moving a lot faster than a jog.
Jessica's Sprint workout:
200 meter sprint 2 times
150 meter sprint 2 times
100 meter sprint 2 times
My typical sprint workout:
400 meter sprint 1 time
200 meter sprint 1 time
100 meter sprint 4-6 times
I use the longer sprints to get my wind up so that I can rock the 100 meters.
Like I said before sprinting requires a good warm-up and stretch before engaging in this activity but trust me when you get this down and do it once to twice a week will make a work of difference in your metabolic rate. Don't believe me just look at the sprinters the next time a track and field match is on. The one's who are legit have these elegant and naturally lean muscular build. Heck just look at Ms Biel in this photo:
And in this pic she is sprinting. Nothing beats a workout at the local track.
Pictures courtesy of munfitnessblog.com
Plyo work is also a highly intense activity which requires adequate warm-up. The the joints and muscles are worked very hard with any jump training so please warm-up and stretch. I stress warming up because I notice with newbies both in the gym and on the track they like to just jump right into the workouts and this is wrong on so many levels (will post on this later). Also, a common mistake I see with newbies is stretching before they warm-up. Stretching a cold muscle can often lead to injury. So take a couple of laps around the track at a very moderate pace do some lite jump ropping or jumping jacks to get the blood flowing and the muscles warmed up before stretching. The general rule is that your warm-up should make you break a sweat. Also note that both P90X and Insanity incorporate plyo into their programs. Why? Because it get results fast because there are usually a lot of muscle groups involved with plyo.
For more details about Jessica Biel's workout and diet click here.
Article source: http://munfitnessblog.com/how-to-train-to-get-body-like-jessica-biel/
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