5 Fitness Lessons to Learn from Deepika Padukone

Deepika Padukone is one of the fittest actors in Bollywood and her husband Ranveer Singh often talks about her discipline and dedication when it comes to sweating it out. As we begin a new year, we look at some valuable fitness lessons that you can learn from the svelte actor. From eating right to indulging in cheat days and from including pilates to a game of badminton, here’s how our favourite actor switches up her fitness routine to stay fit and fabulous.

Go the pilates way

 

 

 

 

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If you have scrolled through Deepika’s Instagram feed you would know of her love for Pilates. As per her trainer Yasmin Karachiwala, Deepika likes the strengthening and lengthening benefits of Pilates and she works out on different machine each time to add variety to her workout.

Balance your workouts with a healthy diet

The importance of a healthy diet is not lost on her. While she tries and eat whatever she likes, she believes in portion control. She eats every two hours and eats smaller portions that fill her stomach and avoids over eating.

Add cheat days

Deepika and her love for food is well known and she indulges once in a while on her cheat days. Be it digging into Nutella at midnight or a delicious looking pastry or some fritters from her hometown Bengaluru, we have time and again got a sneak peek into her cheat meals on her social media. 

Stay consistent

 

 

 

 

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When not at work, Deepika follows a fitness routine diligently but she also never misses a workout when she is travelling. She has revealed in her interviews that she assess the time she has in hand and accordingly works out, even if it means a 10 minute run, she makes sure pack in some activity to her day. 

Add strength training 

 

 

 

 

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The actor packs in enough strength training in her schedule as studies prove that training with weights can help you burn calories faster, tone muscles, boost your metabolism and also reduce anxiety. And if you didn’t know, Padukone has been trained in jujutsu martial art.