Time for another instalment of our Celebrity Bodies series!
She’s not a mommy yet, but she is the proud owner of some serious child-bearing hips! Kim Kardashian is all over the media and her hourglass figure is usually an object of worship... occasionally, a bad paparazzi shot will try to frame her as “overweight” but in my opinion, there is nothing “over”-anything about her. She is GORGEOUS.
In this time of waif-worship, I like to be optimistic and imagine that a sex-symbol celebrity like Kim Kardashian reminds us of two things:
Women do not have to be stick-thin to be beautiful and sexy.
Women who are not stick-thin are still considered beautiful and sexy, even in our skinny-obsessed culture. So...
There is hope!
Just because she’s got curves doesn’t mean she doesn’t work for that body, though. Here’s how she does it.
FITNESS
I’ll give you a tip. Skechers are not responsible for that ass. Great genes + lots of strength training is the only way to get an ass like Kardashian’s. If you don’t have the genes, you can at least enhance what you’ve got by following a similar training program.
Kardashian works with celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson, doing strength training three mornings per week, and I have a suspicion there is a LOT of lower body work involved in their routine. Seriously, isn’t her ass insured? Kim’s trainer, Peterson, builds intervals of cardio into her workouts to keep her heart rate high and burn the most fat possible.
Here’s a challenging bodyweight-only routine you can do at home, following the same style of workout that Kim Kardashian does to stay super-fit!
Warm up 5 minutes – run stairs, jog around the block, alternate jumping jacks and jogging on the spot
Perform 1 minute of each of the following exercises, in order, without resting between:
- Bulgarian Split Squat (1 minute per leg)
- Jumping Rope or Jumping Jacks
- Plank
* Repeat for a total of 3 to 5 circuits.
Follow with stretching for all the major muscle groups.
DIET
When your step-dad is an Olympic gold medalist and your mom is FREAKING gorgeous, a burger here and there is probably alright. But there were some slightly less-than-flattering paparazzi pics of Kardashian in 2009 which convinced her to clean up her diet and drop about 15 pounds, she claims.
How?
Honestly, she sold out to Quick Trim and pumped her body full of caffeine pills, laxatives and “detox” beverages in exchange for what we can assume was a hefty paycheque.
But she hasn’t been on Quick Trim all this time, so she’s made some dietary changes to stay at that size 2 (still teeny-tiny by real-world standards, by the way...) since she lost the weight last year. Sensible, lower-carb eating sounds like the system she’s chosen: "I finally said enough with the junk food. These days I prefer salads with grilled chicken or turkey burgers without the bun."
Now she’s “slimming down” for her upcoming wedding... on Quick Trim again.
Hmmm... if it works so well, why should you need to do it again one year later, Kim?
So, let’s take a page from Kim Kardashian on her commitment to strength training and her body confidence, with a big fat NO THANK YOU on the diet supplements. Although her on-again, off-again relationship with Quick Trim makes me wonder just how confident she really is, after all...
What do you think of Kim Kardashian's build and fitness/diet routine? Is she a role model?
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