From heavy lifting and high-protein diets to GLP-1 jabs and questionable new fads, stars reveal how they’re actually achieving their health and wellness goals.
Ali Larter, 49
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Feeling confident enough to strip down to a bikini on Landman starts with discipline. “I work really hard, OK? I’m not pretending that I don’t,” the mom of two confessed to People in November. She preps with quality sleep aided by magnesium and GABA supplements and wakes up at 5:30 a.m. to do 30 minutes of interval runs and a 10-minute core workout. “Coffee, lemon water, eggs and turkey bacon” fuel her once she gets to set, Ali shared on Instagram. “I try to eat very clean, but I eat. I’m one of those protein mommies.”
Halle Berry, 59
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It’s hard to believe the Oscar winner turns 60 this year. After decades of cardio-heavy workouts, the actress has shifted gears. “Right now, I do no cardio. I’m trying to put muscle mass on,” she said on The Tamsen Show podcast in March, explaining she now lifts heavy weights to preserve strength and increase bone density as she ages. (Experts say the benefits kick in as soon as 10 days.) Calling it “boring but necessary for this stage of life,” Halle added that she also takes a creatine supplement, which supports muscles and is particularly helpful during menopause, when declining estrogen can make it harder to maintain strength.
Sydney Sweeney, 28
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To play boxer Christy Martin in 2025’s Christy, Sydney “started eating,” she told W, downing protein shakes supplemented with creatine. She weight-trained for an hour each morning, an hour at night and kickboxed for two hours midday. The intense routine helped her gain 30 pounds of muscle and jump from a 23 to 27 pant size. With only seven weeks to slim down before shooting The Housemaid and Euphoria’s third season on HBO Max, she cut the extra protein and “got strict” by eating “super clean” and upping her cardio, she told People. She’s also grateful, she said, that “[my] metabolism works really well.”
Khloé Kardashian, 41
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The reality star’s weight-loss journey began 12 years ago “because I was getting a divorce” from Lamar Odom, 46, she told Bustle in 2024. Starting with “small steps,” Khloé shed 40 pounds over “many years” she told the SHE MD podcast with regular gym workouts after realizing “consistency is all that matters.” For her, that means a day of Pilates or cardio on her own, plus four hour-long sessions a week with trainer Joel Bouraima. A typical workout might start with a minute of jumping rope and a 30-second plank, both repeated five times. A set of 30-second holding squats and 10 squat jumps repeated five times follows. Then a third set — 10 push-ups and 10 mountain climbers repeated five times, plus 30-second dip side planks and 20 crunches repeated four times — closes out the session.
Jennifer Aniston, 56
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Jen’s finished punishing her body. After years of going “too hard” and “really destroy[ing] my joints” by running and boxing, she told Today that she has embraced Pvolve, a fitness method that combines low-impact exercises and resistance equipment like bands and gliders. For the last few years, she’s aimed to do 50-minute sessions three to five times a week, and the smarter approach has paid off. At 56, she said in April, “[I] feel like I’m the strongest and the most in-shape that I’ve ever been.” Pro tip: Her go-to drink before a morning workout is colostrum dissolved in water with a whole lemon squeezed in. In the colder months, she told People, “I’ll steep a little teaspoon of ginger, which is good for your digestion and your immune system, and then I’ll put a little drop of Manuka honey.”