Megan Thee Stallion swears by this simple exercise for 'strong legs'
Megan Thee Stallion is getting candid about grief in the new Prime Video documentary, Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words.
In the documentary, Megan can be seen dealing with the death of her mum and manager Holly Thomas, who died from cancer in 2019. The doc dives into Megan’s journey with mental health, including suicidal thoughts she experienced and how she's worked on herself over the years.
In the past, Megan has been open about the self-care benefits she's experienced from fitness. 'Working on myself made me get into working out because I needed to focus my energy somewhere else,” she told Women's Health earlier this year. 'I used working out to escape and to get happy.'
Here’s what she’s shared about her workout routine.
1. Megan Thee Stallion goes hard in the gym
Megan works out up to five days a week, usually with one of two trainers. During sessions, she does hip thrusts, goblet squats, leg extensions, and 'stallion kicks'.
Megan also loves weighted sit-ups to work her core, along with lat pulldowns, lat flies, and renegade rows to strengthen her back.
2. She prides herself on ‘strong legs'
Megan likes to show off her results. 'I’m in a space where I feel good mentally, so I want to look as good as I feel', she said, noting that she wants to resemble a volleyball player.
The reason for that? 'Strong legs!' she said. 'You look like you can jump high. I love that look
3. She alternates training sessions with cardio
Aside from workouts with her trainers, Megan runs up sand hills at the beach or will log 40 minutes on the StairMaster or elliptical. She'll hit a Pilates class for an extra burn, too.
But it isn't always easy to hit the gym. 'Getting out of bed to work out in the morning is a struggle', she said. 'I have to get mentally prepared. I’m like, "I can stay here for another hour, or I can get up and go work out and be a bad b*tch. If I want to be a stallion and not a pony, I got to get up and put in the work."'
4. She levelled up her diet and self-care
When she started focusing on her fitness, Megan altered her diet, too. Megan said she still had a 'little gut' despite working out more, so she cut back on bread, tuna melts, and red meat, and weeded out sugary drinks like soda, juice, and cognac.
Now, she drinks about a gallon of water a day and has tequila instead of cognac. Before working out, she drinks a strawberry, banana, almond milk, and protein powder smoothie or a green juice in the morning, eating pan-seared salmon for lunch, and having sea bass or cod for dinner along with tomatoes, sweet potatoes, kale, or brown rice. But she’ll never give up pepper jack cheese and dark chocolate. 'I am still a Southern girl, so I like to eat what I want', she says. 'I just don’t go overboard.'
After these switches, Megan noticed that she no longer felt bloated, and her skin looked better, too.
Megan started doing more positive self-talk, too. She began journalling and stopped her tendency to 'slip into using hate language toward myself'. So, she’s taking 'a more positive approach' to the way she speaks and thinks about her body.
This 360 view of health seems to be working for her—love to see it!
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