How Jessica Alba Dropped Her Baby Weight
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The key to shedding pregnancy pounds is setting goals, star trainer Ramona Braganza -- who whipped Jessica Alba into shape after she gave birth to Honor -- tells UsMagazine.com.
Alba "trained six days a week and used a heart-rate monitor that included calorie counting. One of our goals was to see if we could burn 500 calories in a workout," says Braganza of the actress, 28, who was voted "Best Post-Baby Body" in UsMagazine.com and Gold's Gym's first-ever Hollywood's Hottest Bodies Awards.
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But you have to start slow. Alba hit the gym just two weeks after giving birth (a doctor okayed it) with 20-minute workouts for the first few weeks, which she gradually increased to an hour after two to three months, Braganza says.
Braganza created a circuit-training program for Alba "to keep [the workout] from getting boring," she tells Us. Below, a few of her moves, which she recommends doing back-to-back to keep your heart rate up:
1. 10-Minute Cardio Blast: Walk at a 2.0 incline on a treadmill for a minute or two to warm up, then add a light jog.
2. Single-Leg Lunge: While holding a 10 to 12-pound weight in each hand, put one foot on a workout bench behind you while keeping the other on the floor and lunge down. Repeat 10 to 12 reps. Switch to other leg and repeat.
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3. Chest Press: Lie faceup on a bench. Holding a 10 to 12-pound weight in each hand, extend arms upwards and toward each other. Do 10 to 12 reps.
4. Tricep-dip: Stand in front of a workout bench, and place hands on bench with your legs straight out in front of you. Lower your body into a dip, supporting your body weight with your upper arms, then straighten arms to rise back up. Repeat 10 to 12 times.
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5. Core work: Rest your back on an exercise ball and do 30 crunches.
Repeat the entire circuit three times. Do these series of movements three times per week.
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10Ok...everyone who leaves ignorant comments about Jessica Alba, juss needs to get a life! She is so beautiful, with respectable standards and a beautiful little girl. Stop hatin and get a life!!
she's a decent actress but it doesn't matter how she lost her baby weight she probably bottle fed honor like most ignorant over-paid type star mothers do she probably doesn't even realise that breast feeding burns 500 calories in 30 minutes many bigger stars breastfed their children even before it was medically recomended to do so academy award winning actress Joanne Woodward for example granted her daughters are now 51,49,45 respectively and unlike her Jess got to have her first child out of her first pregnancy yeah Ms Woodward had to wait till her second pregnancy to have her first daughter due to a miscarriage durring her honeymoon and the first time she appeared on film nude was in 1968's Rachel Rachel which in she was nearly 40 and had had her youngest daughter a couple of years before so for Jessica to flat out refuse to do nude scenes is stupid she could miss out on some great films because of it of course none of the nude scenes in Rachel,Rachel were full frontal one was a sex scene covered by a bed sheet and another was a surgical scene when she had a non cancerous ovarian cyst removed that she had inicially thought was a pregnancy neither of which Jess would understand
Jessica looks great! Man I wish I was in her shape and I've never even had a baby. I was reading about Jessica on FindTheBest's Celebrities App and didn't realize that despite her hot body, she is really opposed to being filmed nude. I think that's pretty respectable!
Jessica is still Fat. Dog faced Jessica.
she is VERY skinny. But she does have discipline.
she's beginning to look like a bobblehead.
She looks waayyy too skinny! How sad she gets voted for best post bod actress but she will never get voted for best actress!! lol.. Her acting sucks!!
Was this article necessary? All celebrities get skinny post-baby the following ways: They hire a trainer, they hire a nanny, and they hire a nutritionist. It's not rocket science.
she is beautiful but yes needs to eat something when you see pics of her holding her daughter honor looks bigger than she is!
I think she looked better before! Her legs look nice but her upper body makes me want to vomit! She looks waaayyy skinnier now than she did before she got pregnant. Eat something Jessica! PLEASE!