Talk about going the extra mile! To get ready for the Nautica Malibu Triathlon on September 17, How To Get Away With Murder star Karla Souza followed a “very intense” workout and eating routine, sweating five days a week (“sometimes only for 30 to 40 minutes”) and went through the entire race (half-mile swim, 17-mile bike ride, four-mile run) every Saturday. But despite the finely tuned regimen, she confessed to still having nerves ahead of race day: “No matter how much I train, every time I’m swimming in the ocean I feel a panic,” she confessed to Us Weekly. Here she outlines a full 24 hours of preparation.
How An Intense Training Regimen Got Karla Souza in Triathlon Shape
Talk about going the extra mile! To get ready for the Nautica Malibu Triathlon on September 17, How To Get Away With Murder star Karla Souza followed a "very intense" workout and eating routine, sweating five days a week (“sometimes only for 30 to 40 minutes”) and went through the entire race (half-mile swim, 17-mile bike ride, four-mile run) every Saturday. But despite the finely tuned regimen, she confessed to still having nerves ahead of race day: “No matter how much I train, every time I’m swimming in the ocean I feel a panic,” she confessed to Us Weekly. Here she outlines a full 24 hours of preparation.
Talk about going the extra mile! To get ready for the Nautica Malibu Triathlon on September 17, How To Get Away With Murder star Karla Souza followed a "very intense" workout and eating routine, sweating five days a week (“sometimes only for 30 to 40 minutes”) and went through the entire race (half-mile swim, 17-mile bike ride, four-mile run) every Saturday. But despite the finely tuned regimen, she confessed to still having nerves ahead of race day: “No matter how much I train, every time I’m swimming in the ocean I feel a panic,” she confessed to Us Weekly. Here she outlines a full 24 hours of preparation.
It may have been a solo race, but Souza knew she had a lot of people rooting for her success, especially the members of her Team Disney family. "They provided someone to basically hold my hand throughout the entire process, which is what I needed because I didn’t even know what a training process would look like," she explained. "They helped me get the right wetsuit, gave me little tricks and my bike, so for me it was easier having all that support."
On weekends, Souza’s husband of three years, banker Marshall Trenkmann, brings home fresh catches from the Pacific Ocean. Usually they “grill, bake or broil it,” but her triathlon fitness regimen allowed for more carbs in the form of a 2 p.m. taco lunch: “I put hot sauce, pico de gallo or red salsa on everything.”
Souza's ideal snack session "would be on my back porch around 3 p.m. with either my husband or some friends, relaxing and eating some fig spread and rosé with ice in it," she mused. "It reminds me of my days in the south of France. We used to live there, and that was our weekly routine."
For her 5 p.m. pre-training meal, Souza, 31, topped a quinoa and brown-rice bowl with poached eggs and avocado, plus sauteed kale and spinach. “I like to keep it fresh and have all colors of the rainbow in my fruits and vegetables,” she said, so she often tossed in bell peppers and other ingredients from her fridge.
“If my body is demanding pizza, I like to put as many vegetables on it as possible,” said Souza of her dinner order (on this day, that meant a 9 p.m. pick-up order from Fig Santa Monica). Post-meal, she likes to wind down with a cup of buttermint, lemon or ginger tea and heads to bed by 10:30 p.m. so she and her spouse can squeeze in “intentional pillow-talk time.”
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