Celebrities Who Do Hot Yoga for Their Best Bodies Ever

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Celebrities Who Do Hot Yoga for Their Best Bodies Ever

Hot yoga is having a hot moment in Hollywood! Whenever celebrities reveal the secrets to their beach bodies, it seems that the vigorous group class is often at the top of the list. Hailey Bieber, Jordin Sparks and Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski have all told Us Weekly they do the stretch sessions as a regular part of their fitness regimens — and there are plenty more stars in the same wellness boat. There are various forms of hot yoga — most notably Bikram yoga — but they all have one thing in common: a heated room. In a hot yoga class, the temperature is usually brought up to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Some of the benefits: Higher temperatures encourage deeper stretching, more flexibility and plenty of sweat. “I like hot yoga, because obviously it feels great to sweat,” Jennifer Aniston and Kate Beckinsale’s yoga guru Mandy Ingber has told Us Weekly. She warns it’s not for everyone, including people who are pregnant or have heart problems, but the sweating aspect is ideal. “That's actually a tip. Sweat five times a week,” she added. “If it's not through exercise, then definitely a sauna or something, but definitely sweating is important. For that, hot yoga is amazing. I think it shows amazing results.” [jwplayer N7FSv1uQ-zhNYySv2] The pro continued, “I think throwing those heaters on and sweating enhances everything. Obviously it increases the metabolism, it gets the heart rate up, and you sweat and it shows you results. It leans you out.” And, say some, gives you glowing skin. Tons of stars agree. Former pro baseball player Alex Rodriguez even made the intense stretching regimen part of his plan to lose 6.5 pounds in a weekend to fit into his pink Versace jacket for the Met Gala 2019! “I have to do yoga in the morning, yoga at night, go running in Central Park. Make sure I fit in this pink outfit,” he joked in a video ahead of the event, later revealing it was a heated yoga class he hoped would help melt the pounds away. Meghan Markle, for her part, has always been an advocate for hot yoga, calling it one of her favorite forms of exercise. Scroll through to see these super-fit stars and more who love to hit the hot yoga mat: [podcast_block]

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Jessica Alba

“I really like taking group classes, or I like to work out with friends. I like high-intensity workouts; I like moving around a lot. I don’t like a lot of repetition,” the Fantastic Four actress told Byrdie in April 2020. “I like Spin classes, depending on the teacher and the playlist. I do like hot yoga classes, if it’s done at a good pace. I prefer it mixed in with light weights, so like a sculpting hot yoga class. I’ll always work out with a friend because it’s more fun.”

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Alex Rodriguez

In a video he posted to his YouTube channel in May 2019, the former New York Yankees slugger copped to doing multiple hot yoga sessions in one weekend — as well as undergoing various other extreme diet and fitness pursuits — to drop pounds before walking the Met Gala red carpet.

“I have this crazy pink tuxedo that Jennifer and Versace’s making me wear. And I need to lose exactly 6 and a half pounds,” he told his camera crew while walking down a Manhattan sidewalk. “And I’m taking two yoga classes and I’m running the stairs for an hour, and I haven’t eaten in 24 hours. I did Sunday Night Baseball, I couldn’t even complete a sentence, I was so hungry. So I’m gonna do this yoga class. I wear size 48, tonight I’m wearing size 44. Is that good math? I don’t think so.”

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Whitney Port

The Hills star told Us in May 2019 that she exercises with her husband, Tim Rosenman, to help keep the spark alive. “We work out together, which is really amazing,” she said. Their activity of choice? “We do hot yoga together, like, three times a week,” Port added. “So that, for us, is a really good bonding experience.”

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Catt Sadler

Besides running a couple of miles a few times a week and doing P.volve classes, the entertainment journalist likes to heat things up. “I love hot yoga. That will always be one of my favorites,” Sadler told Us in April 2019.

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Hailey Bieber

She surfs with her husband, Justin Bieber. But that’s not the only way she stays active — she also loves heated exercise sessions, including hot Pilates.

“I started going first to a place in Brooklyn two years ago and then I discovered a place out here in L.A. that I've gone to for quite some time,” the model told Us in March 2019. “For me, I don't sweat very easily, and I find that when you do any hot class — like I've been a fan of hot yoga for a very long time too — your muscles are more pliable and you're stretched out easier.”

And after a class, added Bieber, “You come out dripping in sweat and my face is like a tomato. It's good for your skin! I love it. I'm obsessed! It's addictive. I love it.”

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Antoni Porowski

“I have to do physical activity every single day because I literally will not sleep well if I don’t and I have like night sweats and weird shakes. I need exercise even if it’s just a little bit. I gotta move around,” Queer Eye’s food expert told Us in March 2019. The things that keep him moving? “Barry’s Bootcamp, SoulCycle, yoga, hot yoga,” Porowski said. “I switch it up 'cause I’m very ADHD.”

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Trina

The Love & Hip Hop: Miami star doesn’t consider exercising one of her fortes, but there’s one activity she’s stuck with for seven months straight. As she told Us in March 2019, “I am not really good at the workout thing. But my favorite thing to do is hot yoga. It is tough and challenging, but it is very liberating. It is so hot. No air. No windows. But I really like it.”

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Ali Larter

“I work out, like, at least five days a week,” the Legally Blonde actress told Us in November 2018. “I love it. It's something about getting the stress out. It makes you feel positive. It keeps your butt nice and high. Like, you know what, it started to sag a little bit and I was like, ‘Stop. What is going on?’” She added, “And so I do a lot of hot yoga, and I love Tracy Anderson and I run.”

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Jordin Sparks

The singer waited about six months after the May 2018 birth of her son, DJ, to work out again. And it felt oh so good. After her husband, Dana Isaiah Thomas, Jr., comes back from his 4:30 a.m. daily gym session, “he takes [DJ], I get ready and I get to go to hot yoga,” Sparks told Us in November 2018. “I went for the first time, like, about a week and a half ago, and I remember laying there in savasana like, ‘I missed this so much. I missed it so much!’”

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Drew Barrymore

In February 2017, the Santa Clarita Diet star told Us what she did to practice self-care. “Exercise. Exercise is really my answer. It gives me so much sanity,” Barrymore shared. Besides working out with trainers and doing Anna Kaiser’s AKT in Motion in NYC, it’s “a lot of hot yoga,” she said. Still, she joked, “it's like Jell-O under this dress! You know? I'm never going to be like, six-pack abs, bikini on the beach, best bodies of — never! I want, like, a swimming costume to come back.”

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Meghan Markle

“I used to run all the time, but I typically get picked up for work at 4:15 in the morning on a Monday, so there isn’t much time for jogging and I would rather have that extra hour of sleep,” Markle told Canadian magazine Best Health in 2015.

After that, she changed it up. “I’ll do yoga a couple times a week – hot yoga, specifically — with [teacher] Duncan Parviainen. He is so positive and, especially in my industry, it’s so important to surround yourself with people who are grounded and really optimistic.”