Wish you had Jennifer Garner’s superdefined arms? Are Khloé Kardashian’s curves your ultimate fitspo? Do Carrie Underwood’s legs make you want to go all out at the gym? Us, too! While the stars put in the hard work to transform their bodies, they rely on a VIP list of fitness pros to help them stay in shape.
Here, we’ve rounded up the hottest celebrity trainers in Hollywood. Scroll through to see the pros and their famous clients — and learn some of their secrets!
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Wish you had Jennifer Garner’s superdefined arms? Are Khloé Kardashian’s curves your ultimate fitspo? Do Carrie Underwood’s legs make you want to go all out at the gym? Us, too! While the stars put in the hard work to transform their bodies, they rely on a VIP list of fitness pros to help them stay in shape. Here, we’ve rounded up the hottest celebrity trainers in Hollywood. Scroll through to see the pros and their famous clients — and learn some of their secrets!
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Wish you had Jennifer Garner’s superdefined arms? Are Khloé Kardashian’s curves your ultimate fitspo? Do Carrie Underwood’s legs make you want to go all out at the gym? Us, too! While the stars put in the hard work to transform their bodies, they rely on a VIP list of fitness pros to help them stay in shape. Here, we’ve rounded up the hottest celebrity trainers in Hollywood. Scroll through to see the pros and their famous clients — and learn some of their secrets!
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Kim Kardashian found Melissa Alcantara, a.k.a. Fitgurlmel, when scrolling through Instagram. The trainer turned her own life around, going from overweight to bodybuilder. Her secret to success with the reality star is simple: hard work and consistency. “Just do it. Don’t make it an option,” she tells Us of working out. “You're never going to feel bad about doing something for you. The more you do it, the more you want to do it.” She and Kardashian focus on targeted strength training — and go for results. “There's one ab moves that she hates,” Alcantara tells Us. “It's something with a medicine ball and maybe she'll show it one day on Instagram, but she despises it.” The two get through tough routines together. “I like to work out with her sometimes. I feel like that gets her into it and she sees that I'm working just as hard as she is,” says the Bronx-native. “We're both up at 6 o'clock in the morning and I'm like, 'Listen, if you're gonna die, I'm gonna die, we're both gonna die.' That's how we get through it every day.”
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Leyon Azubuike makes sure his celeb clients — including Jennifer Love Hewitt (above), Jennifer Aniston and Julianne Hough — are true knockouts. “In a boxing-based program, the benefits are not just physical, they're mental as well,” the Gloveworx founder tells Us. “To punch a heavy bag or hit the hand or shadow box your own world to see what it does to you, it affects your mental as well. It's one of those things that once you start it, it's a must-have in your regimen.” Besides training his clients like athletes, he makes sure they eat that way too. “My advice to [Jennifer Aniston] is always eat the food that gives you energy and makes you feel good and makes you feel like your life outside of working out makes you feel like you have energy and can function properly,” he says. The other key? “Water, water, water, water, water intake,” he adds. “You should never really be feeling dehydrated and hydration is something that is done weekly … You can't just go and chug a gallon. This is something you have to be on top of intermittently day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to-month. That's how you hydrate.”
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NYC-based pro Mohamed Elzomor uses an electric muscle stimulation (EMS) machine on the likes of Romee Strijd (above), Elsa Hosk, Winnie Harlow, Shanina Shaik and more VS models. “It's a 20-minute workout and it's equivalent to an hour of working out,” Elzomor tells Us. In addition to EMS, he strength-trains his clients with a combination of HIIT and “bodyweight stuff because they don’t want to bulk,” he says. “I think weight training is super vital because that's how you're gonna build muscle, which then in turn burns more fat and increases your metabolic rate.” Adds the pro, “It doesn't matter how many calories you burn through the hour, it's more about how many calories you burn during the 24-hour period. And if your workouts don't change the metabolic rate, they're not really doing much for you big picture.”
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It’s hard to get a more star-studded client list than celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak. The pro counts everyone from Ariana Grande to Lady Gaga to Megan Fox to Adam Levine as current or former clients and was responsible for Jessica Simpson’s impressive post-pregnancy weight loss. With his trademark personalized, ever-changing, full-body routines, he’s kept Jordana Brewster in Fast & Furious shape for years. “I adore Harley Pasternak. He’s constantly switching stuff up. That’s why I love working with him,” the actress has told Us. “Lately the most fun has been getting off the treadmill every four minutes and doing weights. It keeps you from being bored.”
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"Kate is a six-day-a-week person. She doesn’t have the vices. She’s not a party girl. She doesn’t have the sweet tooth. So that makes what we do easier," Beverly Hills-based trainer Gunnar Peterson revealed to Us of client Kate Beckinsale in August 2018 at the Rolls Royce X Technogym event held at his estate. "She’s definitely up there and [one of the] hardest workers. I mean every single day is push, push, push. She’s incredible."
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“It’s happening... The She Wolf is BACK!! That booty is POPPIN, right?!,” Anna Kaiser, the founder of AKT, a dance and strength training-based method, wrote in March 2018 while standing with Shakira. Kaiser has trained the Grammy winner for eight years and followed her to Barcelona, where she helped to get her in shape for her 55-date El Dorado tour. “We focused on leaning out, strengthening her core and boosting her booty — and then toning her arms like crazy,” she told Us in July 2018.
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A video, posted on Jennifer Garner's Instagram in July 2018 showed her and Simone De La Rue executing their dance workout, while the Peppermint star was in Hawaii. “I’m supposed to be on vacation— what’s @bodybysimone doing here?! Just joking— I’m so lucky!!,” Garner wrote. The Body By Simone creator helped the actress get in shape for the action-thriller role. "Recently, the focus [of our workouts] has been her shoulders, biceps and shoulders. To play an assassin, she had to look strong and powerful yet still feminine," De La Rue told Us.
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The Hollywood-based pro has Khloé Kardashian work out at his Hollywood studio. “Everybody comes here. I think it’s good for people sometimes to get out of their own environments — there are less distractions,” he told Us in July 2018. “When you come in here you know what you’re going to do. If you’re on the clock it’s finite. You’re in. You’re out. You’re going to make use of every minute.”
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Pro Tracy Anderson has a slew of celebrity clients (such as Nicole Richie and Alessandra Ambrosio) who follow her namesake dance-inspired method. But her most dedicated devotee may be Gwyneth Paltrow. “She’s been embracing this mentality of a healthy lifestyle and has incorporated working out four to seven days a week regularly and it’s been part of her lifestyle for as long as I’ve known her, which is 12 years,” Anderson told Us in June 2018 of the Goop founder's prep for her upcoming nuptials. Paltrow has previously credited her trainer and friend with helping to get rid of her "batwings" and "sagging ass."
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“I know you be wanting to kill me for having you do all my crazy ass matrix moves, but you always GET SHT DONe. We did it before and doing it again,” Don Brooks, better known as Don-A-Matrix, captioned a June 2018 photo of him with Khloé Kardashian. “Khloé just had the baby a month ago; we’re back in the gym six days a week right now,” the BODYARMOR collaborator revealed to Us that same month. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star said in July 2018 that she'd lost 33 pounds since welcoming daughter True with Tristan Thompson in April 2018.
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“Thank you for picking me to be your coach and friend. Love ya,” Don Saladino captioned an August 2018 photo while he posed with one of his avid clients, Blake Lively, at his New York City Drive Clubs gym. The Shallows star worked with the pro to lose 61 pounds after welcoming daughter Ines with husband Ryan Reynolds in September 2016 (the couple also share daughter James). "I love to get people jumping, skipping and running outdoors," he told W magazine in March 2018 of his workout approach.
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The trainer, martial artist and actor is a staple on Halle Berry’s Instagram where she shares a behind-the-scenes look into her workouts. “There is power in stillness. @halleberry,” Peter Lee Thomas captioned a photo showing the duo flexing their biceps from June 2018. The svelte star announced her weekly fitspo plan back in January 2018. "Welcome to the start of #FitnessFriday. Each Friday I'll be posting something about fitness that I hope will inspire you," she wrote with a pic of her side-by-side with Lee Thomas. "I'd like to introduce you to my favorite trainer and what I call my secret weapon! Peter Lee Thomas! This mans has changed my life!"
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Models and actresses fight to get in the ring with the former middleweight champion boxing champion. “On tomorrow’s menu at The @aerospacenyc AeroBistro an energetic serving of @emmy du Jour. I better get some shut eye! Goodnight ya’ll. Time to powerup! LetsGOEmmy!” the founder of Aerospace in NYC, Michael Olajide, Jr., captioned a January 2018 photo with Shameless star Emmy Rossum. The 31-year-old actress shared a video of the pair sparring in the ring in April 2018, captioning the video with "gearing up to shoot season 9. Getting in the proper headspace."
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Ballet Beautiful founder Mary Helen Bowers is known for toning up the bodies of countless models and actresses (such as Doutzen Kroes and Natalie Portman). “Stretching out with this Ballet Beauty,” the former professional ballerina captioned an October 2017 photo with Victoria’s Secret Angel Martha Hunt. "The philosophy is that you can really transform any body type into one looking like a ballerina: long, lean, sculpted, and strong, but still very elegant," Bowers told Vogue of getting Portman into shape for her Oscar-winning role in 2010's Black Swan. "She had the single-minded focus a dancer needs to be successful."
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“@bellahadid @georgiafowler Final preps @ Lab™ Shanghai w/ the favs aka the calm and the storm,” Ocho System creator and Nike trainer Joe Holder captioned a November 2017 photo with Victoria’s Secret Angels Bella Hadid and Georgia Fowler. “I treat them like athletes, so I like to utilize compound exercises and then focus on micromovement,” he told W magazine in December 2017. “I’m big into conditioning, using battle ropes, Airdyne Bikes, Prowler, and of course their feet.”
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“Carrie does weight training of all different variations — and lunges and squats,” Nashville-based Erin Oprea, who also works with singers Kelsea Ballerini and Maren Morris, told Us when Carrie Underwood graced Us Weekly's 2016 Best Bodies cover. The singer had to alter her workouts after a November 2017 accident and Oprea helped curate her sweat sessions. "There are still some things that I have to be careful with — especially fast movements like burpees — but I can do push-ups and pull-ups. I'm trusting my body," she told Shape in May 2018.
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