Sofía Vergara is heating up social media in her swimsuit. In a new social media post the 51-year-old actress shows off her age-defying figure, wowwing her followers. “One week til first day of summer ☀️😍 get your bathing suit game ready,” she captioned the series of Instagram snaps. Here is how she approaches diet, fitness, and self-care to look half her age.
Vergara, who has “bad knees,” uses the Pilates Megaformer for her workouts and trains with Jennifer Yates. “With this machine, I was able to figure out what worked for me. I don’t love it at all, but I love how my body’s changing,” she said. Why is pilates a good workout? According to the Mayo Clinic there are lots of benefits to the workout, as it “strengthens the body’s inner core while increasing its flexibility resulting in improved overall health.” It can also promote longer, leaner muscles, injury prevention, relief from stress and back pain, enhanced athletic performance, and heightened mind-body awareness.
Vergara “already changed [her] mentality about food” when she moved to Los Angeles in 2005. “If you live here, you can’t always order the high-fat dishes like pasta with truffles. You have a little sushi, and when you’re out with your girlfriends you order a nice salad,” she said. “When I do indulge, I exercise a bit harder the next day. My workout motto is really simple: No pain, no cake!”
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3tCAbByIaz/?img_index=1Vergara exercises almost every day. “We work out at least five times a week for 50 minutes to an hour, depending on her schedule,” her trainer Jennifer Yates, founder of Studio Metamorphosis, told People. “She’s dedicated!” Physical activity is anything that gets your body moving. Each week adults need 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity and 2 days of muscle-strengthening activity, according to the current Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.
“She loves working the butt,” Yates told People. “We do a lot of squats and deadlifts and a lunges [on the machine], and we do a lot of things off the machine as well. Recently we’ve been combining some of the heavier weights for the lower body because she’s trying to put a little more mass on, so we’ve been doing a lot of work with kettle bells. She’s really strong!”
Vergara doesn’t skip workouts just because she is on vacation. “She’ll take weights and resistance bands with her,” says Yates.