Brooke Ence is deadlifting – in her workout gear. In a new social media post the fitness pro and influencer flaunts her insanely fit figure in a crop top and shorts during an intense workout session where she does sumo deadlifts, Russian leans, goblet side lunges, and sissy squats. “Hands down, absolutely awesome!” commented one of her followers. “Icon of athleticism!” added another. How does she approach diet, fitness, and self-care? Here is everything you need to know about her lifestyle habits.
Brooke is all about breakfast. “I eat something immediately. I eat something as soon as I wake up. I’m starving,” she told GMA. “Part one of breakfast is some sort of peanut butter something, typically it’s a rice cake with peanut butter and maybe a little bit of honey or jelly and my coffee. Then I get ready to go the gym and then I will have some sort of scrambled egg whites and bacon before I go to work out. I don’t know why I’m so hungry in the morning but eating is the first thing I do.”
Brooke is an avid coffee drinker. “I go to bed excited for coffee. I need at least two cups. This is the order — almond milk, flat white, or cappuccino, depends on where I am getting it, with a small black coffee backer,” she added.
Brooke always warms up before her intense workout sessions. “My relationship with the gym: we are not newlyweds. I do pretty much the same warm-up every day. It’s really important just to get your body temperature up,” she says. “I get on the rower or the bike. From there, I’m going to open up all of my hips, my knees, my ankles, my shoulders, doing things with a band. I want to do some pushing, some pulling, body weight, maybe some stripped pull ups, some stripped toe to bar and really make sure my core is open.”
Brooke is flexible when it comes to her diet. “I really believe in adjusting whenever you’re eating to allow for things that you enjoy. If I am going to have a cookie, I tell myself, hey, Brooke, you can have one cookie, because guess what, tomorrow those cookies are still going to be there, instead of thinking, like, oh my god, like, I’m never going to have cookies again, I got to eat all of them right now because I’m never going to have them again. You know?” she told Yahoo Sports. “And so you learn how to really just, like, think about it, like, in this most logical way that’s almost– it relaxes me a little bit. Because I would stress out over my diet without even realizing I had put so much stress on that. instead of just thinking like, OK, well, you know, I’ll just make sure I go for a little jog tomorrow or– you know, I time things back up.”
Brooke discovered CrossFit when she moved to California and watched individuals compete. “And I kind of called my coach after the whole event, and I said, I think I want to do it. You know? And so I committed for one whole year, and I competed for my first time as an individual at a CrossFit competition and did really well. And that was sort of my lifestyle. And I trained every day, and so I just kept doing that. There was no, like, OK, I’m going to take a break. I didn’t want to. I just wanted to get stronger and fitter. And I wanted to go back– I wanted to go back to competitions. So I did that, and I was just hooked,” she said.