Camila Mendes is giving her followers a glimpse into her Rise Movement workout routine – in her two-piece workout gear. In a new social media post the Riverdale star flaunts her flat abs in an exercise set during an intense session at the gym. “My MOTU training journey begins 🔮 @risemovement,” she captioned the series of Instagram snaps and videos. How does she approach diet, fitness, and self-care? Here is everything you need to know about her lifestyle habits.
Camila maintains that “creating a routine in the morning” is key for her mental health. “My current routine is very soothing in the morning, and it gets me excited to start my day. Once I’ve done that routine, I feel like I can do anything. Usually, I wake up, I make my coffee, I write in my five-minute journal,” she tells SELF.
Camila also gets her zen on. “I’ve been trying to meditate whenever I feel like I need it,” she told SELF. Whenever I feel like my heart rate’s kind of high, and I’m a little anxious and on edge and unable to focus, I try to set out 10 minutes to meditate in that moment and reset and ground myself again. I use an app, Balance. I think that’s really what it is—just learning the tools that you need and moments when you need them.
“My relationship with food was very weird for a while—I had an eating disorder,” she told Health. “I got through it by seeing [my] therapist and working with a nutritionist who was very adamant about me overcoming my fear of carbs. I used to not eat carbs—but that would just lead me to binge on them after avoiding them for a while. I tried all the diets—I was always on a diet. But I eventually learned they weren’t helping me at all.”
Camila nourishes her body with food. “As soon as I started listening to my body and eating what my body needed—which sometimes is eating the things I used to think were bad, like sugar and bread—I noticed a big change,” she dished to Health. “The crazy lesson was that your body tells you what it wants and needs; you just have to learn how to listen to it. It takes a while to learn that—it’s hard. And what one woman needs isn’t going to be the same as what another woman needs. We’re all different.”
“I strive to be super consistent — as consistent as I can be. Whenever I have a day off, I will make a point to work out in the morning,” she added to Shape. Even when she can’t get a full workout in, she makes sure to stay active, “I definitely move my body every day,” she added Health. “I go through phases when it comes to what I like to do—I’ve taken lots of different classes and all that,” she said. She also works with a trainer and during their workouts “does a lot of circuit training, she added to Shape. She also plays tennis.