Indian actress Shamita Shetty is giving big sister Shilpa Shetty a run for her money when it comes to fitness and exercise. Shetty, 45, shared a video of herself wearing mint green leggings and a matching tank top, doing an at-home lower body workout. “No Equipment Bodyweight Leg Training 🦵Can be done anywhere, anytime 👍 Burns 🥵 the quads, glutes, hamstrings- Full lower body 💁♀️ Try it to Feel it- 15 reps of each back-to-back in a circuit for 3 rounds 👊,” she captioned the post. Here’s what Shetty’s diet, training, and wellness routine looks like.
Shetty enjoys eggs and gluten-free bread in the morning. “My breakfast is mostly gluten-free bread and maybe a boiled egg—that’s my standard,” she told Bollywood Hungama. “As soon as I wake up in the morning, I have two warm glasses of water, post which I have my three walnuts, six almonds, fig and my tea – that’s like the first thing I have. Post which, I have my breakfast and sometimes I even have Poha maybe from red rice.”
Shetty enjoys rice-based lunch dishes, avoiding wheat. “My lunch is basically gluten-free roti, quinoa, or I will have brown or red rice either with some protein like fish, chicken, egg, or vegetables with a little bit moong or masoor dal,” she told Bollywood Hungama. “Sometimes, I also have gluten-free pasta, rice noodles with vegetables. Whatever food I eat, I try and keep it gluten-free. I don’t eat wheat, rice is something that I eat. Whether it is noodles, I would prefer noodles made from rice.”
Shetty avoids sugar and snacks on nuts during the day. “One thing I am very particular about is sugar intake,” she told Hindustan Times. “Sugar is like a drug; it’s difficult to give up when you have it in excess. I’m generally very aware of how much refined sugar I’m taking in, in the day. My favorite health snack is nuts. Every day I have at least a handful of a mixture of almonds, Brazil nuts, macadamia nuts, pine nuts, walnuts and sunflower seeds. They are rich in nutrients and are a great energy boost if you are on a low-carb diet.”
Shetty works out four times a week and doesn’t restrict her food. “That’s my fitness mantra,” she told Hindustan Times. “Weight training is my go-to exercise. It makes me feel good physically and emotionally. It’s the only form of exercise that lets me see visible results in my body, quickly. Also when you weight-train, it boosts your metabolism, so you end up burning more calories even when you’re not working out.”
Shetty has a workout routine especially designed for when she’s traveling. “When I’m traveling, I try and get in at least three days a week of circuit training,” she told Hindustan Times. “Which is a kind of quick aerobic workout focusing on strength and endurance. If you don’t have much time, circuit training works best.”