Everyone’s going crazy over Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt, and it really is hard to believe that the star with a superhero physic used to be that cute chubby guy on Parks and Recreation. However, the only female member of the Guardians also has an enviable physique – you just might be too distracted by her green skin to notice.
Gamora actress Zoe Saldana worked hard to make sure that she had a hard body underneath all that body paint, and her trainer recently talked to Shape magazine about she turned herself into a lean, green fighting machine.
According to Steve Moyer, his training method is all about achieving the look most women want. “Generally speaking, we work her full body with an emphasis on staying lean and strong,” Moyer said.
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For Zoe Saldana’s Guardians of The Galaxy fitness routine, Moyer tailored workouts to work with Zoe’s schedule. “When she’s in town, sometimes workouts last a full hour. Sometimes it’s 30 minutes. I’ll do lots of cardio and core if I know I won’t be seeing the client the next day,” he said. “If I know we are working out on consecutive days, I split the workouts according to body parts.”
Moyer is a fan of trisets, which involve doing three exercises in a row with no rest in between. There are three moves that he recommends pairing together to get a full body workout: squats for your legs, plank push-ups for your core, and jumping lunges for cardio. “That’s a great series that will build strength and endurance and can be a major aid in leaning out and shedding unwanted pounds,” Moyer said.
If you performed each of these exercises for one minute and did four trisets with one minute of rest between each triset, you’d have a pretty solid 15-minute workout. You could turn it into a 30-minute workout by throwing in a 15-minute interval workout on the treadmill.
If you don’t want to do four trisets of the same three exercises, you could mix things up by adding a different triset. This way you could alternate trisets and do two of each. Just make sure that your second triset includes a leg exercise, core exercise, and cardio exercise. You could do around-the-world lunges (a combo of a front lunge, side lunge, and reverse lunge) followed by a set of bridges or your favorite ab exercise. End with something that will get your heart pounding like mountain climbing, burpees, or plyo jacks.
You can use Moyer’s leg, core, cardio combo rule to create an endless variety of workout routines.