Get a body like Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie, movie star of such films as Mr and Mrs Smith, Beowulf and of course the Lara Croft Tomb Raider, as one of the most desirable bodies in Hollywood. So how does Angelina Jolie keep her body in such great shape?

The Angelina Jolie workout

A movie star and publicity machine, wife and now mother, Angelina Jolie is one busy women. That is why when it comes to working out and exercising Angelina must work smarter and hader to get in optimum shape. Of course being a movie star often also means exercising for the part.

For example, to play the role of Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, Angelina Jolie performing the skills Lara would exhibit in the film, including:

• Kickboxing
• Canoeing
• Street Fighting
• Yoga
• Climbing

The Angelina Jolie resistane workout

Like many Hollywood women Angelina Jolie combines aerobic fat burning work with reistance exercises. And because of her busy schedule Angelina combines resistance exercises and performs multiple joint compound exercises to maximum exercise results in the minimum amount of time. Such compound exercises that Angelina Jolie should typically do include:

• Step up and shoulder presses
• Lunges and bicep curls
• Clean, squat and press
• Pull ups

The Angelina Jolie fitness workout

Angelina Jolie has a low body fat level. She is toned and exhibits a flat stomach. This means combining resistance workouts with a clean diet and aerobic exercise.

These days celebrity personal trainers are encouraging their celebrity clients to perform short but intense aerobic / anaerobic exercise which quickly burns calories both during exercise and away form the gym. This means that Angelina Jolie will burn calories while doing film press interviews, film read throughs and while working on the set of her latest blockbuster.

The Angelina Jolie diet

The Angelina Jolie diet will be typical of most Hollywood starlets, lots of protein, steamed vegetables, some fruit, lots of water and *some* complex carbohydrates but only enough to help her replenish after a workout and give her energy for work.

Typically a health diet will consist of 60% carbohydrates, 20% fats and 20% protein.

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