Kimberly burns a lot of calories every day. Her workouts are often intense and long. She spends hours a day perfecting dance routines and this alone is enough to keep her in fantastic shape. She runs a lot of improve are stamina, essential to get through busy days and long tours.
She does a lot of ab busting workouts to keep her well toned stomach in top shape and to keep her core strength high for the long dance routines.
Core training involves cardio workouts to warm up followed by a series of full body conditioning exercises such as squats, lunges, push ups, crunches, leg raises, planks and stability ball exercises. Cardio is done to intensity to help increase fitness levels.
If you want to workout like Kimberly the best thing is to invest in a dance workout DVD and perform 60 minutes of dance workouts and complimentary training (stretching, strength training) every day.
Stretching plays a big role and dynamic stretching, similar to dance and ballet workouts, helps maintain flexibility as well as strength and balance.
Kimberly admits that the hardest thing is doing high impact dance workouts while wearing high heels. This is not really recommended as it is note good for posture and spine, but it does provide an excellent workout.
Kimberly’s main advice for fitness is to keep exercise interesting by changing routines often. Always try new methods of training, do different classes, workout at different times. If you usually just run then try dance, or martial arts or circuit training to work the body in new ways and prevent hitting a fitness plateau. Bored is what usually puts people off exercise. So long as you are enjoying your workouts you will keep working hard and get the result you desire.
Kimberly’s Diet
To fuel her muscles she needs to eat a well balanced diet. She keeps low GI carbohydrates to a minimum to ensure that she is eating slow release energy, rich proteins and healthy fats. Even for someone as active as Kimberly too much sugar (processed sugars and low GI foods) is enough to cause some weight gain.
It is very important for her to eat a well balanced diet that is rich in very nutritious carbohydrates. Empty carbs are the biggest enemy when you are trying to stay in shape, so bread and pasta is avoided and salads, fruits, vegetables and pulses are encouraged.
Proteins are essential to maintain muscle tone, but the protein source has to be lean, so lean chicken, turkey and fish are preferred. Fatty meats should be avoided.
