3 super healthy habits that keep Victoria Beckham fit as hell at 49
When I was a younger man, staying lean and fit was so much easier.
I could have a terrible night’s sleep, sit on my butt at the office all day, sit on my butt all night playing online poker, eat pizza for dinner, and probably LOSE weight.
Now, at 42, the consequences of such a lifestyle would be much more punishing.
I’m always interested in hearing from super fit people a little older than me about how they stay sharp even as they move into their 5th, 6th, and 7th decades.
Over the past year I’ve written about:
- Rob Lowe revealing the harsh truth about staying fit at 60
- Bruce Springsteen’s 1 effective fitness tip for staying cut at 70
- Paul Rudd’s surprising secret for building a Marvel body
- 2 health choices that keep Christie Brinkley fit at 70
So when I happened upon an article this week about how Victoria Beckham— best known as Posh Spice by my generation — structures her life to stay fit as hell at 49, I took notice.
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Mega morning routines
There’s a neat little feature in the Wall Street Journal now called My Monday Morning, in which well-known people talk about how they optimize their day to stay productive and/or fit.
For Victoria Beckham — who’s generating a lot of buzz with husband David Beckham due to the wildly popular new doc on Netflix — this involves some specific diet, exercise, and schedule habits so she can fit everything into a very busy life indeed.
Healthy habit 1
Beckham always carves time out in the morning for the gym, and that time is sacrosanct.
Many of us try to stay on a regular gym schedule, but too often we miss a shift because we don’t make it a priority(or we’re feeling too lazy that day).
If something else comes up, the gym automatically loses the showdown.
If said replacement activity isn’t critical or mandatory, however, there should be an argument for keeping your gym date.
Here’s what Beckham told the WSJ:
“Working out in the morning is really important to me. It’s the one time of day where no one comes into the gym and disturbs me.
“Unless you’re one of my children or my husband, back out. No one is allowed.”
After toying around with morning gym for a while, I’m back to my favorite workout time: late at night.
I love the relaxing quiet at that time after a busy day.
Plus I can grab a sauna or a little time in the massage chair afterward because there’s nobody else hogging them!
To signal to myself and everyone else that it’s a priority that I don’t want to miss, I put those gym trips in the family calendar.
Healthy habit 2
Beckham builds her exercise routine around resistance training.
Here’s what she revealed:
“I normally do 15, 20 minutes on the stair climber. Then my trainer comes and I do about an hour and a half with him, doing weightlifting, heavy weights.”
Now we don’t all have personal trainers, but it speaks to the importance of not focusing solely on cardio.
Personally, I like to mix it up even more than this.
I’ll typically go for a run one day, do some bodyweight resistance and stairs at the gym another, and then some power yoga and long walks on other days when I feel I need to rest and loosen up.
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Healthy habit 3
I’ve also been writing a lot lately about my attempts to shift my diet to remove most dairy and meat.
Although I’ve had some starts and stops, there is a fairly simple diet I aspire to.
In my article about the top 5 healthiest foods in the world and in my story about building eating habits like our evolutionary cousins, I touch on these key foods: nuts, seeds, fruit and leaves.
Well, Beckham is already there, with the addition of eating salmon … every day.
She told WSJ:
“Sometimes I like it poached, sometimes I’ll have smoked salmon. If I have it at night, I like it plain grilled.
“I have a very strict diet, so I don’t like anything too complicated. I eat a lot of avocados, lots of seeds, lots of nuts — very, very clean.”
Can’t say I’d enjoy eating that much salmon, but evidently it’s working for Beckham at 49!
Folks, thanks so much for reading! If you enjoyed this piece, please give it a clap or two and let me know in the comments how you structure your diet and exercise to stay fit!
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