Demi Lovato’s trainer: she’s in the gym four hours a day, six days a week
Demi Lovato is so dedicated to her fitness regime that she hits the gym for four hours a day six days a week. That sounds insane to me but she’s not working out the entire time according to her trainer. She’ll do a kickboxing type cardio routine for an hour and a half, rest for while and then do toning. After that she gets IV fluids(?!) or does cryotherapy, which sounds more punishing than working out to me, to recover. Apparently she loves it and is really into helping other people with their workouts.
Lovato has been working out religiously at L.A.’s Unbreakable Performance Center (where Nick and Joe Jonas also work out) for the past nine months, and has called the gym her “oasis” on Instagram.
“This is her safe haven,” Unbreakable’s founder Jay Glazer tells PEOPLE. “Demi will be here for four hours a day. It’s her one place where she doesn’t have to be a pop star. She’s talked a lot about her addictions, and this has become her healthy addiction. She lights up when she comes in here.”
And while Lovato wanted to lean up, her main focus was learning how to fight.
“She’s more coachable than most of our fighters,” says Glazer. “She doesn’t put ego in, she does it right — and she is vicious!”
Lovato will start her session with an hour-and-a-half of mixed martial arts.
“Depending on the day of the week, we’ll do boxing, Muay Thai, ground fighting and/or Brazilian jujitsu,” says Glazer. “Then she’ll do some sort of recovery, and then she’ll go do her performance workout.”
Lovato’s performance workout focuses on full-body toning, so she does exercises with high reps and low weights, with little rest in between.
“It’s very intense,” says Glazer. “It’s three different exercises three times through with no rest. She’ll do a push, a pull and lower body move, so let’s say a chest push, a pull for your back, and then some sort of squat, but something low-impact that won’t bulk her. At the end we’ll do abs.”
Following her workout, Lovato does 30 minutes of recovery including I.V. therapy twice a week, cryotherapy two or three times a week, Phoenix Thera-Lase medical laser therapy each day that penetrates six inches into the body to encourage healing and reduce swelling and inflammation, and massaging recovery sleeves every day.
“She goes through the plan perfectly,” says Glazer. “She’s never been late, she shows up, she helps everybody. She’s incredible.”
Like Demi I have some addiction issues and I’ve channeled those into exercise. About four days a week I’ll work out twice – once in the morning and once at night, to total about an hour and a half to two hours. I don’t think it’s a problem for me now but I realize that I need to go easier on myself and that I have to monitor it. It’s definitely more healthy than drinking, which I used to do every night. I guess if you have a lot of time to fill like Demi going to a gym and getting to socialize and get bizarre treatments is a nice way to do it. (If you’re into that.) Plus now we know where she meet that MMA fighter she’s been dating. We need one of those gyms near me.
Also, I want a trainer who lets me punch him like this.
Photos credit: Demi Lovato/Instagram and WENN
