Weight loss: Here’s a look at Alia Bhatt’s comprehensive leg day workout

Our favourite celebrities manage to garner our admiration and respect through their performances. Our appreciation, however, is not confined to their talent but is also a result of how well they take care of their bodies. Alia Bhatt is one such actor. After having made a mark through her stellar performances, Alia also earned a lot of appreciation for losing enormous amounts of weight and has been a source of inspiration to many. She launched her YouTube channel in 2019 and has been sharing snippets of her life on it. So far, she has shared her skincare routine, her morning routine and she recently shared a vlog featuring her workout routine on a leg day. Here is all you need to know about her fitness routine.

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Alia told her viewers that her workout regime is comprised by pilates, HIIT workouts, sports such as badminton and weight training, which forms an important part of her fitness routine. She lays great emphasis on the practice of strength work and believes that it is extremely important in order to maintain a healthy body. Even though she admitted that she isn’t fond of HIIT routines, she practices them on certain days.

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A single round of work out that consisted of ten weighted back squats and a minute of hard core cardio that would include anything from sprinting to skis and rows was the first and foremost thing that Alia does on a leg day. While squats help work the hamstrings, glutes and other muscles of the upper legs, weighted squats provide more resistance and are a better form of strength training which enhance the effects of normal squats. Sprinting, skiing and other forms of cardio help the heart rate and strengthen all muscles of the body that include cardiac muscles specifically. This allows the heart to pump blood better and also makes way for efficient oxygen transportation. Ten such rounds made up her leg day and were followed by a five minute finisher calibrated by her trainer, Sohrab.

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The five-minute finisher is a combination of cardio exercises that followed each other over a period of five minutes. It starts with squats and ends with a minute long plank for cooling down of the body and also ensuring core strengthening. The five-minute finisher includes ten squats, followed by five hostage jumps and forty-five seconds of skipping. This is followed by forty five seconds of mountain climbers and five gorilla hops and a backward bear crawl. While all other exercises are forms of cardio workouts, squats and plank are forms of strength training exercises that balance out the considerable amounts of cardio that the regime involves.

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