Angelina Jolie’s Diet and Exercise Secrets

In her new movie “Salt”, Angelina Jolie plays a CIA agent on the run. How did Angelina get in top form for the role? According to People.com, she followed a strict diet and exercise regimen both before and during shooting.

Angelina’s diet consisted of five small meals per day and was nutritionally balanced between 30% protein and 70% carbohydrates. She avoided junk food and only drank alcohol on the weekends.

Yes, you read correctly; Angelina Jolie ate a healthy dose of carbohydrates while training for the role. Carbohydrates allowed her to keep her stamina up during workouts. Experts generally agree that while a high-protein diet can build muscle and help you lose weight in the short run, a healthy balance of carbohydrates and protein is needed to maintain weight loss.

Eating five small meals a day like Jolie did is an excellent way to start a weight loss program. Five small meals allows your body to get the calories it needs while ensuring that you don’t become ravishingly hungry, which can lead to unhealthy eating and binging.

Becoming a CIA agent requires a lot of physical training, and Angelina stepped up her workouts by completing two-hour training sessions five days per week. The workouts consisted mostly of fight training and strength building exercises. Surprisingly, Angelina actually avoided cardio during this time so that she could focus on gaining muscle and avoid losing weight.

Once the shooting for “Salt” began, Angelina toned down her training routine to just four days per week during lunch breaks and recalibrated her diet to 40% protein and 60% carbohydrates.

If you want to get the same muscle tone as Angelina, don’t jump into a two-hour per day routine. Start with small goals, such as walking for 30 minutes three times per week, and slowly build up your endurance and stamina until you can take on longer workouts. Once you have built up to an hour-long workout a few days per week, mix your routine up so that you have a combination of fat-burning cardio and toning exercises.

What are the results of Angelina’s diet secrets? If you’ve seen the movie “Salt”, you know that Angelina is a lean, mean fighting machine.

Sources:
People,com, “How Angelina Jolie Got in Special Agent Shape for ‘Salt'”, 7/23/10