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Chelsea Handler’sworkouts have a new purpose these days. Rather than exercising to look good, the comedian now focuses on feeling stronger.
Handler, 43, says she made a mental shift a few years back and started caring her body performs.
The former talk show hostsays that her mindset changed when her schedule started filling up.
“When you’re running around and traveling a lot and working a lot and you have your hands in a bunch of different things you just have to stay strong and you don’t want to get sick and you don’t want be weak,” she says. “So that’s my whole thing. It’s just: Do everything to be strong.”
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And Handler is definitely strong — even if she doesn’t fully believe it. She works out regularly withtrainer Ben Bruno(who alsoworks with model Kate Upton), and is all over his Instagram page doing weighted hip thrusts, core exercises and more.
But working with a personal trainer means Handler struggles to enjoy group exercise classes.
“I can’t work out in a class. For some reason I can’t,” she says. “And this probably sounds surprising, but I don’t think I’m competitive enough. I just want to give up and be like, I can’t I can’t do it. There’s a pace I don’t like.”
Handler jokes that Bruno isn’t properly preparing her to keep up.
“Every time I do a workout class, if I’m traveling or something, I’ll come back and tell him, what are we doing together because I cannot keep up with a regular class, so obviously you’re not challenging me enough.”
She will, however, dominate in extreme sports, andclose friend and actress Jenny Mollencalls her a “daredevil.”
“When I do outdoor stuff, like wakeboarding or paddleboarding, I’m good,” Handler says.
source: people.com
