Malaika Arora's fitness routine: Here's how the Bollywood diva maintains her toned physique at 51!

Malaika Arora has always been a fitness inspiration and continues to set the bar high with her toned physique. Her natural curves and lithe figure have had everyone drooling over her ever since her?Chhaiya Chhaiya days. Malaika Arora has always showcased immense dedication towards staying in shape and maintaining that envious figure and has reportedly not missed a single gym day in years. Today, on her 51st birthday, let's take a closer look at her fitness fundas including her daily workout and diet with which she continues to give the young actresses in the industry a run for their money!

Malaika Arora's fitness fundas to maintain her toned figure at 51

Malaika Arora's workout routine

Strength Training

To maintain her physique, Malaika Arora practices several strength training exercises every day. The former?Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa?judge works with her trainer to devise rigorous workout plans including dumbbells, kettlebells and even ankle weights to help with functional training and add definition to her muscles. Taking to Instagram the diva often shares her intense workout sessions with exact details of her exercises to inspire followers and fans to get off their backs and hit the gym today??

For instance, recently Malaika shared her sessions featuring what she claims to be the 'hardest ab workout' while on another occasion she shared the exercises to strengthen your back muscles and hip flexors along with a quick tutorial.

Cardio

The Kaal actress is never one to shy away from a sweat session and can often be seen moving through HIIT cardio exercises like lunges, squats, jumping jacks, high-kicks, and mountain climbers, during a session at her home gym. Cardio is the best way to burn calories and build endurance and is a go-to move for most beginners whose goal is weight loss. For days after her weekend cheat meal, Malaika makes sure to include some cardio is her routine to burn those added calories.

Yoga

Malaika is a yoga expert since she loves performing yoga daily. Going through her Instagram feed, you are sure to find hundreds of videos of the diva where she shares quick yoga workouts that focus on different muscle groups. With her fit body and years of practice, Malaika has gained excellent control of her body and can now effortlessly move her limbs with fluid poses.?

Pilates

Since Malaika Arora works out every day, she follows a versatile workout routine to keep things interesting and maintain consistency. Apart from strength training, cardio and yoga, Malaika is often papped in the city as she steps out for a quick pilates session with celebrity fitness trainer Namrata Purohit.?

Malaika Arora's diet plan

Malaika Arora starts her day with detox water as soon as she gets up. She has three different variations of the water - a lemon-infused one, one with jeera, sauf and ajwain and a third one which features honey, ginger, lemon, cayenne and pepper.?

Breakfast

She follows her detox water with a handful of nuts for that extra boost of energy with healthy fats. Her breakfast usually involves a green smoothie, a variation of eggs (poached or omelette) and a sour-dough bread sandwich with avocado.?

Lunch?

Lunch is the only proper meal of the day for the talented actress and she ensures she's eating a relatively heavy meal to give her enough energy throughout the day. Malaika prefers eating homecooked food and her lunch is usually rice, dal, vegetables, salad and meat which is either fish or chicken.

Dinner

Malaika follows intermittent fasting and makes sure that she has her dinner by 6:30 pm in the evening. Keeping things light for the last meal; of the day, Malaika eats a balanced meal of meat for protein, rice or legumes for carbs and vegetables for fibre.

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