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Keeping up with the Kardashians’ … workout routines! Gunnar Peterson, Kim KardashianAnd Khloé Kardashian’s former personal trainer, let Use Weekly in on the sisters’ secret to success — both in and out of the gym.
“It’s not about the workout itself, it’s about the intensity. They both go for it and they give everything to their workouts,” the fitness guru exclusively told Us at the Strong NY Fitness and Wellness Festival at Chelsea Piers Fitness in New York City on Saturday, October 1 about the Kardashians’ mindset. “That’s why the family is successful. … People don’t realize that they’re super hard workers and if you put that work ethic towards anything and you’re going to have success.”
Peterson — whose celebrity clientele has also included Tom Brady, Mike Tyson, Rebel Wilson and more — specifically touched on the 38-year-old Good American cofounder’s approach when it comes to weight loss. (Khloé, who is mom of 4-year-old True and a 2-month-old baby boy with ex Tristan ThompsonIn 2020,, she revealed that she had lost 60 pounds following the birth of True.
“Khloé’s a worker,” Peterson explained, adding, “If she wanted … whatever number she wanted to weigh, she would get there because of how she approaches her fitness.”
The 2020 Olympic Games will be held in May 2020. Revenge BodySisterhood of an alum Kourtney Kardashian’s Poosh livestream that “diet and exercise go hand in hand” when “you’re trying to lose a significant amount of weight.” At the time, Khloé revealed she wasn’t super focused on what she ate — “I’m like the Cookie Monster for quesadillas,” she joked — but rather concentrating on “put[ting] more effort into the gym than the kitchen.”
Though Peterson declined to list any of the Kardashians’ specific gym routines — “the workouts change daily,” he shared with Use — the trainer noted that “the one thing that’s consistent is the fact that Khloe shows up and the fact that there’s intensity on the floor. That’s just how it is.”
Kim has been praised for her dedication to the gym. In May, the 41-year-old Skims founder caused a stir when she revealed that she had lost 21 pounds in just three weeks to fit into her Marilyn Monroe Met Gala gown. The controversy caused a stir when the Skims founder, aged 41, revealed that she had lost 21 pounds in three weeks to fit into her Marilyn Monroe Met Gala dress. Kardashians star’s trainer, Don-A-Matrix, claimed to TMZ that Kim lost weight in a “healthy,” albeit expedited, way.
“[Kim]It is a really hard job, so I was there throughout the whole process. It wasn’t, like, a starving herself type of thing. I mean, she’s been on a balanced diet,” the trainer said. “At times, she wouldn’t eat as much, but the second thing is she really put the work in. We were working out sometimes twice a day.”
As for Peterson’s recommended method for quick weight loss — say, 10 pounds in two weeks — he told Use to “lift weights and sleep more.” Nutrition-wise, the Nashville-based trainer noted, “I would say stick to foods in their natural state. That’s the way to do it.”
Diana Cooper reports
