From weight training, to reformer Pilates, HIIT workouts and running – celebrities are constantly sharing their favourite fitness regimes.
However, Christine Lampard has revealed the key to her slim figure is actually not going to the gym, and is in fact much simpler than any workout routine.
Juggling work and a family, the presenter, 47, swears by Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis or NEAT exercises, as they have become known.
Despite its fancy name, NEAT exercises refer to the energy used to carry out any daily activity that isn’t a strict form of exercise.
Most activities that involve being on your feet are included, for example, cooking, carrying the shopping, gardening, playing with your children or even getting up and down for a tea break at work.
Walking is also essential, whether it is walking to the shops, or the train station or walking the dog.
Christine Lampard, 47, has claimed NOT going to the gym is the key to her slim figure as she reveals the secret is ‘NEAT’ exercise
Despite its fancy name, NEAT exercises refer to the energy used to carry out any daily activity that isn’t a strict form of exercise
Speaking to Woman and Home magazine, Christine revealed: ‘I don’t go to the gym but I’m always moving and I think that keeps me fit.
‘Frank is very good with gym stuff but I find that general activeness and not sitting around for too long is pretty good for me.’
Mother to two children, Patricia, seven, and Freddie, five, the TV star is up at 5.45am to make breakfast and lunch and get them ready for school.
She then walks them to school, before taking the dogs. She is also active doing chores around the house so gets her steps up without trying, she explains.
In a previous TikTok she admitted: ‘I can be very lazy when it comes to exercise. But actually, I’ve always said this, I walk. I walk and I walk.’
Confirming she does no classes, she admitted she wants to get into Pilates but hasn’t ever got around to finding the time.
‘I’ve found walking the absolute perfect exercise for me, it gets the heart pumping, keeps everything together, keeps you just generally fit,’ she added.
The important thing is staying consistent, and practising moderate exercise, rather than fewer more intense workout sessions.
Christine previously opened up about her diet in an interview with The Telegraph, where she explained: ‘I generally follow the motto of eating like a king, then a prince, then a pauper, as the day goes on, and I need a good breakfast.’
Starting the day with a big meal to keep her full, she enjoys tomatoes on toast with grilled bacon and two poached eggs.
Speaking to Woman and Home magazine, Christine revealed: ‘I don’t go to the gym but I’m always moving and I think that keeps me fit’
‘I’ve found walking the absolute perfect exercise for me, it gets the heart pumping, keeps everything together, keeps you just generally fit,’ she added
Then for lunch she will typically have a jacket potato topped with cheese, while for dinner she mixes it up, with the menu including homemade chicken and mushroom pie and a Sunday roast.
She also likes to snack on hummus and carrot sticks, making sure she chooses foods full of fibre to fuel her body.
She told the Daily Mail: ‘If I have been away eating and drinking for a while, like at Christmas, I just try and eat healthy when I am back to get back in shape.
‘I won’t cut anything out and think I have a healthy diet. I would try and substitute a jacket potato for a sweet potato when I am trying to be healthy and avoid eating carbs too late at night as I find it does bloat me out.’
Read the full article here
