{"id":15431,"date":"2012-07-11T15:27:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T20:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?p=15431"},"modified":"2022-03-28T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:41:07","slug":"kate-beckinsale-on-building-her-hot-body-despite-a-hatred-for-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/kate-beckinsale-on-building-her-hot-body-despite-a-hatred-for-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Beckinsale on Building her Hot Body Despite a Hatred for Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate Beckinsale graces the July\/August cover of\u00a0Women\u2019s Health<\/em>\u00a0(on newsstands June 26) and opens up about kicking Jessica Biel\u2019s butt in her upcoming action film,\u00a0Total Recall\u00a0<\/em>(in theaters August 3), and transforming her body by trading her intense gym workouts for a yoga-based routine.<\/p>\n

Kate is more beat-down than babe-alicious Jessica Biel in her upcoming film\u00a0Total Recall: <\/strong>\u201cIt\u2019s not like a naked, porno, mud-wrestling-in-a-bar sort of fight\u2014it\u2019s a real fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

She’s used to fighting men, but fighting a woman provided its own set of challenges: <\/strong>\u201cI did find that fighting a woman was very different from when I\u2019ve fought men. There was a lot of \u2018I didn\u2019t hurt you, did I? Ooh, I\u2019m sorry about that! No, it was\u00a0my\u00a0fault!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Kate might be a well known action star now, but she couldn’t even run when she started filming 2003\u2019s\u00a0Underworld: <\/strong>\u201cI could run if a bear were chasing me, but I ran like a girl with my arms like this [flails arms]. The day they asked me to try a few punches, it was dismal. All I could see what despair in the stunt coordinator\u2019s face.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why she switched from gym workouts to yoga-based routines:<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019d gotten particularly sick of being photographed outside a gym doing a squat with a medicine ball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her fame for fighting still feels fairly strange:<\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s slightly strange being predominantly known for something that\u2019s not necessarily my sensibility, but I\u2019ve never had a plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recalling her first experience at a gym with her trainer, who had once been Arnold Schwarzengger\u2019s workout partner\u2026<\/strong> \u201cIt was a full-on boys\u2019 gym: \u2018How much can you press? Go harder!\u2019 That kind of thing. They use to have a garbage can between the machines so people could throw up into it and then continue working out. That just seems far too gruesome. I didn\u2019t want to be in shape\u00a0that\u00a0much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Growing up, she avoided gym class whenever possible: <\/strong>\u201cI wasn\u2019t particularly athletic. No one ever thought, \u2018I\u00a0must\u00a0have Kate on my team.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Why she never went to the gym when she was younger:<\/strong>\u201cTo me, you only went to the gym if you were really weird and obsessive. No one I knew in London at the time ever did it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The progression of her life and career makes her feel … <\/strong>\u201cIt all just unfolds and I think,\u00a0Well, that\u2019s who I am now.\u201d<\/p>\n


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