MensHealth
  • News
  • Health
  • Fitness
  • Sex
  • Nutrition
  • Style
  • Weight Loss
  • Life
  • Podcasts
  • Subscribe
  • Motoring
  • Video
MensHealth
  • News
  • Health
  • Fitness
  • Sex
  • Nutrition
  • Style
  • Weight Loss
  • Life
  • Podcasts
  • Subscribe
  • Motoring
  • Video
Bjornsson Deadlifted 1,026 pounds On The Elephant Bar To Win 2020 Arnold Classic
Watch 0:10

Bjornsson Deadlifted 1,026 pounds On The Elephant Bar To Win 2020 Arnold Classic

{headline}

{headline}

These Are The Worst Training Mistakes You Can Make, According To Bodybuilders

These Are The Worst Training Mistakes You Can Make, According To Bodybuilders

How Surf God John John Florence Rehabbed His ACL In Record Time

How Surf God John John Florence Rehabbed His ACL In Record Time

Just One Energy Drink Can Increase Heart Attack Risk

Just One Energy Drink Can Increase Heart Attack Risk

This Guy Trained Like Chris Hemsworth For 90 Days, And His Results Were Insane

This Guy Trained Like Chris Hemsworth For 90 Days, And His Results Were Insane

{headline}

{headline}

Is It Healthy To Combine Intermittent Fasting With Keto?

Is It Healthy To Combine Intermittent Fasting With Keto?

Why 30/10 Is The Perfect Macro Ratio For Burning Fat

Why 30/10 Is The Perfect Macro Ratio For Burning Fat

8 Rules Of Muscle-Building, According To A Bodybuilder

8 Rules Of Muscle-Building, According To A Bodybuilder

{headline}

{headline}

5 Tips And Tricks To Hide A Receding Hairline

5 Tips And Tricks To Hide A Receding Hairline

Mike Tyson Just Announced His First Opponent

Mike Tyson Just Announced His First Opponent

Lewis Hamilton On The Physical and Mental Pressure To Stay Fit

Lewis Hamilton On The Physical and Mental Pressure To Stay Fit

Can You Finish This 220-Rep CrossFit Workout?

Can You Finish This 220-Rep CrossFit Workout?

LeBron James Breaks Down His Core-Busting Workout

LeBron James Breaks Down His Core-Busting Workout

What Happened When This Guy Followed Hugh Jackman's 'Wolverine' Diet

What Happened When This Guy Followed Hugh Jackman's 'Wolverine' Diet

A Kickboxer Just Broke The World Record For Most Punches Thrown In A Minute

A Kickboxer Just Broke The World Record For Most Punches Thrown In A Minute

  1. Home
  2. Fitness

'I Tried Working Out And Eating Like J.Lo - Here's What Happened'

The bodybuilder attempted the gruelling plan - by Emily Shiffer
  • 10 Mar 2020

Actress and singer Jennifer Lopez is in incredible shape. If you caught her Super Bowl halftime performance, you'd know it's true. (She's 50, btw.)

WATCH: J.Lo Puts Herself Through The Paces In Preparation For The Role

So bodybuilder Will Tennyson wanted to see what it takes to get in her kind of shape. He followed her exact diet and training for a day, including her Hustlers pole dance training, and shared it on his YouTube channel.

According to the meal plan he's following, it's only a 1,400 calories per day allowance. He starts out with breakfast, making a 3-berry protein smoothie courtesy of a recipe from BodyLab that contains a scoop of BodyLab TastyShake (a whey protein), Greek yogurt, honey, lemon juice and cinnamon blended with ice cubes.

"Something about smoothies does not do it for me. I like them, but it doesn't satiate this. People go to the gym and take pre-workout...this is like a pre-breakfast for actual breakfast," he says.

The workout he plans to do is from one of J. Lo's trainers, David Kirsch, and is a full-body 32-minute HIIT circuit with 16 exercises, 20 reps.

He starts with a move that is supposedly J. Lo's favorite glute exercise, called the Platypus walk, which Kirsch says is the single most effective thing you can do for your glutes.

J.Lo Bodybuilder Workout
J.Lo Bodybuilder workout

"I'm feeling it," he says shortly after starting.

He then gets into the actual workout, which includes:

• Weighted reverse lunges
• 30-second medicine ball plank
• Weighted lateral lunges with one slider ("You feel it right away in your butt with one rep.")
• Shoulder taps
• Side plank with crunches
• Overhead slams with a medicine ball
• Torso rotation with resistance bands
• Squats with a row with resistance bands
• Bicep curls with resistance bands
• Tricep extensions with resistance bands
• Sit-ups with a medicine ball
• Russian twists with a medicine ball
• Jackknives with a medicine ball
• Dumbbell row to tricep extension (10 reps each side)
• Push-ups with one glider
• Pike-up planks with 2 gliders

He skips her 3-set ab workout, but includes a screenshot of it.

*No rest between sets
Set 1

• 50 hanging ab raises
• 50 rope crunches
• 50 incline sit ups with a 45 pound plate

Set 2

• Repeat first set, with 35 reps

Set 3

• Repeat first set, with 21 reps

Next, it's snack time, and he eats what J. Lo would...a medium sized-apple. And then he's onto lunch, which is a big kale salad complete with pumpkin seeds, crumbled queso, lemon juice, EVOO, shallot, and sea salt to taste.

He also mentions she sticks with water throughout the day, and also eats only organic.

Then he heads to a pole dancing studio.

"I'm dizzy as hell doing this," he says. "We've been pole dancing for 50 minutes now, and it's a complete full-body workout. Arms, legs places I didn't even know I have are feeling it right now. I have a whole new appreciation for pole dancers now. Definitely going to come back, signing up for a package."

He ends the day with dinner: chicken breast, 1/2 cup sweet potato and 1/2 cup Brussels sprouts.

"I don't know how she eats this little. She's 5'5", 145 pounds....I don't know how this would sustain her."

But she also eats dessert, which is a chocolate chip cookie or chocolate chip ice cream...and Will indulges in both.

"This is how you grow the J.Lo glutes," he says. "J. Lo is an absolute beast. She's doing everything the right way. Her approach to fitness is very sustainable in my opinion. She has a whole-food based diet, organic and at nighttime she allows herself a little treat which is what I like to do, the 80/20 rule. 80 percent of the time you're good, 20 percent of the time you're bad. She's in the gym 4-5 days a week. Her workouts are quick and efficient."

Watch the video here:

I Tried Jennifer Lopez's Diet & Workout | Pole Dancing For The First Time

This article originally appeared on Men's Health

Subscribe Now-

Subscribe Now
Subscribe Now

Subscribe Now-

Subscribe Now
Subscribe Now

Recommended to you

Bjornsson Deadlifted 1,026 pounds On The Elephant Bar To Win 2020 Arnold Classic
Watch 0:10

Bjornsson Deadlifted 1,026 pounds On The Elephant Bar To Win 2020 Arnold Classic

{headline}

{headline}

These Are The Worst Training Mistakes You Can Make, According To Bodybuilders

These Are The Worst Training Mistakes You Can Make, According To Bodybuilders

How Surf God John John Florence Rehabbed His ACL In Record Time

How Surf God John John Florence Rehabbed His ACL In Record Time

Just One Energy Drink Can Increase Heart Attack Risk

Just One Energy Drink Can Increase Heart Attack Risk

This Guy Trained Like Chris Hemsworth For 90 Days, And His Results Were Insane

This Guy Trained Like Chris Hemsworth For 90 Days, And His Results Were Insane

{headline}

{headline}

Is It Healthy To Combine Intermittent Fasting With Keto?

Is It Healthy To Combine Intermittent Fasting With Keto?

Why 30/10 Is The Perfect Macro Ratio For Burning Fat

Why 30/10 Is The Perfect Macro Ratio For Burning Fat

8 Rules Of Muscle-Building, According To A Bodybuilder

8 Rules Of Muscle-Building, According To A Bodybuilder

{headline}

{headline}

5 Tips And Tricks To Hide A Receding Hairline

5 Tips And Tricks To Hide A Receding Hairline

Mike Tyson Just Announced His First Opponent

Mike Tyson Just Announced His First Opponent

Lewis Hamilton On The Physical and Mental Pressure To Stay Fit

Lewis Hamilton On The Physical and Mental Pressure To Stay Fit

Can You Finish This 220-Rep CrossFit Workout?

Can You Finish This 220-Rep CrossFit Workout?

LeBron James Breaks Down His Core-Busting Workout

LeBron James Breaks Down His Core-Busting Workout

What Happened When This Guy Followed Hugh Jackman's 'Wolverine' Diet

What Happened When This Guy Followed Hugh Jackman's 'Wolverine' Diet

A Kickboxer Just Broke The World Record For Most Punches Thrown In A Minute

A Kickboxer Just Broke The World Record For Most Punches Thrown In A Minute

MensHealth
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Chris Hemsworth Hugo Boss
  • Terms
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Statement
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Chris Hemsworth Hugo Boss
  • Terms
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Statement

Brands

  • Women's Health

Our Network

  • Paragon Media Pty Ltd
© 2021 Are Media PTY LTD
Get more from Men's Health

Magazine Subscription Offer

Subscribe Now-

Shop This Offer
Subscribe Now