How to Train Like Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba does a workout routine every day. She comes from a family with both weight and health problems, so she exercises to maintain her energy and to feel good about herself. To work out like Jessica Alba, train for about 45 minutes to an hour every day.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

1. Start your workout on a treadmill or elliptical machine. Use the machine for 10 to 15 minutes or until your heart rate reaches around 180 beats per minute.
2. Do about 50 lunges, 25 with your left foot leading and 25 with your right foot leading. To do a lunge, take a step forward with one foot. Then, take a step backward with the other foot so your feet are about 3 feet apart. Slowly bend both knees to 90-degree angle and bring them back to the starting position.
3. Perform about 50 crunches. Both traditional and twisting crunches work well.
4. Run on the treadmill or workout on the elliptical machine for another 10 to 15 minutes.
5. Work out your shoulders. You can do overhead dumbbell presses, along with front, side and rear free-weight raises to exercise the shoulder area.
6. Exercise your biceps with dumbbell and barbell curls.
7. Target your triceps. You can do tricep extensions, kickbacks and push-ups to target this area.

Tips & Warnings

• Whatever shoulder, bicep and tricep exercises you do, try to do about 4 sets for each muscle group without stopping.
• You can use weights to help add resistance to your lunges.