Chanel Collette is a fitness trainer. She shares a lot of workouts on Instagram. In May, she shared a video of herself doing yoga. Collette captioned it, “My yoga story ⬇️ …Is the most patient & beautiful thing I have done for myself in my adult life. It’s the ONE ☝🏽 thing I have done COMPLETELY FREE of expectations. Every task, every hobby, every THING I have put immense pressure on myself to be, not just good at; but great at. But never with yoga.” How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 5 ways Chanel Collette stays in shape and the photos that prove they work.
1. She Does Yoga
Colette talked about her yoga journey in the caption of her Instagram post. “I started 7 years ago practicing and laughing at myself bc of how little I could do, but my body STILL felt better AFTER what little I did. That was my hook, but slowly my mind quieted, and internalized pressure never showed up on my mat with me. All these years later, I practice *hopefully* 2-3x per week. I still take low heat, low intensity classes. I just started going up side down last year. But none of that actually matters at all. And that’s the beautiful part for me 🤍.”
2. She Hybrid Trains
Collette likes to hybrid train, as she thinks it’s the most effective way to train. She shared her routine in this Instagram post. “As a former cardio junkie & half-marathon-er it took me years to finally get a grasp of true hybrid training to support BOTH endurance training and progressive strength training,” Collette wrote in the caption. “Don’t be like former me - under recovered and weak knees that took me out of my long distance training. My hope is these suggested weekly training schedule splits give you some insight into how you could potentially design your weekly workout load in a balanced way to log some miles and some weights.”
3. She Does Leg Presses
A lower body workout that Collette does to stay in shape is the leg press. She shared her favorite foot placements on the machine in this Instagram post. Collette captioned it, “TAKE NOTES & SAVE. The leg press might be my favorite lower body machine for these reasons here. These are just my top 4️⃣ favorite foot placements so this list isn’t exhaustive by any means. Because we can’t forget the single leg options too.”
4. She Works Her Back
In this Instagram video, Collette and a friend do back exercises. She captioned the post, “Train Back With Us 💪🏽. When picking out your movements for a well round back day we highly suggest targeting 3 of the following areas: 1 Neutral & Narrow Grip Row ⏩️ the Landmine TBar Row is a perfect example. 1 Single Arm Movement targeting Lats ⏩️ the isolateral pull down. 1 Upper Back / Rear Delt movement ⏩️ the cable face pull. Coach @_casey.dixon_ and I had a stellar back day @everydayafs during her quick visit to Louisville. Always a good session training together.”
5. She Tracks Her Food
Collette revealed in this Instagram post that she tracks her food, and that she makes sure to do it accurately. “Underestimating calories (or not tracking at all) CAN be the reason you’re not seeing fat loss when that is the desired goal. My hopes with sharing this is to prove the point that WE ARE HUMANS, Not food calculators or magicians with food scales for eyes. When it comes to being in a TRUE DEFICIT where fat loss takes place, most can’t leave a lot of room estimation on a regular basis. It’s likely NOT that the deficit ISN’T working, OR that you have to constantly go LOWER in your target calories. But more likely, you need to be MORE ACCURATELY tracking because many of us (even the very seasoned ones) typically underestimate total calories with the naked eye.”
