Chelsea Peretti In Workout Gear Shares Highlights From Italy

Comedian and actress Chelsea Peretti is enjoying some well-earned time off in beautiful Italy. Peretti, 46, shared a reel with highlights of her trip, including a clip of the writer wearing white shorts and a tank top, lounging on a boat against a spectacular ocean landscape. “I think I 😍🥰 like this lil life☺️⚰️,” she captioned the post, which Ali Wong responded to with the 🔥 emoji. Here’s how Peretti manages stress and uses creativity as a method of wellness.

1. Yoga Sessions

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Peretti does yoga but admits she doesn’t always feel like working out. “Forced myself to do yoga but I’m in a cardio slump also weights slump and healthy eating slump I LOVE PIE,” she captioned a humorous post of herself posing in brightly-patterned yoga pants.

2. Love For David Chang

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Peretti enjoys watching cooking shows. “I’ve been watching David Chang and Jose Andres cooking videos on Instagram. It is weird. I don’t know why,” she told W Magazine. “In these times, I keep mentioning David Chang so much that I actually accidentally called my friend Esther ‘David Chang.’ She was like, ‘You’re starting to lose it.’ Someone showing you how to make something new when you’re trapped and you miss going out and trying someone else’s ideas is such a cool service that these chefs are sharing with us.”

3. Home Baking

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Peretti took up baking during the pandemic as a distraction. “For a lot of people, if you have groceries, cooking is definitely distracting,” she told W Magazine. “I don’t read the news if I’m cooking. That’s been interesting. Obviously, making things I normally would never make depending on whatever’s available because stores have had to scramble to know how to have anything. I’ve only made one lemon cake. I don’t know why I was really deflated about it. It is really good.”

4. Love For the Writers Room

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Peretti loves collaborating with other writers. “I loved writers rooms. Have you ever taken a Myers-Briggs test?” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “All these things are flawed and probably wrong, but I was very much between thinking and feeling and between introvert and extrovert. Knowing that helped me a lot in understanding why I’m often torn about things. What I loved about writers rooms was that I was coming from stand-up, being a lone wolf, and rooms are so collaborative.”

5. Therapeutic Creativity

Peretti finds creativity to be therapeutic. “I’m always creative in times of boredom and in times of even depression or anxiety because it’s cathartic and it’s a release,” she told W Magazine. “So I’ve been doing my pseudo makeup tutorials. I always feel this way about makeup, but the ridiculousness of caring about how you look when you’re not being social in any way…it just also feels cathartic to just deface yourself and feel like you’re externalizing how you feel inside, which is strange and dark and unhinged.”

WNBA star Breanna Stewart went into 2024 with good intentions and lots of gratitude. Stewart, 29, shared a picture of herself wearing a blue shirt and gray shorts, beaming with happiness as she posed on the court. “How I’m entering 2024… with love, happiness & my people,” she captioned the post. “Happy New Year Stewie! 2024 is going to be even more amazing, if that’s possible 😜,” commented Rennae Stubbs. Here’s what Stewart’s diet, training, and recovery regimen looks like, and the home-cooked meal her fellow athletes go crazy for.

1. Basketball Training

Stewart says basketball is the best workout. "I don’t really know any other speed than basketball. I’ve just been playing it forever,” she told Red Bull. “It’s a stop-and-go game. You can be running up and down for a while, then stop, then you have to go again. We don’t do much conditioning work during the season, because we’re playing almost three games each week. But during the preseason we do some sprints on the court, and riding the Airdyne bike, which really sucks—whether you’re in shape or not, you’re dying on that thing. And a lot of different cardio machines and kinds of cardio exercises. And just playing—nothing compares to it."

2. Weight Training and Pilates

Stewart uses weights to build strength and muscle. "I need to make sure that my body is ready and that means getting in the weight room,” she told Red Bull. “I just work everything—upper and lower body. I also do Pilates to make sure that my core is strong. When I’m on the court, I’m using everything, so I want to make sure that my whole body is ready to go. I usually spend an hour in the gym, then we spend about two hours on the court for practice. I do drills—like I’ll work on my post game. It helps to have someone to work with you to make sure you’re getting pushed. After practice, I do an hour of shooting drills. I like to have a schedule and keep things consistent.”

3. Spicy Rigatoni For the Team

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Stewart’s mother makes incredible rigatoni noodles for her teammates. "My mom makes these chicken riggies that are off the chart,” she told Sports Illustrated. “She usually makes it when I have a team over or my family gets together because it's a bigger dish. It's rigatoni noodles with chicken and a tomato sauce. She can add red pepper flakes to make it spicier. She puts diced tomatoes in it, and she can add peppers and all types of things. I made it for my team when I was at UConn because they'd had it before—my mom would bring me leftovers that she'd frozen, and the team came to my house one time and she made it. I don't want to say it was as good as my mom's, but they all approved."

4. Pre-Game Meal

Stewart loves asparagus, which is low in calories yet packed with nutrients. "[I had a] pre-game meal of penne with meat sauce, brown rice, mashed sweet potatoes, and of course, asparagus," she told USA Today. "I could eat asparagus pretty much every day and not get tired of it."

5. Steam Room and Cold Tub

Stewart knows how important recovery and rest days are for athletes. “My muscles get really tight, so I’ll get them worked on before and after practice,” she told Red Bull. “I like going in the steam room and the hot tub; that makes my body feel good on the day after games. And doing yoga and really all the recovery things—the foam rolling, muscle flossing, the list goes on and on. I’ll go in the hot tub before practice and the cold tub after. The cold tub helps get the lactic acid and everything out of your legs. I try to make sure that I’m doing everything I can to keep my body feeling good. I want to stay ahead of letting my body break down, which allows injuries to happen.”

Professional soccer player Lucy Bronze is on the move—she recently announced her transfer from Barcelona to Chelsea FC, where she will stay for at least two years. Bronze, 32, shared some highlights of life recently, including a sweet picture of herself wearing shorts and a white sports bra, holding a pan of shrimp paella. “Some favs recently 😍 🥘 🐶 👦🏼 ✈️,” she captioned the post. Here’s how the athlete and Lioness trains, eats, and stays full of energy.

1. Mediterranean Diet

Bronze’s father is Portuguese, so she grew up eating a Mediterranean diet. “I’ve always been brought up with a Mediterranean diet with lots of fish, oils, and I’ve always enjoyed healthy salads from a young age,” she told The Telegraph. “Even from a young age, I’ve been very aware of eating the right things and taking the right supplements.”

2. Training Routine

Bronze gets Mondays and Thursday off. “On Tuesdays, I have to be at the training ground for 8:30am, we have breakfast with the team, see the physio, foam roll, stretch etc, then preactivation session for 15 minutes before we go out for training,” she told Strength and Conditioning Education. “I train for 1-2hours, then back in for lunch, then a weights session in the afternoon. Wednesday we do the same but finish at lunch, no weights session. Thursday is the same as Tuesday, Friday is the same at Wednesday. Saturday in for 10:30, train for an hour, lunch and home. Sunday is game day.”

3. Typical Lunch

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Bronze loves seafood for a healthy protein. "The team eats lunch at the academy where we train, so we eat well,” she told BBC Good Food. “I normally eat Thai fishcakes then fill my plate up with salad - lettuce, beetroot, sweet corn, cucumber, tomatoes, red onions, basically anything you can think of that is in the salad bowl. If it’s been a hard session, I'll eat a few roast potatoes. I tend to snack on pineapple, watermelon and grapes.”

4. Travel Dreams

Bronze wants to travel the world. “When it comes to my free time, I want to explore the world times over,” she told Soccer Bible. “I love finding and seeing new places, trying different foods – I eat everything. I love the sunshine, the snow, I love it all and I have since I was younger. Being brought up in a multilingual family with my mum and dad being from such different cultures, they’ve always encouraged us to try new things and I’ve always enjoyed that process.”

5. Tracksuits Forever

Bronze is happiest wearing a nice tracksuit. “I remember having a conversation with one of my best friends, Demi Stokes, who plays as well,” she told Women’s Health. “We always used to wear tracksuits, just because it was easy. We used to be like, ‘What are we going to do when we're in our 30s and we’re mums, we can't still be wearing tracksuits!’ But she's a mum and we’re both in our 30s and we’re still wearing tracksuits.”

Former professional soccer player Carli Lloyd isn’t allowing retirement to slow her down—instead, she has pivoted into different fun exercises. Lloyd, 41, shared pictures of herself playing golf at the Annexus Pro-Am, wearing black pants and a red shirt on the green while dealing with dramatic weather. “Shot at Glory on 16th ✅ Hail ✅ Downpour ✅ Lightening ✅. Second one in the books! Only able to get in 6 holes due to the weather but still had a great time,” she captioned the Instagram post. Here’s what Lloyd’s health and fitness regimen looks like.

1. High-Protein Diet

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Lloyd enjoys a high-protein diet with plenty of steak, salmon, egg whites, yogurt, vegetables, fruit, and green salads. “Focusing on a clean diet has completely changed my outlook on my overall health and well-being,” she told PEOPLE. “I know that when I eat better, I feel better. You don’t put regular gas into a Ferrari!”

2. She Loves To Run

Lloyd genuinely loves running for cardio and the mental health benefits. “Any type of exercise such as running, training or doing body weight exercises makes me feel better," she told Baylor College of Medicine. "Running makes me happy and feels great! If I am traveling I scope out my surroundings. Sometimes I run up the hotel stairwells or find a patch of grass nearby and get a workout in. I tailor my workouts to the amount of time I usually have and go off of that.”

3. Resistance Training

Lloyd’s soccer training was understandably intense. “We’ll do ball stuff. I’ll spend time doing upper-body strength, body-weight exercises,” she told The Cut. “I do push-ups and sit-ups, and I’ll do the TRX. I’ll do [battle] ropes, resistance bands, boxing. Anything that’s not weights. James likes to say there are no dumbbells or barbells on the soccer field, so everything we do is soccer-specific. You need to be lean and agile, and the body-weight stuff works for me.”

4. Rest and Recovery

Lloyd makes sure to allow herself proper recovery, which means making healthy choices. “I think recovery is around the clock,” she told The Cut. “Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I’m going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.”

5. Mental Preparation

Lloyd has her own method of dealing with stress and being mentally prepared. “Mental preparation comes from my on-the-field training and off-the-field training,” she told Baylor College of Medicine. “What I have realized is that if the mind is strong the body will follow. I prepare days ahead of time to make sure I am blocking out all outside distractions and zoning into what I need to do in the game… I often times find myself taking on a lot. I like to keep busy and get a lot accomplished but I also realize that I need to do a better job of managing how much I push myself. I get routine massages and I make lists of what I need to do.”

Former professional figure skater Tara Lipinski is following in Michelle Kwan’s footsteps (so to speak) by getting into a pair of rollerblades and practicing her best moves. Lipinski, 41, shared a video of herself wearing black shorts and a green sweatshirt, skillfully rollerblading inside her house. “Ahh this is too fun!!! 🛼 @michellewkwan inspired me to get some! Now I can skate anywhere. I didn’t take them off for two hours! It made me realize how happy I am in skates, it’s home and I love that feeling of flying around. I miss my ice but this is pretty darn fun. Now I just have to get the hang of it, by the end of my session today I started to feel it but definitely a bit different than ice skates. Michelle says I will figure it out…we shall see lol 😂,” she captioned the post. Here’s what this skating icon’s training and wellness regimen looks like.

1. Ballet and Stretching

Lipinski did ballet to balance out her training on the ice. "Skating is the best cardio and glute workout you can ever ask for,” she told Equinox. “It’s like doing squats for an hour straight. When I was training, I had a very regimented schedule where I came in and stretched, did off-ice training with my personal trainer, and did off-ice ballet. Most of the time I focused heavily on my training on the ice just so I wouldn't overdo it and risk injury."

2. Yoga, Not Bootcamp

Lipinski is passionate about yoga. “I was pretty late to the game in discovering yoga,” she told Yoga Journal. “I was used to a sport that is a high-paced, energetic workout—that’s all I ever knew— so after being on the ice all the time, I went to a lot of bootcamp-style classes and Spinning. Then, about five years ago, I came across a yoga studio [in Santa Monica, California] called YogaHop. I did one class and was so pumped, by that next day, I gave up all other activities and started going to yoga five times a week.”

3. Pasta Is Her Favorite

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Lipinski loves pasta, and would eat spaghetti before every competition. “My favorite meal is definitely pasta of any sort,” she told Bustle. “And I mean of any sort — whether it's penne, spaghetti, linguine, or even a sort of ravioli, with arrabbiata sauce, tomato sauce, vodka sauce, pesto... I can eat that meal every day. I think since I grew up training in ice skating, and it was carb-loading that gave me energy all the time, it became a comfort food. Before competitions too, it was my competition meal, so I think that's another reason why I like it so much.”

4. At-Home Workouts

Lipinski does yoga at home when she can’t get to class. “When I practice at home, I start my Spotify playlist and try to make up my own flow that’s as similar as possible to what I remember from class,” she told Yoga Journal. “I usually do 50 minutes crammed between the coffee table and the TV. It helps my skating as well. Obviously, I don’t skate as much anymore, but when I do, I feel like yoga helps me find those muscles and balance, which comes in handy on the ice.”

5. Cheering From the Sidelines

Lipinski is happy not to have to compete anymore, but feels deep empathy for the new generation of athletes. "I sit up there and say ‘Thank goodness I don’t have to be out there dealing with that myself anymore,’” she told Equinox. “The other part is, even at the last nationals, there were so many times I was hopping out of my seat, gripping Johnny’s hand as these skaters were just vying for that chance to go to an Olympic games. I definitely feel what they're going through, just because I’ve been in their shoes. It’s a whirlwind."