Jutta Leerdam in Workout Gear "Finished the Season"

Jutta Leerdam is breaking records and flaunting her abs. In a new social media post the speed skater shows off her amazing body while celebrating the end of the season. “Finished the season in a Track record 1.12.86 🤯🥇❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Thank you all for the support ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥” she captioned the series of Instagram snaps. How does the Dutch athlete approach health and fitness? Here is everything you need to know about her lifestyle habits.

1. All Around Athlete

Jutta has a history of athletics. “I did a lot of different sports as a child. I played field hockey for eight years and did gymnastics. I had so much energy,” she told Body & Fit. “I started speed skating because my dad really liked the sport. He wanted his children to be able to skate so we could all skate together in the winter. I really liked to see myself get better every time I went. That was the fun part for me. I enjoyed seeing my dad happy and proud of me, too.”

2. Drive to Win

“My goal is the race I need to win next. I’m focused on my fitness goals, too, making sure everything is in balance. I rely on my coach a lot. If I’m not fit enough, or good enough, I’ll find out on the ice. I don’t like to be too confident. You can lose sharpness because of it. I’m an insecure person but I let my insecurities drive me. If you’re a good athlete, you have to be insecure. You need to do better and better. Nothing is ever good enough,” she added.

3. Here Is What She Eats in a Day

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Jutta detailed her diet to Body & Fit. “In the morning, I eat oatmeal and lots of fruit. It fills me up because I’m always super hungry from training. I really have to watch my protein intake. If I take too much I get too muscular. As a skater, I have to be strong but I don’t want to be too bulky. I see food as my energy. I need carbs. I need fat. I need everything. I eat plenty of vegetables and watch how much food I eat in general, but I wouldn’t say I have a cheat day. What really is a cheat day anyway? A burger contains animal proteins and good fats that I can use as energy. I’ll watch the saturated fats, but if I feel like it, I eat it, and I don’t feel guilty. I use the energy to train the next day,” she explained.

4. Biking

When she isn’t speed skating you can find Jutta biking. “We cycle a lot in the summer, block training, mountain biking, hours of easy riding. That’s the conditioning part. You need a strong base condition to be able to peak at the right moment. In winter, it’s more skating, weight training, and cycling. I train twice a day. We’re off one day per week,” she said.

5. Strong Not Skinny

Jutta focuses on being strong, not skinny. “For me, it’s mostly physical. I have to be strong. I need to work on conditioning, flexibility and strength to be fast and explosive on the ice. This sport is a combination of every aspect of physical fitness. Flexibility, endurance, power. If all of those things are in balance, I feel fit. I used to struggle with being skinny. I wanted to LOOK fit. I was a perfectionist. I saw fat on me and I didn’t want it. I didn’t eat much and everything was super healthy. Now, I’m eating way more to perform. I use food to improve myself as an athlete, not just for looks,” she told the publication.

Dutch runner Femke Bol is celebrating after winning gold in the mixed 4x400m relay. Bol, 24, shared a picture of herself wearing black shorts and an orange shirt, walking on the track. “Time to get to the start line of my second Olympic Games ✨I cannot wait to enjoy and feel the wonderful atmosphere while giving it my all on the track ❤️‍🔥This will be my schedule:

03/08 20.55 4x400 mixed FINAL

04/08 12.35 400 hurdles heats

06/08 20.07 400 hurdles semis

08/08 21.25 400 hurdles FINAL

09/08 10.40 4x400 women heats

10/08 21.14 4x400 women FINAL

Thank you for all the support, the journey to the games showed me once again how amazing the team around me is and I’m forever grateful for them 🥰,” she captioned the post. Here’s what the athlete’s training and fitness regimen looks like.

1. Hard Work

Bol works hard for her record-breaking speed. “I think that speed is not the most natural thing to me,” she told RunBlogRun. “I work hard to get more speed. But with the fatigue and the lactic, I keep thinking, what is the right pace? I think that is where my talent is. Also, in a 400 flat, what the pace should feel like. I love to go through the lactic and go deeper and go faster. Or in training, when I am full of lactic, can I do one more – when we have a lot of reps in a session. I think that is it, and I need to continue to be able to think and plan because you need a good plan.”

2. Inspired By Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone

Bol is a huge fan of fellow competitor Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. “It's inspirational and motivational how McLaughlin-Levrone's racing and seeing how she's raising the bar,” she told Longview News-Journal. “In all honesty a couple of years ago if you'd told me people would be running 400m hurdles in 51sec, I wouldn't have believed it, and now I'm one of them doing it. The moment you see someone doing it... there's is something in your head that thinks 'maybe I can also do it'. For sure it's something that pushes me to become better and dream better on the 400m hurdles.”

3. Training Camp

Bol trains with a large team in The Netherlands. “I train at Papendal, the National Dutch Sports Center,” she told RunBlogRun. “There is a big group, I think fourteen 400m runners. And also Ajla Del Ponte from Switzerland. So it’s a pretty nice group to be in. We train hard, a lot of tough training – some do more endurance, others more speed. It’s a big group, but training is adapted to the person. I think it’s a nice atmosphere that we train in. In the end, we’re all sore and tired, but we keep having fun. We work together and push each other on. It’s a great place to be and one of the best places in which to become one of the best athletes.”

4. Clearing Her Head

Bol has loved running since she was a young girl. “It was always a way to clear your mind and just have fun and not think too much about other things,” she told Athletics Weekly. “That’s still what I like so much about it. I have sessions I like more and I like less but I enjoy every session and mostly the lactic ones because then it really clears your mind and the only thing you can think about is the pain and how you are going to recover. I just love how you really can mentally challenge yourself so much in the sport and just let go of everything a bit by running.”

5. Loving the Journey

Bol is proud of her accomplishments. “I sometimes ask how I have achieved these things, but I do work hard for it and do so many things for it,” she told RunBlogRun. “It’s not like I click my fingers, and I get it. But still, there are a lot of other athletes who train just as hard and are not achieving these things. I do ask how I have achieved this, and I think it’s amazing. I am enjoying it a lot, which helps.”

Dutch speed skater Jutta Leerdam is taking advantage of the stunning Colorado landscape to go out hiking with her dog. 25-year-old Leerdam, who is dating Jake Paul, shared sweet pictures and video of herself wearing black leggings and a bright pink hoodie, going up a trail with Paul, against a dramatic mountain background. “Colorado hikes,” she captioned the post. “Our wittle family,” Paul commented. Here’s how the professional athlete stays fit, happy, and full of energy.

1. Why She Chose Skating

Leerdam chose skating over hockey because she wanted an individual sport where she could shine and beat her own records. “I then chose skating, because hockey cannot be measured,” she told Women’s Health. “Of course you can score, but you cannot measure exactly what you do in terms of time. And it is a team sport. You are dealing with a team. Then you can have the best day of your life and still lose. You don't get that with skating. That individual approach actually suits me more. Not that I'm selfish – because I really am a sharer – but in sports I just want to win too much.”

2. Her Favorite Distance

Leerdam’s favorite distance is the 1000 meters. “It is a combination of sprint, top speed – which is even higher than a shorter distance, such as the 500 meters – and it is also a lot of endurance,” she told Women’s Health. “The 1000 meters is a combination of everything.”

3. Family Time

Leerdam takes full advantage of her time spent off the ice, saying the best thing about it is freedom from the rigid structure of her training regimen. “That I can manage my own time. That I can decide for myself whether I will train in the morning or in the evening,” she told ELLE. “Or, if I'm very tired, that I don't exercise. And I have time to meet up with friends and see my family. Because of the sport I only have limited time for that, so I want to cherish those moments.”

4. Team Leader

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Leerdam is the leader of her own team, which is scary but rewarding. “I also have the feeling that things will always turn out well, especially if I work hard for it,” she told ELLE. “And I have nice people around me, like Koen and my family. I have an older brother and two sisters, one of 25 and one of 15. We have a very good bond. Fortunately, I'm not the type to be negative easily. I try to keep it that way. In sports, the pressure is high, from the media, the public, and your environment. I try to use that pressure as fuel so that I go extra fast at the right time.”

5. The Joy of Skating

Leerdam thinks speed skating should get more recognition for being a truly beautiful sport. I think skating is the most beautiful, but also one of the toughest sports in the world,” she told Women’s Health. “You have to sit very deep and have a lot of power, especially in the sprint. As a skater you have to be very explosive, and the adrenaline that comes with that gives you a kick. Getting through those corners under your own power and trying to gain a lot of speed is of course a wonderful feeling. In addition to strength, it is also about endurance, adrenaline, explosiveness, speed in the turns - that makes skating the most beautiful sport for me.”

Long distance runner Dakotah Lindwurm is in full training mode for Paris 2024. Lindwurm, 29, shared a picture of herself wearing black athletic pants and a white long-sleeved shirt, going for a run outside. “Back home and back to work. 📸: @ben_sathre who was also my personal crossing guard this morning 🙏,” she captioned the post. Lindwurm also had her trusty Puma Nitro shoes on for the run. Here’s what the athlete’s health and wellness regimen looks like.

1. Racing the Boys

Lindwurm is used to healthy competition. “I’ve always been somebody who runs fast,” she told The Lap Count. “When I joined the cross country and track team in high school, I was just somebody who just ran with the boys. My girl teammates would always skip out on runs and hide behind the school. So I just got in the habit of running with the guys and they just ran a little bit faster and made it a hard effort. I know that when you’re in a 130 mile week, that you’ve got to take at least your doubles as slow as possible – for me, that’s like 7:10 pace.”

2. Thrilled To Compete

Lindwurm is beyond excited to travel to Europe. “It's insane. It's almost something that's too big to wrap my head around," she told WESH. "I think I'm most excited to see the Eiffel Tower. It's just so iconic and I just have to imagine it's so beautiful. I am also just really excited to experience their food and their coffee. I've heard just incredible things about the coffee and I'm a big connoisseur.”

3. Hockey Background

Lindwurm’s athletic goals once veered in a different direction. “When I was in high school, I was still playing hockey and for sure had Olympic dreams there. But that obviously didn’t pan out,” she told The Lap Count. “But by no means did I think I was going to be an Olympian in running during high school. I ended up walking onto my Division II team because like, I wanted to keep running and I enjoy the community behind it. I was getting better through high school, but I knew that I wasn’t the best in the country or even close to the best in my state.”

4. Ready For Paris

Lindwurm is ready for Paris 2024. “Similar to Orlando, [Paris] leaves a lot of space for an underdog, somebody who isn’t necessarily the fastest to place well,” she told Runner’s World. “And I plan to prepare well. It seems so daunting to be on the starting line with these women who were running amazing times all the way back in high school and college,” Lindwurm said. “But there’s space for people who are willing to work really hard.”

5. Belief In Herself

Lindwurm has firm faith in herself and the future. “If you love something, I just can’t imagine thinking you couldn’t do it,” she told Runner’s World. “I have this thing in my heart that says, ‘I can be the best at this sport.’ I don’t know where that comes from, but I’m thankful for it.”

Heidi Vuorela is a fitness superstar and influencer who has gained a massive following on Instagram thanks to her dedication to fitness and her impressive figure. Known for her consistent workout routine and motivational posts, she regularly shares videos of herself training at the gym, showing off her progress and inspiring her followers. Whether she’s lifting weights or focusing on her core, Heidi keeps her audience engaged with honest reflections about her fitness journey. In a recent Instagram video, Vuorela posed in front of a mirror, flaunting her toned physique in a black top and brown pants. She captioned the post, “It’s Friday,” giving her followers a glimpse into her workout routine and the confidence she’s earned through her hard work and discipline.

1. She Rests

Vuorela works out regularly. However, she makes sure to prioritize her rest days. She talked about this in the caption of an Instagram post. “Finally, it was training today after 3 days of involuntary rest,” Vuorela wrote. “Had to take the kids with me to get it together, but it went great. Stayed for 2 hours at the gym and they did not whine once that they wanted to go home. They thrive almost as well as I do there.”

2. She Does Leg Workouts

Vuorela makes sure to workout her entire body. Which includes her upper body. She likes to reveal what day she did in the captions of her gym videos. Vuorela captioned this video, “Today it was a workout. Back and triceps 👌 How can you think that this is just as fun every time! 😃 Never get tired of going to the gym 🥰

3. She Works Her Legs

Vuorela doesn’t skip leg day. She shares a lot of posts on Instagram of herself revealing that she did a lower body workout that day in their captions. Vuorela captioned this post, “First session in 2 weeks! Trained a late evening workout from 21-23 and it turned into one hell of a leg workout. Usually do not work out for as long as 2 hours but tonight after such a long rest I just wanted to feed on and never stop 😄 Now we are back to these routines.”

4. She’s Motivated

Vuorela makes sure to stay motivated to workout. She talked about this in the caption of this Instagram post. “Became a leg pass to end this week as usual. Didn't really want to work out at 17:30, when you are used to working out in the mornings. Thought it would be completely full in the gym on a Friday night. But it was almost deserted. So nice that I still went to the gym because I tagged along and it was a good workout anyway even though you were unmotivated at first.”

5. She Goes Outside

Vuorela likes to go outside. She shared this post on Instagram of herself in a field. According to UC Davis, going outside is very beneficial. “Studies also show that being in nature has a positive effect on our bodies by reducing cortisol levels, muscle tension, and demands on our cardiovascular systems (lowers heart rate and blood pressure). Being out in nature often may lead to lower rates of heart disease. The great outdoors can also help you increase your vitamin D level, which is important for your bones, blood cells, and immune system.”