Malika Andrews is in mid-air in her workout clothes. In a new social media post the ESPN host shows off her amazing body in a two–piece exercise set during a workout. “Jumping into the weekend with my favorite trampoline class☀️ Half dance. Half cardio. All me trying not to fall,” she captioned the Instagram photo. How does she approach diet, fitness, and self-care? Here is everything you need to know about her lifestyle habits.
1. Making Exercise a Priority
Andrews, who hosts NBA Today and NBA Countdown on ESPN, travels for more than 60 days a year, has to make exercise a priority. “If I am gone for seven days, I will pack seven workout pieces so that I am at least encouraging myself to [exercise] every single day,” she told Travel + Leisure. “As the daughter of a personal trainer, fitness has always been an important part of my life.”
2. Tea
Malika is such an avid tea drinker that she brings her own bags when she flies. “Most airlines only carry black caffeinated tea, so I travel with my own box of mint tea in my purse at all times,” she tells T + L.
3. She Asked for Help
When Malika was younger she battled an eating disorder. “It doesn’t really fit neatly into a box,” she told NY Post about it. “I struggled with restricting and purging. It is not really anorexia or bulimia. It is more anorexia than bulimia, but it doesn’t fit super neatly into a box, which I learned through my years of treatment that more and more eating disorders don’t fit neatly into a box.” She finally asked for help and went to a therapeutic boarding school when she was 14. “I got to a point that I told my mother, ‘I think I need some help. I don’t think I’m going to be able to figure this out by myself.’”
4. Sleep
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Malika understands the importance of sleep. When she travels, she has a hack to maximize her rest in the morning. “When I close the blinds, do they actually close all the way, or is there a gap? If there’s a gap, I go to the closet and get the hangers, and use the clips to make sure the gap closes. If you’re covering the NBA, you know the pregame nap is essential. Sometimes your sleep is kind of funky. You’re up late, or you’re up early for shows. You want to catch that 20 or 30-minute nap in the middle of the day. If there’s a gap in the curtains, we have the hack—but when I don’t have to employ the hack, that’s a good hotel,” she told GQ.
5. Burgers
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Malika loves hamburgers. “I try to find a cool restaurant, but I do love a room service burger. A room service burger, medium, is a safe and solid choice. Shrimp cocktail can be a little more hit-or-miss. I’m on the burger side of life,” she told GQ. “I am a Shake Shack girlie. At JFK, I know exactly where the Shake Shack is. Delta Terminal, I’m headed straight there. The dilemma is always when to open the Shake Shack, because you don’t want to be that person eating food on a plane that you know has a fragrance. But this is just a burger, fries, milkshake fragrance. No fish.”
