Influencer Paige Hathaway in Two-Piece Workout Gear Talks "Calorie Deficit"

Paige Hathaway is educating her followers about how to lose weight – in her two-piece workout gear. In a new social media post the influencer and fitness coach shows off her sensational body in a white crop top while talking calories. “What is a calorie deficit? In summary, it’s when you eat fewer calories than your body needs, causing it to burn fat for energy—simple but effective! 💪✨ For example, if your maintenance is 2000 calories, eating 1800 puts you in a deficit,” she writes about the Instagram video. How does she approach diet, fitness, and self-care? Here is everything you need to know about her lifestyle habits.

1. 80/20 Diet

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Paige eats healthy most of the time. “I keep my diet 80/20, mostly sticking to whole foods like seafood, beans, quinoa, couscous, sweet potatoes, veggies, and lots of nuts and nut butters. But I still enjoy foods that might not be as healthy 20% of the time,” she says.

2. Lifting “Heavy”

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Paige explained to Muscle & Fitness that strength training is the key to her fit figure. “I lift heavy with more compound movements 4-5 days week,” she said. According to the Mayo Clinic, strength and weight training help reduce body fat, preserve and increase lean muscle mass, and burn calories more efficiently. Strength training may also help you:

• Develop strong bones
• Manage your weight
• Enhance your quality of life
• Manage chronic conditions
• Sharpen your thinking skills

3. HIIT

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She also does high intensity interval training, AKA HIIT, “3-4 days a week on top of that,” she says. Her method is F45 Training, where she is an ambassador. She takes 45-minute classes that involve high intensity circuit training exercises. There is lots of research backing up the benefits of HIIT workouts, including body fat reduction, improved cardiovascular function, and mental health. It is also time effective.

4. Favorite Exercise

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Paige also revealed “the piece of equipment I can’t live without”: Mini bands. “They’re a must for my weekly workouts—especially for leg day, traveling, or getting an effective workout at home,” she told Muscle & Fitness. As for her go-to workout? “The sled push is my favorite. It’s fun and works every muscle in your body!” she says.

5. The Toughest Exercise

As for the “toughest” exercise? The “man eater,” she says, “and it delivers the fastest results. You do a plank, pushup, renegade row on both sides, then burpee to shoulder press. At the top, you take it all the way back down. It’s absolutely exhausting.”

Fitness influencer Paige Hathaway is modeling a bunch of new workout outfits and asking her 3.5 million followers what they think. Hathaway, 36, included pictures of herself wearing one-piece black workout gear, plus another of herself wearing two-piece black workout gear that emphasized her incredibly strong and toned physique. “Which photo is your favorite?” she captioned the post. “All beautiful in different ways,” a fan commented. Here’s how the trainer stays fit, healthy, and happy.

1. F45 Training

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Hathaway is a global ambassador for F45, something she feels strongly about. “Being a personal trainer myself, I find there are a lot of excuses for why people do not go to the gym: they are intimidated, they don’t know what to do, they don’t have any accountability, there are so many reasons,” she told Women’s Health. “The one thing I love about F45 is that they kind of crush all your excuses. It’s super innovative and there are screens on the wall showing you what to do.”

2. Pescatarian Diet With Lots of Carbs

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Hathaway enjoys a pescatarian diet. “So in the morning, I do a bean burrito with like some avocado, or a plant-protein smoothie,” she told Women’s Health. “I do a lot of carbs – I believe in good carbs, like rice and sweet potato and vegetables. I also eat a lot of fish and have two protein smoothies a day. Other than that, it’s pretty simple: just fish, vegetables and carbs.”

3. Phenomenal Results

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Hathaway does at least five F45 sessions a week. “It's a completely different style of workout to any class you'll find out there; the principle is to maximize your output with the most efficient and effective workout possible,” she told Who What Wear. “The Tabata/HIIT/interval style of training paired with functional movements continuously with ‘max on’ periods (generally around 30 to 40 seconds) interspersed with rest periods (between 10 and 20 seconds) is what really makes me sweat and see phenomenal results!"

4. No Burpees Please!

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Hathaway loves strength training and can’t stand burpees. “Monday, Wednesday and Friday is cardio, Tuesday and Thursday is strength training and weekends are a combination,” she told Women’s Health. “I love HIIT and strength training so if I had to choose my favorite days, it would be the weekend.”

5. Self-Care

Hathaway takes a full day off from training once a week. "I see a chiropractor on a weekly basis because good spine health is what keeps your body functioning properly!” she told Who What Wear. “I go in for some corrective scoliosis work paired with some spine rejuvenation. I also think it's very important for active people to get a deep tissue massage at least once a month. Massages decrease acute inflammation caused by overuse of muscles and are helpful in decreasing stiffness, pain, and inflammation."

Kim French is revealing the workout behind her amazing glutes – in her workout gear. In a recent social media post the fitness influencer flaunts her famous behind in a two-piece exercise set during a sweat session at the gym. “Spicy glute focused leg day 🔥🌶That triset will make your buns NUMB 😵‍,” she writes in the caption of the series of Instagram clips. “Listen ladies, I cannot make you get up and get your workouts done every day, but I can help with exactly what to do to get the best possible results for your efforts!” What is the workout and how does she approach diet, fitness, and self-care? Here is everything you need to know about her lifestyle habits.

1. She Started by Cutting Calories and Running

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Three months after having her second child, Kim decided it was time to get back into shape. She was 182 pounds, 40 pounds heavier than her pre-pregnancy weight and she was regularly, “binge eating just to get through the sleepless nights,” she told Women’s Health. “So I decided to cut calories and start running, which I had never done before. With my new routine, I started to see changes on the scale, but I felt miserable. I didn’t enjoy running very much, and I was starving all the time on my 1,200-calorie-a-day diet—but I thought ramping up my cardio and lowering my calories was the only way to lose weight. Plus, it was technically working.”

2. Her Husband Introduced Her to Strength Training

“When I hit 140 pounds, I was back to my more ideal weight, but was completely unhappy with the way I looked. I had lost a lot of body fat, but I was still wobbly—I was, as some people call it, ‘skinny fat.’ My husband, who works out religiously, convinced me to go to the gym with him. I had never been to a gym before in my life, but I agreed to go and just test a few of the weight machines. I was so nervous. I felt very intimidated and thought everyone was going to be looking at me, judging me for not knowing what I was doing,” she continued. “But when I got in there, I realized that everyone was doing their own thing and didn’t really take much notice of me. I tried a few machines and, to my surprise, liked it. I liked feeling sore, I wanted to tone up and get stronger, and I liked lifting more than I liked doing cardio—so I signed up and soon started going to the gym on my own.”

3. LISS Workouts

“In the beginning, I was following up my weight training with an hour of cardio. I wasn’t that strong and didn’t know exactly what I was doing, so I would just do the exercises on low weight and practice my form. After learning more about technique, I started doing just 30 minutes of LISS (low-intensity steady state) cardio after lifting weights,” she continued. “I liked doing cardio after my weights so I could use up the energy from my pre-workout meal on lifting, and then burn off the rest during a cardio portion. I usually started with heavy compound exercises such as squats, deadlifts, and hip thrusts, and then moved on to isolation exercises. I put a lot of focus and effort into my glutes, cranking out exercises like squats, deadlifts, glute bridges, hip thrusts, and using the hip-abduction machine. But I'd also deliberately mix up every single session to keep my muscles shocked and growing. After a few months of training I started to see noticeable differences in my muscles as they began to grow and tighten. My workouts now: Tuesday is legs/glutes, Wednesday is back/arms, Thursday is legs/glutes and Friday is shoulders. Sometimes this changes depending on my kids’ schedules, but that’s my usual routine.”

4. Amping Up Her Caloric Intake

She also started eating more. “One of the biggest factors contributing to my success was ditching my 1,200-calorie diet. It was a struggle to get my head around eating all those extra calories since I didn’t want to put weight back on, but I just had to trust the process and forget about the scales. I discovered that the more food I fed my body, the more the muscles would grow, so I kept upping my calorie and protein intake until I was consuming 2,000 calories per day—and this is when I started to see the real progress, especially in my glutes, the area I focused a lot of effort on,” she told Women’s Health. “One thing I wish I had known from the beginning is that weight lifting increases your metabolism, which burns body fat faster—I put myself through such a miserable time with undereating and doing hours of cardio and home HIIT workouts, when what I really needed to be doing was lifting.”

5. 2,000 Calories Per Day and Counting Macros

“Now, I still eat 2,000 calories per day over five smaller meals. I eat every three hours starting at 9 a.m. and make sure each meal contains a ton of protein, adding up to at least 150 grams a day to help my muscles repair and build. I track my macros to make sure I am getting the right amount of protein, but I am not too strict about it. If I am hungry and I want a snack, then I have one. I listen to what my body needs, and what it wants—there aren’t any foods I will never eat. On the weekends, I allow myself treats; if I want chocolate then I will eat it, but I just try not to binge, and instead indulge in moderation,” she says.

6. Her Glute Workout

“Are you ready to bake those cakes?” she asks in her recent post, revealing her go-to exercises for glutes:

• DB Deficit Static Lunges - 12 reps per leg x 3. “Adding the deficit creates more ROM,” she says.
• Barbell Sumo Deadlifts - 10 reps x 4
• Triset x 3

~ Banded DB Hip Thrusts x 10 reps

~ Banded DB 1/2 rep Hip Thrusts x 10 reps

~ Banded Abductions x 50 reps

• Smith Sumo Squats - 8 reps x 3
• Landmine Squat into RDL - 8 reps x 3. “Notice how I’m not fully extending up and keeping constant tension in my glutes,” she says.
• Single Leg Leg Press - 10 reps per leg x 2