Sarah Nicole Landry in Two-Piece Workout Gear Shares Inspirational Advice

Model and influencer Sarah Nicole Landry is sharing some inspirational words with her 2.5 million Instagram followers. Landry, 39, posted a video of herself wearing pink workout gear, walking outside and doing yoga poses on a mat. “I hear ‘I wish I had your confidence’ everyday and the secret is - me too?? I wish I had the feeling first, but I don’t. And that’s ok. I’ve gotten so comfy with the uncomfortable. Because the alternative is holding myself back, feeling badly and letting it bleed into everything else or not doing the things I so badly want to. So I make the choice, and I forge ahead. And my gosh, does it work. I’m on cloud 9 and I started on cloud like, 2... Life is short. We can’t be waiting on feelings to give us permission to live!” she captioned the post. Here’s how the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model stays fit, confident, and happy.

1. Workout Routine

Landry found a routine she loves and sticks to. “In the beginning, I ran on a treadmill five times a week before realizing I hated running on a treadmill,” she told HuffPost. “I switched to body strength exercises I could do at home with the kids around after I found a fitness trainer mom (@bikinibodymommy) who offered free online workouts. After my weight loss (and healing from dieting and stepping into exercising for reasons more than weight loss) I found I loved weight lifting, as well as some cardio, a good long walk with the family, and dancing in my bedroom alone for half an hour.”

2. Postpartum Fitness

Landry understands how difficult postpartum fitness can be. “For me, postpartum acceptance took almost a decade and that’s not uncommon,” she told Experience Life. “Sadly, for many, it’s because we’ve been led to believe we have to ‘bounce back’ to a body we once had, when realistically, how can we? How can we be expected to ever go back to the woman we were before when we have evolved and become so much more? The “bounce forward” is truly where the magic is: Letting go of your past self; honoring her as you move forward; remembering that she had her own struggles; having respect for your body and the good job it’s done in carrying you — and your children, too.”

3. Power of Positivity

Landry is a big believer in being surrounded by positivity. “Motivation truly comes and goes,” she told Notable Life. “There will always be peaks and valleys and the key to staying motivated is seeking outside sources of motivation when your own is at a low. Surround yourself and your newsfeeds with people, places and things that help you form inspiring thoughts and decisions.”

4. Body Positivity

Landry says body positivity should not be stressful. “I feel like all it did was give everybody permission to kind of show up as they are, and we’re still working through it,” she told Glory Media. “I think there’s a lot of mixed messaging too. When we talk about body positivity, a lot of people are like ‘Well, I don’t feel positive about my body when you talk about confidence,’ or ‘I don’t feel confident in my body when you talk about self-love. I don’t love myself all the time.’ So that can be really confusing. It just feels like another hurdle to get over. It feels like we already failed at not looking the part, now we can’t even feel it—and that sucks.”

5. Creative Process

Landry says her thoughts fuel her creativity. “As humans, we experience thoughts all day long, positive and negative ones,” she told Experience Life. “We’re really good at having them and letting them flow through us, but to capture them, write them down and share them, it lends itself to a new form of creativity, vulnerability, and connection. It’s why I typically write my captions before I find an image to pair with them.”

Sarah Nicole Landry has become one of the biggest names on Instagram. She’s gained fans for her honest revelations about weight, relationships, and health. Landry has never been afraid to post stunning, revealing photos on Instagram. She just posted a new set of photos of herself posing in a pink bathing suit. In the caption, Landry wrote a poem about her body:

"An ode.

One that doesn’t always need words

Yet is writing an entire poem.

Every stripe, a strike of the pen

Every fold, a turn of the page.

The birthplace of memories.

Belly,

You are a work of unwritten art."

Read on to see 5 ways Sarah Nicole Landry stays in shape and the photos that prove they work—and to get beach-ready yourself, don't miss these essential 30 Best-Ever Celebrity Bathing Suit Photos!

1. She Gives Herself Grace

In an interview with Jillian Harris, Landry was asked what piece of advice she would give to someone struggling with their body image. Landry answered, “To give themselves grace and remember they are not the problem or something to fix, but a person who has been saturated with messages of not being enough. Even on the worst of days, that we all deserve to show up and live our lives and make memories in them!

2. She Follows Positive Accounts

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One way Landry has developed her sense of body positivity is by following other body positive accounts. She tells Jillian Harris, “A big part of this has been following folks who echo positive messages about our relationships with food. That there is no moral value on food, no good, no bad, no “guilt-free” or “cheat days”. There is a spectrum of nutrient density, but not a moral value. Something that’s really helped me over the years.”

3. She Shows Up For Herself

Landry tells Jillian Harris that she is always showing up for herself, and wants others to do the same. “I think my goal would be to show more that we don’t have to FEEL confident or FEEL love for our bodies but SHOW UP confidently and SHOW UP in love. That doesn’t have to be rocking a bikini but rocking whatever makes you not focus on your body so you can focus on the life around you.”

4. She’s All About The Love

Landry posted this set of photos on Instagram, where she talked about diet culture, and how it has caused people to hate their bodies. Landry says that her reaction is to love her body, at all costs. “Hate is a powerful thing. But to LOVE in the face of it… Well that’s just a whole other kind of powerful.”

5. She Didn’t Feel Pressure To Lose Weight

Landry posted this set of postpartum photos on Instagram, and talked about how she is avoiding the pressure of getting back to her “pre-baby body.” She writes, “It’s ok if you look like you gave birth when you did. And honestly, if it’s going to widely accepted that there can be dad bods for men who aren’t fathers, then this statement can also be true: It’s also ok if you look like you gave birth when you *didn’t*.”