Track Athlete Tianna Bartoletta (née Madison) in Two-Piece Workout Gear Is “Always the Goat”

Tianna Bartoletta is celebrating her nine medals in her workout gear. In a new social media post the track star shows off her amazing body in a two-piece exercise set, adorned with medals. Her followers went wild. “Always the goat,” commented one of her followers. “World Champion 🏆❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️,” added another. How does she approach diet, fitness, and self-care? Here is everything you need to know about her lifestyle habits.

1. Ankle Workouts

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Tianna posted a short ankle strength and mobility sequence on her Twitter account. “Give this sequence a try,” she wrote in the video’s caption. “It will test your ankle strength, your stability, mobility, and balance. Use this time to strengthen the little things we often neglect.” She added to Runner’s World: “This [sequence] is even more than just the ‘ankle’ joint.’ It works all the stabilizing muscles of your foot—the ones that help support your arch and help you recover when you misstep or stumble—and even helps strengthen the muscles that help to propel you (the ankle and foot flexors).”

2. Work Ethic

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Bartoletta works harder than most people. “My mom made sure that we understood that as females, we had to work twice as hard as our male counterparts,” she told Yoga Journal. “And then as black females, we had to probably work double that just to get a foot in the door.”

3. Yoga

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Bartoletta tried Yin Yoga when she had trouble sleeping. “It was like a gateway drug,” she says. Next came Yoga Nidra. “Really good yoga teachers do what I call dharma drips. They teach you the philosophy when you’re not looking,” she says. “Now I use yoga for everything—to wake up, to sleep, to show up for training.” In 2018 she did a 200-hour yoga teacher training at Love Story Yoga in San Francisco. “I just wanted to learn as much about the practice as I could,” she says. “There’s a moment in yoga class when we rest in Savasana with our right hands on our hearts and our left hands on our bellies, and we say, ‘I’m grateful for this body.’ This body of mine had done so much for me, but it wasn’t until this moment that I appreciated it enough,” Bartoletta says. “I wasn’t in awe of it enough. Every body is a work of miracles and magic and science, and it’s perfect in whatever form it manifests itself, and that is what I have learned this year.”

4. Meditation

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She also meditates and pratices pranayama and some form of gratitude. “The Bhagavad Gita is like, ‘Look, kid, you’re not even entitled to the fruits of your labor, so keep showing up and keep doing work,’” she says. “That kept me going.”

5. Small, Frequent Meals

Nutrition is also key, per Tianna. “It’s a pursuit of mastery and sometimes I refer to it as perfection but it’s not perfection,” she says. “I know that there are a lot of areas that I could be better, that I could level up and this radical commitment, as you put it, is like, okay, I’m going to actually now check those boxes and do all of the things in all of these categories because I think that if I do, actually I don’t know what will happen but I do know it’ll be good because I haven’t done it yet. I haven’t done it before because if you do what you’ve always done, as they say, you get what you’ve always gotten. I know what I can jump, doing things how I used to do things. Now let’s see what I can do, perfecting the fuel plan, eating six times a day like I’m supposed to, getting the meal timing right, doing the digital detox I know I should do,” she told Finding Mastery.