UFC Star Karolina Kowalkiewicz Shares Swimsuit Photo "Recharging" 

Karolina Kowalkiewicz is heating up South Florida in her swimsuit. In one of her latest social media posts the UFC star shows off her super fit figure in a black bathing suit, sitting poolside in Boca Raton. “Recovering and battery charging between trainings,” she captioned the Instagram post. “Bronze queen,” commented one of her followers, while many others left fire emojis. How does the athlete maintain her fit figure? A healthy diet is one of the key ways. Here is everything she eats in a day.

1. Eggs and Tofu

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Kowalkiewicz, who suffers from Hashimoto’s disease, adopted a vegan diet in 2019. She maintains that it helps with her inflammation and pain. Because Karolina eats vegan she has to plan her meals carefully. Her diet is filled with a lot of eggs, which she eats fried, boiled, and scrambled and tofu.

2. Soup

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Karolina regularly cooks up huge pots of soup, filled with veggies, grains, and protein. She shares her recipes via her Instagram Stories.

3. Water and Energy Drinks

Karolina has to drink a lot of water to stay hydrated for her workouts. “These photos have no message, I'm just standing in the parking and drinking water,” she captioned an Instagram post. According to the Mayo Clinic, hydration is important for a variety of reasons. Water helps get rid of waste through urination, perspiration, and bowel movements, keeps your temperature normal, lubricates and cushions joints, and helps protect sensitive tissues. She also drinks Monster energy drinks to fuel her workouts.

4. Coffee

Karolina loves coffee. “High Five,” she captioned a post of herself with a cup of Joe. According to the Cleveland Clinic, there are several benefits of drinking coffee in moderation. “It acts on your brain to improve memory, mood, reaction times, and mental function,” they say, citing a study finding that caffeine can improve endurance and performance during exercise. It is also antioxidant-rich, can ward off diabetes, prevent neurologic disease, lower cancer risk, and ward off depression, they point out.

5. Protein Pancakes and Fruit

For breakfast you will often find Karolina cooking up some protein pancakes, which she tops with lots of berries like strawberries and blueberries, packed full of antioxidants.

Professional fighter Kamila Wybrańczyk is enjoying a vacation in Mexico. And she’s making sure to get some highlights for her Instagram page. She just shared a new photo this week. In it, Wybrańczyk posed in the ocean. She wore a black bikini and a white cover up with blue patterns on it. She captioned the post, “Some more spam from Mexico.” How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 5 ways Kamila Wybrańczyk 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 Boxes

Being a professional fighter, Wybrańczyk naturally knows a lot of martial arts. She likes to do different forms of it to keep her skills fresh. One thing Wybrańczyk likes to do is box. She shared this video on Instagram of herself sparring with a trainer at the gym. Boxing has a lot of benefits. WCB.co reports, “Boxing is a great source of cardio exercise, it gets your heart pumping and your lungs working harder so you burn more calories and reach a fat-burning threshold. Cardio exercise places additional stress on your body in a safe and managed way, which results in beneficial changes to the systems in your body to support this increased level of exercise.”

2. She Does Muay Thai

Wybrańczyk also likes to practice Muay Thai. She tells Real News, “Muay thai strengthens all muscles, sculpts the figure and affects the flexibility and agility of the body, and above all, it makes you feel better. In parallel with intensive training, I went on a diet, lost five kilograms and I must admit that I feel better than ever.”

3. She Removed Her Implants

Wybrańczyk is dedicated to training. She tells Real News that she decided to remove her breast implants when they were giving her trouble. “I've been training intensively for a year, which means that I'm training seven days a week and I don't give up. For this reason, I also decided to remove the breast implants, which put a lot of strain on the spine and made it difficult to exercise.”

4. She Planks

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Wybrańczyk does a lot of different exercises to keep her body in shape. She shared some of her favorite workouts with Pudelek. One thing she does to stay in shape is hold a plank. She shared a photo of herself doing a side plank with support. Planks have a lot of benefits. HealthCorps states, “The plank works out a tremendous number of muscles in your body, which makes them appealing for all sorts of training – strength, endurance, you name it. Planks can even be a benefit for those wanting to do cardio training.”

5. She Swims

As you can see from her latest Instagram post, Wybrańczyk loves to go to the beach. She spends a lot of time by the water, and shares a lot of beach and pool photos on Instagram. Wybrańczyk likes to swim to stay in shape. She posted these photos of herself in a pool in Punta Cana, captioning it, “Masters of the background.” She also posted this pool photo from Tanzania.

Joanna Jędrzejczyk is heating up the islands in her swimsuit. The Polish mixed martial arts star shows off her incredibly fit figure in a bathing suit reminiscing about her vacation. “ARUBA - this day last year 🇦🇼 What a great place and trip it was.☀️I love all the memories on my phone.📲 And, of course, I love to travel.🛩️What’s your next travel destination?” she captioned the Instagram post. How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 6 ways Joanna Jędrzejczyk 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 Surrounds Herself with People

Joanna is a social creature and is happier around others. “I don’t like to be myself,” she told MMA Fighting. “I like people around me. When I’m back home, there is always my fiancé, my sisters, my little nephew, my friends. Every weekend I go to my parents’ house and we spend the weekends together. It’s all about the right people.”

2. She Hydrates

Joanna prioritizes hydration. She revealed to MMA Figher that she drinks five quart-sized bottle of Smart Water per day. She added to Forbes that she infuses her water with electrolytes to help replenish those she loses throughout the day.

3. She Starts the Day with Coffee

“Every morning, we have coffee, because I’m a big coffee fan,” Jedrzejczyk revealed to MMA Fighter. Science continues to prove that drinking coffee is great for your health. In fact, a new 2022 study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology found that drinking two to three cups a day of most types of coffee – especially a mild to moderate intake of ground, instant, and decaffeinated coffee – may protect you from cardiovascular disease and an early death.

4. She Bikes 10 Miles Per Day

In her interview with Forbes it was revealed that Jędrzejczyk bikes five miles to her gym at American Top Team (ATT) in nearly 90-degree heat. After training she repeats the five-mile trek back home in less than 20 minutes.

5. She Does “Six Sports in One”

“Joanna’s schedule is a tough one,” one of her coaches at American Top Team, Mike Brown, told Forbes. “It’s a lot of volume, it’s a lot of hard work. It’s not like one sport where you’re training for just one thing. It’s six sports all in one: it’s kickboxing, it’s wrestling, it’s jiu jitsu, it’s judo, it’s boxing and on top of that, it’s strength and conditioning.”

6. She Also Enjoys These Outdoor Sports

Joanna also runs on the beach and paddle-boards, both which offer many health benefits. According to the Mayo Clinic, running is great for cardiovascular health, muscle building, and weight loss. “For every mile run, the average person will burn approximately 100 calories,” they say. The American Council on Exercise (ACE) agrees that paddle boarding is great for the core and also a great form of cardio. The water sport can burn an average of 385 calories for a 140 pound male and 436 for a female the same size, per a study conducted by Arizona State University.

Professional wrestler Valerie Loureda encouraged fans to watch both UFC and WWE NXT Great American Bash 2023 via a social media update. Loureda, 25, shared a video of herself looking fit and beautiful in an aquamarine bikini with matching coverup, telling fans who her picks are for the fights. “I’ve been working hard to bring a different touch to WWE that they’re never seen before,” she explained in the video. How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 5 ways Loureda stays in shape and the photos that prove they work.

1. Proud of Her Roots

Loureda is proud and confident about her fighting skills. “I’m an amazing wrestler,” she says. “Cuban wrestling is very different, and I was lucky enough to be taught wrestling by Yoel Romero and Alexis Villa and Gustavito (Balart), a lot of Olympic wrestlers, so they really taught me that Cuban wrestling, and I’m gonna take it into the cage. I just haven’t been given a chance to show it because I’m playing my game, but the moment I get the opportunity to show it, people are gonna be shocked by my wrestling skills.”

2. Taekwondo Background

Loureda grew up doing taekwondo, which set the tone for her future career as a fighter. “I never in my life thought for one second this is eventually what I would do,” she says. “I always had the vision of the Olympic dream [in taekwondo] in my mind, but at some point… that changed, and I saw MMA on TV. I saw the way it was blowing up, and people were falling in love with it. I said, ‘Wow, I can do that. I could fight like that. I could beat those girls, and I could change the world one day with that platform and all their viewers.’ So I was very excited about MMA, and that’s when it was born for me.”

3. Wrestling Training

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Loureda says switching from MMA to wrestling was no joke. “It’s extremely tough. For me, it’s actually harder than MMA,” she says. “My first bump, I just knew I could do it. I had this feeling in my gut and my first bump, hitting the ropes, I just fell in love with it and I knew I could do it. It’s tough, it’s a hard transition, it’s different than what I’m used to, but if you can rewire your brain and change your mentality and realize what this is and how to be the best at it, you can be successful. I was with coach (Norman) Smiley the whole time and he was amazing and taught me so much. He stayed in an open ring after for like two hours and we worked and he taught me stuff and taught me different things that would work with my style.”

4. Building Muscle

Loureda is careful to build muscle rather than lose weight as a result of MMA/wrestling training. “I might not be sparring as much, but I’m doing physical training (and) conditioning,” she says. “I lost a lot of weight after ‘Exatlon,’ and in these times, I’ve used time to concentrate on what I want to do with my life. While many are eating and gaining weight at home, I’ve been working to be on weight and be ready for this fight. So I haven’t had many partners for this training camp, but I’m very confident in my level and the years of training in martial arts.”

5. Beautiful and Strong

Loureda has neither time nor patience for those who criticize female athletes for bikini pictures. “If women do it, it’s being seen as doing it for social media and doing it to be an object for men and marketing. And that’s not the case,” she says. “It’s not for any man, it’s for us as women showing we can be badass and beautiful and strong, and we could still be animals in the cage and know how to defend ourselves.”