Alex Rodriguez made a name for himself as baseball player with the New York Yankees, and he’s spent his career surrounded by fellow athletes. Even though he’s not playing anymore, hes still hanging around with fit folks – in this case, his girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez. At the grand opening of a UFC Gym in Kendall, Florida on Thursday – which is the place to be if you dig dudes in Affliction shirts and tribal tattoos grunting and groaning – Alex had nothing but praise for his lady’s commitment to fitness.
Alex proudly told E! News, “We work out together all the time. She is a fitness enthusiast and she’s a much better athlete than me.” The 42-year-old also told US Magazine,“Jennifer is an incredible athlete. She’s a former star athlete going back to junior high [and] high school. And we both just love the fitness space, we like to work out. We work out together, we work out apart. Yeah, she’s great.” It’s good for their relationship that they’re both on the same page workout-wise. My current beau and I encourage each other to get off the couch and go to the gym and I can’t imagine what it would be like if one of us stopped working out.
Jennifer has always been fitness-focused, she was a dancer, you know. Her trainer, David Kirsch, who says she’s “in great cardio shape,” sure puts her through the paces. He told People that he guides his superstar client through a full-body circuit workout utilizing stability balls, resistance bands and medicine balls. David explained, “I’m not going heavy on the weight with her, but I keep the circuit up and the intensity up and the cardio up. It’s about shaping and toning and sculpting. So it’s not a traditional strength workout and it’s not a pure cardio workout. It’s sort of a mix of both of them.”
He shared a quick clip on Friday of the 48-year-old singer/actress doing what he dubs the “platypus walk” in his New York City studio. He told PEOPLE that “I love that one for Jennifer because it focuses on her inner thigh, works on her butt, there’s a cardio element there because of the pace at which you’re going back and forward gets your heart rate up. So it’s a move that delivers right away.” He adds, “You’ll feel it immediately.” That, I believe. God, I hate squats. My quads hurt just watching this.
David admires Jennifer’s “crazy discipline” and said, “it’s a pleasure to work with someone who is as dialed into her overall wellness as Jennifer is. When she shows up and I get 500 percent. There’s no phoning in the workout.” Look at Jennifer. She may have phoned in an acting role or two (cough…Gigli…cough), but she never does that when it comes to maintaining her physique. I wish I had her crazy discipline.
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She’s definitely athletic, I believe it. It’s just that this comment – ” She’s a former star athlete going back to junior high [and] high school. ” reminded me of a friend of mine, he always talks about what a “star athlete” he was in high school…which was a VERY long time ago.
Lol. Very Uncle Rico a la “Napoleon Dynamite”. 😂
And shout out to Kendall, my former home! Whoop!
I dunno, ass-kissing famous people for keeping to their fitness regime always irritates me. Doing a lot of squats because you want to keep your famous butt in shape is not the same as being a great athlete, folks. Did anyone see some of the matches at the World Championships in London last week? THOSE people are athletes.
But you can be athletic without being an athlete
Amen to that!
Sure, D, but that’s not what he says: “she’s a much better athlete than me.”
@Cherry Okay, my bad, I misunderstood what you meant. She might be athletic, but she’s definitely not a better athlete than an actual athlete.
Well she’s got the most banging nod in the business but she obviously works hard for it. Goddam I wish I had that much commitment #thunderthighs
Yes.
This is why I believe that she doesn’t photoshop her abs: she really works out, she doesn’t need to retouch anything. That’s her body.
And good God I need to hit the gym this winter.
These 2 make so much sense. Hope it lasts.
Jlo,Madona,Jennifer Aniston,Victoria Beckham,Beyonce clearly have crazy discipline when it comes to their bodies and lifestyle. Different methods applied obviously.
Her lips though. Not good.
Maybe these two are a good match.
She works hard on her body and she looks awesome.
I love seeing a woman keeping her figure like this. It gives me hope as I get older that I can still look good.
I like the description of her workouts, they sound challenging but fun. After years of mostly just running and Pilates I discovered group training classes where we do that mix of strength and cardio her trainer describes. It’s hard but it gets results and by having someone bark the exercises at you and make sure you don’t slack, you get every penny’s worth. I also like that it’s different each and every time, so it never gets boring.
Still, what I do a couple times a week pales in comparison to the work JLo puts in. Amazing. Still don’t like ARod though.
Idk.. I kind of love them together! They just fit lol and I don’t feel that way about most celebrity couples! It makes so much more sense than anybody they’ve both been linked to in the past decade. I’ve never been a fan of A Rod and Jennifer has some questionable rumors surrounding her but together I find them so much more tolerable. I just love the fact that they’re a celebrity couple who are together and not trying to have some kind of mystery behind them.. they get dressed up for pap walks and go damn near everywhere together, giving us a great show!
They do make a lot of sense together. I hope they are able to make it work. I get the sense that he is very into her and that’s probably something she needs in a relationship.
I admire her discipline but she has the $ to makeup extra w her team of experts.
Sometimes I feel sad for though ab her and ARod, each year I’m getting more and more of a narcissistic vibe. Like she looks amazing but will she deal w getting older? Or him? It’s like she’s gone into a rabbit hole getting more superficial, needing compliments. Try hard.
Him forget it!
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