Jennifer Aniston ditched grueling, morning cardio sessions. Her trainer shares the 54-year-old's 'future-proofing' longevity workout.
- Jennifer Aniston has ditched long cardio workouts for low-impact resistance training.
- She is a partner for the functional-fitness method Pvolve, which aims to "future-proof" the body.
Jennifer Aniston used to wake up early every morning for long cardio sessions, but in the last few years, has realized that that's not best for her body. The actor now prefers a type of low-impact resistance-based training called Pvolve, which her trainer told Business Insider is designed to "future-proof" the body.
In June 2023, Aniston, 54, was announced as a partner for the functional-fitness method after becoming a genuine fan two years before. A friend introduced Aniston to Pvolve — which uses resistance-based equipment such as the inflatable P.ball, the P.band resistance band, hand weights, and gliders to create low-impact, three-dimensional workouts — in 2021. She later got in touch with the company to ask for personal-training sessions.
"I was beside myself," Dani Coleman, Pvolve's director of training and Aniston's trainer, said.
"She just realized you don't have to break your body, which is something a lot of us were raised thinking with workouts," Coleman said. "As a former dancer, I always thought I had to be in pain with movement and, yeah, not true."Coleman said Aniston is "gracious and hard-working.""It's not just going through the motions to work out, it's really understanding and deep-diving into her body and our method," she said.
Pvolve workouts move the body in all directions
The workouts are designed to work the body in all the directions we move every day — forward, backward, side to side, and rotationally — with a lot of focus on standing core work to "future-proof" the body so you can always support yourself, Coleman said.
Coleman has now been training Aniston at her home two to three times a week for one-and-a-half years. Sessions are typically just under an hour long and mostly follow Pvolve's "sculpt and burn" format, incorporating strength-building, cardiovascular work, mobility, and stability.
"One of my favorite things about Jen is she really doesn't shy away from a challenging workout," Coleman said.
But challenging doesn't have to mean painful and punishing."When we think about archaic ideas of working out, we think, 'No pain, no gain,' but we really want to challenge that conversation and say, 'Hey, you can feel good doing your workouts and get the results that you want,'" Coleman said. "So it's really about sustainability and longevity."Pvolve has workouts online for members to stream, but Aniston prefers in-person training."Dani will come to the house and we'll get to do a workout live, which is always great," Aniston told Women's Health in June. "It's always harder because Dani is all about direct corrections of your form — if you're even off by a millisecond or your shoulders down — which is really important."Workouts don't have to be punishing to yield results
In June, Aniston told Vogue that her attitude toward fitness had evolved: While she used to think workouts had to annihilate her body to be efficient, she has now learned that an effective workout doesn't have to be grueling.
"Not only do you stress your body, you burn out — who wants to do that at all?" Aniston said, adding that she's in the best shape of her life.Aniston used to get up in the early hours of the morning to do long cardio sessions, but has learned that isn't efficient, she told Women's Health.