Jennifer Garner’s fitness preparations for Deadpool & Wolverine look both exhaustive and exhausting but they’re impressive to boot. The 52-year-old actor has reprised her role as Elektra Natchios in the box office smash, using a varied exercise regime to get “Marvel fit” in time for filming. A recent Instagram reel reveals she committed to daily sessions with trainer Beth Nicely , as well as boxing three times per week and taking regular Peloton classes with instructor Becs Gentry .
Alongside this, the star also found time for fight practice, stability work, plyometric exercises, boxing, running, swimming, strength training and more. “Other than trying to convince my kids’ pre-school buddies that I was secretly a ninja, I hadn’t picked up Elektra’s sais since 2004; I was fit, but not Marvel fit,” she writes. “we had a superhero summer over here, twirling sais in the backyard and laughing at our sore, old bodies.
” There are impressive athletic displays aplenty in the short clip, but as a fitness writer one thing stood out above all others: Garner’s consistent use of multiplanar training. In layman’s terms, this simply means moving in a range of ways. The body operates in three planes of motion; sagittal (up, down, forwards and backwards, loosely speaking), frontal (side-to-side) and transverse (rotational) and Garner’s training contains a healthy dose of all three, which makes sense for someone readying themselves for intense fight scenes.
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