Miranda Kerr, the first-ever Australian Victoria's Secret model, has graced the covers of British Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vogue Australia, and Vogue Thailand. Featured on Forbes’s list of highest-paid runway models, her portfolio extends into fashion, jewelry, and many other industries. To maintain her physique, this gorgeous runway model and business mogul works hard, incorporating weight training, core workout routines, cardio, and Pilates. This article delves into Miranda Kerr's diet, workout routine, and supplements, providing a general idea of her training regimen based on interviews, her own commentary, and information from trainers.
Miranda Kerr's Approach to Diet and Wellness
Miranda Kerr’s diet plan is fairly simple - avoid sugar, processed foods, load up on fruits and veggies, and avoid snacking. For cravings, Miranda snacks on dark chocolate in moderation. She likes to keep things lean and low-carb and avoids caffeine, preferring to get her energy boost from the nutrients in the food she eats. Kerr is a firm believer in holistic health and prioritizes her mental health and inner peace as much as her workouts and diet. She meditates every day, practices gratitude for her life, and prays daily.
A Typical Day of Eating for Miranda Kerr
Miranda Kerr is a supermodel who shines both on the catwalk and in the kitchen. We were invited inside her California home to get an exclusive look at what she cooks up for breakfast, lunch, and dinner everyday-plus learn her go-to healthful recipes. Spoiler alert: mini pancakes are involved.
Breakfast: Miranda starts her day off with a cup of hot water with lemon juice. She squeezes half a lemon into a mug and tops it off with hot water. She also enjoys a green smoothie with almond milk or green juice. Kerr's favorite smoothie ingredients are almond milk, fresh papaya, blueberries, raspberries, almond butter, and a serving of Kora Organics skin food supplement. Kerr is the founder of Kora Organic's, which sells everything from beauty supplements and skincare products to aromatherapy oils. Alternatively, she opts for eggs with avocado or banana oat pancakes. "This is one of my favorite things to have for breakfast," she said. The recipe calls for range free eggs, oats, and a banana. Kerr blends them together and cooks them in coconut oil in a pan.
Lunch: When she’s working or she’s extremly busy and has to eat out, Miranda looks for salads with lean chicken breast and tons of fresh vegetables. She enjoys lean chicken breast or salmon with a quinoa salad or fruit with almond butter. She likes to have salmon seasoned with garlic, turmeric, and lemon with a side salad. She makes her own dressing to freshen up the sprouts, arugula, cucumber, purple cauliflower, and avocado salad.
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Dinner: For dinner, Miranda loves making what can only be termed healthy comfort food. Her favourite recipe is slow-roast chicken. Kerr seasons the chicken with onion, garlic, lemon, turmeric, and rosemary before cooking it for seven hours. The chicken roasts in the oven at a low temperature for 7 hours. During the last hour, she makes mashed sweet potatoes. She leaves the peel on and chops them into inch-sized chunks. She also prepares a 10 ingredient salad made with fresh baby spinach, purple cauliflower and homemade dressing from extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice. "So this is one of my favorite salads, it's super simple," she said. As a side, she makes a salad with red cabbage, fresh baby spinach, parsley, cilantro, diced cucumber, olives, chopped celery, pine nuts, sunflower seeds, and chunks of halloumi cheese. It's no wonder that this is one of Kerr's best-loved meals. Tumeric chicken salad with radicchio, arugula, spinach, cucumber, avocado, cauliflower & sprouts. Plus soup with puréed zucchini, curry, garlic, onions & coconut milk. Simple, fresh, nutritious & delicious!
Snacks: There’s one surprising thing about the Miranda Kerr diet. It’s that she doesn’t snack much throughout the day. On days when she’s really busy, she’ll pack fresh fruit like blueberries or apples, nuts, and almond butter to keep the munchies at bay.
Supplements in Miranda Kerr's Diet
The Miranda Kerr diet is paired with several supplements to help boost her energy, nourish her skin and bones, and improve joint mobility. These include:
- Spirulina Supplement
- Iron Supplement
- Coconut Oil
- Chlorella Supplement
- Apple Cider Vinegar
Miranda Kerr's Workout Routine
In order to train like an angel, Miranda Kerr works out 6 days a week. She incorporates yoga moves daily, then focuses on weight training with high reps and light weights. She enjoys working out with resistance bands to add some extra burn and uses ankle weights for resistance training.
Here is Miranda Kerr’s workout routine:
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- Monday: Yoga & Running. Miranda Kerr has practiced kundalini yoga for 15 years, and she starts her day with a few moves to wake up her muscles. 30-60 minutes of yoga and stretching, 5 mile run on the treadmill or outdoors.
- Tuesday: Weight Training & Glutes. Here is Miranda’s glute workout that she completes once a week for a great burn: 30-60 minutes of yoga and stretching, Side leg extensions (3 sets, 20 reps), Middle leg extensions (3 sets, 20 reps), Angle leg extensions (3 sets, 20 reps), Side leg press-ups (3 sets, 20 reps), Middle leg press-ups (3 sets, 20 reps), Angle leg press-ups (3 sets, 20 reps), Side leg lifts (3 sets, 20 reps), Knee leg lifts (3 sets, 20 reps), Clams Pilates exercise (3 sets, 20 reps), Leg circles (3 sets, 20 reps), Cross-over stretches (3 sets, 20 reps).
- Wednesday: Cardio & Core Circuit. 30-60 minutes of yoga and stretching, Warm-up: 5 minutes of spinning on the stationary exercise bike, 25 minutes spinning, 5- minute cool-down. The Angel Cardio Circuit consists of 25 minutes of cardio, which Kerr pairs with a core workout to engage multiple muscle groups. Angel Core Circuit: Side stretches (3 sets, 12 reps), Knee crosses (3 sets, 12 reps), Elbow planks (3 sets, 12 reps), Inner thigh raises (3 sets, 12 reps), V-Ups (3 sets, 12 reps). Miranda Kerr’s ab workout is the ultimate burner!
- Thursday: Arms & Upper Body. 30-60 minutes of yoga and stretching, Incline bicep curls (2 sets, 15 reps), Tricep extensions (2 sets, 15 reps), Straight bicep curls (2 sets, 15 reps), Decline bicep curls (2 sets, 15 reps), Wood choppers (2 sets, 15 reps), Resistance band bicep curls (2 sets, 15 reps).
- Friday: Pilates training. Pilates is Miranda Kerr’s favorite exercise because it uses a variety of muscles while focusing heavily on the core. Pilates improves flexibility, range of motion, and joint mobility. 30-60 minutes of yoga and stretching, 1 hour of Pilates training.
- Saturday: Ballet workout. 30-60 minutes of yoga and stretching. Here are a few standard ballet moves that Miranda Kerr implements into her Saturday ballet workout: Fondue to Arabesque, Arabesque Pulses, Inner Thigh Splits to Sous-Sous, Side-Lying Développé Series, Supine Grand Battements Series.
- Sunday: Yoga & Walk. 30-60 minutes of yoga and stretching, 1-hour walk outdoors.
Model Diets: More Than Just Genetics
First, let’s state the obvious: The lithe, lean build of a top model is a matter of hereditary luck, the result of a genetic supernova. And yet, even the world’s best bodies have to put in the proverbial work, approaching their high-intensity training schedules with the focus of a professional athlete-and, in many cases, honing in on the precise healthy eating plan that will keep them photo-ready 365 days a year. When it comes to the latter, there’s good news for mere mortals, who can benefit from their carefully chosen programs, too.
Miranda Kerr’s approach is one of several model-approved food philosophies worth investigating:
- Gisele Bündchen: The Plant-Based Diet. Consisting of almost 80 percent vegetables, it’s rounded out with whole grains like millet, quinoa, and beans, as well as lean meats like grass-fed steak, duck, and wild salmon. For Brady and Bündchen, there is no white sugar, white flour, iodized salt, caffeine, fungus, or nightshades (if you need a brush up, that encompasses tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, eggplants); fresh fruit is reserved mainly for the couple’s kids.
- Lily Aldridge: The Sakara Meal-Delivery Diet. Available in three- or five-day per-week subscriptions, as well as a 10-day reset plan, Sakara delivers fresh, fully organic, vegetarian breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and drinks to your door-meaning all you have to do to eat well is tear off the lid.
- Carolyn Murphy: The Alkaline Diet. An alkaline diet, which limits acidic foods in an effort to alter the body’s pH level, is high in fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes and low in meat, fish, dairy, eggs, grains, and alcohol.
- Bridget Malcolm: The Vegan Diet. A vegan diet, touted by everyone from Beyoncé to Australian Victoria’s Secret model Bridget Malcolm, is free from all animal-derived products. Centered around fruit, vegetables, and grains, the diet can cover all nutritional needs, if care is given to balancing meals. "It's a really great way to kind of kick start your digestion," she said.
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