Naomi Watts, an accomplished actress, has always been admired for her talent and radiant appearance. This article delves into the details of her weight loss, diet, exercise, and overall wellness strategies, gleaned from interviews and personal accounts, offering insights into how she maintains her health and vitality.
Morning Routine
Naomi Watts considers herself a morning person, often waking up just before her alarm. Her morning routine is designed to set a positive tone for the day. It includes attending to her dog, Izzy, waking up her children, enjoying black coffee, and engaging in a Wordle chain game with friends. She believes that dreams can provide helpful messages for the day, so she sometimes writes them down upon waking.
Exercise Regimen
Exercise plays a crucial role in Naomi Watts's daily life, setting the tone for the day. She incorporates both strength training and low-impact exercises into her routine.
Strength Training
“As you get older, you have to work harder to keep muscle tone, so that’s why I do strength training with weights,” Naomi Watts told SHAPE. She explained that she uses higher-level weights, including barbells. Strength training offers multiple benefits, including increased metabolism, improved confidence, and enhanced functional movements used in daily life.Naomi also does strength-training sessions created for her by her longtime Los Angeles-based personal trainer, Keith Anthony.
Low-Impact Exercises
In addition to strength training, Naomi Watts enjoys low-impact exercises such as yoga and Pilates, which are ideal for improving core strength and flexibility. She told Harper’s Bazaar that she maintains a low-key approach. "I try to work out as often as I can, but I'm not fanatical about fitness,” she revealed. “My back carries most of my tension and if I'm stressed I can't do high-impact exercise, so yoga and Pilates tend to work better for me."
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Burpees
In an Instagram post, Watts revealed that she starts her day with an insane amount of burpees - at least she tries to. The equipment-free move is awesome, as it works your entire body, revs metabolism and can be done anywhere in a short period of time. It basically takes a person (1) standing to (2) tucked to (3) plank to (4) push-up to (5) tucked to (6) jumping. (See exactly how to do a burpee here.) According to a recent study from Virgin Active, people in their 20s should be able to perform 20 burpees in a row and those in their 50s, five without stopping - which means Watts is clearly kicking burpee-butt for her age.
The Class
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Naomi Watts has been counterbalancing baked goods with sweat sessions, often in the form of The Class, an hour-long workout that merges calisthenics and plyometrics with a soundtrack of all-the-feels music and self-help guided instruction by creator Taryn Toomey. Taryn Toomey sometimes directs her students to shake their bodies and scream, to vocalize any tension they have stuck inside. “I’ve always liked to be physical,” says Naomi, who grew up running and dancing. “I’m an active person. But I also love the outlet that Taryn creates. It’s a ‘get your freak on’ kind of thing. It doesn’t feel like a traditional workout. You get to move your body, but you also get to shift your mind in a way that’s really cathartic.” She currently tunes in to livestreams about four times a week from “an empty area [in the house] with a good-size mirror.”
Specific Exercises
Naomi Watts incorporates several specific exercises into her routine, including:
- Pistol squats: A challenging single-leg squat.
- Goblet squats: Using a 25-pound weight for three sets of 20 until failure.
- Jackknife crunches: Performed with a stability ball.
Diet and Nutrition
Naomi Watts focuses on maintaining a balanced diet. She does not believe in strict constraints, allowing herself room for "naughty and nice" foods.
Healthy Eating Habits
Naomi Watts grew up with a health-conscious mother who baked her own bread and made vegetarian dishes. She told the magazine, “I grew up in the ’70s, and my mom was a hippie in the day who baked her own bread and made vegetarian dishes,” the star shared with the magazine. “So that’s my comfort food. Superhealthy. It’s what I crave.” These healthy habits have influenced her preferences, and she naturally craves nutritious foods.
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Dietary Adjustments
When trying to get pregnant, Naomi Watts cut out wheat, sugar, and dairy from her diet. While she has incorporated some of these back into her diet, she remains mindful of her intake. She told SHAPE for their September cover, “When I was first trying to get pregnant, I cut out a lot of wheat, sugar, and dairy in my diet-and I remember drinking tons of wheatgrass juice. So I’ve tried to stay with that, but there’s wiggle room,” she said. “It doesn’t mean I won’t eat french fries. I’m done with wheatgrass juice, though.
Anti-Inflammation Diet
Naomi Watts has relied on an anti-inflammation diet as a reset. She cuts out wheat, sugar, dairy, and alcohol, and she feels so good, she continues with the routine.
Indulgences
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Naomi Watts allowed herself some indulgences, including wine, pasta, and baked goods.
Green Juice
She is naturally drawn to greens and often whizzes up a green juice for breakfast. She'll throw in kale, walnuts, yoghurt and pineapple into her Vitamix.
Skincare Routine
Naomi Watts is dedicated to her skincare regime. She emphasizes the importance of using clean products, especially as her skin has become more sensitive with age. Watts revealed that she’s very dedicated to her skincare regime. “My skin has become extra sensitive and reactive, so I realized that I needed to cut out the chemicals that were in the products I was using. Keeping it clean is really key.”Detoxing your beauty routine is a must for a healthy and clear complexion (and body). Since skin is our body’s largest organ, everything we consume and place onto our bodies, including our beauty products, is put into our bodies.
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Simple Routine
Her post-shower routine tends to be simple. She just put moisturizer on. She loves The Power Move by Stripes [Watts's skincare and beauty company]. She doesn’t cleanse in the morning, though she does double-cleanse at night. She just adds moisturizer and serum, or a moisturizer with sunscreen.”
Haircare
In the shower she uses Hårklinikken Stabilizing Scalp Shampoo. This is a Danish company at the forefront of haircare that a friend recommended to her. Her hair is thinning and Hårklinikken’s products create stronger, healthier hair growth.
Mental Wellness
Naomi Watts prioritizes mental wellness through various strategies.
Therapy
She has been open about seeking therapy, which she found particularly helpful during her separation from Liev Schreiber.
Meditation
Naomi Watts practices transcendental meditation (TM), involving repeating certain mantras to achieve a state of “pure awareness.” She shoots for 20-minute sessions every day.
Body Image
Naomi Watts has been candid about her body image struggles. In her new book, she recalls the moment she started “hiding” a specific part of her body.“If I wear a bikini it’s not a string bikini. I’ll make sure it’s high-waisted, covering my belly button,” Watts, 56, shares in her book Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause. “I also started hiding my thighs after a trainer I’d worked with wrote about me in his book as being ‘fleshy.’ It got in my head!” She shared that she’s “proud” of her body.
Menopause Journey
Naomi Watts got candid about her menopause journey in her own book, Dare I Say It. She wrote that there “are no universal rules” when it comes to what women wear. She wrote that there “are no universal rules” when it comes to what women wear. “We should wear whatever we want, especially in middle age,” Watts shared. “The great liberation for me has been realizing that when it comes to how we look, as the saying goes, the people ‘who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.’”