Cardi B works out for two hours and then stretches for an hour a day
Cardi B made a TikTok showing fans “a regular day as Belcalis and not Cardi B.” I love stuff like this, though I’m pretty sure that amazing closet is part of the Cardi B stuff. In addition to things like getting ready and cooking and shopping and taking care of her kids, Belcalis/Cardi showed clips of herself with at least two trainers in the gym. She shared that she works out for two hours a day and then stretches for one hour. Most regular people do not have that much time!
Cardi B is sharing her workout routine.
During a TikTok giving a glimpse into her day-to-day life “as Belcalis [Almanzar]” on Tuesday, the 30-year-old rapper revealed that she is currently stretching for an hour a day because she wants to be “as flexible as when I was a stripper.”
“I’ve been working out lately for two hours a day, and then I stretch for an hour,” she said during the video, where she also revealed that she takes daughter Kulture, 4½, to the gym with her.
She continued alongside clips of her doing the splits and various stretches, “I want to be able to be as flexible as I was before I had my son [Wave, 19 months], but my real goal is to be as stretchable and flexible as I was when I was a stripper.”
“But whew, you can’t build Rome in a day. But can you?” Cardi, who started stripping when she was 19, added with a laugh.
Before her stretching routine, Cardi worked out with a personal trainer in the gym, with her regimen including squats, battle rope exercises, weights, pull-ups and exercises with a medicine ball.
Discussing why she works out, the “I Like It” hitmaker said, “A lot of people are so ignorant like why are you working out, you have lipo, but there is this thing called visceral fat.”
“Visceral fat is that fat that surrounds your organs that you cannot lipo, and that’s why sometimes girls with lipo might have a snatched waist with a gut, and that’s because they’re not working out their visceral fat — they just keep eating and eating and their waist is small, but they still got a belly,” she continued. “That’s why you gotta work it out.”
“And I want toned thighs, and you can’t buy toned thighs,” Cardi added.
According to Mayo Clinic, visceral fat is “belly fat that accumulates in your abdomen in the spaces between your organs. Too much visceral fat is strongly linked with a greater risk of serious health problems.”
Two hours of working out is a lot; one hour of stretching is a lot; and three hours total is a lot. It’s a lot of time in the gym. I average 70-90 minutes a day and I find that exhausting. And as someone who has copped to her various surgeries, I like that Cardi is being transparent about how and why she works out. Cardi works out to decrease her visceral fat, which cannot be lipo-ed away, and because she wants toned thighs. I also want toned thighs and wish they could be bought, but alas. Also, how do she (and her trainer) look so pretty with their hair down and did. I’m so sweaty and frizzy when I work out. Cardi says she stretches for a full hour each day because she wants to be as flexible as when she was a stripper. I would like to be as flexible as when I was a cheerleader, but I find stretching so boring and only have the patience for the bare minimum so I don’t hurt myself running. Sometimes I think about how Taylor Swift once said she stretched every day for a year until she could do a split, and now learning about Cardi’s hour per day, maybe I can at least muster up the motivation to stretch for a little bit longer each day.
