In her last physical challenge, YouTuber Lexie Limitless trained likeTomb Raider star Alicia Vikander for 45 days and gained more than 6 pounds of muscle. For her most recent video, she turns her attention to another iconic action heroine: Wonder Woman. She once again teams up with celebrity trainer and nutritionist Magnus Lygdback and spends a month eating and working out like Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot with the goal of becoming a real life superhero.
Magnus guides Lexie through the same kinds of workouts that he and Gadot used while preparing for Wonder Woman 1984, including an array of exercises that Lexie had never done before, with two rest days permitted each week. “Every muscle in my body feels so sore,” she says after the first week. “It’s way harder than I remembered to get started with this stuff.”
For the entirety of the month (one cheat meal aside), Lexie follows a strict diet plan of no more than 1,700 calories per day, consisting of 105 grams of protein, 175 grams of carbs, and 60 grams of fat, spread out over five meals.
A typical breakfast is 3 eggs and avocado, followed by a protein shake. For lunch, Magnus recommends a fist-sized portion of protein, two fists of carbs and one fist of fats. For example, a staple meal that Gal Gadot ate during her Wonder Woman training was grilled fish with salad and a slow carb source like barley. Then there is another protein shake in the afternoon, and the final meal is another fist-sized portion of protein, two fists of carbs and one fist of fats.
One aspect of this diet which takes some getting used to, Lexie explains, is eating higher volumes of foods while simultaneously losing body fat. “I think the part that I’ve been struggling the most with is getting enough carbs into my body,” she says. “This is, minimally, double the amount of food I would usually eat… It’s so counterintuitive to that crazy crash diet culture where people basically just starve themselves to lose weight.”
Over the course of 30 days, Lexie gains 1.7 pounds of muscle and loses 2.5 pounds of fat, which continues the progress she made in her Tomb Raider challenge. However, she also finds another less tangible benefit to the challenge: adding more discipline and consistency to her everyday routine. “I know I need to block off at least an hour a day to exercise and take care of my body,” she says, “and then being very conscious of my meals throughout the day has been a really good structural change for my life.”
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