Gwyneth Paltrow has spoken candidly about her weekly workout routine and how there is “a lot less intensity” to it than there used to be.
During a question and answer session on your Instagram story on Friday, a fan asked Paltrow how many days a week she trains. In response, she filmed herself walking through the headquarters of her wellness brand, Goop, while talking about her fitness routine and how it has changed over time.
“I do something six days a week, but with much less intensity than before,” she said. “Even taking an hour-long walk, or like right now, I'm walking around our giant Goop office. I usually do several laps to stretch my legs.”
She emphasized that at least some exercise is an important part of her daily life, continuing, “I try something, one little thing, every day.”
Elsewhere in the Q&A, she talked about how she takes care of herself mentally, after a fan asked how she gets “really comfortable in [her] own skin” and “loves” herself. In response, she shared that she often “talks” to herself, which she said Belgian fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg taught her how to do.
“[She taught me] like waking up in the morning and looking at myself and being happy to see myself and saying nice things to myself instead of terrible things to myself,” the Iron Man star explained.
Paltrow went on to share one of the biggest lessons she learned from the designer and how that advice is so valuable.
“She really taught me about the importance of becoming your own best friend,” she concluded. “And that’s how you relate to yourself and the things you tell yourself.”
Paltrow founded her lifestyle brand, Goop, in 2008, and has since retired from acting. She also recently opened up about the inspiration behind her brand during another Instagram Q&A last month. On her Instagram Story in March, she detailed that she began dedicating herself to wellness when her father, Bruce Paltrow — who died in 2002 — began his long battle with throat cancer.
“It was actually because my father was diagnosed with cancer when I was about 25 and that started to catalyze my foray into understanding food, environmental toxins, food as medicine, alternative things like acupuncture,” she said. . “So it all started a long time ago, I don’t know, in the mid-90s because of my father.”
Since launching Goop, Paltrow has spoken frequently about her wellness routine, which previously generated some backlash. She faced criticism last year for her “intermittent fasting” routine, which she said included coffee in the morning, “bone broth” for lunch at 12pm, and vegetables or fish for dinner at 6pm. At the time, fans and nutritionists claimed that the actress did not eat enough sustainable foods throughout the day and that she promoted disordered eating habits.
She later addressed the reaction by explaining that she has been eating a lot of “cooked vegetables, all kinds of proteins” and “healthy carbs” to decrease inflammation, which was a post-Covid symptom she was experiencing. Paltrow emphasized that her routine is based on her own “medical results” and “extensive testing” that she has done “over time,” so it was not a diet she would recommend to others.
“This was a transparent conversation with me and my doctor. It is not meant to be advice for anyone else. It really works for me and it's been very powerful and very positive,” she explained in March 2023, before clarifying that she eats more than “bone broth and vegetables” and has many days of eating whatever she wants.
