Gina Carano Workout Routine, Diet Plan & Supplements

Everyone who follows Gina Carano’s sports or acting career path must admit that she turns into gold whatever she touches.

This hot and tough woman has achieved massive success as a Muay Thai and MMA fighter, Hollywood star (primarily acting in action movies, TV series, and video games), and a cover model for numerous fitness magazines.

Expectedly, she caught my and my clients’ attention since we all admire her strength, fitness, competitiveness, motivation, and perfectly curved body shape.

So, I started researching her fun yet exhausting exercise routines. For all those fans who wonder how she gets it all, here’s more in-depth information on Gina Carano workout routine and diet.

Gina Carano most notable accomplishments, awards, and sports records [2]:

• Acting career:
  • Chuck Norris Award for Best Female Action Star at ActionFest Film Festival (2012) for her role in Haywire;
  • Awakening Outstanding Contribution Award / AOCA (2012)
  • Voted as “Hottest Woman in America” by Big Biz Magazine (2008)
• Fighting career:
  • 7-1 MMA career record
  • 12-1-1 Muay Thai score
  • EliteXC: Heat, Victory against Kelly Kobold (October 2008)
  • EliteXC: Primetime, Victory against Kaitlin Young (May 2008)
  • Elite XC: Uprising, Victory against Tonya Evinger (September 2007)
  • EliteXC: Destiny, Victory against Julie Kedzie (February 2007)
  • Strikeforce: Triple Threat, Victory against Elaina Maxwell (December 2006)
  • World Pro Fighting Championships 1, Victory against Rosi Sexton (September 2006)
  • World Extreme Fighting, Victory against Leiticia Pestova (June 2006)

Her approach to exercising is holistic, style mixed, and she prefers outdoor activities to indoor gym workouts.

She works out intensely almost (if not) every day, twice a day - two hours in the morning and another two hours in the evening to improve her stamina, agility, coordination, and strength.

Gina’s typical morning and evening workout routines look like this:

• Warm-up: running on the treadmill, jumping rope, or any other cardio activity (15 minutes)
• Shadow box (15 minutes)
• Sparring and technique - practicing punches, kicks, and other fighting moves (2 hours)

To get back into the fighting form when she was preparing for Haywire in 2011, Gina added some extra training to her regular workouts - gun training, stunt training, and Secret Service training for 4 hours each day.

Here’s what she said about those days and her favorite movie fight scene:

“The training for the movie was actually incredibly intense. I’d do stunt training from 7am-11am, then gun training and Secret Service training. Since fighting brings your body forward so much, I also had to work a lot with a trainer on my back muscles and my butt to straighten me out. [...] My scene with Michael Fassbender was probably one of the coolest fight scenes in the movie. It was actually the first scene we shot. I was in a fancy dress, and he was in a tux, and we were smashing glasses and throwing each other over couches in this bedroom.”

- Gina Carano, American Athlete & Actress

As you can see, Gina’s workouts are strenuous but versatile and fun.

More importantly, they’re incredibly effective.

Now let’s see more about the role her nutrition plays in her health and fitness.