- Jane Seymour looks incredibly toned in a new workout video posted to Instagram.
- The actress, 71, swears by the Gyrotonic Method to maintain strength and mobility, which incorporates moves from pilates, yoga, dance, gymnastics, swimming, and t'ai chi.
- The actress sat down with Prevention to discuss how she stays active despite her busy schedule.
At 71, Jane Seymour is all about moving her body despite her busy schedule. And the actress sure has the muscles to show for her hard work. Earlier this week the B Positive star posted her latest exercise to Instagram (which you can watch here) showing off her impressive strength.
The actress touts the benefits of the Gyrotonic Method, a form of exercise that incorporates movements from yoga, pilates, swimming, gymnastics, and t'ai chi. With the use of expansive instruments and pulley systems, it helps improve range of motion and create space within the body, all while building mobility and muscle.
Seymour showed how a few of the techniques in a brief clip shared on March 12. “Back in the gym after all my travels! 😅 Exercising using @Gyrotonic with @jeenymiller, working on abs and rotation in my hips/spine whilst doing weights for my arms. 💪🏻 Working hard!” she captioned the post.
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Seymour’s followers loved the clip, in which she performed refined hip circles while laying on a Gyrotonic table, her feet repelled above her in pulley stirrups. “You look 16 ❤️❤️,” one person commented. “Looking very fit Jane❤️❤️❤️,” another added. “I love pilates and yoga! You look amazing, Jane!!! 🔥❤️” someone else wrote.
Her trainer, Jeeny Miller, also shared a clip from the star’s workout in which she held an exercise ball between her feet while using a pulley bar to carry out a crunch-like move. “The beauty of Gyrotonic is that strength, flexibility and longevity come from slow, three demential and controlled movements,” Miller wrote. “This is beauty in motion.”
If you’ve taken a peek at Seymour’s IMDB page, then you’d know just how busy the actress is these days—but she’s not letting that stop her from finding time to workout. It’s just forcing her to be a bit more creative.
“When I’m on set, I’m in my trailer and people laugh at me [because] I just take my shoes off and I put my arms behind me on any kind of kitchen table or [chair and] I exercise the back of my arms, I do some sort of planks, I do all kinds of isometric type of things,” she explains. “I do plies, I stretch my legs out, anything that I can find that I can stick my leg up to bend my knees, I basically pretty much do barre wherever I am.”
But her real full-fledged workouts take place between projects. “When I’m not filming and I have time, I do pilates Gyrotonics, I do it on the machines with light weights,” she says. “I have a machine at home so there’s absolutely no reason I can’t do it at home. I have light weights at home and power plates, I can do all sorts of squats and plies lunges and things like that and it really accelerates any type of muscle tone I’m trying to achieve.”
In a previous interview with Prevention, Seymour shared how she adjusts her fitness routine to avoid injury as she ages. After all, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says staying active is one of the best ways to prevent older adult falls.
“As you get older, you know, your body can’t function the way you’d like it to function,” she said. That’s why she does Gyrotonics as well as pilates with “light weights,” “very careful sit-ups,” and “some yoga poses but not all.”
The exercise approach is harmonious with her mission to embrace age in every aspect of life, rather than run away from it. “I just literally grab life by the horns every day, I do not live in the negative, I do not live in the past,” she previously told Prevention. “I’m not pretending that I’m not my age, I just like to look the healthiest version that I can.”
Rest assured, Jane—the workouts are totally working in your favor.
