Toronto Sun: Trish Stratus fit to the max
Courtesy Toronto Sun / By Cary Castagna
He's not even a year old yet, but Trish Stratus is pretty sure her son Max already knows what a downward dog is. That and a whole lot of other yoga poses.
"He's seen it for so many months of his life," the 38-year-old WWE Hall of Famer and native Torontonian says with a laugh during a phone interview with Keeping Fit.
"From three months to six months, he would be in his Jolly Jumper for half an hour while I was doing yoga beside him. Or I'd be on the treadmill. That was like our thing."
Over the summer, Stratus has been taking Max — who turns one at the end of this month — on outdoor jaunts.
"I got this Baby Jogger and I literally can just run with him and he just sits there and loves it," she enthuses. "It's awesome."
The seven-time WWE women's champion explains that working out used to be the biggest part of her day. Now, of course, Max is the biggest part of her day. So she figures out ways that she can work out with Max.
"It's a matter of finding that balance and integrating everything you did before the baby into your new life with the baby," she adds.
Stratus has found that balance even within her workouts with Stratusphere Yoga, her own brand of yoga that features strength training movements within a yoga flow.
It's a regimen — bolstered by good nutrition — that seems to be doing the trick. For both of them.
Max is the picture of health, boasts Stratus.
"He's so healthy," she says. "He's not had one single fever, not been sick once, not had diaper rash. He's not had any ailments at all. And he's had no indigestion, no throwing up stuff. He's a healthy boy."
Stratus, who's normally a clean eater, started paying even more attention to what she was eating when she found out she was pregnant, making nourishment her No. 1 goal. And with her doctor's blessing, she also strived to remain as active as possible throughout the pregnancy.
"I kept saying to myself, ‘Well, I'll just see how long I can keep working out 'til.' And my doctor was like, ‘Do whatever you were able to do before. You know your body and you should know when it's too much.'"
Indeed, she did. Stratus ended up gaining a mere 18 pounds.
"A lot of it was due to diet," she explains. "A lot of it was due to keeping active as well."
Stratus resumed her workout regimen three months after giving birth. And not to further raise the ire of countless new moms everywhere who struggle to return to their pre-pregnancy weight, but Stratus says she managed to shed her baby weight "quite easily."
Child's play, eh? That was good for her because in late July she was cast as a lead member of a SWAT team in the Canadian action-thriller Gridlocked. And her wardrobe called for a tank top.
"So I just amped up my Stratus-phere Yoga and got some weight training in," says the five-foot-four iconic WWE Diva who weighs a fit 125 pounds.
The indie movie, which recently wrapped up filming, also stars Danny Glover, Dominic Purcell, Stephen Lang, Cody Hackman and Vinnie Jones. Stratus is satisfied — or is that Stratusfied? — with the shape she was in.
"I must say I did rock the gun show for the movie," she laughs. Up next is the release of a fitness DVD bearing her signature workout and aptly titled Stratusphere Yoga. The DVD, divided into five 10-minute routines, hit stores on Sept. 17. It'll also be available on her website.
All of this follows the opening of her second yoga studio. Stratusphere opened in May at the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Toronto. That's in addition to her Stratusphere location in Vaughan, Ont. "I'm juggling a lot of things," she admits.
"People are like, ‘How do you manage this?' You know what, I think it's just my yoga. It gives me a real peaceful state of mind and it lets me balance everything."
And it energizes her.
Stratus, who turns 39 in December, is planning to have another baby.
"I got studio No. 2 up, so now it's time for baby No. 2," she laughs. "And I'm also working on yoga DVD No. 2. Those are my projects."
source: torontosun.com
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