Faith Hill poses for the cover of Shape’s December issue (on sale Nov. 10) wearing a bikini. She said a bikini photo shoot was her birthday gift to herself. And what got her in such rockin’ shape? Pilates, of course!
“I could bend in ways I haven’t been able to since I was a teenager,” the Nashville-based star tells Shape magazine for its December issue. “My husband Tim McGraw loves it!”
Faith Hill works out hard with an instructor.
“I was always very athletic, playing basketball and softball and running track,” she says.
But it was a change in her lifestyle that made all the difference.
“But in my 20s and 30s, I’d go through phases with exercise, working out for four weeks before a big tour or video shoot and not doing much afterward. Then I had three kids [with McGraw, daughters Gracie, 11; Maggie, 10; and Audrey, 6] and turned 40, so I decided to make a lifestyle change.”
There was another consideration: knee surgery in January forced her to cease exercising for six months. “I had never gone that long without doing something,” she says. “I was not happy.”
In July she and McGraw began a daily routine that included four miles on the elliptical, light weight lifting, crunches and push-ups.
“I found I slept better, had more energy and was stronger,” says Hill, who then increased her regime to include Pilates classes three times a week.
“It was so hard, but ultimately so worth it. My core is much stronger, and my arms are more toned. In fact, wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself.”
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