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Ahead of the release of her highly-anticipated new album, 30, Adele has reentered the spotlight, opening up about some of the things she's experienced in recent years. For one thing, she's gone through a divorce, which is never easy, regardless of whether you're under scrutiny as a celebrity. The singer shared how she's dealt with the anxiety she's faced due to the experience.

Adele went through a tsunami of emotions

In a cover interview for Rolling Stone's December issue, Adele gave insight into the ways in which she's coped. She reveals that the anxiety left her bed-bound for weeks after she'd parted ways with her husband, Simon Konecki, in 2019. Though she maintains a close friendship with Konecki, according to the article, an amicable split doesn't equal a painless one. Adele recounts a "tsunami of emotions," adding that the many highs and lows of such a transitional period felt like "really f—king up-and-down."

 

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After the news of their split hit, the internet was filled with headlines about the breakup anthems fans were clamouring for, along with commentary about Adele's physical transformation, which she eventually clarified was never about weight loss at all. In her new Rolling Stone interview, Adele explains that she sought solace in 2019 by trying all kinds of new things — the gym being just one of them.

"If I can transform my strength and my body like this, surely I can do it to my emotions and to my brain and to my inner well-being," she shares. "That was what drove me. It just coincided with all of the emotional work that I was doing with myself as a visual for it, basically." In the process, the singer learned that she was "stronger than she thought."

There are plenty of science-backed physical and mental health benefits of working out regularly. Breaking a sweat in any capacity — whether by hitting the ring for a boxing class, as Adele has said she loves, going for a hike in the fresh air (another Adele-approved workout), or hitting the mat for yoga — counts.

At the same time, Adele doesn't suggest that incorporating more gym time was her only outlet for anxiety relief. She seemingly has plenty of tools in her arsenal to help cope with anxiety, telling Rolling Stone she had a "sound bath era," started getting into the ancient meditative practice in 2019, and gave up drinking for six months when she began experiencing "hangxiety." She also "threw [herself] in headfirst" into travelling in hopes of soothing her anxiety.

It seems like Adele did plenty of soul-searching over the past two years, and she reveals to Rolling Stone that she's found closure with the ending of her marriage and the loss of her father to cancer back in May, as well as a new sense of joy with her boyfriend, talent agent Rich Paul. 30, which is set to drop on November 19, is sure to be a deeply personal album.

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Jennifer Aniston just shared her preferred workout routine — and not only is it surprisingly approachable, but trainers also give it a thumbs-up.

Aniston, 52, told InStyle for the magazine's September cover interview that she tries to exercise every day. "I had an injury last fall and I was only able to do Pilates, which I absolutely love," she said. "But I was missing that kind of sweat when you just go for it."

Now, she said, she's "going back to my 15-15-15, which is a 15-minute spin, elliptical, run." After that, she said, it's "just old school: I can chase myself around a gym." Aniston said she's someone who needs regular activity in her life. "I need some kind of movement, even if it's just 10 minutes a day on a trampoline," she said.

 

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OK, but 15 minute intervals on different machines seems incredibly…doable. For starters, it meets the American Heart Association's exercise guidelines, which says adults should strive to get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity a week. (The AHA also recommends moderate- to high-intensity muscle-strengthening activity like resistance training or weights on at least two days a week, but more on that later.)

Trainers are all about the former Friends star's workout plan. "It's great," Albert Matheny, RD, CSCS, co-founder of SoHo Strength Lab, Promix Nutrition, and ARENA, tells Health. "The idea of three different modalities and the fact that you're varying it up a bit is excellent. It's probably less intimidating and mechanically, you're not just doing the same repetitive motion at a high volume."

The issue with just doing one workout, like running or biking or the elliptical, is that you can develop an overuse injury, Matheny explains. "When you mix things up, the chances of you having an overuse injury is less," he says.

Cycling through different exercises can also lower the risk that you'll get bored during your workout, Doug Sklar, CPT, a personal trainer, running coach, and founder of PhilanthroFIT in New York City, tells Health. "If you struggle with motivation, it's much easier to convince yourself to do something for 15 minutes than it is for an hour," he says.

Jennifer Aniston hinted that she also lifts weights, which Matheny says is crucial. "Everyone should do some level of strength training," he says. Sklar agrees: "It's a strictly cardio routine, so I'd absolutely add regular strength training into her schedule," he says.

Like the idea but don't have a small home gym setup going on at your place? Experts say that's no problem. "It's difficult to replicate a bike or elliptical without the actual equipment, so body weight exercises like rope skipping or jumping jacks would be the closest," Sklar says. Matheny also points out that you can bike or run outside, or add swimming to the mix if you have a pool available to you.

While trainers like Aniston's routine, they stress the importance of getting strength training in there, too. "The importance of strength training in a fitness program cannot be understated," Sklar says. "The cardio is OK, but I would advise making strength training the primary component of your workout routine and supplementing with a cardio routine like this."

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