Years in the kitchen can wear on you.
Working in the kitchen can be a physically demanding job, whether it's spending hours on your feet or the dangers of cutting or burning yourself. Celebrity chef and restaurateur Bobby Flay has been combatting the effects of his job firsthand—not in the kitchen, but at the gym.
Flay opened up about his go-to workout routine in a new interview with The Wall Street Journal. "There's basically three parts to it," he explained. "It's usually some kind of cardio for 30 to 45 minutes, like running outside on the West Side Highway [in New York City] or in the gym on a treadmill if the weather’s really bad."
Next, Flay gets into possibly his favorite part: Pilates. He described how getting "really into Pilates" in recent years has been able to remedy years of physical deterioration from his work.
"Standing hunched over a cutting board for 35 years, I put a very decent curve in my spine," he said, per Business Insider. "Pilates has reversed it and made my posture so much better, and it helps me stretch."
After working up a good sweat, he rounds out his workouts with body weight exercises like sit-ups and push-ups.
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Flay turns 60 this year, but the four-time Daytime Emmy winner isn't looking to retire anytime soon. Between his burger joints across the country and his hit Food Network show Bobby's Triple Threat, he's been keeping himself pretty busy more than three decades into his career.
When you put in the work at the gym like Flay, you can probably feel less guilty about enjoying a meal from Bobby's Burgers.
