There’s no doubt that the women of Hollywood served up some breathtaking looks at the Oscars last night.
And there seemed to be some sort of theme between many of their chosen outfits: bare shoulders.
From Best Actress winner Emma Stone’s strapless peplum dress, to Margot Robbie’s Versace chain mail, to Emily Blunt’s floating straps, many of the stars showed off their upper bodies.
Upper bodies that were enviably toned and sculpted, while still looking petite and feminine.
But how do they do that?
DailyMail.com has collected testimonials from some of the country’s most coveted celebrity trainers to reveal exactly how you can replicate their look in time for your big day.
Emma Stone
Stone lifts weights to strengthen her muscles, and cardio comes in second
Emma Stone’s trainer Jason Walsh wants more women to deadlift. This seemingly simple exercise, which involves lifting a barbell off the ground, has helped Emma achieve her long, lean arms. It was previously reported that the Poor Things actor can lift approximately 185 pounds.
Walsh said, “It is and always will be the deadlift and variations of the deadlift. It is a complex movement in which all major muscle groups work together. It’s very important.’
Walsh emphasizes strength training when helping his clients secure roles or live healthier lives.
He said: ‘Staying strong supports the skeleton, stabilizes the joints, makes your cardio safer and more effective.
‘If strength training is done properly, you also get enough cardio by lifting. Cardio comes second.’
To play tennis superstar Billie Jean King, Stone lifted weights five days a week to hone her upper body strength, and did two days of cardio.
Walsh said: ‘To build muscle, strength must be the foundation of your workouts. Keeping your muscles strong will make everything better.”
Margot Robbie
Robbie is a champion at holding planks, a testament to her upper body strength
David Higgins, Robbie’s longtime trainer, explained how she got on the Pilates reformer machine in full Barbie regalia during filming.
The Pilates reformer machine uses a series of pulleys, ropes and springs that act as hand weights, allowing the user to perform biceps curls, plane arms (pushing hands back and maintaining their length) and triceps extensions (pulling a tight rope behind the head ) can do. , down).
Robbie also beat the rest of her Barbieland residents in the plank competition, holding her position for four minutes and 10 seconds with a display of impressive arm strength.
According to Higgins, so does Mrs. Robbie uses hand weights to achieve this her sculpted look.
This includes 15 reps of each of the following: chest presses (pushing weight away from the body while lying on your back), bent over rows, biceps curls, seated shoulder press, and skull crushers, where you raise a weight over your head while standing on your lie back.
She also does 100 reps of seven different ab exercises, including crunches, toe taps on each side and bends on each leg.
And she doesn’t do cardio. At least, not intentionally. Strength training provides its own cardio workout, because the heart has to work harder to pump blood to the muscle groups being trained, such as the upper body.
She didn’t exercise for hours. Mr Higgins said they would train when the cast took breaks, sometimes lasting 30 minutes or an hour.
Florence Pugh
Pugh is a fan of kickboxing, which requires strong arms to deliver hard punches and punches
British actress and Oppenheimer co-star Florence Pugh has had to undergo physical transformations for previous roles including Black Widow and Fighting With My Family, the latter of which required her to train as a wrestler.
Pugh took over kickboxing into her fitness routine and said she would workout for two hours straight.
Aerobic kickboxing, which uses the arms to perform quick jabbing and punching movements, defines the biceps and triceps and strengthens the shoulders. The forearm and hand muscles also become stronger.
She also does CrossFit workouts, a form of high-intensity interval training, with physical trainer James Shields, and says it makes her feel “solider and more secure,” but she added, “Those sessions in CrossFit are hard.” You have to push yourself.”
CrossFit is a strength and conditioning workout focused on functional movements that mimic things we do every day, such as lifting boxes or carrying children. Think big squats, deadlifts and shoulder presses.
Emily Blunt
Blunt credits her trainer’s philosophy, which favors ballet-style movements that improve strength and fluidity
The Oppenheimer actor prefers workouts that consist of ballet-style movements, which improve strength and stability while working as many muscle groups as possible.
Her trainer, Monique Eastwood, draws on her dance background to guide Emily through it movements such as narrow arm rotations That may look easy, but you’ll feel the burn after just a handful of circles.
Blunt said of her trainer: ‘What she does revolutionizes the way you look, the way you move, your strength and skill.
“Not to mention, it gives you those long, long, lean muscles we’re all looking for.”
Eastwood’s method, Blunt continued, is “fluid and high-octane, but without heavy weight.”
Anya Taylor Joy
Joy is a former ballet dancer and uses classical ballet to inform her physical fitness regimen
Anya, who used to be a dancer, is a fan of ballet style movements that train her arms and other concentrated muscle groups.
Ballet training prioritizes building long, lean muscles using repetitive movements that work small muscle groups in the arms and legs.
She told Harpers in 2019: “I used to be a ballet dancer. I haven’t danced well in a few years now, but I do one exercise class and immediately my balance comes back and my muscles remember.’
She also integrates pilates and kickboxing into her physical training and weight lifting.