America Ferrera Workout Routine

As a movie actress, America Ferrera first appeared in 2002’s Real Women Have Curves. That same year, she also made her television debut as the host of the program Independent Lens. At the same time, she made guest roles in Touched by an Angel and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, as well as acted in the TV films Gotta Kick It Up! and Plainsong. During this period, the actress also had a prolific career on the big screen. She starred in 2005’s How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer.

She gained wider recognition for her role as Carmen Lowell in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, a character she reprised in the sequel The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. Other roles in the 2000s were in the films Lords of Dogtown, Steel City, and Under the Same Moon. Most notably, Ferrera also played the title character in the ABC series Ugly Betty. Her performance here won her the Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe for Best Actress.

Following Ugly Betty, she starred in the films The Dry Land, Our Family Wedding, It’s a Disaster and End of Watch. She also voiced Astrid Hofferson in How to Train Your Dragon and How to Train Your Dragon 2. In 2014, she portrayed Helen Chavez in the biographical film César Chávez. She returned to television as Amy Dubanowski/Sosa in the NBC sitcom Superstore, a role she has been playing since 2015. She also starred in the 2016 film Special Correspondents, as well as reprised her role as Astrid in 2019’s How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

Thanks to her healthy diet plan and fierce workout routine, America Ferrera has since developed her body so it’s now toned and strong. Her go-to workout? Boxing. Years ago, she joined her first triathlon and that entailed rigorous training for her. She’s been an active person since then. The actress has also tried hot yoga after giving birth, which she said is best when you want to ease your body up into getting back to fitness.