Ellie Goulding Took Her MMA Training Injury Like a Champ

What? You didn’t know that the pop star is a budding MMA fighter? Well, she may not be quitting her day job as a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, but the “Love Me Like You Do” songstress is no stranger to hardcore mixed martial arts training. And that kind of training can sometimes mean getting banged up a bit, which Goulding seems to be taking with a smile as she showed off a big bruise on her elbow in a recent Instagram post, with the caption, “Underestimated the switch from fists to elbows on the pads.”

The 29-year-old tagged judo champion Bobby Rich in that Instagram post, and she seems to be training with multiple experts in the field, such as Arnold Chon, movie stunt coordinator and MMA trainer extraordinaire. Chon praised Goulding in this pic of the two of them post-workout, writing, “Great training! You rock!”

And with these short videos of previous training sessions, we get the idea that her head is totally into it. She’s got quite a kick:

Those arms are no joke:

Look at that footwork:

For one training video, she wrote, “That’s real cute. No i don’t mean I’m cute, I mean you’re cute. Fancy a fight?”

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You’re right, Ellie. It’s supercute and superstrong.