Alex Rodriguez's Morning Routine: Gym, Sauna, Stretching, Meditation — and 'I Don't Look at My Phone Until Noon'

The former New York Yankee, who recently lost 30 lbs., says the the pandemic and work made him “so stressed”

Alex Rodriguez isn’t shy about sharing details of his recent 30-lb. weight loss, admitting that he “lost my way a little bit” while appearing on The Jennifer Hudson Show Friday.

“Right around the pandemic, I think we all kind of were very nervous. We never knew if we were going to see people again,” the former New York Yankee, 48, said.

“I’m a very social person. I like people. I love people,” he said, adding that  “I was so stressed” with work and travel between Los Angeles and Miami that he “started gaining some weight.”

Rodriguez — who serves as CEO of two companies, investment firm A-ROD Corp and Slam Corp — told Hudson, “I wasn’t focusing on my health as much.”

It wasn’t until his girlfriend, Canadian fitness instructor Jaclyn Cordeiro, 44, stepped in that he decided to take action.

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He says Cordeiro told him, “You gotta get yourself in better shape.”

“I just changed my routine,” Rodriguez told Hudson.

“I get up in the morning and I don’t look at my phone until noon,” Rodriguez said.

“So from the time I wake up, I’m in the gym at 8, work out for a couple of hours, come home, do a little sauna, a little steam, stretch, meditate, and then I’m at my desk every day from 12 to 6.”

“That sounds amazing, I’m going to have to adopt that,” Hudson said. “Because I pick up my phone right away.”

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Rodriguez has previously credited intermittent fasting — a time-restricted approach to eating that’s been praised by celebrities like Jennifer Aniston and Chris Pratt — with helping him achieve his fitness goals. And as he explained to Hudson, he not only changed when he was eating, but what he was eating as well.

“I eliminated steak,” he said.

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In addition to working out in the morning, Rodriguez ends the day with some cardio, telling Hudson “I added this 45-minute walk right after dinner and that’s really been helping me. So far so good.”

While he’s admitted that it can be “vulnerable” to talk about his fitness on a recent Instagram post, Rodriguez wrote that he decided to “share anyway because the last year of my health journey has been life changing.”

“I was looking unhealthy,” he said. ”Not what you want to hear, but I knew I wasn’t my best self."

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