How Megan Thee Stallion Works Out Her Body-ody-ody

Megan Thee Stallion is known for a lot of things: coining Hot-Girl Summer, making excellent music, and generally being a talented multihyphenate. Over the last two years or so, she's also become a fitness icon, sharing her intense workouts on Instagram and TikTok and even partnering with Nike on her own workout series through their Nike Training Club app. Her routine is impressive and full of intense-looking moves we've never seen before. It's hard not to be inspired by her strength and dedication.

Megan started a health and fitness journey two years ago during the COVID pandemic with a YouTube series she called "Hottie Bootcamp." In introducing the videos, she talked about how the time stuck at home had impacted her: "I like to snack and I like to eat whatever I want to eat. I just feel like lately the things I've been eating haven't been so good for my body; they've been slowing me down. So I wanted to take y'all on a little health journey with me. Just because I feel like y'all will hold me accountable. And I feel like if I'm going on it with y'all, then I will be motivated to do the right thing," Megan said.

Megan started working out with a trainer to improve her exercise and diet. In the YouTube series, she shares videos of herself grocery shopping with her trainer and trying several workouts, including pole dancing, strength, HIIT, cardio, and, of course, a butt-specific workout. "This journey is not necessarily about me losing weight," she said in one episode. "This is about me just getting healthier in general and me seeing how I can transform my body in the healthiest way possible."

We stan an empowered workout queen. Keep reading to check out more of Megan's impressive workout routine, including how to try some of it for yourself.

Strength and Conditioning Workouts

In a Sept. 16 TikTok, Megan shows off a strength and conditioning workout so intense that she jokes at one point in the video that her trainer "must think I'm trying out for the Houston Texans or something." She powers through a series of impressive strength moves including Romanian deadlifts, power cleans, reverse landmine squats, and weighted walking lunges with a front kick β€” all mixed in with some serious conditioning and agility work. She jumps rope and does mountain climber burpees over a hurdle and resistance-band bear crawls. As if that wasn't enough, her trainer also has her doing banded jump squats while moving forward and backward and holding a medicine ball β€” talk about tough.

Still, Megan keeps it relatable. At one point in the video, she's lying on the gym floor and says: "You're not supposed to be catching me in my bad moments like this but I just wanted to be transparent with y'all. Working out hurt like a motherf*cker and it's really a mental thing so get your ass up and go do it."

TRX, Battle Ropes, and Vibration Plates

Megan fits plenty of gym time into her busy weeks. In a weekly recap from the end of August, her workouts included reverse cable flies, multiple types of pull-ups (color us impressed!), dumbbell chest presses, a set of battle-rope lunge jumps that looked absolutely killer, and a TRX single-arm row paired with a shoulder press.

In addition to all those intense compound movements (i.e. movements that work multiple muscle groups at once), Meg also performs bird-dig rows on a vibration plate: a device that vibrates your entire body, and which research shows may have some legit benefits, including building strength and reducing back pain, according to the Mayo Clinic. The hot-girl coach is certainly earning her title.

Pull-Ups and Sled Pushes

In another weekly recap, Megan shows off a shiny new gym skill: "Since the last time y'all seen me I learned how to do a motherf*ckin' pull-up!" She follows up her well-executed pull-ups by pushing her trainer on a weight sled, and then heads to do cryotherapy with her dancers ahead of the Essence Festival.

A "Hottie Boot Camp" Workout

Megan provides both workout and #OOTD inspo (all Nike, of course) in this video, which summarizes her Hottie Boot Camp efforts.

The multihyphenate shows off three different workouts, the first being a kettlebell routine where she does sumo squat high pulls and Romanian deadlifts.

In another workout, she tackles sit-ups and then chest presses, skull crushers, and dumbbell pull-overs all while holding a glute bridge. She moves over to a cable machine to do pull-downs and face-pulls, then finishes off that workout with some fire hydrants.

And the third workout is all about the glutes: Megan hits the stair climber and does some resistance-band glute bridges.

Megan Thee Stallion's Hardest Workout Moves

The exercises in this video from July β€” which Megan captioned "What a week inside hottie boot camp looks like" β€” aren't for the faint of heart. Watch her perform weighted in-and-out jump squats with 65 pounds, run up a sandy hillside, and perform reverse lunges, while pulling her trainer on a sled via resistance bands. She also uses TRX straps to perform L-hangs. Finally, we see her returning to the beach for some resistance-band squats and a boxing session with her trainer. "That Girl" really does it all.

Gym Cardio, the Ski Erg, and Glute Work

In a video shared in May, Megan teases the idea of sharing more hottie bootcamp content by showing off a ton of workout moves from her time in the gym. She starts the video with cardio on an elliptical machine, then continues with strength moves including resistance-band triceps kickbacks, pull-downs on the ski ergometer machine, hack squats, skull crushers, and some tabletop glute kickbacks.

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How to Train Like Megan Thee Stallion

If you're feeling inspired by Megan's work in the gym, check out her free workouts on the Nike Training Club app, or give a similar strength workout program, like this weeklong beginner weightlifting workout plan, a go. For more personalized guidance β€” or to work towards some of the truly impressive moves Megan pulls off β€” consider working with your own trainer who'll push you just as hard as hers.