Ivanka Trump is now in her 40s, but she is keeping fit with a combination of different fitness practices, the details of which she shared on "The Skinny Confidential Him & Her" podcast.
Trump said she recently added jiu-jitsu to her repertoire in response to a request from her daughter Arabelle to learn self-defense.
The whole family started practicing the martial art form after moving to Miami when Arabelle asked her to join, and then her brothers and dad wanted to join in too.
"There’s like a real spiritualism to it … the grounding in sort of samurai tradition and culture and wisdom," she said.
Trump said she was "never a gym person," but always loved sports.
She likes the aspect of jiu-jitsu that makes practitioners less likely to fight.
"Having these skills makes you less likely to get into a fight, not more likely to," Trump went on. "Once you have the confidence that you can sort of move out of a situation, there's a real focus on elevating awareness."
Trump said on Instagram that she had started incorporating weight training and resistance exercises into her fitness routine for the first time, having previously just done yoga, cardio, and Pilates.
This new regimen has been "transformative in helping me build muscle and shift my body composition in ways I hadn’t imagined," she wrote.
She focuses on exercises like squats, deadlifts, pushes and pulls that mimic how the body normally functions.
She also adds "mobility work" to maintain her range of motion.
Trump works with a personal trainer twice a week to get the most out of her workout time and make sure she's doing the exercises correctly.
She said she is now eating 30 to 50 grams of protein per meal, which also helps build and maintain muscle and aids in recovery after weight training.
"It works … I’ve never been stronger!" she gushed.
