If exercising with your partner sounds like a sweaty disaster or a battle waiting to happen (perhaps need tell you your squat form was off?), maybe these celebrity couples who work out together can change your mind. There are tons of perks (we swear). It’s a great way to spend time with your partner in a different environment – one that gives you a playfully competitive outlet and a chance to encourage each other. And nothing brings you together like pushing each other through those last few reps (and apologizing afterward, of course).
It sure works for these famous couples. Take Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker, who were workout buddies before they became husband and wife and continued their healthy couple life after their marriage. Then there’s Victoria Beckham, who posts shirtless thirst traps of her ex-footballer husband during their workouts, while Gabrielle Union says Dwyane Wade’s six-pack is her motivation. We’re not saying that every couple who sweats together stays together (looking at you, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez), but it seems to work for some. “It’s our private time before the house wakes up to love each other and love ourselves,” Union wrote on Instagram of her workouts with Wade. “Intimacy can take many forms.” We second it – and we’d like to add, sweaty can be sexy too! These celebrity couples who work out together certainly prove it.
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker
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Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker went from workout buddies to celebrity super couple. As Barker said People In 2024, he and Kardashian “have been workout buddies forever. That’s what started it all…we were always working out together and running together or doing things like that together before we were even in a relationship.”
Kardashian and Barker, who married in 2022 and had a son, Rocky, in November 2023, continue to prioritize fitness together. “We’ll do Pilates together, we’ll have half an hour or an hour every day to go out,” Barker said. “It’s amazing to be with someone who shares the same love for wellness.”
Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake
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Jessica Biel often posts snippets of her workouts and yoga streams on Instagram, and every now and then, her famous husband makes a cameo. Sometimes that means Timberlake is helping her hit a stand to live out her “totally absurd Cirque du Soleil dream.” other times, Timberlake tries to it distracts her from hitting a challenging lunge-squat combo move. And when he’s not making her laugh through reruns, Timberlake will be joining her for more serious sweat sessions.
“We’ll work with a trainer and just do different circuits and do different types of cardio or sprint training, just different things depending on what we’re working on and what goals we’re trying to achieve at the time,” Biel said. Self in 2018. “It doesn’t always happen, but it’s so nice to have a partner when you’re working out. It’s something my husband and I really enjoy doing together — we’re both exercise freaks.”
Victoria and David Beckham
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Victoria and David Beckham love showing each other off on Instagram and we love seeing it. The fashion designer and former soccer star often post snaps from their workouts together, usually with a cheeky caption to top it off. “Saturday morning workout with this fit guy! Welcome!!!” Victoria with a caption a shirtless photo of David in 2024. “While one of us is working really hard… the other one looks great without doing much,” he added. another shotshowing her husband relaxing with a massage gun while scrolling through his phone.
Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky
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Chris Hemsworth’s superhero-style muscles may be world famous, but actress and model Elsa Pataky, Hemsworth’s wife since 2010, can definitely hold her own Thor actor. To be in shape for her 2022 film InterceptorPataky relied on Centr, the health and fitness app founded by Hemsworth, to “build strength and muscle mass,” Pataky wrote in Instagram. The caption accompanied a montage of Pataky doing body sculpting moves to target her back and shoulders. The children of the famous couple still have he went inside the gym too, as they roam around their sprawling home gym like a giant playground.
Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union
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It’s no surprise that a couple consisting of a retired basketball player and a Bring it star keep fitness a priority. Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union are each other’s motivation, literally. As the Union said in 2022 Instagram Caption“I used to clown couples working out together, but now I’m the clown who looks forward to our 6am sessions. When I want to give up, I just look to my side and get that push and smile from @dwyanewade and push it away.”
In another videoUnion showed exactly what a workout looks like with the two stars pushing each other. “Why are you working out like this, Gump? You work out so much,” Union said, before gesturing to a shirtless Wade walking around their home gym. As she captioned the video, “Just trying to keep up with witchu playa.”
And it’s not just about challenging each other: Wade and Union use their workouts as bonding time. “It’s our private time before the house wakes up to love each other and love ourselves,” Union explained. “Intimacy can take many forms.”
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos
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Mark Consuelos used to give Kelly Ripa a gym membership every year for Christmas — and it didn’t exactly pay off. “Every year, you bought me a gym membership. … And every year I didn’t use it,” Ripa recalled to Consuelos on a January 2024 episode of their talk show, Live With Kelly and Markper People. “Then it dawned on me, ‘Oh my God, he’s trying to tell me something!’ Ripa continued. Consuelos maintained that his motive was pure — “it’s a way of life!” she said — and Ripa eventually realized that exercise “was good for me. Glad you stuck with it.”
Both sides of this famous couple are now equally fit, with Ripa working out with Shakira’s trainer Anna Kaiser per Women’s Health. Occasionally, too make time to work up a sweat together, including acrobatic couples yoga on vacation.
Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell
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Why use a barbell when you can just do squats with your partner? Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell figure it out, by 2021 Instagram video it turned out. “Anything to keep us busy at home,” Bell captioned the video, which shows Sheppard busting out some squats with Bell perched on his shoulders (and laughing non-stop). They have too is shown off an intense couples workout in front of their RV, with a set of weights, a bench, and exercises like lunges and push-ups.
And it sounds like Shepard and Bell are passing on their love of exercise to their two daughters, teaching them that physical activity can help manage their emotions. “My kids know that if they feel an anger, one of the tools in their toolbox is to go outside and kick the soccer ball, or jump on the trampoline, or put on their skates and go as fast as they can. he can,” said Belle Today in 2024. “I have found that physical production is a real help in regulating their emotions.”
Michael Phelps and Nicole Phelps
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Sure, Michael Phelps may be retired now, but the most decorated Olympian of all time still prioritizes staying fit and healthy and is often joined by his wife and former Miss California Nicole Phelps at his (super cool) gym their home. The couple loves to lift together, with Nicole writing Instagram that Michael encouraged me to start lifting with him 3 times a week… I have never felt stronger or more confident in my body than I do now. For Nicole, where he said later “she’d never done that before in my life,” the new habit helped her fall in love with the process of getting stronger. “Growing up I was afraid to lift a single weight because ‘my muscles would be too big for a girl,'” she continued. “My muscles are giving me strength today. They make me feel strong and proud. They help me lift my boys, sometimes 2 at a time, 3 if I’m low enough!” Sometimes the children even go with their parents to the gym, although their youngest, born in January 2024, is not yet ready to grab the dumbbells.
