Late last year, E! News caught up with Mandy Moore's boxing trainer, Julian Chua, who took his skills to a new gym: CruBox. The fitness studio, which has locations in Los Angeles and Singapore, leads group classes in a dark room with numbered boxing bags, high-energy music and a neon-lit stage.
This year, more celebrities like Kardashian Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Larsa Pippen joined in on the fight for fitness at the cult-loved gym. At the same time, more celebs used punching bags as a means towards staying in shape on Instragram or other studios around the country.
Before the 2018 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, models Martha Hunt, Elsa Hosk and more VS models opted for dance cardio by way of Sculpt Society's trainer, Megan Roup, to get ready for the runway.
"I did something different this year," she told E! News. "I try to mix up every year, because I get bored with the same workouts...This year, I'm doing a lot of dance cardio with this girl Megan. She's really great with toning, keeping it fun and coming up with new moves every time we work out."
Pilates isn't new...at all. Yet, the fitness trend continued to be a go-to for celebs during 2018. Selena Gomez's trainor, Shannon Nadj revealed this year that you don't have to have a pilates machine in order to sculpt your body. A lot moves are created for on-the-go—something that celebs can appreciate—and to improve posture.
"I like to do exercises that keep my shoulders back and down and to open up my chest," Shannon explained before demonstrating her arm moves to E! News. "We spend so much time with our shoulders rolled forward on our phones. It's important to strengthen our backs to maintain good posture!"
Lifting weights no longer requires....weights. Thanks to the new popularity of resistance bands, you can get a gym workout anywhere and any time.
"The reason they're so hard is because unlike a weight, the band has cumulative resistance, so the more you move away the heavier it gets," celebrity trainer Jason Wimberly shared with E! News. "A weight doesn't do that. I make sure all of my clients have them in their bags. If you're on the subway, you can use them. We have three different ones: the heavy, medium and light."
Fitness, celebrity and mother nature came together in 2018:
"I feel at peace when I'm by a body of water," she said after running the Adidas x Parley "Run for the Oceans" 5K to raise money against marine plastic pollution in sneakers made from recycled water bottles. "We're mainly water, as human beings. I feel super connected to it… I'm proud of Adidas, because it takes initiatives like these to put the world back in balance. We've placed so much stress on the planet that it's up to us to backtrack."
Between the Apple Watch and FitBit, wearable technology was a major trend during 2018. Celebs like Chloe Grace Moretz and Gwyneth Paltrow were sporting the new tech, tracking their fitness to a new level.