At the age of 57, Paula Abdul is pretty far from slowing down.
She is currently getting prepared for her first Las Vegas residency, which begins on August 13 at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino. The singer and dancer is leaving no stone unturned when it comes to working hard. She starts each day before the sunrise and goes until late at night.
Abdul told PEOPLE, “It’s very physically intense. I get up at 6 and I work with my trainer for an hour and a half. Then I go to rehearsals at about a quarter to 9. We do a warm-up and then we dance. We go from about 9:45 until 7 p.m., and we take one day off.”
The “Cold Hearted” singer treats her body extremely well to keep going day after day.
She said, “I do a lot of stretching. When I’m with my trainer I’m doing Pilates, I’m doing a lot of back and core work. Even though I’m dancing all day I often do straight cardio just so that I’m conditioning my body. And after each performance, I usually get in an ice-cold tub. It’s not fun! It shocks your body, but it helps with inflammation.”
The dancer also pays close attention to what she eats because she has to spend hours dancing and due to her history of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD).
“When you have RSD, the best thing to do is lower your acidity to slow inflammation, so I follow a low alkaline diet,” continued Abdul, “I don’t like following diets but I try to keep the acidity down because that’s what causes flares up in my body. But I’m really blessed; I’m in remission and I’ve been in remission for years now.”
The 57-year-old celebrity treated herself with two treatments from InMode, a minimally invasive plastic surgery company.
“I wanted to do something for myself,” she says. “I’ve had multiple spinal cord injuries and paralysis, and because my arms had paralysis, the muscles atrophied. I work out a lot, and no matter how many times I hit the gym and did bicep and tricep workouts, it was always difficult because I had to rebuild muscle tissue. When I found out about InMode’s BodyTite and FaceTite, there was really great improvement. It’s subtle,” said Abdul.
She added, “I feel like I’m aging as gracefully as one can be, with a healthy outlook. Dancing with passion every day keeps that going. Aging is inevitable, and I haven’t really put too much pressure on it.” She explained that she is able to keep up with the young dancers on stage even if she has to put in some extra effort. She said, “They get right into the dancing, but I have to warm up my body. It’s different. But I don’t take it for granted.”
