Kevin Hart’s 6 Best Health Habits, and 1 to Skip
At 43, comedian Kevin Hart never stops moving. While fitness is now at the forefront of his routine, he wasn’t always an athletic phenom. Watching old high school basketball clips with ESPN, featuring turnover after turnover, Hart demonstrates why he traded a basketball for a mic and hit the road as Hollywood’s funny frontman.
As an A-list entrepreneur, his health investments and approach to mental fitness keep Hart moving seamlessly well into his 40s. Here’s everything we know about Hart’s health habits.
He’s a “Full-Fledged Workout Guy”
Hart works out every day and takes every other Sunday off, he tells People.
His 60- to 90-minute workouts include weight training and CrossFit and he runs “anywhere from two to three miles a day.”
With help from longtime personal trainer Ross Everline, the pair “love snatches and isometric holds to help build a foundation,” Everline told Men’s Journal. “Plus we do a lot of unilateral stuff—working a dumbbell one arm at a time, which improves balance.”
For Hart, fitness is everything. “Kevin’s schedule is crazy, but physical fitness is his anchor,” Everline said. “No matter what happens, no matter what’s going on, the gym is our sanctuary.”
While Hart works his entire body (although “He hates working legs,” Everline told Muscle and Fitness), his big biceps are the true stars of the show.
He Loves Fitness Tech
The gym might be Hart’s sanctuary, but he’s stocked his house with fitness tech too. He told Mike Tyson on his podcast Hotboxin’ With Mike Tyson that he owns a Peloton Bike and Hydrow rowing machine.
To take it a step further, Hart signed on as Creative Director for Hydrow because “pound for pound, there’s no better workout out there than rowing,” Hart said in a Hydrow press release.
He’s a Healthy Eater—With a Simple Cheat
When it comes to his diet, Hart is a “structure guy,” meaning he sticks to a regular routine. “As long as it fits the structure, then I’m happy,” he told People.
Although Hart doesn’t consider himself a “foodie,” he is a “healthy eater” sticking to a diet of brown rice, baked chicken, vegetables, and salads. He’s not big on bread or dairy, but goes heavy on the protein.
He also told Men’s Health there are a lot of Beyond Meat products in his diet. “I’m trying this whole plant-based thing for a minute,” Hart said. “People out there: don’t be fooled by the plant-based diet and feel like you gotta get it all in one day. You gotta do it and make it work for you.”
And while Hart sticks to a strict dietary routine, he does have a simple cheat: fried chicken. “You’ve got to have a day to eat what you’re not supposed to eat,” Hart told People.
“But as you eat cleaner and you do get accustomed to the healthy side of living, those cheat days aren’t as important because you don’t really want to mess up what you’ve worked so hard to accomplish,” Hart said.
