Thanks to a different movie role, Jennifer Garner?is within amazing shape.
While making a look and feel at CinemaCon , the actress, 46, discussed amping up her workout routine for that upcoming action-thriller?Peppermint, in which she plays a lone vigilante out to avenge the death of her family.
“It actually felt great,” she said. “I was in very good shape going into it.”
Garner added boxing and fighting techinques into her exercise routine to help prepare her for intense fight scenes.
“Everyone gets very invested and are you going to actually look the way you want you to appear,” she said. “I have no idea if I did, but I just always followed what felt to me.”
The actress shared a look at her gym sessions on social networking captured. She posted a relevant video of?her extreme exercise routine, which she dubbed the “Recipe for Turning A Mom Back into Action Lady.”
Recipe for Turning A Mom Back into Action Lady: Take one mama ADD daily dose 1 hr ?? @bodybysimone ?? 1.5 hr ??Stunt Team ?? 50 glasses of coffee and 3 min Cryotherapy Good luck everybody!
Garner explained within the caption that she did an hour or so workout with Body by Simone?and 1 hour 30 minutes of “stunt team.” She also worked cryotherapy into her routine. For her pump-up playlist, Garner set the footage to “Canned Heat” by?Jamiroquai.
Peppermint also marks Garner’s first return to action since starring as an international spy within the ABC hit show Alias.
“The thing about Alias that managed to get so special was J.J.’s [Abrams] script, and just how compelling the stakes were for your character all the time,” she said at CinemaCon. “To do action for the sake of action has never interested me but this script was so smart. There is no bigger stake than your children and nobody had not asked me in a smart way to do something like a mom on her child.”
She continued: “This ended up being to avenge your son or daughter’s death, and there’s no bigger reason to visit out and obtain into really good shape after which kill people.”
Peppermint hits theaters Sept. 7.
