Jasmine Tookes Workout Routine: Fitness Secrets and Training

Jasmine Tookes's training has been one of the better-documented working-Angel fitness routines of the past decade. The combination of the Anna Kaiser AKT collaboration that ran across her commercial peak years, the Magnus Lygdback Nordic strength block she layered into the 2017 to 2019 work, and the 2016 Bright Night Fantasy Bra preparation cycle produced one of the most detailed single preparation arcs the 2015 cohort logged.

This is a working brief on what the routine consists of, where the major trainers fit, and how the post-2023 maternity recovery has reshaped it.

The Huntington Beach foundation and the IMG signing

Tookes grew up in Huntington Beach, California, the Orange County coastal town that has remained her household base. Her mixed African American, Brazilian, and Welsh family background has been the foundation of one of the more visually distinctive identities in the 2015 Angels cohort. The 2007 scouting at fifteen happened through a family friend who routed her into the Foothills Pilates studio circuit. The early development work ran through the Southern California Pilates and barre scene before formal agency representation.

The 2009 IMG Models signing at eighteen brought her into the New York and international working market. The 2009 to 2012 editorial portfolio ran across Vogue, Allure, and W.

The Anna Kaiser AKT collaboration

The Anna Kaiser AKT studio collaboration is the spine of the Tookes routine. Kaiser, who founded AKT in 2013 after her years choreographing for Shakira and the Live with Kelly and Michael show, built the brand around an interval-based dance-and-resistance method that ran four to five days a week through Tookes's peak Angels years.

The standard AKT session Tookes ran across the 2015 to 2018 Victoria's Secret preparation cycles broke down roughly like this. A dynamic dance warm-up at the start. A toning block built around resistance bands, light dumbbells, and bodyweight work. A second cardio dance interval. A lower-body resistance block built around glute and leg activation work. A core finisher. The sessions ran 50 to 60 minutes.

The 2016 Bright Night Fantasy Bra preparation cycle that Kaiser and Tookes ran together across the eight to twelve weeks before the November 2016 Paris show was one of the most detailed single preparation arcs the cohort produced. The cycle ran five to six AKT sessions a week through the full window, paired with morning swimming and cardio work at the Equinox Greenwich Avenue location Tookes used through her Manhattan-based years. For the trainer-and-studio ecosystem the rest of the Angels cohort operated inside, our supermodel workout routine covers it in working detail.

The Magnus Lygdback Nordic strength block

The Magnus Lygdback collaboration that Tookes layered over the AKT work across 2017 to 2019 brought a different conditioning element into the routine. Lygdback, the Swedish trainer whose Magnus Method has worked with Alicia Vikander, Gal Gadot, James McAvoy, and a long Hollywood action-cast roster, brought the Nordic functional-strength side into the schedule.

The Lygdback block focused on the foundational strength and power work the Magnus Method runs: the recurring barbell-and-dumbbell strength work in the Nordic functional-strength tradition, the Olympic-lift and powerlifting derivatives Lygdback uses with his action-cast clients, and the recovery-and-mobility work the method prioritises. The combination of the AKT dance-and-resistance work with the Lygdback strength overlay was the structural piece of the 2017 to 2018 Victoria's Secret preparation cycles.

The complementary trainer work across the working career has drawn on Mary Helen Bowers's Ballet Beautiful programme periodically (the long-line ballet conditioning that the Ballet Beautiful method runs), the 305 Fitness dance-cardio classes, and Tracy Anderson Method work in short cycles.

The dietary side

The dietary work across the Angels peak years sat on a baseline of Brazilian-American household cooking. Lean proteins (chicken, fish, the occasional steak), substantial complex carbohydrates around training days (sweet potato, brown rice, oats), vegetables across both lunch and dinner, and the Brazilian household staples of beans, plantain, and farofa. The breakfast through the working years was typically eggs with avocado and toast, or a smoothie with protein, banana, and almond milk.

The pre-show preparation cycles in 2016 to 2018 tightened the dietary work without producing the nine-day liquid-diet protocol Adriana Lima described in 2011. Tookes has discussed the pre-show preparation publicly through Harper's Bazaar and Vogue interviews and has been consistent that the work was sustained training rather than extreme last-minute restriction.

The post-2023 maternity recovery period has shifted the dietary register toward postnatal recovery work. The Mama Glow postpartum-wellness collaboration and the Ecuadorian-and-American household work she shares with husband Juan David Borrero have continued to shape what the kitchen produces. For the wider working-model dietary picture, our model diet and nutrition guide covers it in industry detail.

The 2021 marriage, the 2023 birth, and the recovery cycle

Tookes married Juan David Borrero, the Snapchat executive and son of former Ecuador vice-president Diego Borrero, in September 2021 in Quito. The couple had been together since 2016. The Borrero family is one of the long-established Ecuadorian families, and Tookes has split residence between New York and Miami across the early married years.

Daughter Mia Victoria Borrero was born in March 2023. The maternity-and-postnatal cycle has been integrated into the continuing brand-collaboration work rather than displacing it. The post-2024 training has prioritised postnatal recovery and functional strength over the pre-show preparation register that anchored the Angels years. The AKT collaboration has continued. The Ballet Beautiful work has continued. The Magnus Method block has rotated in periodically rather than running continuously.

The brand work and the post-2018 reset

The brand-portfolio work Tookes has carried since the 2015 Angel signing has run through the Victoria's Secret Angel contract across 2015 to 2018, the long Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger campaign cycles, the recurring Versace, Chanel under Karl Lagerfeld, Givenchy, and Marchesa runway work, the 2018 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit feature, and the JoJa Activewear brand she co-founded with Josephine Skriver in 2020 and which has continued to anchor a substantive piece of the post-Angels career.

The 2024 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show return in Brooklyn did not include Tookes in the senior returning cast. The 2024 production programmed primarily around the pre-2010 senior Angels and the 2010-cohort additions, with the 2015 cohort represented largely by Taylor Hill. The 2025 work has continued through the campaign cycles and the high-fashion editorial calendar without returning to Victoria's Secret as a primary anchor.

For the parallel cohort coverage, our Romee Strijd signature runway era profile covers the parallel content-business track, our Martha Hunt career timeline profile covers the parallel American-Angel work, and our Stella Maxwell signature runway era profile covers the parallel high-fashion editorial career inside the same cohort.

A few quick answers

Tookes's primary workout focus has been the AKT dance-and-resistance work paired with the Magnus Lygdback Nordic strength block, supplemented by Ballet Beautiful work and 305 Fitness classes in shorter cycles. She has stayed with the trainer relationships Kaiser and Lygdback built across her Angels years rather than rotating constantly, which is the rule rather than the exception inside the working cohort. Fitness sits inside the modeling career partly because the Victoria's Secret runway and Fantasy Bra preparation cycles required sustained conditioning work and partly because the post-2018 brand-collaboration calendar (the JoJa Activewear business, the wellness brand work, the continuing campaign cycles) has continued to pull on the same physical baseline.

The shorter version is that the Tookes routine is the AKT work plus the Magnus Method strength block, the Brazilian-American household dietary baseline, and the post-maternity recovery work that the 2023 birth produced. For the parallel cohort fitness coverage, our Candice Swanepoel fitness routine profile covers the 2010-cohort fitness work, and our how to become a model industry insider guide covers the career-foundation side.