For Lana Condor, Self Care Includes Nintendo and <em>Love Island</em>

Reported by Women's Health Magazine.

Lana Condor has done the work — literally. After back-to-back physically brutal roles, the 28-year-old actor has built a recovery toolkit that's equal parts disciplined and deeply human, according to Women's Health Magazine.

For Valiant One, a 2025 war film that proved harder to shake than expected, Condor found herself tensing up at the sound of a car engine on the drive home. Her fix wasn't therapy or a spa day — it was hot yoga. "Putting my body into another almost extreme physical situation helped me not feel like I was in war," she explained. For 2026's Pretty Lethal, in which she plays a ballerina taking on armed men, the physical toll was more literal. The production kept sports physical therapists, chiropractors, and acupressure practitioners on set — and she used all of it, getting adjusted between takes to keep her body functional through the demands of action choreography.

The Reset That Actually Resets Her

Off-set, Condor keeps movement low-stakes: yoga, Pilates, walks. But her ideal recovery day is a full-sensory prescription. It opens with her husband, Anthony De La Torre, delivering breakfast in bed alongside a matcha. Then comes sunshine, a dog walk, journaling, light yoga — and a long, unapologetic afternoon horizontal on the couch. Nintendo in hand, Love Island on in the background, snacks within reach. No performance, no optimization, no guilt. Just the full reset.

There is one small caveat to the snack situation: Condor admits she has a habit of bringing home leftovers, forgetting about them, and discovering the consequences later. "I have a lot of expired food," she says. Food, she insists, is her everything — which makes the oversight all the more relatable.

Recovery isn't always a cold plunge and a green smoothie — sometimes it's knowing exactly what your nervous system needs, and having zero shame about giving it to you.

Read the original at Women's Health Magazine.