Singer Victoria Monet Prioritizes Glute Gains. Here’s How She Does It
“I want this nice and thick and powerful,” the singer tells Women’s Health.
Reported by Women's Health Magazine.
Victoria Monét is mid-tour, opening for Bruno Mars across Europe on The Romantic Tour — which means her body is not a passion project right now, it's infrastructure. The 37-year-old singer has been weight training consistently since 2017, and according to Women's Health Magazine, her approach to fitness is less aspirational aesthetic and more non-negotiable survival. "If you want something bad enough, you will make it happen," she says. "Fitness, health, and wellness is one of those things. It's a non-negotiable."
Her trainer is Omar Bolden, a former NFL pro now studying Chinese medicine — and by Victoria's own account, an exceptionally patient one. He's guided her body through pregnancy, PCOS, and everything in between. Every session opens with a full-body warm-up: the world's greatest stretch, fire hydrants, 90/90 hip rotations. "She's opening up her shoulders, her hips, rotating her thoracic spine," Bolden explains. "This is primal movement for all of us." From there, they move into dynamic core work — wood chops, medicine ball crunch throws — because Bolden isn't training Victoria for a six-pack. He's training her to survive a stadium set. "We don't just want visible abs, we want a core that supports her on stage," he says.
On Building the Glutes She Wants
Victoria is refreshingly direct about her goals. "He works my entire body, but I'll be wanting glutes," she says. "I want this nice and thick and powerful." Bolden delivers: double-banded barbell hip thrusts followed by elevated squats. Her take on the genetics myth is worth quoting directly — "We often think that the only way to achieve maximum glutes is through genetics, and that's just not true. You can build them right here in the gym." Noted.
But the regimen doesn't stop at iron. Victoria recently added Tai Chi under instructor April Littlejohn, who describes the practice as the connective tissue holding everything else together. "It gets rid of stress, brings balance and peace, and ties all the other working out together so that Victoria can do all that she does without going insane," Littlejohn says. For Victoria, it's become essential morning ritual — a counterweight to the physical intensity of tour life.
The lesson here isn't a workout plan. It's that longevity — on stage, in the gym, in your body — is built by treating movement as a commitment, not a mood.
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