{"id":623656,"date":"2026-04-23T16:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623656\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:38:13","slug":"elizabeth-smarts-grueling-bodybuilding-routine-revealed-by-trainer-after-shock-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/623656\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Smart’s grueling bodybuilding routine revealed by trainer after shock ‘transformation’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Smart\u2019s grueling fitness routine has been revealed after she won first place<\/a> at her fourth bodybuilding competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe followed a plan \u2026 healthy meal plan all this time,\u201d Smart\u2019s fitness coach, Robyn Maher, told \u201cExtra.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then \u2026 weight training most days of the week. So typically, five to six days a week focus on specific muscle groups,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what you\u2019re judged on, you know, when you know, when you get up onstage. And you know, she did really well at this last competition. She got a first-place trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Smart\u2019s grueling fitness routine has been revealed. (Pictured: Smart and other competitors at the National Physique Committee Wasatch Warrior bodybuilding contest.) Instagram\/mpholsombake<\/p>\n

\u201cShe followed a plan \u2026 healthy meal plan all this time,\u201d Smart\u2019s fitness coach, Robyn Maher, told \u201cExtra.\u201d (Pictured: Smart and Mackenzie Paralee Holsombake working out.) Instagram\/mpholsombake<\/p>\n

Maher confirmed Smart competed in her first competition under her married name, Elizabeth Gilmour, as her maiden name is well known for her childhood abduction.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wasn\u2019t looking for any attention. Just wanted to do it for herself and set that goal,\u201d Maher told the outlet. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we were super excited. She made great progress with her physique, and she kind of caught the bug a little bit. She said, \u2018I think I want to do this again, like, I\u2019ve seen what I\u2019ve accomplished. I feel stronger,\u2019\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

Smart, 38, shocked fans this week when she revealed that she was a competitive bodybuilder<\/a> by showing off her ultrafit physique. <\/p>\n

Maher said Smart (seen above in a bikini) weight trained for \u201cfive to six days a week\u201d to \u201cfocus on specific muscle groups.\u201d National Physique Committee<\/p>\n

This week, Smart (seen above in an Instagram post) revealed that she secretly competed in bodybuilding competitions. slcrobynmaher\/Instagram<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, the child safety activist shared a photo of herself in a navy blue bikini and clear heels\u00a0from her fourth bodybuilding competition over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Smart confessed in the caption that she was scared to post about her competitions over a fear of being \u201cjudged, not taken seriously, somehow perceived as less than or now unworthy to continue work as an advocate for all survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen this past weekend it struck me how eerily familiar these feelings and thoughts are for too many survivors,\u201d the mom of three added.<\/p>\n

The activist (seen above) said she was scared to share her fitness journey because she was \u201cworried that I would be judged \u2026 perceived as less than or now unworthy to continue work as an advocate for all survivors.\u201d Instagram\/@elizabeth_smart_official<\/p>\n

Smart (seen above in 2004) was kidnapped from her Utah home in 2002 when she was 14. Getty Images<\/p>\n

In 2002, Smart was taken from her bedroom<\/a>\u00a0in Salt Lake City when she was 14 years old. <\/p>\n

Nine months later, she was rescued by police and became an advocate for survivors of sexual violence and a child safety activist.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Smart created the Elizabeth Smart Foundation, which seeks to bring hope, empowerment and change in the fight against sexual violence.<\/p>\n

If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-330-0226.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Smart\u2019s grueling fitness routine has been revealed after she won first place at her fourth bodybuilding competition.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64045,49,48,361,64047,362,146716,75,12439,348,2372],"class_list":{"0":"post-623656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-beach-bodies","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-celebrity-bodies","13":"tag-celebrity-news","14":"tag-elizabeth-smart","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-health-and-fitness","17":"tag-tv","18":"tag-womens-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}