How Face Yourself's Yasmine Stays Ripped on Tour

Summary

Yasmine of Face Yourself describes a practical, flexible approach to strength and fitness—one that supports her health and performance without making training overly complicated.

• Keep training sustainable: Off tour, she lifts weights about four or five times a week. She says she gets better results from shorter, more intense workouts than from spending longer in the gym.
• Train toward specific goals: She prioritizes the muscle groups she wants to develop rather than feeling obliged to do every exercise. She enjoys shoulder work and leg training, though she finds leg workouts demanding.
• Make exercise enjoyable, but accept some difficulty: She avoids building a plan around exercises she dislikes while still doing challenging movements such as walking lunges. She finds cardio difficult but rewarding, and says it helps her manage asthma and supports her vocals.
• Adjust workouts to touring: On the road, she aims to maintain her progress rather than build new muscle. She reduces sets and workout length—often training for 25–30 minutes, around four times a week—and skips extra cardio because performing is physically demanding and time is limited.
• Keep nutrition flexible and mindful: She tries to eat enough, get protein, and cook for herself when possible. She sometimes journals or uses MyFitnessPal to understand her eating, but doesn’t track precisely—especially when restaurant food makes that difficult. She also leaves room for foods she enjoys.
• Prioritize hydration and rest on tour: She carries creatine and resistance bands, stays hydrated, and tries to eat enough to get through the day. Tour sleep can be inconsistent, so she sleeps or naps whenever the schedule allows. She also pays attention to asthma triggers such as allergies, pollen, and dry air.
• Use a simple pre-show routine: She takes her asthma medication, uses a nebulizer to keep her vocal cords moisturized, and warms up with resistance bands.
• Respect injuries and return gradually: After straining her lower back while deadlifting, she stopped leg training for about ten days and resumed when she felt ready. She recommends resting when injured, keeping up gentle movement if comfortable, and not immediately returning to previous weights or routines. She has also added more stretching and warm-ups.
• Focus on health and confidence, not appearance trends: Yasmine says weight training has improved her confidence and helps her care for herself. She values strength and long-term health over pressure to be thin or meet beauty standards.
• Start without worrying about judgment: Her message is to try exercise—or any new skill—for your own benefit. Beginners don’t need to be experts, and she believes most people at the gym are focused on their own workouts.

Presenters and Sources

Yasmine of Face Yourself; the Gym Rock Crew interviewer, whose name is rendered as Jim Rocco in the auto-captions. MyFitnessPal is mentioned as a food-tracking app.