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If you are a fan of Dakota Johnson’s effortlessly cool personality, you just might love her workout routine that is low-impact but gives great results.
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Whitty, charming, sassy and a little bit of a bite, Dakota Johnson’s personality has won the internet. The actor has been on a press tour for the launch of her new film, Verity, with actors Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett.
Dakota Johnson started off in the film industry as a child star opposite her mother, actor Melanie Griffith. She also comes from a family that is packed with celebrities, as American actor and singer Don Johnson is her biological father and Antonio Banderas her stepfather.
Having lived in the spotlight since a young age, the actor has a cool personality to boot. She also does not take herself too seriously and is known to crack jokes about herself, including the time she laughed off a near wardrobe malfunction on The Late Late Show with James Corden by saying, “[It’s] nothing nobody hasn’t already seen.”
So, it is no surprise that the actor is the current IT girl in the industry. She is funny and fashionable and has an interesting film range and an interesting love life too. Dakota Johnson has cultivated a viral internet reputation for herself as an effortlessly cool, “zero-apologies, and off-kilter brand of cool,” as noted by Today.
If you want to take a page from her notebook, you can copy her workout routine, which includes exercises from yoga to dancing, sculpting low-impact classes to walking. In an interview with Vogue, the star shares how she makes time to exercise almost every day of the week.
“I danced as a child, so I have to exercise every day or I’ll go crazy,” she explains. “I’m a very sensitive person, so if I go off track for two days, I feel like I’m dying, which is probably also a problem. I just want to feel good in my body.”
She adds, “I do a lot of yoga and I walk a lot.” The actor shares that she loves doing Tracy Anderson workouts as well as the Sculpt Society, a method that mixes strength training, endurance and dance cardio. Dakota adds, “Megan Roup, the founder of the Sculpt Society, is my trainer – she’s the best and kicks my butt.”
In March this year, after Dakota Johnson’s viral Calvin Klein ad went online, her trainer, Megan Roup, took to Instagram to share exactly what she did to help the 36-year-old prep for her time in front of the camera.
Megan Roup said, “So many people think you have to do some extreme workout program before a campaign shoot, and I am proving time and time again that you absolutely do not [have to] to get results like this.” The fitness trainer walked viewers through exactly how she trained Dakota Johnson ahead of the shoot with just a few weeks’ notice.
“We followed a program on The Sculpt Society and we worked out four to six times a week,” she continued, noting that Johnson’s training consisted of both in-person workouts and ones on Roup’s app. “ … Workouts were no longer than 45 minutes. We also, of course, always had one to two rest days a week.” Megan Roup’s focus with Johnson was to build lean muscle and to help the actress feel strong and confident “from the inside out.”
The Sculpt Society is known for targeted programming that gets your heart rate elevated with short bursts of cardio that won’t spike your cortisol.
Megan Roup says, “I … would bring Dakota’s heart rate back down with functional exercises mixed in with mobility, so think curtsy squats, lunges, planks, bridges, a lot of glute work mixed in with an ankle weight, Pilates ball, band and sliders. A lot of my programming involves your deep core, and I would say that the results speak for themselves.”
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Ask News18Dakota Johnson works out four to six times a week with her trainer Megan Roup using The Sculpt Society app and in-person sessions. Her routine incorporates a mix of dancing, yoga, walking, and low-impact sculpting classes focusing on strength training, endurance, mobility, and deep core work.
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October 04, 2026, 17:55 IST
