How Daisy Ridley Got Ripped For The Last Jedi

While training for The Force Awakens, Ridley chronicled her fitness journey on Instagram, earning fans with many #fitnessfriday posts that have since been deleted—though they naturally live on through the archival efforts of her online fans.

In the videos, you can see her engaging in a little bit of everything in the gym, with resistance training to tone muscle going hand-in-hand with core strength-building workouts like deadlifts, bench presses, and Turkish get-ups.

In practice, she's developing both sexy aesthetics with the toned muscle as well as actual, real strength with the core work, and you can see the results onscreen—she doesn't just look strong, she is strong, which comes through in the physicality of her performance.

She also engaged in activities as diverse as kickboxing, rock climbing, and of course cardio, which included plyometric work, ladder runs, and sprinting with one of those resistance training parachutes. It's a startlingly comprehensive routine, with the end result being an all-around strong body, provided you stick with it long enough.

The end result of this variety of work is overall fitness and a body that's generally muscular, with no one muscle group exaggerated. Compare her routine with Josh Brolin's Cable workout, which saw him focusing on chest work to emulate the massive pecs of a comic book character. Unlike Cable, Rey isn't a specialized warrior—she's just a generally fit person, and for the movie's sake, she needs to look like it.