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The actress, 43, is hitting the weight room for an intense workout.

“I still love yoga,”Longoria toldUs Weekly, but “my workouts now are more weight training. Very serious weight training.”

While she’s really challenging her body now, Longoria said that she wanted togive herself plenty of time to recoveraftergiving birth to her first child, son Santiago, on June 19.

Now, withSantiago about to reach his half birthday, Longoria said she felt ready to go to work.

“Now I’m working out a lot more and watching what I eat,” she said. “I’m barely starting to get back into it.”

The formerDesperate Housewivesstar got into weightlifting in the last two years.

“I’m a runner, first of all. I run a lot. But I also doSoulCycle, Pilates,yoga. I usually mix it up. Now I’m starting with weight training,”she toldHealthin 2017.

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But Longoria admitted that she’d skip the gym if she could.

“I don’t enjoy working out,” she said. “I always wish my trainer doesn’t show up! I’m always like, ‘I hope he cancels, I hope he cancels…’ ”

Still, Longoria knows how important working out is for your health.

source: people.com