Jennifer Aniston Says She's Annoying to Work Out With

By Elena Marika Konstantinou

October 26, 2026

Jennifer Aniston has a confession for anyone who has ever hit the gym with her: she is "annoying as hell." The Friends star joked about her workout-buddy style in an interview with InStyle, which AOL republished on Friday, October 23.

Her crime? Coaching. "I think I'm the teacher, so I'm sure it's annoying as hell for my girlfriends," Aniston, 57, told the magazine. "But I definitely love working out with my girlfriends. I'm always like, 'Lift and hold.'" Every friend group needs that one person, honestly.

The bigger news is what she is lifting. Aniston, a longtime partner of the fitness brand Pvolve, said she spent years sticking to cardio, partly because of the old fear that weights would make women "bulky." Now she has been adding weight to her Pvolve workouts, and she told InStyle she never thought she would be training with 25-pound weights consistently.

She says the payoff shows up far beyond the mat. "I have so much more energy," she said. "My body feels strong. My walks, my hikes, they're easier. Everyday movements are easier."

For Aniston, it is about the long game. She explained that the big muscle groups many of us ignore are the ones that keep our skeletons strong and healthy, and that when muscles are weak, bones can become "weak and brittle."

Her message to other women is that staying fit does not have to mean endless treadmill time. "We don't have to spend 45 minutes to an hour of boring cardio on a treadmill or elliptical," she said, adding that a strength session can be "20 minutes or even 10."

Fans who want to steal her routine can find it on Pvolve's website, where the brand has shared her step-by-step workout alongside a new longevity report and a Muscle Readiness Score that measures how prepared women's bodies are for aging, according to InStyle.

She will need that energy. Her Christmas comedy Naughty keeps adding big names to its cast ahead of its November 5, 2027 release, and The Morning Show is heading into its fifth and final season.

Her Greek side is never far from the story, either. Aniston's father, the late actor John Aniston, was born Yannis Anastassakis in Chania, on Crete, and this month her partner Jim Curtis opened up about his own family roots in Athens and Lemnos.