Blake Lively's Personal Trainer Designed Chip and Joanna Gaines' Custom Home Gym — and Blake Weighs In!

Blake Lively has much than 1 point successful communal pinch Chip and Joanna Gaines — from a love of location design down to their individual trainer!

Don Saladino — who has been training Lively for complete 15 years — took connected nan Magnolia Network stars arsenic his clients almost 1 twelvemonth ago.

Part of his duties included customizing Chip and Joanna’s location gym, and erstwhile he was finished, he took to Instagram to stock nan earlier and aft of nan space.

“I started training Chip and Jo adjacent to a twelvemonth ago. It was clip to springiness their gym a small spot of a makeover,” Saladino says successful nan video. “I’m going to locomotion you done and show you nan earlier and past nan after. Look really bully it looks.”

Earlier this year, Joanna sewage candid astir her fittingness travel and revealed that she and Chip were moving retired together for nan first clip successful their 22-year marriage. 

When it came clip to yet unveil nan couple's caller gym, Saladino references their celebrated series Fixer Upper, which ended its original tally connected HGTV successful 2018 and was later rebooted for nan Magnolia Network.

“I consciousness for illustration I’m channeling Fixer Upper right now. It’s clip to get Chip and Jo and show them nan reveal,” he says. 

“Ready to spot your Fixer Upper?" Joanna tees up Saladino pinch her show's celebrated catchphrase. "This is much nosy being connected this side.” 

Saladino responds, “I honestly consciousness for illustration I’m a genitor connected Christmas.” 

When they yet measurement into nan space, Joanna’s jaw drops, and she notes really nan 219-square-foot room feels bigger moreover though there’s much instrumentality successful it now. 

Meanwhile, Chip instantly goes to trial retired nan treadmill and starts goofing astir connected nan machine.  

“Don’t break it connected nan first day,” Saladino jokes.

In nan comments, Lively weighed successful by sharing different Fixer Upper-related joke. “Are you fresh to spot your Fitter Upper?!” she wrote.

While nan A Simple Favor actress has a relationship to Chip and Joanna done Saladino, she’s besides been a longtime instrumentality of nan mates and considers them friends. 

In October 2024, nan group were spotted chatting extracurricular of a edifice successful New York City, during which Lively and Joanna were each smiles arsenic Chip stood down nan pair. The trio enjoyed their catch-up aft leaving Italian edifice Gemma located wrong nan celeb-favorite Bowery Hotel. 

Lively has besides publically expressed really overmuch she loves Fixer Upper and admires Chip and Joanna arsenic a couple. 

“It’s nan top show ever,” nan character said successful a July 2016 YouTube clip shared by KiddNation. Referring to nan couple, she added, “They’re everything goals. Their family, their life — I’m truthful obsessed pinch them.” 

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When asked astatine nan clip if she’d ever scope retired to Chip and Joanna straight to go “best friends,” Lively responded, “Why do you presume that I haven’t done that?”

She past explained really their relationship was born, noting that her hubby Ryan Reynolds was besides progressive successful nan typical moment.

“It was nan first point that we did, this is why we started societal media. My hubby and I realized nan powerfulness of societal media. We were like, ‘if we tweet them, do they respond? Is that benignant of for illustration emailing them but cheating because past it’s like, a nationalist email?’” 

“Sure enough, we were capable to way them down and I recovered immoderate weird excuse. I was like, ‘Joanna, I request to telephone you to talk to you astir a early idea.’ So we matter each now and past and each clip we matter I return a surface drawback that says, ‘text message: Joanna Gaines’ and conscionable like, prevention a photograph for illustration a small psychopath.” 

Lively is besides passionate astir location creation herself, arsenic she antecedently wrote that she’s a concealed interior designer successful an Instagram station backmost successful January 2024. The station featured a photograph of nan character posing wrong her NYC home, offering fans a glimpse of her interior creation style.