James Van Der Beek's may not have won this year's "Dancing With The Stars," but he did dance away with another prize... rockhard abs!
Because who needs a Mirrorball Trophy when you have a sixpack?
James Van Der Beek's may not have won this year's "Dancing With The Stars," but he did dance away with another prize... rockhard abs!
Because who needs a Mirrorball Trophy when you have a sixpack?
He and his dancing partner Emma Slater tore up the stage while competing against other talented celebs.
This included Queer Eye's Karamo Brown, comedian Kel Mitchell, and The Bachelorette's Hannah Brown who ended up winning it all!
This was shortly after Van Der Beek revealed that his wife had suffered a miscarriage.
“My wife Kimberly and I went through every expecting parent’s worst nightmare. We lost the baby,” he said.
“The little soul that we had expected to welcome into our family took a shortcut to whatever lies beyond.”
“All you know is that it brings you closer together, it breaks you open, it opens your heart, it deepens your appreciation. It makes you more human.”
He and his wife currently have five kids together.
“He needed the show,” she said.
“He said to me, ‘I need the show. I’m grateful to have an outlet and to have a form of physical expression and keep that engine to keep me going. I need to feel normal and not fall into the pit.'”
This past Wednesday, he shared exactly how dancing has transformed his body by posting a photo of his toned abs.
"Fight training vs. dancing..." he wrote in his caption, drawing a comparison between the two exercises.
Before the show, the actor's main form of exercise was training heavily in Muay Thai, a form of martial arts.
His dancing partner was also so proud of him.
"Both cut but you can see dancing really defines everything. Especially when you worked as hard as you did! In every way you are a huge advocate for dance @vanderjames!!!" she wrote.
He said that he ate mainly vegan, with "lots of fruit, vegetables, lot of smoothies, salads.
"Not so much a diet ... more like only wanting to eat what I knew would make me feel good under the workload."
“I haven’t stepped on a scale, but my pants have gotten looser,” he said backstage at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas.
We're talking four and a half hours!
“I knew it was going to be hard. I was prepared for a really, really steep learning curve,” he added.
We hope the actor keeps dancing away because he looks amazing!