Madonna loves to don her ladies fitness wear and try out news forms of exercise, her ex-boyfriend has suggested, which could be the secret to her super-toned body.

Carlos Leon, a fitness trainer by profession, is the father of Madonna's 13-year-old daughter Lourdes.

"She's the type of person that will do anything exercise-wise. Right now she is using bands (big elastic ones) for resistance training and her cardio comes from dance," he told the Times.

He went on to say that she works hard at keeping in shape as her body is her business and she has to look good and be able to move well on stage.

Leon added that his daughter gets most of her exercise from ballet dancing.

Last year, famous yoga guru Bikram Choudhury said that he had refused to give Madonna private tuition in his special form of the Indian form of meditation.

He said that if she wanted him as a teacher, she would have to come along to one of his group sessions and leave her ego at the door.

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