The 10 most muscular Hollywood actors
Either due to the demands of the script or of their own free will, more and more Hollywood actors wear a muscular body. The evolution of physical training and diet has made it possible to build Herculean bodies more typical of Greek gods than of human mortals. Here we present the 10 strongest Hollywood actors, in addition to revealing some of their tricks to achieve a film body.
Henry cavill
Henry Cavill is the actor who plays the role of Superman in "Superman: Man of Steel", the latest comic film adaptation directed by Zack Snyder. To put on his red cape and red shorts, Cavill trained four days a week, leaving Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday to rest. This superhero began the week training the upper body (chest and back) with strength exercises (maximum load and few repetitions, maximum 6). Tuesday lower body; Wednesday rest; Thursday chest and back with hypertrophy exercises (less weight and up to 12 repetitions) to finish on Friday with arms and shoulders.
Kit harrington
Kit Harrington is the actor who plays John Snow in the series Game of Thrones, for which he had to gain considerable volume. Things got more complicated when he was offered the leading role in Pompeii, a film in which he had to appear with the body of a vigorous gladiator. The problem is that Kit is one of those people who have a fast metabolism, so gaining volume was difficult. Nothing that 5,000 kcal a day could not solve in the forms of pasta, rice, potatoes and chicken mainly. Five weeks and plenty of exercise later, Harrington was ready to jump into the sand.
Chris Evans
Chris Evans was the actor chosen to cast himself in the costume of a new, super-muscular Captain America, who both in the movie and in real life undergoes a physical metamorphosis. Unlike in the feature film, in which Steve Rogers (Captain America) is injected with a miracle serum to double the size of his body, in reality, to gain 13 kilos of muscle mass, Evans went through a 3-month ordeal of "Brutal" gym sessions, even vomiting during exercise, according to the actor confessed.
Hugh jackman
Hugh Jackman is a wolf cub, that hypertrophied mutant with the ability to regenerate tissues and organs at rapid speed. To play this role, Jackman put himself in the hands of personal trainer David Kingsbury, who turned a 44-year-old man into a veritable beast. To be more exact, Kingsbury was in charge of returning to Jackman all the physical splendor that he had to lose for the "Les Miserables" movie. The challenge was complicated, since for the last X-Men, 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' they wanted to show a more muscular cub than even in the previous films of the saga. According to Kingsbury, the objective was achieved by combining series of exercises with a lot of weight, slow movements and few repetitions (1-5), with series with less weight, and greater number of repetitions (8-12).
Mark Wahlberg
At the beginning of the post I commented that there are actors who are muscled by the demands of the script and others who do them of their own free will, because in the case of Mark Wahlberg it is clearly of their own free will. Wahlberg, since his adolescence sported a very worked body, which even allowed him to act as an underwear model for Calvin Klein. Marky Mark, as he was known in his time as a rapper, has always stood out for his arms, always voluminous as well as defined. In this sense, Wahlberg always begins training with medium weight and ten repetitions to gradually add kilos and subtract repetitions.
Chris Hemsworth
Another superhero for the list. This time it's about Thor, the god of thunder in Norse mythology, played by Chris Hemsworth. To get the strength to lift Thor's heavy hammer, Hemsworth enlisted the services of personal trainer Michael Knight, who divided the training into two phases: 1. High-weight, low-repetition exercises to gain volume 2. Functional circuits for lose excess fat and maintain muscle.
Jason statham
Jason Statham or 'Handsome Rob' as he was called in the movie 'The italian job' began to tan his body in the water, and it is that before being an actor, Statham was a trampoline jumper, even becoming part of the National Team British. Outside the pools, this burly Englishman exercises with the 'Big Five 55 Workout' routine, which consists of a circuit of five exercises that he repeats ten times. The five exercises are: barbell front squat, chin-ups, parallel bar push-ups with feet raised, power cleans, and suspension knee raises. As we have said, each series consists of these five exercises, however, the repetitions will progressively decrease. So we will start the training by repeating each exercise ten times and we will finish it with a single execution, so that in the end we will have done 55 repetitions of the five exercises.
The Rock
The actor Dwayne Johnson, better known as The Rock (the rock) is undoubtedly one of the most exaggerated bodies in Hollywood, and is that his roles in action films require it. One of his last films was "Hercules", where he played this demigod of Greek mythology, son of the god Zeus and the mortal queen Alcmena. Although it seems that Johnson's figure was already ready to embody this legendary hero, The Rock has revealed that for each film he follows a particular training and diet. In the case of Hercules, this former football player trained for six months at a rate of six days a week.
Going into more detail, each workout began at 4 in the morning with 50 minutes of cardio, before working the muscles for the day, with the legs being the “most punished” part throughout the week. Each training lasted around 1h 40.
Diet-wise, The Rock ate seven times a day and according to his words he turned hard-boiled eggs, filet mignon, chicken, fish, oatmeal, broccoli, asparagus, baked potatoes, rice, pasta, and salad.
Tom hardy
This skinny Englishman had to gain substantial weight for the movie Warrior, in which he plays a professional wrestler. Later would come the role of Bane, the bad guy from "Batman, the dark knight", for whom he had to continue growing until he became a very scary uncle. Unlike many others, Hardy achieved his goal without touching a single weight, only by exercising with his own body weight. In this sense, Hardy trained four times a day, but in short sessions.
Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender was one of the Spartans in the movie "300", in which the entire cast of actors spent long periods of time naked and displaying virility in abundance. For this particular film, Fassbender would train up to twelve hours a day, since in addition to strength he needed agility and endurance.
To achieve this type of body, Fassbender designed functional circuits composed of push-ups, chin-ups, box jumps, floor wiper (abs), deadlift and kettle bell clean and press. And to recover, I ran for two minutes on the treadmill. On the other hand, the weekend was dedicated exclusively to cardio (running, cycling, swimming, etc.)
