Does everyone here have a physique they use for inspiration? I would like to aim towards something like the picture above. Ryan Reynolds in this picture apparently achieved this physique in about 6 months in preparation for the Blade Trinity movie. But this is what he posted on a blade trinity forum about his routine, How is this possible?
workout routine: the question has come up a lot, so i’m gonna give you the detailed version. if you’re NOT interested in hearing this crap, just scroll, 'cause it’s 2 minutes you’ll never get back.
here goes…
while eating a protein carb mix every 2 hours all day, i’d wind up having about 8 - 10 “tiny” meals instead of 3 big meals over the course of a day. no carbs at night, but plenty during the day. (the “no carbs ever” fad is bullshit in my opinion. and a great way to turn into a cranky fucker nobody wants to be around) this kind of diet kept my blood sugar even and gave me the requisite energy needed for the physicality of the role…
my trainer (and Jesse Biel’s) was a guy named Darren Chapman. he’s one of the most inspiring individuals i’ve ever met. a member of the UK’s olympic bobsled team, he’s as adept at the nutritional training as he is the physical training. also, a great guy that doesn’t mind me calling him every swear word ever heard in any language. i think i may have even called him a ‘bastard’ in elvish. trainers are used to it. he showed me how important the process of visualization is. visualizing the transformation i had to make–i believe was key to making it happen. with this information, i began training as though preparing for the olympics…
workouts were about 2-3 hours. generally starting off with around 500 - 1000 sit-ups. then heavy weights for bulk. i’m a pretty scrawny guy so we cut cardio entirely and just focused on bulking up. weight training involved a variety of excercises too numerous to mention at reps of about 8-12, for 6 days a week. after the first week i was longing for the sweet release of death, but soon enough got really into it.
the main thing i learned about this whole process is how important food is. transforming your body quickly is a genetic ability, but can also be traumatic. eating properly is 80% of the equation. most people think it’s the other way around…
How is what possible? He lifted weights and ate several times a day…and got paid to do it. I am about as impressed with this as I am watching a dog take a shit on my lawn.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
almost wrote:
How is this possible?
How is what possible? He lifted weights and ate several times a day…and got paid to do it. I am about as impressed with this as I am watching a dog take a shit on my lawn.[/quote]
Well thanks for the quality response.
What I mean is, lifting 6 times a day, isn’t that a bit excessive? 50 - 5000 sit ups to begin with? What would his full routine look like? Oh and I hope It’s your dog you let shit on your garden ;).
6 months is quite enought time to look like that, especially if you had the base he did (see Van Wilder). he was by no means out of shape and adding 5-10 lbs of muscle and dropping a couple % bf is not that hard to do in 6 months.
you have to remebmber that these actors/actresses get paid to do this and they can committ their whole day to it unlike you and i who have real lives and dont have access to personal chef’s, professional programs (if you wanted one), etc. if i was getting paid >1,000,000 to get in shape for a role you can bet your bottom dollar that i would bust my ass.
Furthermore, these type of responses are very common for the Hollywood types to give about diet and training. everyone says the big change was eating b/t 5 and 8 times a day and their trainer made them do stability this and core that for 8-12 reps, 5-6 days a week. i think that these are generic responses because it is socially accepted as the way to put on size and “tone” but also remember that alot of these folks have never used a serious training protocol for a sustained period of time so, as we all know, as a “newbie” it is much easier to add size and drop bf.
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Well thanks for the quality response.
What I mean is, lifting 6 times a day, isn’t that a bit excessive? 50 - 5000 sit ups to begin with? What would his full routine look like? Oh and I hope It’s your dog you let shit on your garden ;).[/quote]
6 days a week. And honestly even though crunches aren’t the best choice for ab work, its not going to wear you out for your workout.
I’m posting to this mainly because the Ryan Reynold’s physique is also the the body type I aspire for (interesting, that felt really gay to type, yet I feel no extenuating homosexual tendancies…)
Anyway, It may have just been a typo on your part, but it does say the he worked out 6 times a week, rather than lifting 6 times a day.
As for his routine and the excessive volume it seems to have, well that’s the priveledge of being a hollywood actor. I think it was Poliquin who put out a training article many moons ago that talked about performing a “hollywood” training routine. The prerequisites were lots of time, independant wealth (closely related those are), and eat lots.
The thing is when your being paid to specifically look good that means that your job becomes that. So nagging things like responsibilities largely go out the window. These guys get up in the morning drink or eat their prepared meal. Bust their ass in the gym for a couple hours, eat another prepared meal, take a nice two hour nap, wake up bust their ass some more (probably a skill specific training - like fight training in this instance). Eat another prepared meal, get a nice massage or ice therapy from the hired help, take another nap, etc.
When you have all these luxuries typical concepts of overtraining don’t apply so much. Surely if they did this year round, and if they didn’t have this great olympic trainer monitoring what days they need to back off and go hard, they’d overtrain. But when all the variables are closely monitored…well you get the Ryan Reynold’s physique we’re aspiring to.
As a side note, on the Blade Trinity dvd they had a bonus feature specifically about their (Reynold’s, Biel’s, and the horrific B-actor they got to play Dracula) physical training. It said a lot of what you posted but also added that they tested Reynold’s body fat and said it was around 3%. That’s ridiculously low, though not entirely unbelievable. Somehow I don’t think I’m going to be getting there anytime soon (* reaching for the HOT-ROX *).
Read what you wrote - he worked out for 2-3 hours a day and ate a lot. Yes, it’s possible. Best way to do it? Probably not. But if you’re young, healthy, it’s a short-term thing and you’re paid to do it, yes it will work.
Ian King has written a lot on how the rest of life can interfere with physical conditioning. However, if your top priority is working out, to the exclusion of just about everything else, I think you’d be stunned with what you can do.
In another interview, he said that for the 6 months he was “always eating”. Always, as in he could never remember a time when food wasn’t off to one side waiting for him.
[quote]flynniec6 wrote:
Read what you wrote - he worked out for 2-3 hours a day and ate a lot. Yes, it’s possible. Best way to do it? Probably not. But if you’re young, healthy, it’s a short-term thing and you’re paid to do it, yes it will work.[/quote]
Beyond that, I know two guys at my gym who train for no less than 2 hours at a time 5 days a week. They actually seem to see progress from it even though I know that it wouldn’t work for me. We all aren’t made the same, not to mention overall rest during the day or overal daily stress would greatly dictate what your body could get away with in terms of workload.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
almost wrote:
How is this possible?
How is what possible? He lifted weights and ate several times a day…and got paid to do it. I am about as impressed with this as I am watching a dog take a shit on my lawn.[/quote]
I kinda like watching dogs take shits on lawns, esp when its not my own lawn, but my own dog
There are photos out there of Jessica Biel working out for the movie. I find those more inspirational than Ryan’s pics. They kinda obviate the need for me to purchase Alpha Male, too
That thing about Ryan being 3% bodyfat is bollocks. Pro bodybuilders at competition are around 3%, and they are much more ripped than Ryan was. Look at the photo, you can see subcutaneous fat in between his abs; not a lot, I agree, but it’s there. Ergo not 3%. Probably around 6-8%, if you want a number.
He is pretty damn lean, though. I wouldn’t mind being that lean myself…
Yes I can quite imagine that he had a lot more time than the average working guy to focus fully on his training and eating. I would be interested to know what sort of training routine he did do though. I got the info from a post he did on the the blade trinity forum.
