Men\'s Health Australia - 11.2018

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Run 4 00m in 1min

Run2.41km in 9min

Run5K in 22min

1RM Front Squat

1.5 x bodyweight

Pull-Up

15 unbroken reps

Row2km in 7min

10 Rep Bench Press

80kg

Tu rki s h G e t- U p

50% bodyweight

1RM Deadlift

2xbodyweight

Bodyweight Back

Squat20 reps

“Self-improvement,”declares

Brad Pitt’s Tyler Durden, “is

masturbation.” Despite the

unambiguous message of the

psychopathic Durden – the

alter-ego of Edward Norton’s

unnamed narrator – the

black-eyed comedy popularised

the term “six-pack”, as well as

“inguinal crease”. (The result of

awe-struck viewers searching:

“What is that line that runs from

Brad Pitt’s hip to his crotch?”)

Click-bait articles purport to

contain Pitt’s “actualFight Club

workout”, but he has yet to

share his method (he was seen

on set using hand weights).

Charlie Hunnam’s quip that Pitt

“ruined it for everyone” doesn’t

just apply to his fellow actors.

This swords-and-six-packs
epic has entered the
fitspirationpantheon, and
the way that the Spartan
warriors were battle-
hardened has been
mythologised. Mark Twight
and his Gym Jones team
subjected cast, crew and
even director Zack Snyder
to constantly shifting
functional fitness tests and
energy restrictions. Four
months of Hades
culminated in a 300-rep
examination: 25 pull-ups,
50 deadlifts with 60kg, 50
push-ups, 50 box jumps,
50 floor-wipers with 60kg,

Sly wasabsurdly chiselled
inRocky III. Preparing for
the role, he spent all day
running, sparring, lifting,
skipping and swimming,
cutting his body fat to 2.8
per cent at a lean 73kg.
The International
Federation of Body-
builders named him the

“Body of the Eighties”. For

the thirdRambo, however,

Stallone pumped himself

up into a man-sized action

figure who could almost

single-handedly take on

the Soviet army, by

performing pull-downs

with 125kg at 82kg

bodyweight.

The movie had such an

impact that the US policy

of violent, unilateral

interventions in countries

such as Nicaragua was

dubbed “the Rambo

Doctrine”, and there was

concern the film might

undermine improving

relations with Russia.

Sylvester

Stallone

RAMBO III 1988

Brad Pitt

FIGHT CLUB 1999

The Cast

Of 300

2006

50 kettlebell cleans and

presses with 15kg, and

another 25 pull-ups. Star

Gerard Butler described

Twight’s modus operandi

as “dificult in the kind of

way where you wish you

had never been born –

and even more than that,

wished he had never

been born”.

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