Men’s Fitness Australia – June 2017

Grooming by Christie Caiola; Styling by Barret Wertz

MOUNTAIN

CLIMBER

Get into pushup

position and drive one

knee up to your chest.

Drive the leg back while

bringing the other one

up. Alternate back and

forth swiftly.

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TABATA

HOWTODOIT

Action-man fit

BOX JUMP

Stand a few centimetres

behind a box with feet

shoulder-width apart.

Bend your knees and

jump on top of box and

land softly in a squat

position. Step back to

the floor rather than

jumping down to help

prevent knee injuries.

Chris Pratt has put himself through the wringer to ready himself for roles: He nuked 15kg to play an MLB catcher in Moneyball

and banged out 500 pushups a day to get in Navy SEAL shape for Zero Dark Thirty. Since wrapping Guardians Vol. 2, Pratt’s been

“mixing it up” with his workouts, trading weights for “more straight conditioning, like high-intensity interval training and Cross Fit-

style moves” to get in what he considers “the hardest workouts” and improve functional fitness.

He now trains seven days a week, adding battle ropes and medicine ball work with CrossFit and Tabata HIIT. The 37-year-old

actor, who’s also training to compete in a triathlon, says that a concentration on strength, conditioning and flexibility — including

sessions of vinyasa hot yoga — work well for him: “I try to balance those three things and figure out which I have the biggest

deficit in, then put the work in there,” he explains.

Do 5 rounds of all 8

exercises. 20 sec of

work, 10 sec of rest.

1 ) Mountain

Climber

2 )Pushup

3 )Jump Lunge

4 )Box Jump

5 )Battle Rope

6 )Med Ball Slam

7 )Burpee

8 )Leg Lift

106 MEN’S FITNESS JUNE 2017