Our buddy Brad Pilon put up a cool article on the new Invictus Workout that will SOON be taking the net by storm.
I liked the premise so much that I’m reprinting it here for you to feast your eyes on.
Ready?
Go!
“The Invictus Workout”
Haven’t heard of it yet?
Don’t worry, you will.
Invictus is a new movie that is coming out soon that stars Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman.
So why does it get it’s own workout?
Well Matt Damon plays Francois Pienaar, the Captain of South Africa’s Rugby team in the early to mid 1990′s. And, at minute 0:57 of the trailer for Invictus, you see Matt with his shirt
off for about 1.5 seconds.
Sounds silly but this is the equation:
Male Hollywood Celebrity Appears “Jacked” in a movie = On-line Hysteria over “How he did it”.
Think the Christian Bale Batman Workout, the Gerard Butler 300 Workout, or the Hugh Jackman Wolverine workout.
It works every time, without fail. Hollywood Celeb gets jacked, someone tries to cash in.
So I’m going to Preempt everyone with this one:
I know EXACTLY how Matt Damon got in shape for this movie…It’s the exact same way Hugh Jackman got in shape, which is the exact same way Gerard Butler got in shape and the same way Christian Bale gets in shape.
They dedicated themselves to Hard work and some form of resistance training.
We should all realize by now that there IS NO SECRET.
It doesn’t matter if you are lifting giant rocks, kettle bells, dumbbells or small barnyard animals.
It’s the hard work that gets the results, not the trendy tools.
Matt, Gerard, Christian, they are no different then you or me… well, other than the lifestyle and money part.
They work hard, they stay dedicated and consistent and they get results. It’s not some secret new workout of the star that until now was kept secret
It’s hard work.
So there you go… If you want to look like a Movie Star, the secret is hard work.
The trick to it all?
Next time you are in the gym imagine there is a 10 million dollar movie role on the line.
You get in shape, you get the role.
BP
And he’s right.
Even with the correct systems in place, if you don’t work at it, you get virtually no results.
This isn’t a walk in the park and on some days, you’ll just plain HATE it.
But them’s the ropes.
If you remember this past weeks podcast, we talked about this a bit.
Intensity.
Mental toughness.
Stretching your boundaries.
Escaping your comfort zone.
And you know what?
It’s WORTH it.
Just imagine how people will look at you when you get to that perfect Adonis Index.
Picture women asking you how you did it.
Listen to the men clamoring over your “secret” potion or “hidden” technique.
And then imagine grinning… because you know that even though you had an awesome workout system (ours) to keep you aimed in the right direction…
… you KNOW that the true secret to the body you now possess, the one that all of these people are hounding you about…
… didn’t come from anything you bought.
It didn’t come from magic.
No specific supplements.
No crazy workout machines.
YOU KNOW, that the true secret is:
Showing up and working out with rabbit-like intensity yet having turtle-like consistency
Each workout is a battle.
It’s you against your worst enemy…
… YOU!
The internal struggle of when to quit and when to push the gas. The flirting with the “edge”.
This is how it works.
This is your life.
And you’re now “that guy”.
Aren’t you? 
Stay cool,
Brad
p.s. Hard work is important. But so are systems.
It’s like running as fast as you can for a mile to try to get to a gas station when you’ve run out of gas in your car.
With no knowledge of which way you’re going, the results you get (finding the gas station) rely more on luck and guessing than having a true aim. After all, wouldn’t having a road map be better?
Here’s that roadmap for the body you want.
Take roadmap. Insert wily determination.
Get results. Period.
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If you think hard work alone is what gets these guys jacked…then you need to rethink Hollywood. How does Christan Bale go from Batman jacked to Machinist thin? How does Toby M get to be spiderman buff in less than 14 months?
There is some very bad things and advice given to these “buff by night” actors. Someone needs to uncover this so everyone else that is truly human stops holding themselves to these impossible standards….
Juice + Uberdiets, does not = Health
To reply to comment above ^^
“How does Toby M get to be spiderman buff in less than 14 months?” 14 months is a long time. You have to learn about nutrition and working out man…. all u see in hollywood is from hard work and proper diet. The secret is determination… I’ve seen people bulk up faster then 14 months. Nutrition nutrition nutrition!!!!
U want to know how Christan Bale went from Batman jacked to Machinist thin? he cut his calories and did more cardio exercises then resitance taining… plain and simple
It’s tough to tell what holly wood celebs are getting some extra help or not. The way they look on camera isn’t always a good indicator of how they look in person.
I don’t doubt that some of them for sure are getting ‘extra help’.
JB
Um, if you guys think these lazy-ass actors are working any harder than anyone else, get real. they have the best doctors in the world on set to administer HGH and steroids of the best pharmaceutical grade. Of course who wouldn’t do it for millions of dollars? Athletes do it for $, you think actors are any different? Remember Stallone getting busted a couple years ago with HGH? Why would you think he was the only one. Don’t be fooled.
It’s 50% diet – these guys can afford dieticians who give them exactly what their body needs to bulk up in the right places. For a normal individual to do this, it would take so much focus, not to mention a lot of money spent on protein rich foods, shakes etc. Sure, anyone can lift heavy weights and stick at it. Hell, it even becomes addictive and enjoyable as any gym lover knows. It’s the diet part that’s the bane in everyone’s path to looking good.
Great article. There’s a lot of good information here, though I did want to let you know something – I am running Fedora with the up-to-date beta of Firefox, and the design of your blog is kind of bizarre for me. I can understand the articles, but the navigation doesn’t function so well.
I’m gonna have to agree with Brad on this one. I’m sure there are some actors out there who do resort to steroids to achieve results, however I think that most of them just work hard.
They don’t have to go to work everyday. They have the freedom to devote a large majority of their time to working out and finding the right nutrition plan.
I work in the film industry as an actor and I know people who have made amazing gains and physical transformations in relatively short periods of time.
If you are dedicated, hard working and focused its achievable. EVEN for someone who does have a day job. I myself put on 20 pounds of muscle in one year, on a vegetarian diet while working a 5 day week day job.
All you need is the right advice, focus and dedication. Couple that with solid nutrition and you’re well on your way to success.
i am shocked to see people who are really dumb to think you can get like that naturally, i am a trainer in LA who has trained some big names, i know exactly what they are taking, cause I ADMINISTER IT, and believe me if you thought arnold schwarzenegar was natural, than keep on living in cuckoo land..
But please dont let me stop you in buying expensive whey proteins, eating bucket loads of protein in a day, shitting all the time, spending money on books, etc etc.. its good to live in fools paradise, where hard work, determination, integrity are values,, just dont think you can compete with people in the real world..
Ryan, if you are a trainer then you are a very bad one. Since certs. are so easy to come, by this doesn’t surprise me. Believe it or not, and this goes for everyone, most of this relative and based on individual variables. Exercise and Nutrition is a science and should be treated as such, since it is all based on the human body. Biochemistry plays a large part in all of this and more valuable than you may think. Yes, steroids work but so does a quality nutritional plan and the correct exercise PATH for the correct individual. My guess, the argument is 50/50. I read alot from Hugh Jackman and really worked his ass off, getting up every three hours to eat!?! Question, do any of you really do that, really? Im not attacking here, im just saying give credit where credit is due and dont be swindled. Hard work works, low reps with heavy definitely buff up, every doctor will agree, and eating more nutritional calories than you expel will help you make muscle gains. Why eat nutritional food? it breaks down properly in the body, fat does not. This taught in every college and high school. Adam Moody, M.D.
I for one, agree with the article, that working out against your comfort into muscle failure is the only way to get ripped fast, well maybe not the best method to use when your 16 but it truly is the only way. Your muscle grows when it heals from the microscopic tears caused by contraction during workouts. Yes, HGH and other supplements and drugs do help, but why does everyone assume that every Hollywood actor uses them, just because we aren’t patient or persistent enough to follow trough and surpass our limits? What happened to believing?
There still are honest actors out there, who are against using drugs or even supplements. Take Hugh Jackman for one, look at how his veins just ripped out in Wolverine and how different he looked compared to Australia. First sign of the elimination of most foods unsaturated foods and anabolic supplements.
I know I might be hated for using this example, but even Taylor Lauthner, only used Creatine, and he was on sooooooooooo much pressure to bulk up.
So lets give credit where its due, and stop putting down artist’s who may have worked way harder that any of us have, simply because we cant commit to our bodies as much as they do
I can’t believe some of the comments I’m seeing here. They assume that “muscle gain=steroid use”.
I was in the Marine Corps infantry for 10 years. I went into bootcamp weighing 141 lbs. At the end of boot camp, 3 months later, I weighed 160 lbs. That’s 19 lbs in 3 months. And all we did was calisthenics and running and we only ate 3 meals a day. And no, we did not have special “genetically inhanced food” to create “super soldiers” or any other nonsense that I expect many reading this will think. It was just plain ‘ol institution food.
Over the next year or so I went up to 170 lbs just from standard PT consisting of calishenics, running, hiking, and lots of just plain physical work. I did not go to the gym my first 3 years in the Marine Corps. I hated PT and the only reason I did it was because the Marine Corps made me.
Then I deployed to Okinawa for 6 months and got into going to the gym. I came back from Oki weighing 185 lbs. No roids. No “dietitians” or “doctors” (What?!) My weight now fluctuates between 190-195 lbs and all I have been doing for the past year is kettlebells and calisthenics.
I have never used steroids or any other performance enhancing drugs, unless you consider dietary supplements to be performance enhancing drugs (Things like protein powder and vitamin and mineral supplements.) That’s all I have ever used.
Instead of calling all the actors with muscle lazy, maybe you should get out from behind the keyboard and start training hard and smart, eating good wholesome food, and stop whining about how these “lazy” actors look better than you do.
Consisent focused training combined with a sensible diet (and some extra protein) is all it takes. Set a fitness goal, find out what it takes to get there, make a plan, and stick to it.
Some resources for your consideration:
-Super Squats by Randall Strossen (www.ironmind.com)
-The Complete Keys to Progress by John McCallum (www.ironmind.com)
-Enter the Kettlebell by Pavel Tsatsouline
-Body for Life by Bill Phillips
-The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuiling by Arnold Schwartzenegger
I apologize for sounding rude but I have heard these excuses for going on 9 years now. When I started going to the gym in Oki and started gaining muscle I was looked at very suspicously by my Platoon Sergeant, Platoon Commander, and many others in my company who suspected that my workout partner and I were taking roids. It is frustrating to work hard and be committed to attaining a fitness goal and then be accused of cheating by people who do not workout or who are not working out properly.
Yes, some people do take steroids and other drugs. But that does not mean that everyone who gets muscular is. That’s like saying everyone who does well in school is cheating. That is simply not the case.
Case and Point!
Gerard Butler is the favorite actor of my sister because he got this macho factor.-;.
What a wonderful post! Please write more often about kettlebells they are my new fitness passion!Bye now!
Jane
Anthony,you’re the man
both Gerard Butler and Daniel Craig are my idols, they are great actors with strong personality””
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