If I needed to gain muscle mass quickly..

sxt

..in a six week period

..For a big blockbuster movie role? what 45 minute /3 days a week weight training program would you rec·om·mend?

thegreatiam

lots of muscle mass in 6 weeks to look movie star good?

eat more, work out more than 135 minutes a week, or your studio may sue you for breech of contract.

did your agent put in any clauses for body doubling costs to be taken out of your end of the deal??

Hardonraging

Consume Diesel !! Vin preferable cos in 6 weeks, even if you were to eat, 4K cals a day, you'd gain mass, but chances are it wont be muscle mass..

deadlybuzzman

Of course! Instead of consistently lifting and eating well I should've just taken a magic 6 week shortcut too

sxt

There have to be programs for people who need to be in the best physical preparation for a role in the least amount of time , six weeks is alot of time to transform your body..

ahnowbrowncow

sxt wrote: »

There have to be programs for people who need to be in the best physical preparation for a role in the least amount of time , six weeks is alot of time to transform your body..

Yeah but not with a 45 minute workout 3 nights a week

Zamboni

sxt wrote: »

There have to be programs for people who need to be in the best physical preparation for a role in the least amount of time , six weeks is alot of time to transform your body..

A transformation through fat loss yes (depending on starting point of course).
How much actual muscle do you think can be gained in six weeks.

ironclaw

ahnowbrowncow wrote: »

Yeah but not with a 45 minute workout 3 nights a week

Pretty much sums it up. Movie roles have all sorts of support from dietary to therapeutic on hand. I think Daniel Craig was putting in 3 hours (Or something like that) before and after shoots, and even more in the lead up. Insane amount of hours. I'm sure programs exist but I'd imagine you'd need an insane amount of support most therapeutic (i.e. Physio) if you going from static zero.

RidleyRider

sxt wrote: »

There have to be programs for people who need to be in the best physical preparation for a role in the least amount of time , six weeks is alot of time to transform your body..

OP, have you ever stepped into a gym before? 6 weeks is along time to change your body but that's with a good programme and nutrition.

Plus, if it is a 'blockbuster' movie I'd imagine that they'd give you some help rather then letting you do it yourself. Have you seen the likes of Sylvester Stallone, Vin Diesel, Jason Statham? They didn't get that ripped/built in 6 weeks!

How much mass are you talking?

jugger0

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Rubber_Soul

ironclaw wrote: »

Pretty much sums it up. Movie roles have all sorts of support from dietary to therapeutic on hand. I think Daniel Craig was putting in 3 hours (Or something like that) before and after shoots, and even more in the lead up. Insane amount of hours. I'm sure programs exist but I'd imagine you'd need an insane amount of support most therapeutic (i.e. Physio) if you going from static zero.

Jamie Lewis has done a couple of posts on his blog about actor's preparation for roles, pieced together from info he found in interviews etc. Imagine that's only what they were willing to share with the public

Links are NSFW

Chris Hemsworth
http://tinyurl.com/a9sk8r5

Tom Hardy
http://tinyurl.com/bgxdj2e

squod

Work on the bits you can see. Hope for the best. Many of these Hollywood hunks are just a pair of biceps on a skinny bloke. Diet is going to be the difficult bit.

Burkatron

It's ok! I know a PT who in just 2 weeks can get your bodyfat down 7% in 2 weeks & gain 10lbs of muscle! So his broscience magic in 6 weeks would = a 42% drop in body fat & a 60lb gain in muscle! He invented it all by himself! But it only works on other people, his genetics wont allow it to work on him! SRSLY

thegreatiam

Burkatron wrote: »

It's ok! I know a PT who in just 2 weeks can get your bodyfat down 7% in 2 weeks & gain 10lbs of muscle! So his broscience magic in 6 weeks would = a 42% drop in body fat & a 60lb gain in muscle! He invented it all by himself! But it only works on other people, his genetics wont allow it to work on him! SRSLY

lol, i wish to meet this magican.

Toby maguire did his training over 8 weeks for spiderman.
But that was all fat loss, he was skinny fat going in and skinny muscle going out. that was something like 3 hours a day for 8 weeks and a really strict diet.

Statham and Huge Akman both just upped their daily work out for transporter and wolverine, and increased their food.

The cast of 300 did a caveman type deal for 6-8 weeks. and then they just had someone spray muscles on them with fake tan.

guy who was face in A-team (bradley something?)had a pretty hard diet and training regimen over a number of weeks 10+ at least, then when his body scenes were done he went back to being chubby again. he was back to his usual self before the trailer was released.

guys like brad pit, ryan phillip etc who have that skinny toned look maintain their diet through the whole year as they know in any movie they take they will have body shots.

The rest is done with movie trickery. if you are required to have this done for a movie then it will be in your contract to look good. they will get you a trainer and he will stave you and work you like a monkey everyday for 3+ hours to ensure he gets his bonuses. Failing that they will hire a body double.

If you arent doing this for a huge blockbuster movie roll and instead think that you can copy a movie star and just work out for 6 weeks to be ripped. then youre wrong. movie stars go through hell for their image, and suffer irreparable damage to look good for the rolls they play. No doubt Cristian Bale looks good, but he is doing serious damage to himself.

better to just work out 1-2 hours a day for 3+ days a week and eat right, you will be ripped for longer. and feel better. you wil even be able to add more skills to your acting resume.

get a body double for this film and be ripped for the next with no side effects.

Zombienosh

jugger0 wrote: »

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Clenbuterol
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Human Growth Hormone
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Omnadren
Primobolan
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Propionate

Even with them 6 weeks?! Would have to be something like 6 times a week twice a day?

MikeC101

You'd have to imagine a lot of them, particular actors in their 40s plus, are on TRT as well - it's not like Hollywood stars have a hard time getting prescriptions. So they're probably maintaining muscle mass quite well, and a lot of their training in the last weeks is aimed more at fat loss, and perhaps some additional muscle gain, which gives the impression of huge muscle gain.

Look at the shape Stallone is in for a man of 66 - add to that the fact he was arrested in Sydney for possessing GH, it's fairly obvious that he's not just on "lots of protein and training twice a day" to prep for roles.

john_cappa

jugger0 wrote: »

Anadrol
Anavar
Clenbuterol
Clomid
Cytomel
Deca Durabolin
Dianabol
Equipoise
Halotestin
Human Growth Hormone
Nolvadex
Omnadren
Primobolan
Sustanon
Cypionate
Enanthate
Propionate

In reality 6 weeks would even be far too short to really benefit from any AAS.

In 6 weeks forget any thought of building muscle. Focus entirely on fat loss.

Get a tan.

Salt/water manipulation would be your best friend on "shoot days".

Burkatron

thegreatiam wrote: »

The cast of 300 did a caveman type deal for 6-8 weeks. and then they just had someone spray muscles on them with fake tan.

Mark Twight is going to hunt you down & kill you in your sleep :P

thegreatiam

Burkatron wrote: »

Mark Twight is going to hunt you down & kill you in your sleep :P

lol, id be worried if not for the fact you can actually see its sprayed on in the movie if you look close

I did underestimate the time tho, he says 4 months for 10-12 hours a day in that blog.

making you re-think your 6 weeks, 45 mins a day yet OP?

Mellor

thegreatiam wrote: »

lol, id be worried if not for the fact you can actually see its sprayed on in the movie if you look close

I did underestimate the time tho, he says 4 months for 10-12 hours a day in that blog.

making you re-think your 6 weeks, 45 mins a day yet OP?

Are you sure you aren't thinking of the parody of 300.Where you could see them painting them on in the background




I'm sure the lighting and make-up, to achieve the high contrast Frank Miller look for the movie, helped the actors appearance - but I'd say that's one film where the guys put in a lot of work to prepare for the role.

thegreatiam

Mellor wrote: »

Are you sure you aren't thinking of the parody of 300.Where you could see them painting them on in the background




I'm sure the lighting and make-up, to achieve the high contrast Frank Miller look for the movie, helped the actors appearance - but I'd say that's one film where the guys put in a lot of work to prepare for the role.

No definitely the effect they achieve in the film is partly painted on.
It sounds like i am belittling the effort, definitely im not.
all the training the stars go through pre movie shoot is intense, they make a big show of it to let you know how intense it was, its part of the build up of the hype of the movie. The only thing I hadnt heard about 300 was that the director also took part.

my point was 6 weeks of 3 45min sessions is not going to cut it, to get in that shape you need months of hard work and on top of all of this they will still use film trickery to get the look they want.

To get the end result of fitness magazines, film stars bodybuilding etc you need to employ some industry trickery. Noone looks like they do in real life as they do on film.

The trick is to eat right and exercise right all the time, so when it comes to the 'shoot' they dont need to do as much photoshopping.

thegreatiam

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