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Another example of dehydrating for shirtless shots - Henry Cavill talks about doing just that for The Witcher in an interview on the Graham Norton Show. https:

Another example of dehydrating for shirtless shots - Henry Cavill talks about doing just that for The Witcher in an interview on the Graham Norton Show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne5xD5XrzOc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne5xD5XrzOc

anthonypasq 6y ago
i think its also worth noting that actors really exaggerate how hard is it to look good on camera and it ends up discouraging people from improving their diet and exercise. you dont need a nutritionist, and a personal trainer, and to treat it like a full time jobs and get paid for it to look good. you need to clean up your diet and do resistance training at least 3 times a week for an hour, and be consistent.
- wolfram74 6y ago
  Combine that with how a cleaned up diet typically either costs more time or more money and working ~60 hours a week on minimum wage, yeah, that is pretty hard for a lot of people.
  - WhompingWindows 6y ago
    I heard on a genetics podcast recently that your weight is 70% genetically determined. Every family carries in its genome the similar ingredients for weight: how much do you eat, what foods do you like, how efficient is your body at gathering and storing energy, how much do you naturally like exercise, etc. That 30% is obviously important and most people could make huge gains there, simply by eating less.
    - 1234throwaway 6y ago
      ya but vegetable oil and corn fructose syrup did not exist >100 years ago as food products. we cook our food in wat used to be called boat varnish (vegetable oil) yes you are correct, our genes are what determines weight in realtion to the foods you eat. it affects your bodies ability to metabolise those foods , etc but most of the foods you eat, over 90% of what is available in walmart for instance, is industrial manufactured trash that no human except perhaps escaped roswell experiemnts and MBAs can metabolise correctly this is compounded by modern trash propaganda telling people not to eat meat, to replace meat with synthetic mineral oils and watered down oats for $500 a litre
      - bilegeek 6y ago
        > ya but vegetable oil and corn fructose syrup did not exist 100 years ago They absolutely did, from about the 1870's onward. Read about Harvey Washington Wiley. Modern food isn't a paragon of health, but for most non-rural people in the US, it was quite a bit worse from the 1870's to the 1910's. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Washington_Wiley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Washington_Wiley [2]https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/poison-squad-dr-harvey-wiley-father-pure-food/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/poison-... From that last one, they talk about a lot of honey simply being flavored corn syrup. There was swill milk. They put all sorts of weird conservatives into food before Wiley's Poison Squad determined what was safe.
  - anthonypasq 6y ago
    not really.
- BunsanSpace 6y ago
  "you need to clean up your diet and do resistance training at least 3 times a week for an hour, and be consistent." It takes a lot more than that. A good diet and moderate exercise will keep you in a slim/lean shape, but it won't get you Hollywood ripped. Actually having a muscular looking physic requires aggressive training, or naturally doing activity which requires lots of muscles (Dancing, climbing, acrobatics, sports).
  - anthonypasq 6y ago
    most people dont actually care about looking like Thor. if you want to have visible abs and a decent amount of muscle (brad pitt in fight club), that can be achieved in a couple years of training/dieting for the majority of people
Budabellly 6y ago
Along with dehydration, I'm surprised he does not mention salt/carb manipulation, which I'm sure he did as well. Step 7 here is likely counterintuitive for most - to look big and shredded you typically want to carb-load right before the camera comes out: https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/7-scientific-steps-to-camera-ready-body.html https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/7-scientific-steps-to-c...

anthonypasq 6y ago

i think its also worth noting that actors really exaggerate how hard is it to look good on camera and it ends up discouraging people from improving their diet and exercise. you dont need a nutritionist, and a personal trainer, and to treat it like a full time jobs and get paid for it to look good. you need to clean up your diet and do resistance training at least 3 times a week for an hour, and be consistent.

wolfram74 6y ago
Combine that with how a cleaned up diet typically either costs more time or more money and working ~60 hours a week on minimum wage, yeah, that is pretty hard for a lot of people.
- WhompingWindows 6y ago
  I heard on a genetics podcast recently that your weight is 70% genetically determined. Every family carries in its genome the similar ingredients for weight: how much do you eat, what foods do you like, how efficient is your body at gathering and storing energy, how much do you naturally like exercise, etc. That 30% is obviously important and most people could make huge gains there, simply by eating less.
  - 1234throwaway 6y ago
    ya but vegetable oil and corn fructose syrup did not exist >100 years ago as food products. we cook our food in wat used to be called boat varnish (vegetable oil) yes you are correct, our genes are what determines weight in realtion to the foods you eat. it affects your bodies ability to metabolise those foods , etc but most of the foods you eat, over 90% of what is available in walmart for instance, is industrial manufactured trash that no human except perhaps escaped roswell experiemnts and MBAs can metabolise correctly this is compounded by modern trash propaganda telling people not to eat meat, to replace meat with synthetic mineral oils and watered down oats for $500 a litre
    - bilegeek 6y ago
      > ya but vegetable oil and corn fructose syrup did not exist 100 years ago They absolutely did, from about the 1870's onward. Read about Harvey Washington Wiley. Modern food isn't a paragon of health, but for most non-rural people in the US, it was quite a bit worse from the 1870's to the 1910's. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Washington_Wiley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Washington_Wiley [2]https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/poison-squad-dr-harvey-wiley-father-pure-food/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/poison-... From that last one, they talk about a lot of honey simply being flavored corn syrup. There was swill milk. They put all sorts of weird conservatives into food before Wiley's Poison Squad determined what was safe.
- anthonypasq 6y ago
  not really.
BunsanSpace 6y ago
"you need to clean up your diet and do resistance training at least 3 times a week for an hour, and be consistent." It takes a lot more than that. A good diet and moderate exercise will keep you in a slim/lean shape, but it won't get you Hollywood ripped. Actually having a muscular looking physic requires aggressive training, or naturally doing activity which requires lots of muscles (Dancing, climbing, acrobatics, sports).
- anthonypasq 6y ago
  most people dont actually care about looking like Thor. if you want to have visible abs and a decent amount of muscle (brad pitt in fight club), that can be achieved in a couple years of training/dieting for the majority of people

Budabellly 6y ago

Along with dehydration, I'm surprised he does not mention salt/carb manipulation, which I'm sure he did as well. Step 7 here is likely counterintuitive for most - to look big and shredded you typically want to carb-load right before the camera comes out: https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/7-scientific-steps-to-camera-ready-body.html https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/7-scientific-steps-to-c...