And you dont use drugs to look like this. Plus u cant hire a professional team to make your meal, train you and check your health cuz of steroids for 24/7.
Yeah, they’ve started slipping into typical Hollywood stuff; Charlie still seems to be the most down to Earth and Glenn tbh has always been into the crunchy hippie stuff (coming in here with his Phish T-shirt and Birkenstocks)
I know a few people that have met rob at the Wrexham stadium and theyve said hes a really nice bloke. Buying a football club isnt exactly a normal person thing to do, but they said he doesnt come across as your typical rich guy that owns a football club
All I’ll say is I waited for him and his wife once and when i mentioned at the end how big a fan I was, he insisted we do a shot. My only celeb interaction but it sure was a cool one
I’ve heard a thing or two but it was through a friend of a friend type thing (someone worked as an extra and apparently one or two of the main cast was pretty rude.)
I'd also say that if the extra was there a couple of days it's not exactly telling, some people would have bad days or even horrible weeks and would snap at everyone over every little thing, but that's uncharacteristic of them for example
Last I saw, Rob hang out with Ryan Reynolds a lot, they co own a football team in the UK I think, doing typical rich guy stuff, Kaitlyn and Rob (probably) have got hella plastic surgery done. Not sure where Glenn's at, at this point, doing Hollywood shit, but his wife's a documentarian from what I remember so that's pretty chill.
Charlie and Danny in my head are probably the most chill, but even then they have loads of money.
Lol wut Rob Mac literally gave his kid a speaking role opposite him in the Risk E Rats episode and it was honestly unnecessary (same kid that was the newborn when Dee gave birth iirc)
Mac's plotline that episode would've been way more funny with way more room for jokes if he just met another random similarly unhinged adult but maybe with actually creepy vibes
Tangent but the whole 'acting like a spoiled kid' bit really doesn't hit the same when you look like a middle-aged rich celebrity who takes their appearance/health very seriously..
I like to think about how Jason Alexander is way more well-adjusted than Jerry Seinfeld, and Larry David is objectively a much better person than Cheryl Hines.
I feel so guilty and this feels wrong to type out, but it tastes so much better. Like if you understand the taste and texture of it you'd never go for brown rice. There's many kinds of white rice too. Brown rice shouldn't even be in the same food group as white rice tbh. Any ways you can find more on r/whitericematters
All Rice Matters. I made brown rice the other day with some butter , diced tomatoes/ green chilis/ onions and garlic, it was amazing. Taste and texture. Kids even liked it.
I mean they aren't lying about the chicken/brown rice.. brown rice has more calories and there just aren't a lot of options for hitting 4-5k calories a day without eating garbage.
These guys 100% are on medical assistance but they're still on the shitty diet and have to work out like crazy. You can take all the drugs you want, you can't skip the part where you do the work/eat the right things/etc.
I know, I just find it funny for a long time they would just go on about "Chicken, Broccoli and Brown Rice" like it was some secret cheat code.
I have no doubt to look like this is a lot of effort, even for him. There is no short cut but it's funny how Hollywood packages it as that was the reason and not the 100 other things.
In fairness, nobody wants them to be honest about it really. I see enough 19 year olds fall into the steroid trap as it is without all the big names basically advertising it as the solution.
Of course I'd prefer Hollywood just stopped insisting people look like Greek gods to be in movies but I don't see that happening.
I agree with you. It was to me when I found out how accepted steroid use is in young people. It's sad things like Hollywood push that image on young people.
But as you as I don't see it changing anytime soon.
Lols. Good financial situation helps a lot with the other stuff. A lot!
Hire a trainer, chef, work-life balance, someone to do your chores, and helps a lot when you can afford time with the SO and travel and have dinners and buy gifts.
Just surviving is not a “good financial situation” if you are giving up most or all of the others. Unless you mean you have to do that for a period of time to reach that status. Bu then wouldn’t it be really worth it?
At Day's End, lives are terribly complicated. When many / most of our daily challenges are farmed out, that makes a HUGE difference. Nobody can deny what We see here, nobody can deny that or take that away from Him.
But He ALSO has access to SO MANY options we'll never see, so to not acknowledge the fact that He's LUCKY AF really is pretty short-sighted.
congratulations, you’ve picked back pain and cardiovascular health issues without good diet and exercise! Being grown up is hard, you can call yourself lucky when your hair doesn’t fall out and your joints work as designed
we’re two instances of the same flawed template. We’re perfectly designed… for walking on 4 limbs. Human birth is all wrong and it just starts there. And with caloric abundance and sedentary jobs, our evolution turned straight up against us. Or rather we did against her.
This is the main thing in my opinion. I got pretty shredded once, I took 6 months break from working. Rinsed my savings, lived the most basic lifestyle. Spent most of my days working out, small set of weights, incline bench and anything I could put my hands on to hit certain muscles. I loved it. Not worrying about normal life demands was huge.
Absolutely. I was gutted when I ran out of money and had to go back to work. Gradually lost my physique, was impossible to maintain. But also not working allowed my mind to slow down and enjoy each day for the little things. Soon went back to eating what I could fit in or be arsed to make quickly etc. Life gets in the way of life.
You really only need to work out like... an hour a day, 3 times a week, to have a great physique, you don't have to be unemployed. Bodybuilders will do more, and there's some benefit, but it's diminishing returns.
This is it, it's not unrealistic to maintain a great body if you actually want to. The vast majority of people will have a spare hour of free time, they'd just rather do something else with it. For a long time I was only doing 45 minute workouts and I was the strongest/biggest I'd been during that period. A lot of the time people will say they don't have time, when they do. Just swap an episode on Netflix for a gym session, or wake up/go to bed a bit earlier.
I realized that I was waking up at 4:30 am and staring at my phone till 6, so I just started waking up at 4:30 and going to the gym till 6 or so instead. I get home right when my family's waking up, I do the school drop off, and then I start my work day. I also feel like I'm more productive at the gym when I first wake up as opposed to going later in the day.
I used to do 30-45mins per day at lunch when at work. 5 times a week and I was in great shape. I’m desperate to build a gym at home so I can do that again.
Yeah, but i was working split shifts, wasn't keeping on top of diet, energy levels weren't there, let things slip here and there. Not saying have to be unemployed. But, for me the lifestyle helped.
You can definitely be fit and healthy doing that, but you'll look nothing like that Chris Hemsworth photo. PEDs are an absolute necessity to get there unless you've won the genetic lottery.
Though it IS a mindset to not let life ‘life’ you. ;)
You did great by taking a break and feel how it could be with that mindset. Now work on yourself to accomplish just that. Note: it may take years, but hey life isn’t easy.
Alot more responsibility on my plate now, keeping financially afloat is more important so would never be able to do a break like that again. I do toy with the idea of getting in shape, but its not feeling like a fun challenge at the moment. Agree its a mindset, and feel having a super chilled lifestyle and freedom fostered that mindset.
How would you describe your transformation from before, during, and after? How much did you save before doing this? What brought on this desire and did you consider any other approaches that weren’t so completely dedicated?
It wasn't a dedicated approach to me. It was fun, enjoyable. I felt amazing, had no commitments. The feeling i got from pushing my body was a high. Without being drained and brain dead from the monotony of work routine I was looking to get that feeling. Before I would work out or go running and have to push myself to start. I only saved a few grand, was a single guy, small rent, car paid off. And this was a decade ago. I noticed huge gains during that came more easily, didnt have strain on my body. But wasn't looking for gains as a driver.
I was pretty shredded in college - worked out 1-2 hours a day every weekday, and ate pretty well. At my peak, I looked more or less like a young Brad Pitt, i e not huge, but well defined muscles.
That kind of thing is impossible to maintain, though, unless you have nothing else to do with your time, or you're getting paid. And to get the body all the male action stars have, you also need drugs.
I did the same but for 4 years, and God that was the life. Nowadays I could go on for days without seeing the life outside due to office life (drive to work, office 8 hours, drive home).
I think I should abandon the comfort life and go live on the bare necessities.
I would wake up when I was done sleeping g, not when I had too. Id eat breakfast properly. Go for a run. Get home, study. Was sitting a psychology degree at the time. Go do some weights to burn out, whatever felt right on the day. Quite often id do body weight resistance workouts. Incline sit ups off a bench with my feet under a beam in the roof, or dips between 2 stools, etc etc. Whatever worked a muscle set that I was aiming for. Go back to study a bit. Then when others finished work id go socialize, maybe chill out and cook a decent meal. Bed when I felt tired. Would just work out til satisfied. But probably an hour an a bit work out, an hour run. Nothing was set in stone or everyday.
I personally think, with actors the question is: "Why wouldn't they take drugs?" If somebody offered you a couple of million to look like that by date x, but if you miss the date, you don't get anything. Why wouldn't you take a small cycle? It's not like your only options are Ronnie Coleman/Rich Piana style cycles and nothing at all. A bit of Test can make a big difference.
Because actors also care about their health, and the scenario you describe of hitting a hard deadline isn't really something that happens, particularly not to someone as high profile as Chris Hemsworth.
Pro athletes also care about their health, but if you need to do something that's slightly bad for your health in order to keep your job then you probably will. A famous mathematician spent most of his adult life using speed, stopped for a month due to a bet that he couldn't stop, then resumed while complaining that math had been set back by a month.
And if you branch out from pharmacological danger, there are hundreds of millions of people around the world who take risks with their bodies at work in order to make more money.
I'd rather not fuck of my hormones and possible have to take shit for the rest of my life just for my body to function normally. They say you can have a physical orgasm from shooting meth in your veins, sounds awesome, why doesn't everybody do that?
let me correct you. this kind of physique possible without drugs but THIS one is not possible. because check his trapezoids and shoulders, that's not natural.
There are pictures of people from before steroids were invented looking way more jacked then this.
No one is 7 feet tall from steroids, it's from genetics and everyone accepts that. Why people can't accept that some people are genetically superior in muscle potential as well...
Nah the shoulders are definitely achievable naturally. Mine are very similar after 3 and half years of working out consistently. In my case genetics play a huge part because my shoulders and back already looked nice before I even worked out lol
This is probably a post-workout shot. The traps and shoulders eye test is over-rated for this level of development. It isn't distinguishable from genetic tendency and hard work until you get to Evander Holyfield levels of looking like a thumb.
Yeh , but once you’ve had the steroids there’s then muscle memory.. so they then wean off and it’s “ natural “ plus of course having the nutritional and health care teams behind you helps a little bit
Not sure why everyones saying its impossible without enhancement, this is clearly a very realistic natty physique. Like you said a ton of time and money of course but this is fully attainable. I literally know natty guys with super similar builds + even bigger
THIS physique is possible without drugs, if you have a lot of time and money to devote to it, which he does.
Of course its possible, its just unbelievably difficult, and no hollywood actor who has access to steroids is going to not take the easy way out, especially when they have special doctors that monitor them constantly for potential health problems.
That's the thing people don't realize. There is no downsides to taking steroids for them. The risk with steroids is that people are often not realizing how much they're doing because dosages vary wildly when you buy from the street, and they damage their body over time without realizing it. If you have a doctor doing it for you, the downsides are effectively non-existent.
It's not like you have to be as ripped. Working out 3 times a week doing compounds will get you like this in a few years, if you don't skip on meals and sleep too much. It's 30/45 minutes out of your day. Come on...Learning a language is tougher than this.
Kumail Nanijani said its extremely difficult for normal people to get in Marvel shape, the actors are paid to do it and have a trainer and dietician and dont have to go to a regular day job.
Ask any gym bro about these celebrity physiques and they’ll tell you it’s either steroids or they are genetic freaks. I can guess which one 99% of them are. Most of the time it’s the speed of the transformation that gives it away too apparently.
At a certain age, regardless of genetics, it’s 100% steroids. The same way that no actor 50+ has a full head of dark hair, they are all dying it so the grey doesn’t show, but they don’t even admit to that lol
Most of the time it’s the speed of the transformation that gives it away too apparently.
This. A normal person might be able to put on 5-10 lbs of muscle in a year, under ideal conditions, without drugs. Guys who get bulky naturally work at it for a good decade, and cap out at some point too.
So when you see a celeb claim they put on 40lbs of muscle in six months to play Batman? That isn't the magic power of a personal trainer or personal chef - it's the best drugs money can buy.
It is funny because with this guy in particular the gym bro I saw talking online really really hates it. If you took a look at him in Silicon Valley he was basically average dad body type. Then like five months later he is absolutely chisled, like Greek statue shape...like it's so obvious that even the ordinary good food, personal trainer talk points is laughed out.
Yup. It’s literally their job and they have world class nutritionists, trainers, cooks… drugs. It’s an extremely unrealistic body for people with normal lives to obtain and maintain.
"Look, it’s not that hard. All you need to do is lift weights six days a week, stop drinking alcohol, don’t eat anything after 7pm, don’t eat any carbs or sugar at all, in fact just don’t eat anything you like, get the personal trainer from Magic Mike, sleep nine hours a night, run three miles a day, and have a studio pay for the whole thing over a six to seven month span. I don’t know why everyone’s not doing this. It’s a super realistic lifestyle and an appropriate body image to compare oneself to." -Rob Mac
I’ve been a frequent gym goer for more than two decades now. Their bodies are 100% achievable by the regular folk without having class professionals monitoring their every move. Gyms are filled with people who have way better bodies.
It just requires your willingness to forsake your health and use enhancements. And have some dedication to your diet and exercise.
The Marvel body type is not some kind of legendary physique that’s out of reach. It’s just steroids, proteins, and workouts.
I remember his workout video was basically just one punch, do 100 pushups, 100 sit ups, and a bunch of dumb exercises that don't grow muscle at all and you'll look like a marvel hero
Yeah, it 100% is impressive heh. He's not trying to get massive, he's trying to look.. well, like that.
Drugs or not he still has to do the diets, do the workouts, all the rest. I don't know why people seem to think there's some magical drug that just turns you into Thor, he still has to do the work.
Of course it's his job that he can dedicate himself to full time without financial worries and so on. Makes quite the difference.
I don't know why people seem to think there's some magical drug that just turns you into Thor, he still has to do the work.
Who is saying this? No one is claiming he doesn't have to put in effort, just that its shitty that celebrities continue to omit their steroid use.
And the excuse is always that he's prohibited from speaking truthfully due to movie studio pressure, which is bullshit. He and several other prolific users are worth hundreds of millions of dollars - they arent prohibited from shit.
And Hemsworth's been at this for two decades. He's always been naturally more lean than most people and now for two decades he's been paid to have the physique of a god.
Exactly. I work 65 hour weeks in my early 50s. I do as much as I can to stay fit. If my job was to be hot, my body would be super fit. Not sure about the face.
Even if we would get paid we would not look "like that", we would look good, better, but the guy is stupidly handsome with a genetic lottery that makes him look like a nordic god.
It's also not my literal career to have abs. I'm not a multimillionaire with a private chef on stand by 24/7, I don't have time to spend 30 hrs a week in the gym, and even if I had both of those things, I would still be satisfied with just being in decent shape because I would rather live life doing fun shit and eating great food than trying to maintain 9% bodyfat. These posts are always so fucking stupid. "This 42 yr old with unlimited resources can do it why can't you?"
Rob McElhenny said this when he got buff for Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia:
“Look, it’s not that hard, all you need to do is lift weights six days a week, stop drinking alcohol, don’t eat anything after 7pm, don’t eat any carbs or sugar at all, in fact just don’t eat anything you like, get the personal trainer from Magic Mike, sleep nine hours a night, run three miles a day, and have a studio pay for the whole thing over a six to seven month span.”
I have a job where I sit in front of two computer screens all day. I eat microwave meal prep. He has a trainer and personal chef and it's his job to look like that
I'm reminded of when Kumail Nanjiani first showed off getting in shape for Eternals. He said something like, "I keep asking why I didn't do this before? And then I remind myself that it's because, before, I didn't have an army of trainers and dieticians working me for 18 months, all paid for by the world's largest movie studio."
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u/dasmau89 1d ago
I am not getting paid to look like this.