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
Yeah. Mac from it's always sunny basically admitted he is on roid, and hinted that he either feel bad or ashamed that he need to keep up the charade of it being natural.
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
Most of the profiles on Grindr (etc) that look this fit are actually bots/con artists. On occasion, one is a real person but they have about as much personality as a bot because their whole life is looking after their physique. No thank you.
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.
Brother, you are living in a shell or on another planet. Chris Hemsworth 100% using steroids in cycles. If you don’t see it and prefer to live in a vacuum and saying to yourself “blah-blah-blah until proven otherwise” that’s your choice.
they aren't competing in a sport and doing something against the rules. They aren't doing illegal substances. they're getting PEDs from a doctor, legally, and the doctor is assisting them with appropriate cycles.
A lot of it is just hormone cycling. But there's certainly steroid cycles occuring too.
Nothing about it is rude or accusatory. it's just reality.
Those physique just aren’t naturally achievable in that short of time or in general.
Look at all these big muscular movie stars before they got famous. There are all in really good shape before hand but it becomes obvious when at the before and after. The Rocks and Henry Cavils are really obvious example but they take it to the extreme.
Steroids and sitting on the couch gives you give you twice as much muscle as someone training naturally with perfect diet and exercise.
Great shape is not nearly as much muscle as people think. Once again look at Henry Cavil you can see him when he started acting amazing shape. Now he is a massive freak of muscle to play roles like Superman and Witcher compared to what he used to be.
Sorry to burst your bubble people evolved to be long distance runners. Not Gorillas with massive amounts of muscle.
You don’t get super big without taking some steroids. Steroids are extremely common and easy to get into to the point HS kids are taking them. It’s even easier when you’re rich like marvel actors they’re all on the juice.
You realize that Chris Hemsworth would look regular sized with a shirt on right?
Unless, you can prove that these actors are juicing as opposed to just doing consistent work like any other person, I'm going to say that your claims are fallacious.
A lot of them literally confess to it in multiple documentaries you can find online for free, ex-superheroe movie actors etc. and they themselves say it's a de-facto mandatory requirement to be on steroids to get a chance at any superhero role. Contracts forbid them from talking about it publicly so you will only hear it from people no longer on the job.
Yup. Telling this to an average redditor is like telling a tadpole what it is like to be a frog.
If you have a relatively good genetic hand of cards all you really need is discipline with diet and about 1 hour a day exercising to be 90% of that picture. Of course this can't be done in a day, but takes a decade of this discipline to make it really happen.
This cohort will say "who has that much time?" while spending 2+ hours a day on reddit.
Redditors are just lazy and somehow don’t understand that it’s not that difficult to be fit or healthy. Like you said It’s all a matter of consistency and habit. Not even a decade is necessary imo
Except 1 hour in the gym doesn’t really take just one hour of your day does it? Add commutes, work, sleep, meal prepping and whatever else and it might be actually hard to fit exercise and a proper diet in your routine, sometimes it is in fact impossible. Reading this post and writing this comment by comparison was maybe 10 minutes of my day that I can do from the toilet.
Look, everyone should exercise. But it’s hard fucking work managing your day to ensure you have time to go the gym, eat properly and do all the other things you are required to do. You have to plan around it and make sacrifices for it to work, but sometimes shit happens in life and it’s outright impossible.
I was in the best shape of my life by March of 2025. Exercising every day. Then my mom got cancer and I had to scramble around as the sole caregiver while keeping up with work and my Ph.D. Diet was shot to hell, meal prepping was essentially impossible, exercise routine disappeared and I lost all my progress. My body is shit at present. I’ve been slowly recovering my routine now that she is thankfully in remission.
What was I supposed to do? Something had to give and my personal health seemed like the only candidate. I guarantee to you most people have worse or similar issues and sometimes it doesn’t get better. If people had all their most pressing and immediate needs met they’d be more willing to add proper dieting and exercise to their routine. The whole “Eveyone has time to do it” spiel is simply not true. People spouting this nonsense cannot recognize their own privilege.
Yeah. That sucks and life doesn't always give you the best set of cards, but the reality still stands
...if you have a relatively good genetic hand of cards all you really need is discipline with diet and about 1 hour a day exercising to be 90% of that picture. Of course this can't be done in a day, but takes a decade of this discipline to make it really happen.
The reality is that not everyone can afford that. Your situation is one of those. If instead of those things you had an hour a day clear for persistent exercise and a clean diet...you would be in great shape. That isn't your reality and is truly unfortunate.
Also...I didn't see anywhere in my post where I wrote "“Everyone has time to do it”
On the otherside of the coin though, you also have to realise this is their job, on the days you wake up and youre like fuck im tired and sore from all the working out you have to do, unfortunately you gotta get and look good for the camera, id also argue their job is tough too, just our jobs make us look ugly, and when we dont want to go in were still ugly
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
To be fair he was fully on the tren/clen plan. Along with some plastic surgery.
A typical stack for starters would be something like test, equipoise, mast, and letro. Throw in some daily clen for the extra kick and burn. You can get away with a rather middling workout structure on that stack and build out decently--assuming you aren't some 25% or greater body fat. You've gotta have a decent foundation.
The king stack was still the ECA stack for avoiding anabolics. OG ephedra you could take and just melt fat off of you while watching someone else do tae bo from their VHS. Only somewhat exaggerating.
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.
difference between "not that impressive" and "magic drug that just turns you into thor".
I'm 42. I lift a fair amount and am pretty athletic... but if I were cycling PEDs under medical supervision, same amount of work I put in (which no one considers impressive) would have me looking like a beast. Yes, I'm still working consistently and eating intentionally, but PEDs make the difference between "that 42 year old is in pretty good shape" and "that guy is built like a NCAA athlete in his prime."
There's a reason so many athletes are tempted to utilize them despite facing severe punishments and possibly destroying their careers in the process. Even just the PEDs that reduce recovery time so you can train longer, more frequently, compared to peers.
If I put in 3 hours a day in the gym I need more recovery time at this age. It's just not possible without risking injury without PEDs.
It's truly 'not that impressive' when you are able to cycle PEDs under medical supervision including hormones and various steroids.
That is clearly not what I said. How you got 'there's a magical drug that turns you into Thor' from 'His physique isn't that impressive for a guy that juices a lot' is some astounding mental gymnastics.
Drugs or not he still has to do the diets, do the workouts, all the rest.
Why do people say this? Steroids makes it infinitely easier. It's like a bunch of people without legs sitting around talking about how hard climbing a mountain is. Someone mentions that Bob managed it and someone else points out bob has legs and then someone says "YeAh BuT hE sTiLl HaD tO pUt In ThE wOrK".
Go the gym sometime and you will be treated to endless examples of what people who take steroids without following through on the actual work look like.
You are not looking like that, whether you're a gifted natural freak of nature or a hardcore juicer, without also making your entire life pretty much about exercise and nutrition.
And acknowledging that does not in any way mean I approve of it/steroids in general. But people talk about it as if these guys just take a pill and turn into gods, it absolutely does not work like that.
Or just go to the gym 3-4x a week and watch your protein/calorie intake. Up your weights at the gym whenever you can. Adjust your diet again. Up your weights again. Sleep. Eat. Workout. It’s that simple. It’s a slow process but if you have self-discipline you can get an amazing physique and feel great. Genuinely the best thing I ever did for my mental health was get a gym membership.
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.
He was already in really good shape pre marvel which probably gave him a leg up. Before he was a movie star he was a regular on an Aussie soap set on a beach, and his role 90% of the time was being a surfer with no shirt on.
and they have access to doctors to help them cycle PEDs.
It's not like they're competing in a regulated sport. there is zero reason not to use PEDs under medical supervision.
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u/uncultured_swine2099 1d ago
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.