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Actor Jonathan Majors is definitely a star to watch. Since making serious waves on screen for his roles in movies like Spike Lee’s Da Five Bloods and in HBO’s Lovecraft Country and Netflix’s The Harder They Fall, he’s received praise and accolades for his acting chops. Another thing he’s done since those breakthrough performances is seriously toned his body.
While preparing for high-profile roles like Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the director Peyton Reed compared Majors to “a young Marlon Brando,” bringing an “energy and…presence” that raises the movie to new levels of excellence.
In addition to playing the adversary to Adonis Creed in Creed III, people are most talking about his role as a bodybuilder in the drama Magazine Dreams. The visual for Magazine Dreams had fans dropping their jaws in awe of his physique (see below):
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It was in Magazine Dreams that Majors was eating 6,100 calories a day and working out at least 4 times each day. Wow!
Majors told Men’s Health that he gained ten extra pounds for Creed, five more for Kang, and six more for Magazine Dreams, for a grand total of 21 pounds all while getting keeping his body fat percentage below 10 percent. “When you see these guys, it’s like, Yeah, they’re f**king fit,” Majors told Men’s Health. “But if you look at it, there’s a story there.”
So.. how did he do it? Here’s Majors’ insane best-like workout where he brings the same intensity to his roles to the gym.
Straight arm lat pull down is a prominent exercises in Majors’ workout routine. It promotes muscle growth by targeting the major muscles in the arms and shoulders. It can also help in enhancing posture.
Close grip pull-ups enable Majors to target the muscles of his chest and biceps. This is a fabulous upper body exercise that helps in building strength and muscle in the core, back, and arms.
Leg raises are an important exercise in Majors’ back building workout. They help in enhancing strength by working on the lower body and core. This exercise also helps in both strengthening and toning the muscles and increasing the range of motion.
It’s a pull-up variation that helps build abdominal strength and increases muscle size. This exercise also helps in improving midline stability.
It’s another prominent exercise in Majors’ workout routine. This compound exercise helps build upper body strength by targeting the back, upper arms, shoulders, and core.
According to Variety, Creed III will be Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut. The 35-year-old Jordan is reprising one of the more famous roles of his career, where many sequences in the previous iterations feature him rigorously training his cardio, upper body, and general high-level conditioning.
“If I’m going to bench press 250 [pounds] in a film, I need to be able to bench press 275 [pounds] a few times,” Majors told Men’s Health.
Majors appears to have applied the same thought process in preparation for Creed III. He reportedly didn’t appreciate being handed “fake weights” while filming a scene.
“I will do this all day — We are not putting fake weights on,” said Majors, explaining his rationale to Men’s Health. “I haven’t been training for the past three months to get here and use Styrofoam. “Put these [expletive] weights on so we can lift it, so you can shoot it, so I can tell the story. Respectfully, anything less is like putting fake tears in your eyes. Or putting fake sweat on you.”
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