Aaron Eckhart, known for his hard-hitting performances in The Dark Knight and Thank You For Smoking, has taken his fitness to new levels and bulked up for his new movie I, Frankenstein where he plays the monster Frankenstein. Unlike the earlier versions of Frankenstein, Eckhart has a seriously ripped body along with acrobatic fighting skills that we can t wait to see on the big screen.
In order to achieve his body, Aaron Eckhart worked out five hours a day for six months. In this post, we ll look at his fitness regime and the diet he followed in order to look his part.
Eckhart s fitness regime:
The first word that came to Eckhart s mind when he was asked about his training for the I, Frankenstein was Hardcore. And, going by the way he looks, I am sure it was indeed hardcore. In an interview with Muscle & Fitness, the actor said, I did six months of Kali stick fighting training it s the Filipino art of using two-and-a-half foot rattan sticks to destroy an opponent. I worked with this gentleman named Ron Belicky in Southern Cali who s an expert in that and other things knife fighting and all that. I trained every single day for two or three hours a day.'
Along with this, Eckhart also did some weight training along with sprinting, skipping, push-ups and pull-ups. The actor believes that it is very important to make the workouts fun so as to ensure maximum benefits. For his abs, the actor says he did one workout after another until he couldn t take it anymore. If I were to do a burpee into a push-up, I would roll over and do abs and then push-ups and roll over. I would be doing a plank for two minutes, roll over, do the dish for a minute. And then doing it with weights, and doing pull-ups and a freezing in the middle of a movement. You freeze halfway through a pull-up, and go into a leg raise and keep sets of those. the actor told Muscle & Fitness.
The actor also injured himself several times while training, but that didn t stop him from doing his job. In an interview with Muscle & Fitness Eckhart said, When you see it, Kali stick fighting is crazy. I mean you re hitting people with sticks at high speed with total force. I was knocked out guy hit me in the back of the neck and knocked me out. I think I hit guys in the face all the time, your fingers were always broken. Read how you too can build massive muscles in our bodybuilding mega guide.
Aaron Eckhart s diet : I like to be hungry and like an animal.
As any fitness freak will tell you, diet plays an important role in bodybuilding. Aaron Eckhart isn't any different and he too had to make many sacrifices. In an interview, he said that he would often be a little hungry as it helped circulate blood and kept sluggishness at bay. The actor would eat apples with peanut butter, eggs, avocado, chicken cubes along with protein shakes in order to build all that muscle. The thing about acting is that you don't want to ever weigh yourself down. It's better to be on the hungrier side when you are acting because you want all the blood and the brain to be accessible. You don't want it to be in your stomach. It slows you down and it slows your mind down. I like to be hungry and like an animal. Eckhart told AOL. Here are a few simple tips to stick to your fitness regime by Lloyd Stevens.
That was how Aaron Eckhart got in shape for his role. Read more about how Hugh Jackman, Kellan Lutz, Henry Cavill and Chris Hemsworth got really ripped to play their roles.
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