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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye
Hugh Jackman is one of Hollywood's most well built actors. This article focuses on Hugh Jackman and the methods that he uses to get and keep in great shape. In case you have not noticed, Jackman is buff. In his last movie, X-Men The Last Stand, Jackman was doing leg presses with about 1000 pounds and bench pressing 315. For a pro bodybuilder that is not that impressive but, for a Hollywood A-list actor that is damn good.
The Hugh Jackman Wolverine Workout for X Men Origins
His trainer for this film, Michael Ryan, had Jackman using very big weights with 1 to 2 minutes of rest in between sets for his workouts. Most if not all of the exercises used compound movements such as, squats, dead lifts, bench presses etc. Jackman said that during his coaching sessions he hoped to feel like he was Wolverine so he would scream and yell during his workout routine. Jackman who stands 6'3" and will be turning 41 on October 12, 2009 appears in the film... X Men Origins Wolverine... ripped to the bone.
No makeup artist could get an actor that sinewy muscular look that Jackman showed on-screen. Even the other actor that was in great shape, Ryan Reynolds, did not match the sheer muscle power that Jackman brought to the role of Wolverine. One of the funniest lines in the movie is if Reynolds and the other members of the team are stuck in the elevator and he says... "Great I'm stuck in an elevator with a bunch of guys on a high protein diet."
If you have ever been on a high protein diet you know that in some soul’s milk protein causes flatulence. However, let us get back to Jackman's workout routine.
The Hugh Jackman diet consisted of mostly steamed chicken, vegetables and whey protein shakes. In a recent interview, he commented... "I think I've wiped out the entire gene pools of chickens!" Jackman's workouts for Wolverine lasted for an hour and a half every day. Even his wife commented that Jackman was getting heavy from all the big training.
The Wolverine workout started roughly 12 months before filming for X-Men origins Wolverine started. Michael Ryan his best friend and personal trainer utilized phase training to get the results that Jackman depicted on-screen. We will not go into details about phase coaching because I have covered that in an article about Hugh Jackman's workout routine.
The end result is that any individual who eats right, trains right, and gets sufficient rest can achieve bodybuilding results like Jackman did. He is not genetically gifted and in reality is a... difficult gainer. So bear in mind that you too can achieve your fitness goals by using a training program like Hugh Jackman's Wolverine workout.
Would you like to have six pack abs and add 20 pounds of rock hard muscle to your body just like Hugh Jackman in X-Men Origins Wolverine?
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