The goal was to have Statham’s fast-twitch muscles moving and functioning at peak efficiency for the extensive fight sequences.
To play a knife-wielding mercenary in his newest film The Expendables, Statham added two hours of combat training with 87Eleven (the stunt guys behind The Matrix) to his hour-long workouts. For Transporter 3, Hood tweaked Statham’s regimen slightly, adding a bit more bulk-more squats, heavier weights-better suited to assume his ex-Special Forces character. They worked on achieving that wiry body type they had seen in the prison yard. Then they transitioned into a steady weight-training circuit using barbells, kettlebells, and sandbags. For Death Race, Statham trimmed down from 189 pounds to a lean 168 in 11 weeks with interval-based training: intense circuits designed to elevate his heart rate. To prepare for each of his physically demanding roles, Statham trains hardcore for eight weeks prior to filming. I had met a couple of Hollywood trainers, but when I met Hood, I was hooked. What inspired Statham about Hood is that “he leads by example,” he says. But with Statham, Hood knew from their first day of training that the buff Brit was a natural athlete who understood mechanics and movement.
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“I get them in, and I can look in their eyes and see if they’re full of shit,” Hood says. Hood met with Statham and asked him one question: “How far are you prepared to go?” Hood says he can see after one workout how people handle being uncomfortable. Statham heard about Hood through fellow British actor and former footballer Vinnie Jones. Statham prides himself in doing his own stunts, and continuing this athleticism in bigger and more complex starring vehicles required a more serious training regimen. He knew that to stay castable and bankable as an action hero and to convincingly play such roles as Handsome Rob in The Italian Job and Chev Chelios in Crank, he needed to make some changes. What the actor found, however, was that looking fit and staying fit were totally different challenges. The mixed martial arts enthusiast (and former diver with the British national team) stayed active before he was discovered by director Guy Ritchie and given a starring role in the gangster-and-ganja epic Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. Today he’s shredded-abs, chest, and arms barbed and muscular without looking ponderous. So far, the strategy has succeeded for Statham, who has emerged as one of Hollywood’s most coveted actors, when the role is required to kick someone’s ass. He believes that every move during a workout should be functional and natural so that the body projects the tension of a coiled spring. Hood is a former Navy SEAL who now runs Epoch Training, in Los Angeles. His trainer, Logan Hood, best known for whipping the 300 actors into Spartan shape, designs workouts that manipulate your own body weight and then add weights so that your muscles retain a functionality-and you maintain your athleticism. They employed full-body-weight exercises and old-school gym techniques that seemed to work wonders.”Įlements of what Statham saw at the state pen are now staples in his own six-day-a-week routine.
These guys were using their own bodies for lifts, pullups, situps, and squats. “They didn’t have the big, fat machines you have in the typical gym.
“They had banned weights from the prison yard,” Statham recalls. The ripped cons worked out with explosive strength moves but little equipment. While prepping for his role as convict Jensen Ames in the sci-fi action flick Death Race, Statham strolled the yard at California’s Corcoran State Prison and watched how the inmates got into what the 38-year-old actor admiringly calls “prison shape” (versus what he disdainfully describes as “gym shape”). That’s what The Expendables star Jason Statham did three years ago. If you want to get in incredible shape, go to prison.
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