Ah, the Rock. We all know him. We all love him. He manages to have the personality of a golden retriever while having the physical prowess of a glacier. He is rock solid, but his smile makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside and...sorry, I'm babbling. Where was I?
Right. The Rock's body. It's regarded as one of the hardest, toughest bodies in the industry, which is why he's the go-to action star for many a Hollywood blockbuster. It's also why People just named him 2016's Sexiest Man Alive, a title he's long deserved (in my humble opinion, at least). But how does a man build a body like this? As we know, no one is born with rippling muscles and an ass of granite, and it takes hours of hard work each day to build something so incredible and capable.
The former WWE champ first approached fitness as a professional necessity - when he crossed over into acting, he was already well acclimated to a dedicated schedule that got him up before the ass crack of dawn. There's something about people who set their alarms to times when it's still dark out even though they don't have an imminent shift at work.
After compiling info from Johnson's interviews in Body Building (duh) and his most recent feature in People, I can give you a little insight to the making of the rock that is the Rock's bod. Still with me?
He starts every morning with anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes of cardio, usually before most sane people have even gotten up for their middle-of-the-night pee. Later in the morning (or sometimes the afternoon), he steps into the gym to get clangin' and bangin' with the iron that built his bulging muscles. With six weight-training sessions planned each week, you can guess how he manages to dedicate his workouts to separate areas of the body.
It's not all about curls for the girls, though. Dwayne does many of his own stunts, so he has to physically prepare for them like, you know, a stuntman would. Crazy!
The man eats five to seven meals a day of weighed out, protein-stuffed meals, often consuming three different kinds of animalbefore I've even made it to lunch, which is usually pizza or something else that would probably disappoint him. All together, it's a rigid schedule that puts him in the gym for more than two hours a day on top of the rigorous demands of being a celebrity, and that doesn't even include meal prep time each week.
This may only be my second buidling the body profile for the Mr. Man blog (after an enjoyable endeavor profiling Jake Arrieta), but I'm noticing a trend already: The men we love to ogle are the ones who work the hardest and never make excuses for themselves.
Now if you'll excuse me - yet again, these posts have inspired a trip to the gym.
