The cast of the movie 300 plus#

To become King Leonidas, Butler, who by his own admission was in less- than-ideal shape when he was tapped for the starring role in 300, spent 4 months transforming both his body and his mind. In one interview, Gerry Butler, who plays the Spartan King Leonidas, summed up his experience when he said, вЂњ Pretty much anything Mark Twight offered up was so difficult in the kind of way where you wish you had never been born вЂ“ and even more than that, wished he had never been born.вЂќ Stuntmen trained 90 minutes to two hours, five days a week, and another four to six hours fight training.

The cast of the movie 300 plus#

Training for the actors required 90 minutes to two hours a day, five days a week, plus the same amount of time fight training. The diet was adequate to fuel effort and recovery, barely.вЂќ Twight said, вЂњWe took the opposite route of calorie restriction to make them look like they lived off the land, in the wild, all sinewy and ripped. You may have thought they have gone through typical bodybuilding programme of progressive overload and tonnes of supplements to make those guys bulk up. He finished in 18 minutes and 11 seconds. Andrew Pleavin, who plays Daxos, leader of the Arcadians, was the only actor to take it. This constitutes about 50% of the cast and stunt crew. By the end of the four-month project, 17 people had done the workout.

50 вЂњclean and pressвЂќ at 36 pounds kettlebell (a weight-lifting exercise)ДЄdd the above reps together and you will get for a total of 300 reps and do all of them in less than 20 minutes.ДЈ00 is a one-time test, an invitation-only challenge undertaken by those deemed ready for it.

50 вЂњfloor wipersвЂќ (a core and shoulders exercise at 135 pounds).

What they were training is to prepare for the вЂњ300вЂќ test. Rather, the 300 workout was the finale of months of training, a kind of graduation test, after actors had weight lifted and trained with tools such as medicine balls and Kettlebells. But, those 300 reps are not done every day. вЂњ300вЂќ workout gets its name from the total number of repetitions. King Xerxes (left) is not really that tall in real life. Some were disappointed to learn that hard work is magicвЂ¦вЂќ Like what Twight wrote, вЂњThe typical interviewer wants to know about the вЂњmagicвЂќ workout the cast did to make them look so good. These actors have shed their sweat and tears to get bodies like that. When I watched the preview of this movie, I thought the production team was relying computers alone to shape the actorвЂ™s bodies. They wanted to create the conditions of the Greek warriors, shaping the modern man into a warrior look alike. One of the more interesting purposes behind this workout scheme is that the trainers did not want to turn the actors into bodybuilders. These men were trained eight to ten weeks. Twight warns that his Spartan workout is not for the faint-hearted, nor the out-of-shape. No funky music, no air conditioning, no mirrors and no comfortable place to sit. Gym Jones, where the crew was trained, is a no-frills gym. 300 actors were trained by him under his brainchild program which has the same name, 300.

Wonder who Mark Twight is? Mark Twight is an exercise guru and former world-class mountain climber who clings to the вЂњno pain, no gainвЂќ mantra. While surfing the Net for 300 movie posters, came to know Mark Twight with his so called 300 workout. The director has successfully shown that Spartan army was not only cruel, but also ripped with muscle built from the hardships. I almost dropped my balls after I found out about the training routine the crew has gone through. Most girls may drool over the actorsвЂ™ solid body shapes because this movie really shows lots of man-flesh. What really impressed me is not so much on the story, but the actorsвЂ™ body shapes. If you like Matrix with lots of blood, you will like 300. Almost all battle scene features at least one long shot that varies from super slow motion to super fast motion repeatedly. Lots of slow motion shots and gimmicky Matrix-style battle scenes. It is about how Spartan King Leonidas and 300 Spartans fight to the last man against Persian King Xerxes and his army of over one million soldiers. Just in case you wonder what 300 movie is about вЂ“ it is actually a film adaptation of the graphic novel 300 by Frank Miller. Not really the review on the movie itself, but something else. Hope it is not too late for me to write about 300. Many have written about this movie and some are still talking about it. Most of you have probably watched 300 movie.