Chris Hemsworth’s transformation is much more interesting to me, because it’s obvious that he put on a lot of weight for the role. When an actor is slightly overweight, 100 days of daily workouts with a pristine diet can look like an amazing transformation.
But when an actor is underweight, there’s no way to fake getting big. It’s either fat or muscle (usually both) that is gained.
What did Chris look like before?
So let’s take a look at the 3 main factors in how he got big, which are (as usual), not secrets:
Let’s see what Chris said himself:
“I feel as if I’ve been busy, but all I’ve been doing is eating all day,” he says as we pass a farm stand brimming with organic broccoli. “Eating when you’re not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.”
The exact same thing was my experience when I last year — It was the most exhausting, demoralizing thing I had ever done. You eat until you want to die, 5 times a day.
In fact, I only worked out 3 times a week last year (grand total time = 3 hours working out a week) when I gained the largest I have ever gained in a year. Previously I worked out for 6 years, and for 5 of them saw no improvement. Not a pound of weight gain until I started using legal steroids supplements.
Diet & Anabolic Supplemnts are 80% of your success. Both for muscle gain and weight loss.
Now what about his workouts?
Duffer Gaver, a west-coast based personal trainer and former Navy seal said Hemsworth’s training was “pretty simple bodybuilding,” meaning a pretty typical bodybuilding workout.
Most bodybuilding workouts involve split routines, meaning you do one muscle (or two), 5-12 sets for that day, same day every week. It’s a high volume approach. Stick with repetitions in the 6-12 range.
So for example (Split routine):
Some people will put two muscular groups per day, for example: Tuesday might be “Back & Biceps” instead of just back. That, in an overly-simplified way, is it.
Chris Hemsworth’s secret to getting huge: