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He looks fantastic. That kind of body is achievable without drugs. The right diet, reducing your body fat percentage, training right and then dehydrating for a short period before the photoshoot and working out and getting the 'pump' immeditately before the photoshoot contribute to the vascular look.
 

Raguel

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One thing to note, as I have stated before, is that those who train to be ripped and have only about 4 to 6 months have the harshest training regiments. There are professional trainer interviews on YT that go through cases of their working with actors under these tight schedules and it's most working out twice a day with rest periods in between. Honestly, I don't know how many even opt for steroids.
True. those 5 to 6 months transformations are just brutal. That's when the PEDs comes in because they help recovery time and muscle development as well as injury prevention.

I work out 3 times a week full body and i'm always dead afterwards. My friend used to hit the gym twice a day and he looks massive but he doesn't take any drugs. He doesn't look roid massive bc it's all natural. I can't imagine working out twice a day.
 

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One thing to note, as I have stated before, is that those who train to be ripped and have only about 4 to 6 months have the harshest training regiments. There are professional trainer interviews on YT that go through cases of their working with actors under these tight schedules and it's mostly working out twice a day with rest periods in between. Honestly, I don't know how many even opt for steroids.
All of them?

The only factor is cost and Disney can cover that.
Most of the new shit is very safe in the short term.
 

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He looks fantastic. That kind of body is achievable without drugs. The right diet, reducing your body fat percentage, training right and then dehydrating for a short period before the photoshoot and working out and getting the 'pump' immeditately before the photoshoot contribute to the vascular look.
Not at 41 years old in that short of a time span. It's not like he's an Arnold or Dwayne Johnson who's been this way before and understands the mind-muscle connection. Best trainers & nutritionists in the world can't tell how your muscles feel when you're contracting them.

People in here probably think Hugh Jackman was all natty. 'Hollywood trainers'
 

Jest

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1 year with a personal trainer who specializes in getting actors to similar physiques.
1 year with a meal plan with specialized macros.

Then, while filming, he still had a special team for exercise and nutrition... so even when working out and eating to maximum effeciency wasn't his only job to do during the day, he was still doing more than most people can to work on the physique.

And he didn't start off overweight (even if it wasn't in peak fitness).

So nah, he didn't need PEDs for this. This is the result of having the time and a financial backing to make the final result the top 1, 2, 3 priority in his life. He deserves the credit for his part of it and he's very upfront about the other factors involved that allowed for his dedication to pay off.
 

Pein

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Steroids wouldn't be all that useful unless he wanted long term huge muscle gains with limited downtime. HGH might help with the recovery, but judging by his vascularity and low body fat, this is probably just pinpoint dieting with a lot of plyometric and aerobic workouts.
you're crazy, its literally roids.

I train with pro natural lifters and dudes who roid up. Them guys who are doping look like monsters, the natty guys took years to look great.
 

AlexBasch

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Yeah, I barely follow him but in the Daisy Ridley video with Josh Had, his arms and his whole body looked way too damn good in that shirt.
 

NinjaScooter

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its always weird to me that people get so defensive about actors using PEDs. Like getting in that kind of shape still requires hard work. Its not "cheating". He's an actor. If he's taking stuff under the supervision of doctors or specialists, more power to him.
 
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That's impressive but I wish Marvel would mix things up with how a superhero is supposed to look and not simply give us Fat Thor for the cheap laughs. We often talk about the objectification of women and the troubles actresses have to go through to "appeal" to the general audience (and that's all true and has to change), but here we have Kumail, a funny and intelligent guy, that stands out for his charisma and humor, that wasn't in extreme shape but wasn't that bad (he was "normal" I would say), that has to go through all this to fit into the role model. I'm not sure I'm onboard with this. And I know he feels proud, worked his ass off and deserves too look this good. But as he says, this transformation is almost impossible for someone living a normal life without the resources he mentioned.
Yeah, that's why they're SUPERheroes, not normal life heroes. And no shit it's not possible for most people. Outside of during shooting season for the movies it's not possible for the actors either and they lose their mass fairly quickly
 

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The power of boiled chicken, exercising all day, and tons of personal trainers.

Good for him.
 
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you're crazy, its literally roids.

I train with pro natural lifters and dudes who roid up. Them guys who are doping look like monsters, the natty guys took years to look great.
For someone like him, I'm assuming after filming there is no way he keeps up with routine. So, how strenuous is it for the body to just regress back to his pre-movie self? Or is it not? I'm curious...
 

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Not at 41 years old in that short of a time span. It's not like he's an Arnold or Dwayne Johnson who's been this way before and understands the mind-muscle connection. Best trainers & nutritionists in the world can't tell how your muscles feel when you're contracting them.

People in here probably think Hugh Jackman was all natty. 'Hollywood trainers'
The sooner you start lifting, the easier it is to maintain and build upon of course. I'm not too sure if Kumail has been lifting for less than a year or if he has years of lifting experience, thus increased amounts of 'banked' myonuclei. If he has been training and keeping it low key, then it's more likely that he's natural.
 

Arkeband

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That's honestly pretty incredible. Hopefully his character reflects the amount of work he put into himself, I think he's wasted as the comic relief he's often cast as.
 

Pein

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For someone like him, I'm assuming after filming there is no way he keeps up with routine. So, how strenuous is it for the body to just regress back to his pre-movie self? Or is it not? I'm curious...
its not hard to lose it, fat will literally cover up abs and gains with poor dieting, you actively have to keep up with training and drugs to look like that year round.

look at chris evans and hemsworth, they don't look super hero ready all year around it'd be madness.
 

CassCade

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Good for him, I myself am not so far off that physique but there's no way in he'll I'll get there. It requires more effort, patience and self control than am capable of.
 

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Worked for Chronicle and the Unbreakable Trilogy. Hell, worked for Brightburn.
Yeah, but nobody's wearing spandex in any of these movies. I think you could still get away with bodies that deviate a bit from the American beauty standard, but the moment you go too far in either direction, audiences might simply reject the hero.
 
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its not hard to lose it, fat will literally cover up abs and gains with poor dieting, you actively have to keep up with training and drugs to look like that year round.

look at chris evans and hemsworth, they don't look super hero ready all year around it'd be madness.
Ah... So the roids and stuff they use will not have that much affect on them during that period? In terms of health
 
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its always weird to me that people get so defensive about actors using PEDs. Like getting in that kind of shape still requires hard work. Its not "cheating". He's an actor. If he's taking stuff under the supervision of doctors or specialists, more power to him.

Lol this. Plus it sounds like he wanted an opportunity to treat his body better and he is just sharing that he's happy he was able to do that thanks to the role he earned in Eternals.

Kumail's such a great dude sad to see people shitting on him for being happy about his self image
 

The Unsent

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Good for him, I myself am not so far off that physique but there's no way in he'll I'll get there. It requires more effort, patience and self control than am capable of.
I think you have to buy a lot of food too and convert it into muscle, sounds expensive for us normal people. People on here always try and make getting ripped sounds easier and more inexpensive than it is, like it's a meme.
 

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Listen, he's worked hard and all but that body type isn't natural and it sucks like hell that it's what is held up as the ideal male body image.

Guys don't look like that. Just look at his veins... they're not supposed to look like that.
 

Paquete_PT

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Yeah, that's why they're SUPERheroes, not normal life heroes. And no shit it's not possible for most people. Outside of during shooting season for the movies it's not possible for the actors either and they lose their mass fairly quickly
I'm not familiar with the Eternals but it's strange to assume that aliens and supernatural entities have to look like that to be super or strong.
 

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Yeah, but nobody's wearing spandex in any of these movies. I think you could still get away with bodies that deviate a bit from the American beauty standard, but the moment you go too far in either direction, audiences might simply reject the hero.

To be fair, very few people in the MCU are wearing spandex, and when they do, it's usually for a quick scene of nostalgia or a joke.

And like, I get it. It is how it is. I'm just saying it's not going to change and the demand for actors to do this to themselves will never go away.
 

Trey

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Listen, he's worked hard and all but that body type isn't natural and it sucks like hell that it's what is held up as the ideal male body image.

Guys don't look like that. Just look at his veins... they're not supposed to look like that.

We won't look like that unless we dehydrate to make weight in a bloodsport weigh in, or need to look muscular for a professional photoshoot.