This article popped up on my Facebook because I liked the movie "300" and it was mentioned. Interesting read. Here's an excerpt.
When the original 300 film hit theaters in 2006, a grueling fitness program called the “300 workout” swept gyms across the U.S. as men hoping to get gladiator-like bodies signed on. The workout, which was developed to get the cast of the films in fighting shape, has a pretty basic concept: 300 reps of various exercises with no breaks. But it is so intense that the cast had to train six hours per day, five days per week for four months before they could even attempt the 300 workout, and only one actor, Andrew Pleavin, was able to actually complete it. In a Men’s Health interview, Gerard Butler admitted that he could not workout for a year after filming 300 because the program made him so physically exhausted.
Read the whole article here:
[url]http://time.com/19908/300-rise-of-an-empire-has-men-feeling-body-image-pressure/[/url] |