March 14, 2007
Creating Modern Spartans
Interesting article about the four-month regimen the actors and stunt crew of the film “300″ went through at Gym Jones:
The first misconception is that we used a bodybuilding-type program of progressive overload and over-feeding with the goal of making the guys look huge. We took the opposite route of calorie restriction to make them look like they lived off the land, in the wild, all sinewy and ripped. The diet was adequate to fuel effort and recovery, barely. And we prescribed random physical challenges to keep them off balance, to ensure they never knew what was coming, to cause a stress-reaction, to break them, to make them look bad in front of each other, which eventually led them to trust one another.
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March 14th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
sounds like extreme reality taken onto the big screen lol
March 15th, 2007 at 12:07 am
“Extreme Makeover: Roman Edition”
March 15th, 2007 at 10:07 am
steve: I think those guys were already in great shape when they started at Gym Jones … they just went from great to greater.
March 15th, 2007 at 10:13 am
Thanks for the link. There’s some good material on the site, including real man talk like “Gym Jones is not a cozy place. There’s no AC, no comfortable spot to sit and there are no mirrors.”
Earlier today, I doctored a 300 movie poster so the title changed from 300 to ‘The 3500′ (the title of my blog).
March 15th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Caravaggio: Yes, I explored the Gym Jones site pretty thoroughly … lots of good stuff there and a steady stream of “serious” manly man talk. ;-)
March 15th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
The 300 movie is based on a fictious nocvel. The problem in 300 is that in the movie history is distorted but people who made the historical events are not changed. http://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/190493