Chris Hemsworth the massive Thor from the Marvel series is everyone’s favourite action hero and superhero!! Well, why not? He is an absorbing character to watch, and his physique makes his fans drool over him. And when he is posing in a shirtless scene showing off his amazing muscles, it is simply a lucky day for those watching it!!
So how does Chris Hemsworth work on these muscles? The story is rather engrossing and very scary too. A report on giantfreakinrobot.com talked to the trainer of Chris Hemsworth who gave two big moves that the actor takes during the filming of these scenes. And we take reference from that story for our write up here.
The trainer Luke Zocchi spoke to Insider to promote the lifestyle app Centr and said that Chris Hemsworth goes through the same routine every time he has to appear on screen shirtless as Thor. Hemsworth will increase his water intake, starting the week before the shirtless scene. On the first day, Hemsworth will drink 3 liters, or nearly 13 cups, of water. He’ll increase the intake by a liter, or about four and a quarter cups, every day. By the end of the routine, he’s drinking seven liters, or a little over 29 and a half cups. Luke Zocchi told Insider, “Then around lunchtime before the scene, we cut water completely. This is by no means a healthy thing to do, and I wouldn’t recommend that anyone else do this.”
The goal, Zocchi says, is to make the actor’s muscles look “denser and harder” than normal by draining them of fluids. But the dehydration isn’t the only step Chris Hemsworth takes. At the same time, Hemsworth carb-cycles. The week before the shirtless scene, he deprives himself of carbs. But then during the last couple of days before shooting, he shovels down 40 grams of carbs every two hours. We might normally assume that Zocchi is speaking here just of the actor’s waking hours — i.e. that he doesn’t wake himself in the middle of the night every two hours to eat 40 more grams of carbs — but considering the other extremes he goes to, who knows? Zocchi says the combination of the actor’s muscles being dehydrated while filling them with glycogen makes them look exactly how he wants on screen.
Wow!! What do you think of this amazing idea to showcase his physique?
