Saturday, May 8, 2010

Iron Man 2 Workout and Happy Mothers Day

Happy Sunday...

Happy Morthers Day to All the Mom's...Mom's Rock!!!!

Funny I was reading this article about How Robert Downy Jr put on 20lbs of muscle for Iron Man2...

Guess what he did to get it done? (from movies.yahoo.com)

"Robert Downey Jr. packed on 20 pounds of muscle to reprise his role in
"Iron Man 2."



"When we did 'Iron Man 1,' we had five months before the shoot to get ready, so we used more traditional, heavy-weight training," his trainer, Brad Bose, tells UsMagazine.com. This time around, the actor, 45, had just wrapped "Sherlock Holmes," and was down to 151 pounds when shooting on the action flick (out May 7) began.


"After [the first routine], Robert felt kind of bored with it and wanted to something a little more exciting... so we decided to do what I call a Rocky IV meets high-tech training," says Bose, who bulked Downey Jr. up to 175 pounds over the first three to four weeks filming.

Examples: "Instead of doing regular bench presses, we used a bamboo bar... and we would hang plates on rubber bands off the bar... so it was like trying to bench press a snake!" Bose explains. "It bounced all over the place."


Downey Jr. also pushed "a custom-built wheelbarrow that we modified with 600 to 700 lb. weight stacks" around an obstacle course.

"We went out and bought truck tires, and we used sledgehammers -- anywhere from, two 4-lb. sledgehammers in each hand, all the way up to a full 20-lb. sledgehammer -- and we were just beating tires with it. We used fire hoses that we filled with sand and water... and we'd drag and whip them to build the shoulder muscles and pecs back up."

They also juggled "weighted Indian clubs," hulled around kettle bells and even used a war machine, which Boyes explains is "like a rope with handles on it with a pulley -- you suspend yourself from it," says Bose.

"We tried to find the most unique, and yet funnily enough, inexpensive training stuff to use," he says. "You couldn't find more practical stuff to use."


Sounds Like last weeks Boot camp to me...if you were there, you know we rocked it!

What I'm calling the Iron Man 2 workout...

we tested it a little:
Round 1 Warm Up:
25 Good Mornings
25 Jumping Jacks
20 Side Steps (each way) with Perform Better Bands

Round 2 (for time)
10 Bench (assisted) Push ups
10 Bench Dips
10 Squats
10 Side Lunges
150 Meter Run

15 Bench Push ups
15 Bench Dips
15 Squats
15 Side Lunges
150 Meter run

20 Bench Push ups
20 Bench Dips
20 Squats
20 Side Lunges
150 Meter Run

Round 2 for Time
10 Push ups on the floor
10 Bench Dips with feet extended
10 Single leg squats on a Bench
150 meter run

15 Push ups on the floor
15 Bench Dips with feet extended
15 Single leg squats on a Bench
150 meter run

20 Push ups on the floor
20 Bench Dips with feet extended
20 Single leg squats on a Bench
150 meter run

Round 3 For Time
10 Push ups on the floor with one leg elevated
10 Bench Dips with feet elevated on another bench
10 Squat Jumps
10 Plyo Lunges
150 meter run

15 Push ups on the floor with one leg elevated
15 Bench Dips with feet elevated on another bench
15 Squat Jumps
15 Plyo Lunges
150 meter run

20 Push ups on the floor with one leg elevated
20 Bench Dips with feet elevated on another bench
20 Squat Jumps
20 Plyo Lunges
150 meter run

BTW it was outdoors and it was hot and humid!!!

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and HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

--
Rafael Moret,CSCS, NASM-Cpt
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