The latest adventure film with a million-dollar budget has recently been released in Spain: Furiosa, from the Mad Max saga which stars Anya Taylor-Joy, famous for the Netflix series Queen’s Gambitand by a very little Chris Hemsworth … recognizable. For the first time since he became a global star of the seventh art, the Australian goes to the “dark side” to play the role of villain. The transformation of his face for the role is such that it is difficult to recognize him. Of course, there is something that does not change: he is still strong as a rock. Thor has not left his body and that is because he still has the most demanding training plan known to a Hollywood star.
Perhaps with the permission of Jason Statham, who at 56 is still in top form, Chris Hemsworth He is the actor who shows the most exuberant physical condition of those who headline the posters of the most popular film premieres. It is not surprising, seeing the evolution of the oceanic’s physique, that he would forever remain with the nickname ‘Thor’, the role that gave him the fame that remains valid at 40 years old (he will turn 41 on August 11).
In Furious, Hemsworth, in the shoes of Dementus, is just as strong as in all his previous films. The difference is that he is also “uglier”, if this adjective can be used together with the name of Elsa Pataky’s husband, than ever on the big screen because He appears characterized with long hair accompanied by a very scruffy beard.. With such an appearance, it is his biceps, his pectorals and his six pack that give him away, the same ones that he sculpts with his workouts in the gym, whether he is traveling or at home, where he has a facility with everything he needs to training that he shares with Elsa Pataky, and where the couple’s children are already making their first steps in fitness, from the game, as they show on their social networks.
Chris Hemsworth characterized in the movie ‘Furiosa’
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Of the beard and mane he wears Furious There is no longer a trace on Chris Hemsworth’s face, as was evident in the event held coinciding with the premiere of the film and in which he was awarded his star on the Walk of Fame, and a few days before, at the gala of the Met, where the actor opted to wear a watch and luxury jewelry as an accessory to a look consisting of a light three-piece suit that he wore shirtless and without a tie.
It is also not common to see Chris Hemsworth in a suit. Nothing looks bad on a hanger like his, but it seems that he feels much more liberated when he puts on sports clothes, whether for enjoy sports and outdoor adventure or to comply with the daily training record. Training, by the way, that has varied slightly, as we are going to tell you below, to prepare for his role in Furious.
Chris Hemsworth training
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This has been Chris Hemsworth’s training in ‘Furiosa’
The basis of Hemsworth’s training, beyond taking care of his diet and rest like a professional athlete, and all the outdoor physical activities that he usually does in the company of his family, is based on a demanding physical work in the gym.
For Furious, Chris Hemsworth hasn’t changed his training plan much because the script called for a lush physical image to appear, as usual. However, he has had to make small adaptations, as his partner and personal trainer, Luke Zocchi, has said. «As the leader of the bad guys, he wanted to have a presence. There were no body fat percentages to hit, he just wanted to be lean and strong.and not too bulky like Thor,” he explains in an article for Centr Fit, the actor’s own physical training app.
Zocchi and Hemsworth had two months to prepare the actor’s body for their new film. During that time, the two worked together 3 or 4 times a week. At that time, his personal trainer explains, “We did full-body workouts incorporating traditional lifts such as bench press, pull-ups, kettlebell deadlifts, lunges, and machine exercises for all muscle groups.
In addition, they dedicated part of the training to cardiovascular work, which Chris Hemsworth does not leave aside no matter how much his body may say that it is only dedicated to strength work. “Circuit-style cardio that includes running, SkiErg — a device that simulates the movement of skiing — and functional movements such as the farmer carry — walking with weights, usually bulky kettlebells, in both hands —, with minimal rests in between,” says Zocchi .
Although it may seem like your workouts consist of a lot of weight work, the reality is that The Australian actor’s gym work sessions are much more like functional training and CrossFit. They are explosive, with a lot of weight load and a combination of exercises of a different nature. All this in a relatively short time of work, ideal for people who do not have much free time to train.
In order to prepare for FuriousHowever, he included more functional movement if possible in his training. «Functional movement definitely played a bigger role this time. But the main difference was the loads we were lifting,” says his personal trainer. «We train to failure with heavy loads and take longer breaks between series, but for Furious “We lift a little lighter and balance it with shorter rests to keep our heart rate up,” he adds. All this, concludes Luke Zocchi, “without reaching failure, so Chris still had something reserved for cardio.”
Scene from the movie ‘Furiosa’
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All this work is completed, as we said before, with special attention to diet, rest and also recovery, for which Chris Hemsworth regularly resorts to cold therapy.
In fact, his personal trainer acknowledges that during the filming of the film, when they filmed in Broken Hill, a town 13 hours from Sydney by car, he installed an ice bath and a sauna in the house where the actor was staying.
«As time goes on, we have focused much more on recovery. I always try to make sure we have access to a sauna and ice bath, but if you don’t have access, the main thing is to take some time after a training session to downregulate your breathing and stretch», concludes Luke Zocchi, who has allowed us to know the keys to Chris Hemsworth’s training for ‘Furiosa’, the film in which he once again demonstrates that there is no actor as strong as him in the world.
