5 Hollywood Hunks Whose Gym Routines Are Worth Ripping Off

If it’s fitness motivation you seek, look no further than Hollywood’s ripped leading men, whose sweaty regimens and strict nutrition plans can inspire us all

By Stephan Horbelt

January 21, 2016 :: 9:30 AM

1. John Krasinski, 36

To say that his performance in the new film 13 Hours, playing one of the Navy SEALs present during the 2012 Benghazi attack, is far removed from the role that made him a household name (The Office’s desk-chained Jim Halpert) would be an understatement. The star of the new Michael Bay flick is lean and ripped, sporting abs and arms any one of us would kill for. Even more impressive, Krasinski had only 16 weeks to transform himself.

He did so at Rise Movement, the gym owned by his personal trainer, Jason Walsh, located in West Hollywood on Melrose. As Krasinski recently told Men’s Health, “I didn’t know what I wanted until Jason told me what it was. I had shoulder and back pain, and I couldn’t do one pullup. His whole thing was, we won’t touch a weight until you work out these pains.”

By the time he shot the film, Krasinski was up to 20 pullups—no small feat. He has five-days-per-week workouts to thank for that; 90 minutes in the morning, 60 more in the afternoon.

The trick for those shirtless scenes? His trainer curtailed Krasinski’s carb intake for weeks, also cutting fluids the night before the shoot so he was a bit dehydrated. But the real secret, Walsh admits, is one popular among bodybuilders—Krasinski would eat sorbet right before shooting, because the sugar would cause his muscles to swell. “It looks like you’ve shrinkwrapped the muscles,” Walsh says.

See, sugar isn’t all bad. Remember that trick before the summer season’s pool parties.

Try This:  Krasinski’s favorite exercise is the bench press. “There’s that number you can keep pushing,” he says. “It’s almost a game instead of a workout.” His least favorite? The Bulgarian split squat. “That’s the worst.”

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