'It's pretty simple bodybuilding,' Gaver says of Hemsworth's workout, which was used prior to last summer's Thor and this month's Avengers.

You can argue that no one is more powerful than The Hulk, has more courage than Captain America, or has more brains-and powerful weaponry-than Tony Stark.īut the argument for Thor doesn't require a lot of explanation or any twist of logic - he's the only Avenger who's an actual god.īuilding a body that audiences will associate with godliness is no small feat, so Chris Hemsworth trained hard for six months under the watchful eye of trainer Duffy Gaver, a former Navy SEAL who also trained Scarlett Johansson for her role as Black Widow. The fanboy debate over who is the greatest Avenger could rage on for days. A sample of some of these exercises is described. Zim won't reveal all his secrets but says that Evans' training was split up as follows and employed several unique twists on conventional exercises. He performed cardio after the workouts for 15 minutes, setting the treadmill to a 10% incline and running at 4.0 miles per hour. Evans paused at the top and bottom of each rep. For every rep, the weight was lifted quickly and lowered for a count of three seconds. Evans completed four sets per exercise, usually for 10 reps. He was trained for Four by Steve Zim, best-selling author of Hot Point Fitness and a trainer in Hollywood (check him out at ).Įvans took only four weeks to prep for the movie, performing four workouts per week that lasted an hour and 15 minutes per session. Saving the world is old news for Chris Evans, who toasted bad guys as Johnny Storm in 2005's Fantastic Four before suiting up for the role of Captain America.

Give your favorite a shot, and start building a fan base of your own. Whichever your choice, we have the exact routines they employed to create their iconic physiques. Whose physique do you most aspire to? Lithe ladies' man Tony Stark? Godlike Thor? Broad-shouldered Captain America? Massively muscular Hulk? The guys featured here did just this, building physiques that approximate the kind found in comic books by pulling and pushing tons of cold metal-iron men, all. However, to quote Spider-Man's Uncle Ben, 'With great power comes great responsibility.' To successfully play a superhero, you need more than just a pretty face and acting chops-you need to physically embody one.

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