who feels like a lazy slob?
Mar. 9th, 2007 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_towerOn the heels of yesterday's failure of a workout, I read this article about the training the actors and stunt crew of 300 went through for the film.
It's pretty awesome.
And now I feel like a lazy slob.
Under no circumstances would I want to be in the gym 10-12 hours a day, five days a week for four months . . . but it does make me feel pretty pathetic about my own workouts. I would make a very bad Spartan. I do give a big thumbs-up, though, to a training regimen that, in both physical and social terms, seems pretty well-designed to produce modern-day Spartans. I've talked with any number of people about how the cast of Firefly used to hang out in the galley of the set when they weren't filming, and it shows; they're comfortable there, and have a camraderie with each other, that you only get by such means. Similar idea here. Blood, sweat, and tears, and at the end of it you've got Spartans.
Cool.
It's pretty awesome.
And now I feel like a lazy slob.
Under no circumstances would I want to be in the gym 10-12 hours a day, five days a week for four months . . . but it does make me feel pretty pathetic about my own workouts. I would make a very bad Spartan. I do give a big thumbs-up, though, to a training regimen that, in both physical and social terms, seems pretty well-designed to produce modern-day Spartans. I've talked with any number of people about how the cast of Firefly used to hang out in the galley of the set when they weren't filming, and it shows; they're comfortable there, and have a camraderie with each other, that you only get by such means. Similar idea here. Blood, sweat, and tears, and at the end of it you've got Spartans.
Cool.
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Date: 2007-03-09 08:47 pm (UTC)Provided that you want Spartans. I mean, what does one do with a bunch of Spartans when one has finished filming them?
But yeah, it is pretty neat.
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Date: 2007-03-09 08:57 pm (UTC)no subject
But yeah, I wonder what it was like the for cast and crew to try to maintain and/or lose their body strength.
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Date: 2007-03-10 03:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-09 10:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-11 01:23 pm (UTC)Uh.. so you want to pay me in bucketloads of cold cash to be in a historical war/comic book film AND get professional physical training to make me look like a real life superhero? And its only going to take 4 months of training?
Where do I sign??? Its gonna hurt like hell but where do I sign????
*grin*