![]() “My wife is like, ‘All right buddy, I like your new workout!’” 4. “I get more randy too,” Crews says with a grin. And because I’m eating more at night, my body produces more testosterone and growth hormone while I sleep – and gives me more fuel for my workout for the next morning.” I’ve managed to maintain all my muscle and burn away all my fat. That means I end the day with a wonderful meal with bread and potatoes that I can look forward to, and it never feels like I’m depriving myself.”Įspecially since that’s only six days a week… “On Sundays I have a cheat day, where I eat whatever I want – pizza, ice cream, anything I've been thinking about during the week. I also save my carbs for my evening meal. Now I don’t eat as much, and I get full a lot faster. “For the first four or five days I was so hungry it was unbelievable, but all of a sudden my body adapted and the hunger pains went away. “I find that restricting the times when I eat means I eat less,” Crews says. I like to work out in the morning – I’m a big ‘wake up, hit it, get it done’ kinda guy – then eat my biggest meal in the evening.” “Most days I’ll eat my first meal at 2pm and my last meal at 10pm. Recently he’s been experimenting with intermittent fasting. “When I was younger I bought in to the concept of eating five or six times a day, but it turned out I was eating too much, so I had to work out even harder to burn it off.” ![]() The good news? There’s pizza and ice cream involved. Play with your foodĪs with his training, Crews has adapted his diet as he’s got older to deal with what his body can handle. Your workouts should always make you feel better, not worse.” 3. That massively reduces the pressure on my knees.”Ĭrews’s one key lesson? When training, “you need to experiment and see what works for your body. So I went to an Olympic training centre to see how Olympic lifters were squatting, and I realised that squatting with correct form is a lot like a ballet plié – you need to bend your knees outward with a straight back. “I used to squat all day long, but afterwards my knees would be sore and I’d blow my back out a lot. His approach to squats is a perfect example. Plus I’d recover better and I wouldn’t feel as tired.” So I tried lowering the reps, and I found that if I just got two heavy reps in per set instead of five or six, I’d get more benefit from it. I used to lift lots of heavy weights for lots of reps, but it would wear me down. It made me realise that instead of just working harder, I needed to work smarter. But now if I stub my toe, I’m out for two weeks. “As a young man I could jump off a roof, fall on my back and get up without a problem. “I’ve felt the need to change my workouts a lot as I’ve got older,” he says. You'll get better with ageĪt 46, Crews still trains with savage intensity – but with decades of experience in the gym, he’s tweaked his workouts to suit his busy schedule and age. But no-one can please everyone, and you shouldn’t try.” Lord Sugar would probably agree. With my comedy, some people are like, ‘Ah man, Terry Crews grates on my nerves’. So if you like me, I’m with you but if you don’t, it’s OK too. They need to realise it’s OK to like what you like and do what you want. “People have bought into stereotypes and rules. ![]() So I just decided I was going to be me, and it changed my way of thinking.”Ĭrews says he wanted to challenge preconceived notions of what a tough guy is. As a football player I was an alpha male among alpha males, but I watched guys go straight to hell trying to keep up a certain image. I’ve learned not to care and to be comfortable being embarrassed. “And you need to learn how to fail because jokes don’t always work. Unlike, say, the typical Apprentice candidate, Crews embraces his mistakes as a learning experience. Here’s what else you can learn from the big man. Crews likes a joke, but he takes his work seriously – and he's becoming one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood. ![]() This attitude has made Crews just as at home flexing his pecs in Old Spice adverts as he is playing the action star in The Expendables 3. ![]() “People think that because you look a certain way you should act a certain way,” Crews explains between on-camera grimaces. While he’s as hardcore as any Hollywood action man – he spent four years as an NFL linebacker and still lifts with dedication that would shame most pro athletes – he's also an art school graduate who doesn’t buy into the stereotypical tough guy image. This article first appeared in Men’s Fitness in October 2014įor a man who can toss around a 40kg dumbbell like a toy, Terry Crews is making a meal out of the 2kg one we put in front of him during his Men’s Fitness photoshoot, straining while curling it with an intensity that makes his veins pop. 1 Barbell squat 2 Barbell lunge 3 Romanian deadlift 4 Glute bridgeģ Dumbbell lateral raise 4 Dumbbell shoulder press Terry Crews’ 5 Ways To Win At Life ![]()
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