 have you ever watched one of the movies that come out and you're looking at the lead action star and you're wondering how he went from being so scrawny to so big in apparently such a short period of time like if you look at Thor and you look at the people in 300 and you're sitting there wondering like why do I have such scrawny biceps how did they go from being that to that well in this video let's talk about five case studies from the big screens and how these guys in particular ended up gaining weight so quickly what's up guys alex hyan here author of the book master the day all right so case study number one is gerard butler in the movie 300 i mean just look at the before and the after picture it looks pretty dramatic but as you'll soon see this is actually probably the least dramatic body transformation i'm gonna feature here today so let's look at the obvious factors here in this picture number one gerard butler did not gain that much weight all right he didn't gain like 30 40 50 pounds like some of these guys did and he mostly actually just cut so he cut a lot of weight there was makeup used in the movie to even highlight the shadows on people's abs and he got pumped up before a lot of the fight scenes where he had to be you know the charismatic muscular dude now there's even a saying in the fitness community that losing fat or getting cut appears to add 20 pounds of muscle now this is kind of like an anecdotal thing but you can take the guy the same weight a person at the same weight male or female when they lose body fat the definition itself can make a person look incredible this second case study here is chris hemsworth in the movie thor now obviously before he looked like this he wasn't a thin dude but he was an average body weight and after he was truly massive like this is a big dramatic transformation where chris actually gained a lot of weight for this role now here's a direct quote from an interview with him on how he bulked up when he said i feel as if i've been busy but all i've been doing is eating all day eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting so number one we know he was eating kind of like a bodybuilding type meal plan which was every two to three hours typically rice broccoli and chicken his workouts on the other hand were typical also bodybuilding splits so for example on monday he'd do chest for six to twelve sets tuesday back wednesday arms thursday legs and then friday shoulders and abs so for chris hemsworth it was hammering down tons of food and typical bodybuilding splits now what about mark wallberg in the movie pain and gain so mark wallberg first of all was already a weightlifter he's already a big dude that obviously stays consistent in the gym you can see between movies he's already fit and he stays pretty big now he got a lot bigger for the movie pain and gain and this is a direct quote from what he was doing in an interview with e online he said i was eating 10 meals a day and drinking mass gainers i was even drinking my own and i created this line of supplements with the retail chain gnc it was a lot of work there was even a lot of getting up at two in the morning to eat another meal and i was still full from the meal at 10 o'clock now what about his workouts on the other hand the workouts very much resembled chris's bodybuilding splits where on monday he would do biceps legs and back on tuesday triceps chest and shoulders wednesday biceps and legs thursday and friday off and then saturday and sunday biceps legs back and triceps chest shoulders so his secret was hammering down a disgusting amount of food as well as typical bodybuilding splits and a lot of volume tom hardy is a bit of a different transformation before he wasn't necessarily that fit he was just kind of like a normal body weight-looking guy not that muscular for bane he had to gain the weight in a short period of time so what we see that's different here is that he also gained a lot of fat now with bane bane's character is kind of in the shadows a lot and the way he's done he's not like a super ripped villain but he's just a big dude and in an interview tom hardy said for the movie bronson i put on about seven pounds a week with no steroids in the end i'd put on about two and a half stone by eating chicken and rice which was my staple diet throughout the day then i'd have pizza hagan das and coca cola so not good stuff but i had to put the weight on now even though tom hardy's transformation is dramatic the difference here is that compared to the other people i featured he's a lot less cut and a lot less ripped so you can tell he was a short period of time and there was probably a lot more junk and a lot of excess calories in order to get there now the fifth transformation here is christian bail going from the movie the machinist all the way to batman now what was so dramatic here is that he lost a crazy amount of weight to look like this in the movie the machinist and then in under a year i think he had to play batman and he had to gain over 109 pounds now this is interesting for a couple reasons first of all he still looks pretty good big and he still looks cut there's not a lot of body fat there and in an interview this is what he said the director Christopher Nolan asked me to try and put on as much weight as i could because he would find it very difficult to convince the studio to cast me if i was a beanpole in doing so i overdid it because i was enjoying gorging i was ignoring advice about taking it slowly because my stomach had shrunk from the role in the machinist and i should just go with soups but i went straight into pizza and ice cream and eating five meals in a sitting my stomach expanded really quickly i got very sick during that time but i enjoyed getting sick i didn't mind it at all in that short amount of time i actually did go from 121 pounds right back up to 180 pounds which is way too fast so that resulted in some doctor visits to get things sorted out so how did he actually do this well one of the things was that he regained the weight he already had so look at his role in the movie equilibrium two years before he was already a pretty big dude and fairly cut so going down to the machinist he wasn't really gaining 109 pounds of muscle your body pretty quickly can come back to its normal weight so christian bale in one sense wasn't gaining that muscle he was regaining almost his default or where he had been before still as impressive as hell that is a look at how some celebrities have gained weight in a short period of time now what about for you i want to know what's been the challenge for you to get to your ideal physique leave a comment right there below because i want to hear what's up guys i hope you like that video now the best way to stay in touch is come grab the free seven-day personal development and fitness weight loss challenge either on modern health monk dot com forward slash youtube or in the 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