![]() Straighten your arms and legs, then lower your body until your arms are at a 90-degree angle.Down on all fours, place your hands slightly wider than your shoulders.Briefly pause at the top before returning the bar to the floor by bending your hips back and allowing your knees to bend forward.Lift the bar by extending your hips and knees. ![]() Squat and grasp a barbell with a shoulder-width grip.Pull your body up until your chin is above the bar, then lower your body until your arms are fully extended.ĥ0 barbell deadlifts with 135 pounds (61.4 kg).Grasp an overhead bar with a wide grip.Here are the exercises of the 300 Workout and how to perform them. If you cannot complete the required number of reps for each exercise, you can briefly rest until you complete all the reps before moving on to the next exercise. "I can't help thinking that that's one of the reasons why these roles affect me so powerfully that I want to play them - and perhaps that I'm given those roles - because I have a natural fascination with mythology and the collective subconscious and just climbing into that," he says.The 300 Workout is intense and can challenge even the fittest individuals. ![]() Even though it's based on a true story, it's more like mythology, an aspect that appealed to Butler. Every single dimension of this film had a fresh and different feel and taste to it and (what stood out) more than anything was the pure toughness and the masculinity of the piece. "These guys, they're animals, and yet they're very, very smart. "But to me sometimes our heroes, Leonidas and his men, they almost feel like the villains. "We had to soften that a little bit," says Butler. Though they kill with gusto, the Spartans in the film aren't as ruthless as they are in Miller's graphic novel, the actor says. "But at the end of the day it really makes you feel something, I think, because it's a very powerful story and you dig the characters, and at the end you understand their journey and their pain and their sacrifice." It's like a shot of adrenaline in the arm that kind of spreads throughout the audience. "It looks like nothing you've ever seen before," says Butler. The landscapes, sets (except for three that were constructed) and gritty look were created digitally in post-production. Gordon, shot "300" against green screens and blue screens in a dormant Montreal industrial site. "I think I knew after meeting everybody and seeing the look of the film that if there was ever a film to put your whole heart and soul and physicality into, this was the one."ĭirector Zack Snyder, who co-wrote the script with Kurt Johnstad and Michael B. a swansong in a way in terms of just giving everything," he says. "I hate to say this in case I go on and do '300 No. "I've played this kind of role, and yet I knew that I'd never had a chance to play it on this kind of platform."īutler loved everything the film demanded of him. ![]() "At the risk of sounding a little twee, if that's the word, I felt like (it was) my destiny to play Leonidas," says Butler. In the years since he dropped out of Glasgow University's law school to pursue an acting career, Butler, 37, has played more than his share of larger-than-life, iconic characters - from Dracula in "Dracula 2000" to the Phantom in "The Phantom of the Opera" to Beowulf in "Beowulf & Grendel." But he grabbed the chance to play the legendary Spartan king. "One thing that I think I can do well is keep the strength and the power almost like you're sucking it in from everywhere around you, and I had that element of insanity which I bring with the Scots blood in me." I made certain promises to people before I started: 'Give me this role and I'll kill it. "I don't want to sound like a wet rag, but in actual fact it's an honor," Butler gushes. But if Butler has had his fill of describing the training regimen he went through to achieve his ripped torso and well-defined biceps, he certainly is happy to rave about playing King Leonidas in the stylized epic based on Frank Miller's graphic novel. Of all the special effects in "300," Butler's physique may be the most impressive. "That puts the question about training out of the window, doesn't it?" "How cool was that body suit?" he remarks impishly in his beguiling Scottish accent as he warms up to a fresh group of reporters at a Beverly Hills hotel. It's barely 10 a.m., and Gerard Butler is already giddy from answering questions about his manly new epic, "300," in which 300 Spartan warriors valiantly face Persian King Xerxes and his tens of thousands of soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae. ![]()
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