Channing Tatum
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- Date of birth: April 26, 1980
- Height: 185 cm.
- Weight: 80-85 kg.
- Best Movies: Side Effect, Super Mike, Macho and Nerd, Step Up, Cobra Toss, Eagle of the Ninth Legion, Johnny D.
Sports childhood
From early childhood, Channing was fond of various sports, played football, American football, baseball, athletics, and also practiced kung fu and other martial arts. Burpee exercise has always been part of his training. Not surprisingly, he possessed an excellent figure.
Tatum has always liked girls, and girls have always liked him. As the actor admits in an interview, this fact allowed him to earn extra money as a stripper, earning $ 600 a week. In the future, it was this experience that formed the basis of the film “Super Mike”.
Model career
Channing’s acting career began in 2000 with the filming of Ricky Martin’s music video ‘She Bangs’. This was followed by photo shoots for Dolce & Gabbana, Emporio Armani and Abercrombie & Fitch, and in 2002 the actor participated in the shooting of advertising for Mountain Dew and Pepsi.
Tatum mentioned in an interview that his modeling career helped him deal with his life: “I never knew what I wanted to do in the future, and now I had a chance to see the world around me, and not everyone is lucky. I realized that I really like art and cinema. ”
Step forward
The breakthrough moment in the actor’s career was the film Step Up, released in 2006 and instantly became an international hit. Interestingly, three years later, Tatum married his film partner, Jenna Dewan, and in May 2013 their first child was born.
The next big film in Channing’s career was the historical saga “Eagle of the Ninth Legion” (filmed in 2009, released in 2011), which required the actor to train hard to create a muscular, and at the same time, relief body.
How did Chaning Tatum lose weight?
Tatum honestly admits in an interview that despite the fact that he has always been involved in sports, it is much more important for him to live a full life, and not just have a “six-pack” (“press with cubes”): “Regular fitness is boring for me. The body should not be an end in itself. ”
The actor adds that he loves to eat deliciously: “Calculating calories and nutrients on a piece of paper is absolutely not for me.” For the filming of the movie “The Eagle of the Ninth Legion,” Channing had to lose 14 kilograms, while making sure that the muscles were not burned.
Training program
The core of the Tatum program was circuit training and CrossFit, ideal for building relief. The goal is to complete as many cycles of specific exercises as possible in 20 minutes with minimal rest between sets. Break between cycles – 2 minutes.
Monday
- Warm up – 5 minutes, run.
- The main workout – in 20 minutes, five to six cycles of the following exercises: 150 jumping rope, 10 pull-ups, 5 “power cleans” (combining the deadlift with pushing the bar up).
- Cool down – 5 minutes, slow jogging and stretching.
Wednesday
- Warm up – 5 minutes, jumping rope.
- The main workout – in 20 minutes, five to six cycles of the following exercises: 20 burpees (combining push-ups from the floor with jumping up), 15 leg raises in the hang; 20 bodyweight squats.
- Cool down – 5 minutes, jumping rope, then stretching.
Friday
- Warm up – 5 minutes, jumping rope.
- Basic training – in 20 minutes, five to six cycles of the following exercises: sprint 400 meters, 10 kettlebell throws up, 10 push-ups.
- Cool down – 5 minutes, jumping rope, then stretching.
Channing Tatum’s diet
At the heart of the actor’s diet was the complete elimination of foods containing starch or sugar, an emphasis on “correct” carbohydrates and increased protein intake. At the same time, 30-40 minutes before training, a cocktail of 30 grams was taken. carbohydrates and 20 gr. squirrel.
- Breakfast: scrambled eggs with vegetables, cereal bread toast, orange.
- Snack: apple and unsalted nuts.
- Lunch: Grilled chicken breast, spinach and sweet potatoes.
- Snack: Cottage cheese with nuts.
- Dinner: Chicken burger with vegetables.
- Snack: Homemade yogurt and a serving of almonds.
