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- What's up, Men's Health?
I'm Tarzan.
I'm here at Gold's Gym and this is how I train.
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When I'm working out for a particular type of role,
I like to look at the character
and the type of life that they live.
So in "Top Gun: Maverick," he was a fighter pilot.
And you tend to want to have the conditioning
to be able to withstand the Gs that are in a F-18.
So I spent a lot of time doing cardio workout,
as well as preparing for the beach scene.
The beach scene was the biggest thing
that I was training towards, honestly.
If I'm going to be honest with you.
I wanted to look as good as possible
because montages last forever.
And I think I did look good
in "Top Gun: Maverick" beach scene.
And I mean you can see it,
and look at me pointing and stuff.
The goal was to cut down as much fat as possible
and it was something completely different
from how I'm training for "Mission: Impossible,"
as I play a CIA agent.
For that, I really want to focus
on not necessarily losing weight,
but putting on a little bit of muscle.
But not to get too bulky.
But I trained doing martial arts, UFC,
kickboxing, boxing.
So I try to stay away from the weights as much as possible,
but still keep that definition.
So I get in the head space of a military personnel officer.
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Today I'll be doing a high-intense workout
that focuses on hitting all of the muscle groups,
'cause you really want to, you know, get that workout in.
This is one of my Friday workouts
and we're gonna start off with five-minute jump ropes
as a warmup.
So we'll start off with five minutes, just one set,
just to get the heart rate going.
Work up a little sweat
before we get into the high-intense workout.
This is actually fun, it's relaxing.
This is when I do my meditation, while jumping,
before I kill myself in what I call the jungle gym.
You know, Tarzan entering the jungle gym.
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Next thing we're gonna do is deadlifts,
bent-over rolls, and shadowboxing for 30 seconds.
We like to kinda combine different workouts with each other
so that we can keep the heart rate going.
Little break as possible.
Let's do it.
So like I said, we're gonna do deadlifts,
bent-over rolls, and then followed by shadowboxing.
Now I like to do this,
I like to incorporate cardio into my circuits,
just to keep the heart rate going.
That's why we like to mix up all the workouts.
So here we go right now.
(Tarzan grunting)
One, two.
And we're gonna do 5, 5, 5s.
Three, four, five.
One, two, three, four, five.
One, two, three,
four, five.
We do multiple workouts in a set.
Three, four, five.
To eliminate the rest, 'cause we don't get tired baby.
We can't get tired. (dramatic music)
(Tarzan grunting)
One, two, three, four, five.
(weights clatter)
Go straight into shadowboxing.
(Tarzan hissing)
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(Tarzan hissing)
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So one of the best diet tips
I received from one of my co-stars was from Tom Cruise.
And his dietary advice was, "Don't eat shit foods."
(laughing) I was eating hamburgers and french fries
while we were at lunch one time
and he walks up and he was like,
"Tarzan, what are you doing?"
I was like, "I'm eating."
"Don't eat shit food."
And I was like, "Okay, all right. All right."
So I don't, I can't say I don't eat it,
but when I'm training I do not eat it.
He's the same person who sends coconut cake
in the middle of filming at the end of the year
for Christmas every year.
And he tells me not to eat shit food.
So right now we're about to do
three workouts in this circuit.
We have kettlebell swings,
we have bear crawls with dumbbell push,
and then we have knee jumps.
All of this is a full-body workout
that's also gonna incorporate cardio.
Every circuit we want to incorporate cardio,
because sometimes we just don't like doing it.
So we like to put it inside the workout.
So let's get started. (grunts)
One, two.
Seven, eight,
nine, ten.
Ooh.
Now after we done that,
we go straight to bear crawls, with weights.
(Tarzan grunting)
Then we go straight into knee jumps.
This is great for explosion.
Always wanna keep yourself active,
especially if you're not playing sports anymore.
This is what I love doing.
Not love doing, but I do it.
Ooh!
(Tarzan grunts)
(grunts) Three.
(grunts) Four.
(grunts) Five.
Ooh! I'm gonna finish strong.
(grunts) Ah!
Finish strong, baby.
Take a quick break, about 45 seconds to a minute,
then you hop right back into it.
You have three sets in this one circuit.
And we don't get tired, 'cause we can't get tired.
So for this last circuit, we have to finish strong.
We're not gonna make it easy on ourself.
We have goblet squats, we have burpees,
and then we have balance balls.
Now we want to make it as hard as possible,
in order to finish through the line.
If we finish strong on the workout,
we can finish through everything in life strong as possible,
and we gonna reach our goals.
Now let's get it started, man. We don't get tired.
(Tarzan grunting)
Just like that.
Some burpees.
Wanna make sure we leave our feet for these?
Give it everything you got, don't short change yourself.
Here we go. Ooh!
(Tarzan grunting)
Yes, it hurts.
I know it hurt. It's hurting me.
(Tarzan grunting)
All right, and we are done.
I would like to say thanks for hanging out with me today,
Men's Health.
Thanks for training with me.
And listen, it doesn't matter what you're doing in the gym,
it doesn't matter what you're doing in life.
Make sure you give it your all,
even if you gotta slow it down a little bit.
Just don't give up. Don't get tired.
That's what you gotta do.
Now I'm about to go eat one of the fattest hamburgers,
despite what Tom says, and I'm gonna enjoy.
Until then you can catch me on "Mission: Impossible 7,"
part one, "Dead Reckoning."
And have fun with us.
It's a global epic, I know you'll enjoy.
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