- [Player] Looking like the wolf man, bro.
- Hey, hey, Louie Lastik, man, what happened to you?
- Man, I just gave your mama a piggyback ride,
and she weighs twice as much as I do.
(players laugh)
- You know, you're funny.
(upbeat electronic music)
- Hi, I'm Ethan Suplee.
We're at Grant Robert's Granite Gym in Beverly Hills.
We're gonna be doing a chest workout today.
You may know me or you may not know me anymore
from such movies as "Remember the Titans,"
"American History X," "Blow," "Cold Mountain,"
"Mall Rats," "My Name is Earl,"
or any of the above.
I've lost a lot of weight,
and I am focusing now on retaining
as much muscle as possible while I continue to lose weight.
In order to do that,
I have to trick my body into thinking
it needs the muscle to survive,
so, while in a caloric deficit,
I have to lift heavy weights
so that my body thinks it needs the muscle
to keep finding food.
At my heaviest, I was 530-plus.
Think I maxed out the scale at 530.
I'm now 260.
In between there, there was weight loss and weight gain.
I met a girl who I felt was more important
than all of the girls I'd known previous to her,
and losing weight and getting healthy was the only way
that I could see on making sure
I had the longest time with her.
All right, this is gonna be a push workout.
(intense electronic music)
We're working out today with Grant Roberts,
and the first thing we're gonna do is
a little pre-activation.
- Right, we're gonna pre-activate on the power plate.
What this is is a vibrating platform.
It vibrates side to side, front to back
in a very synchronistic matter, so it's not a foot massager.
This was actually created
by the Soviet space program
because weights would be useless in space,
but he's going to assume a push-up position
in a half plank, and he's gonna do,
basically, what happens with this is,
it engorges the muscle with oxygen blood
so it's much better than a cold stretch.
Go ahead and drop it down.
(machine whirs)
Pretty exciting stuff.
- Now that I'm pre-activated,
we're gonna move on to the next workout.
(intense electronic music)
This is an incline fly to press.
I'll be doing 10 reps of the fly,
and then eight presses.
We'll be trying to create a little muscle damage
so that our bodies have something to repair.
- This one's dipping a little bit, get this one down.
The next exercise is a reverse bench press.
This is low chest and triceps.
This is one of my favorite total chest workouts.
It's the cable scoop.
I'm gonna do 10 reps.
(grunts)
Okay, onto the next workout.
We're transitioning from chest into triceps.
This is gonna be an upper chest pullover
to a tricep press, so it'll be 10 pull overs
and eight to 10 tricep press.
- [Grant] Got it?
- Yeah.
- [Grant] Down to your chest.
- This is our last exercise.
It's a tricep finisher.
I'll be doing skullcrusher holds,
eight reps, hold, followed by five reps, hold,
followed by three reps, hold, followed by one rep,
and that's the end.
This pretty much finishes the workout.
All right, guys, thanks for joining me
for my big push workout.
I've found lifting weights to be really important
while I lose weight, to retain muscle.
Tomorrow, I will do a pull workout,
which is almost entirely back and biceps.
Thanks for watching.
See you later.
(upbeat rock music)