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- I'm Glen Powell and I'm going to show you
how to train like I did, for "Top Gun".
Well as soon as I was casted in "Top Gun".
One thing that was one my mind,
which is, a montage.
The first movie had the volleyball montage.
We have a football montage.
And I knew the stakes were high
so the first stop was Ultimate Performance
to see my buddy Eddie here,
to figure out how to be the best of the best
of that scene.
Look, when you're doing "Top Gun",
you have to obviously look the part,
but you also have to put intense stress
on your bodies when you're in the back of a fighter jet.
Upwards of seven and a half Gs,
enough to pass out,
you have to have a certain amount of core strength.
So everything that we're doing in here is strength based
but it's also functional,
so I don't get hurt on set
while you're doing stunts with Tom Cruise,
'cause it's easy to do.
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So we're going to start with deadlifts.
Deadlifts are gonna work hips and back
and for me, that's the most crucial part of,
you know, not getting hurt on set.
That kind of just gets the entire base,
it works everything so that,
no matter what sort of stunts you do,
your foundation is strong,
so you're not going to get hurt.
The only thing that doesn't work is the chest.
One of the cinema muscles, as Stallone calls them.
- Back, up, up, up that's better, we're done, good.
Awesome.
Wow! Look at that, he can do it by himself.
- Eddie is the Romanian terror.
So what we're going to do here is
we're gonna work up to 100 pounds in each hand,
and there gonna be low reps,
it's gonna be six to eight reps per set.
Three sets of 100.
Sometimes you just got to get, yourself psyched up
to get your ass kicked.
Every time I walk in the door,
I'm always like, (sighs) this.
(laughs)
This is the, full service part of the gig.
I don't put any articles of clothes on my body
unless Eddie puts them on for me. (laughs)
- Up, that's it. Hold up. Good.
- If you do heavy weight, you can't just like muscle it up.
Otherwise, you'll get hurt.
Hundiesonmondies, lets make that a hashtag.
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I'm learning keep the technique and
flex the bottom and then you get to the top
and you're flexing everything
you're really keeping it precise
you can, you know,
max out 100 pound dumbbells without getting hurt
- Well the thing is, like, with you,
we have to work a little bit more being slightly
more patient because your men tight
is about going mental.
(laughs)
- There's some issues we need done cover there
and I don't know.
This is usually where Eddie and I
take things to a new level.
We'll put some weights on my waist.
That's gonna be working the back and the lats
to make sure it's extra hard
to make sure we get a full workout,
and, you know, just to show off a little bit.
- Get it, Get it!
- And we're gonna do, that's usually to failure.
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And then we're gonna do from there,
we're gonna do ring pushups.
That is where you have these hanging rings.
You put a weight on your back,
and that's gonna work your core.
It's just gonna blast everything.
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Cause you have to maintain a plank
with weight on your back.
And every muscle in your shoulders and arms,
it fires up everything. Cause' these things are moving,
and you're trying to keep them stable.
These particularly suck, but I think one of the most
impactful things if you're trying to rip up
the top half of your body.
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- Beautiful.
- Don't try to be a high school hero
right off the bat. Build up to it.
Eddie, Eddie always looks me in the eyes,
he's like, "Do you, can you do more weight?"
And I'll always answer you honestly if
I can do more even if I don't want to do more.
- Finish it. Hold! Got it.
(heavy breathing)
[Eddie] Beautiful.
- That's how you get your ass kicked.
(laughs)
And then from there, hanging knee raises.
If you're trying to find football montage abs,
this will shred you up no doubt.
This is where you'll really start
seeing the abs pop.
It doesn't feel good, but it is the quickest
way to dust off some abs that have been hiding
from you for most of Covid and quarantine.
- Let's go, one a bit.
(heavy breathing)
- And then from there, the rows.
Which obviously work the back.
That just strengthens everything.
You don't want to strengthen one side or the other.
You want to make sure it's complete.
The key with that one is not going up, it's going back.
Here, you wanna see something quick?
- Go ahead.
- You sit on the back seat.
- Yeah.
I'm gonna fly a jet. Stick throttle. So now we're going,
throttle up bank left, throttle up bank right,
G throttle, now pull, going up. That's Top Gun.
(laughs)
That's how you train for Top Gun.
And then we're going to end with some strong mesh up
and that is the most brutal of all.
A weighted sled and some rope pulls
and then just where you go, all out scream, be angry,
think about everybody whose wrong in your whole life
and then push and pull a sled as hard as you can.
(heavy breathing)
- Well done
- Alright, so that's was my work out, it suck,
but just like Top Gun. It all about competition
and if you wanna be the best, the best, you gotta
put in a work. And I'm gonna get out of here before
the Romanian Terror comes back and make me do more.