In
an interview to sfx the last son of Krypton, Henri Cavill told how he got into
shape to play the part.
“When
I first got hired I met a chap called Mark Twight, who was the guy who trained
me, the founder of Gym Jones and a legendary mountain climber in his own right.
This guy’s an absolute legend. He gave me some foundation training. It was
literally pieces of paper and he just said ‘Do this…’ I think I had about two
months of training by myself in the UK, just so I could be prepared for the training
he was going to throw at
“Every
day. Sunday was a proper day off. Saturday was like go for a run or a walk – a brisk
walk. Then training every day for six months of shooting. It was a year of
training, effectively.”
“It
actually becomes more fun. In the beginning it’s miserable, because you’re
breaking boundaries and you’re really pushing yourself to reach a certain
endurance and power level, so you can start lifting the heavy stuff to put on
the big mass. And that’s miserable to get to that stage, because you’re
constantly pushing your body’s cardio limits, way beyond what you thought they
could do. And then you start doing the really fun stuff like going for big
heavy single lifts. Afterwards you’re exhausted but you feel amazing because of
it. Whereas after rowing for however long on the rowing machine and blasting
yourself you feel miserable no matter what – you don’t feel like you’ve gained
anything. Towards the end of training it was fun. We would go into the gym,
myself, Mark and Mike Levins the assistant trainer, and we just enjoyed it.
Some days we crushed each other and really worked very hard and other days we
just went ok, let’s do some simple bodybuilding stuff and just feel good about
ourselves and go home.”
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