Ryan Gosling and the rest of the Kens in Barbie managed to get sculpted abs with just a simple nine-minute core workout.
Their trainer David Higgins told GQ magazine that he whipped the actors into shape with a simple workout combining weight-lifting and Pilates.
The Kens did push-ups, pull-ups, and planks and for the cardio session, the actors including Simu Liu and Ncuti Gatwa did two hours of dance training for the film’s musical clips.
How the Kens did it
The team also played some basketball and ping-pong in between.
Higgins said that there was no specific diet and definitely no cutting of carbs because he said that actors need their energy but they were asked to cut out processed foods. They were also asked to do some intermittent fasting.
Here’s what their 9-minute workout looked like:
- Roll backs
- Leg lifts
- Two step crunch
- Crossbody crunch
- Rope climb
- Windscreen wiper
- Static dead bugs
In an interview with Pop Sugar Higgins said that the idea for training for the Barbie film was always that everyone should be having fun and feeling good.
“It wasn’t aesthetics. I always find that the aesthetics come naturally when you’re working out properly and you’re looking after your diet, but it wasn’t ever the focus. It was more of a team-building, community experience. . . it wasn’t like the superhero movies that I usually work on, where [the goal] is very specific, like, let’s create these superhero bodies. Barbie was more about: let’s just feel good and if you feel good, that’s going to translate on camera.”
Higgins is also a physical therapist and believes that combining strength training with Pilates is key to a good physique as Pilates helps with rehabilitation and injury prevention as well. Pilates is about “control, engagement and correct alignment,” he says.
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