Hollywood trainer Ed Chow, who trained celebrities like Clive Owen and Lucas Till, says he would like to work with Farhan Akhtar, who have been training hard for his next film 'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag'.
"I was really lucky to satisfy Aishwarya Rai when she was engaged on 'The Last Legion' with Colin Firth. There are actors like Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor and Sara Khan. And I'd love to work with Farhan Akhtar - I've seen a few of his work and that i really liked it," Chow said in an e-mail interaction.
'Bhaag Milkha Bhaag' is a biopic on legendary athlete Milkha Singh and Farhan is currently undergoing special training for his lead role within the movie. Similarly American actress Lynn Collins needed to undergo a hard and fast regime for her role as Dejah Thoris in 'John Carter', releasing in India March 9.
'John Carter' is set a person who gets transported to Mars and gets caught between 12-foot-tall barbarians. Collins plays a princess and her role was quite physical with numerous wirework, stunts and sword fights. So numerous preparation was required from her end, says Chow.
"It was a three-month routine with a lot of one- to two-hour-long training sessions, five to 6 times every week. It comprised taekwondo, fight training, boxing and kick-boxing on pads and focus-mitts for cardio.
"We worked on ab-workouts and core to organize Lynn for the wirework she had to do for stunts, and free-weights and machines focussing on different parts of the body each session. We also did a large number of plyometrics to make her legs strong," shared Chow.
The celebrity trainer says there has been added take care of Collins' muscles, which made his job tougher.
"(Her character) Dejah Thoris has a large number of tattoos on her body they usually were painted on Lynn each day of filming. We wanted the muscles to really show throughout the tattoos; so we focussed on getting numerous definition in her muscles," he said.
According to Chow, Collins "was very focussed herself".
"She worked out on a daily basis on her days off and most days on set to boot. It wasn't necessary as she had that down herself," he said.
So what's it like training popular faces? "THEY'RE great to coach. Celebrities are very highly motivated, extremely focussed and very hardworking. They are going to work very, very hard to get what they want for a part," he said.
What a few few general fitness tips for those that need to get fit figures like celebrities?
"Fitness is definitely about doing something regularly, each week. It's about making the time to do something - like an exercise or a sport that you just enjoy.
"Diet is vital too - maintaining a healthy diet food, small portions repeatedly an afternoon in place of three big meals an afternoon and keeping carbohydrates down. I do believe in satisfying food cravings nevertheless it must be in proportion. So you probably have a sweet tooth, it's ok to have a small piece of chocolate, but you cannot have an entire chocolate cake," he said.
Courtesy: Mid-Day.com
