By Hindustan Times
Hollywood trainer Ed Chow, who trained celebrities like Clive Owen and Lucas Till, says he would like to work with Farhan Akhtar, who was training hard for his next film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. "I USED TO BE really lucky to fulfill 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 set regime for her role as Dejah Thoris in John Carter, releasing in India March 9.
John Carter is ready 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 a large number of wirework, stunts and sword fights. So numerous preparation was required from her end, says Chow.
"It was a three-month routine with plenty 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 arrange 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 deal with Collins' muscles, which made his job tougher.
"(Her character) Dejah Thoris has a large number of tattoos on her body and so they were painted on Lynn on a daily basis 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 each day on her days off and most days on set besides. It wasn't necessary as she had that down herself," he said.
So what's it like training popular faces?
"They are great to coach. Celebrities are very highly motivated, extremely focussed and intensely hardworking. They're going to work very, very hard to get what they want for a part," he said.
What a couple of few general fitness tips for those that want 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 very important too - maintaining a healthy diet food, small portions time and again an afternoon in preference to three big meals an afternoon and keeping carbohydrates down. I do believe in satisfying food cravings but it surely must be in proportion. So if in case you have a sweet tooth, it's ok to have a small piece of chocolate, but you can not have a complete chocolate cake," he said.
