jeremy renner’s most memorable moments shooting the avengers…
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“This is for a diamond in the rough. One of the bravest men I knew. This song is for Dave.”
Fireworks // You Me At Six live at Brixton Academy, 20th March 2010
Josh dedicates the song to Dan’s father, who recently passed away. At about 2:45, Dan drops his head onto his drums and cries. As soon as the song’s over, he runs offstage to embrace his mother, closely followed by Josh and Matt, leaving Chris and Max to finish the song.
This is the most heartbreaking thing I’ve ever seen.
Reblogging again, for like, the 10th time. Its so sad :’(
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How the 150-pound star of Sherlock Holmes trained up (and down) to become Hollywood’s top action hero.
Robert Downey Jr. hadn’t played an action hero before 2008’s Iron Man, and while he wasn’t out of shape, he didn’t have the heroic build needed to portray Tony Stark. “He was skinny,” says Brad Bose, Ph.D., Downey’s personal trainer. “He weighed about 150 pounds, but he was big into Wing Chun, which kept him in shape.”
To prepare Downey for his role, Bose prescribed a periodization program, alternating periods of heavy weight/low reps with lighter weight/high reps. Downey trained at least four days every week, with sessions lasting anywhere from 40 to 90 minutes. Bose varied the length of every training session to keep the actor on his toes. “He couldn’t say, ‘OK, I know I can conserve a little energy because we’re two exercises from the end,’” Bose says. “He never knew what was coming, so he had to work hard all the time.”
Bose also placed the prospective Iron Man on a strict, clean, calorie-dense diet. “He ate every three hours,” he says. “We kept him on a 30/30/40 split: 30% protein, 30% fat, and 40% carbohydrates. He was taking in more than 5,000 calories a day for nine months. If you don’t eat that much, your body won’t accept the weight.”
Stylistically, Bose wanted to build Downey into a character who looked capable of going toe-to-toe with fighter jets and terrorists. “Our goal was to get him as big as we could, but we also wanted to make sure he had some kind of six-pack,” Bose says. “We really focused on the old-school heavy lifting. Military presses, dips, and bench presses. Keep him ripped but maintain the muscle mass.” The muscle Downey built wasn’t just for show either. By the end of his training and 25 pounds of lean muscle later, he’d doubled his bench press, and nearly tripled his shoulder press.
So what did he do after reaching this peak? He promptly dropped the mass and went back to 153 pounds to film Sherlock Holmes.
(Source: ‘Men’s Fitness, Sam Dehority)
