![]() ![]() “I tell my actor clients, ‘You’re an athlete, you have to go perform. And when you’re training as hard as Stan, fuel means results. But for Saladino – who also helped Ryan Reynolds get in the shape of his life – carbs are fuel. “We dove into it knowing we have to look a certain way but we have to also move a certain way and develop that level of resilience.”Ī key misconception among actors, Saladino explains, is the belief that getting in shape means cutting carbs. But the Winter Soldier is a physical role that required real-world mobility, not just a bulk-and-cut ready for his contractual shirtless-scene role. “ it wasn’t about running him around, it was about putting on muscle,” Saladino says. Or, maybe the even bigger challenge was bulking him up so he didn’t disappear when Marvel’s Chrises – Hemsworth, Evans, Pratt – showed up. Saladino’s biggest challenge was to transform Stan’s body into that of a highly trained soldier capable of tangling with some of the toughest terrestrial and extra-terrestrial threats the world of comic books could throw at him. They’ve since patched things up and went on to fight a big purple alien together. He spends the next 70 years carrying out sub rosa assassinations, which eventually brings him into conflict with his old pal, Captain America, in the present day. (Need the Cliff Notes? Stan plays a former World War II soldier who is experimented on with a super soldier serum, and brainwashed by the KGB. ![]() With that, a professional relationship was set in stone, and when Hollywood came calling, Saladino went on to prep Stan for the role of Bucky Barnes, aka the Winter Soldier, in Marvel’s Captain America films and the following two Avengers movies. So we dove into his training and became really friendly.” He was joking around saying ‘I gotta look better naked!’. At the time he was preparing for a Broadway show where he had to be shirtless. “He was a referral through one of my other celebrity clients. “I met Seb eight or nine years ago,” says Saladino. Especially so considering the profits go to the Ronald McDonald House charity in New York. With exercise demonstration, nutrition guide plus a zoom call from Stan himself answering your fitness questions, it’s worth signing up for. With lockdown putting in-person workouts on hold, Saladino and Stan have teamed up to produce the Superhero Challenge, a four-week, dumbbell-only workout programme that launches anew every month and which is designed to help you get the most out of your home set up. And, during lockdown, from the comfort of his own living room, with a little help from ‘Superhero Coach’ Don Saladino.īased in New York City, Saladino has been training actors for more than 20 years and his roster includes everyone from Scarlett Johansson and Jake Gyllenhaal to Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman. He’s also been putting in a shift in the weights room. Whether you consider Stan a household depends on your Marvel consumption, but from Avengers: Infinity War to Netflix’s dark and sinister thriller The Devil all the Time, the 39-year-old’s been putting in a shift in for years.
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