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The January 2014 issue of Muscle & Fitness is the gift that keeps giving as Joe Manganiello shows us (in many shirtless pics) how he keeps ripped and lean through the year.
Boy Culture has more from the photo shoot here.
He’s got a great story – how he “got to here” through a lot of hard work and breaking through mental barriers. This isn’t just a workout book.
Check it out on Amazon.
Joe Manganiello has a new fitness book released today aptly titled Evolution.
In the book, the 6-foot-5, 230-pound beefcake shares many of the secrets and tips that helped him transform his body. The book covers issues ranging from not only exercise workouts but pusing past mental blocks. From New York Daily News:
Here’s how Manganiello went from scrawn to brawn:
1. Challenge the impossible. “I’m not asking people to work as hard as they can. I’m asking you to go beyond what you thought was possible for yourself. That’s how you get in the best shape you’ve ever been, instead of just okay shape.”
2/ Double your muscle groups for twice the results. Work chest and back on Monday, legs and triceps on Tuesday and shoulders and back on Wednesday. Then restart the cycle after a rest on Sunday.
3. Eat high-protein, low-fat meals every few hours. “You’re training your body not to store anything, and that in conjunction with a fat-burning cardio program raises metabolism.”
4. You get what you give.
“I can’t think of anything else in life that gives you back a direct return the way training does. Focus on each breath, each rep, and you will see results.”
Check out the book on Amazon by clicking here.
And by the way, just so you know everyone starts somewhere – here is Joe’s high school photo:
Joe Manganiello stops by HuffPost Live to talk on his new book Evolution that chronicles his journey to his current physical fitness and shares some of his workout insights to overcome mental blocks to our goals.
Speaking on the obstacles that inspired his transformation Joe says:
“There was a period of about four years where I needed to quit drinking. And the drinking got in the way [of my career],” he told host Alyona Minkovski. “And I talk about that a lot in the book. It was one of those obstacles that I had to get over and once again I needed to clear the road in order for these things to happen, so it really is an inside job. I had to clean up my act and figure that whole situation out.”
You can watch a clip of the interview below.
If I looked like that I’d write a book, too.
Joe Manganiello’s new book Evolution: The Cutting Edge Guide to Breaking Down Mental Walls and Building the Body You’ve Always Wanted will hit shelves December 3.
From the book description:
Joe Manganiello, named one of Men’s Health 100 Fittest Men of All Time and regularly featured in internationally bestselling fitness and bodybuilding media, is an acclaimed television and film actor who gained worldwide recognition for his amazing physique honed for his role on HBO’s True Blood.
He used techniques created by celebrity trainer Ron Mathews that were then further developed for his other wide-ranging roles.
He has appeared in the films Magic Mike, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, and the Spider-Man trilogy, as well as the forthcoming Sabotage alongside his childhood idol, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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| Joe Manganiello |
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| Joe Manganiello of HBO’s True Blood |
At a recent performance of “A Streetcar Named Desire” at Yale Rep, where Joe Manganiello is getting very strong reviews (“His Stanley personifies the fascinating combination of physical irresistibility and unsophisticated viciousness,” says the New Haven Register), Joe decided the sound and distraction of an audience member taking pictures over and over was too much to handle.
From Broadway.com:
After photos were taken during the first two acts, Manganiello reportedly stopped mid-line in the third act to pinpoint the offending audience member, shouting, “Can you stop with the camera? You have no idea how distractin’ it is!” The actor stayed in character as Stanley Kowalski during the aside, and then resumed the scene as if nothing had happened.
Manganiello took to Twitter backstage between the first two acts to issue a warning: “Dear person taking pictures during our show tonight… The ushers are going to be looking for you and you will be thrown out… you are insanely distracting to all of the actors onstage and incredibly rude. If you read this, please leave and don’t come back.”
Look kids – when they ask you to turn off the phones and not take pics – THEY MEAN IT. As an actor myself, I can attest to how distracting it is for audience members to continually take pictures during a performance. So not cool. Good for Joe for staying in character and addressing the situation.
Some have compared this to the famous Patti Lupone meltdown during a performance of GYPSY on Broadway, where during the 11 o’clock number “Rose’s Turn” she stopped the show completely to call out an audience photographer. While I understand the feelings about it, I never liked that approach as a solution. An entire evening was being built to make that number work, and she kills the entire momentum of the show by breaking character. This sounds like a much better way to shut things down and move on.
Bravo, Joe.
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| Joe Manganiello as “Stanley Kowalski” |
Yale Repertory Theatre opens its 2013-14 season with A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, directed by Mark Rucker and starring Joe Manganiello as “Stanley Kowalski.”
The show runs September 20-October 12 at the University Theatre (222 York Street). Opening Night is tonight, September 26. BroadwayWorld has a first look.
Here’s just a few pics from the production. Photo Credit: Carol Rosegg
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| Joe Manganiello and René Augesen |
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| Joe Manganiello as “Stanley Kowalski” |
Check out a one minute monologue Joe taped for the New York Times:
And here’s a video tease for the production from Yale Rep: