Michael B Jordan - Body Transformation

You're jacked. Appreciate it. Yeah. Is this a new thing? Did you get this just for the movie? Have you always been this built? I kind of was born just like that. I just abbed out. I started training about a year before we started filming. You had to bulk up 24 pounds, I heard. 24 pounds of muscle. A lot of protein? Tons. I mean, just chicken, broccoli, brown rice, gallon and a half of water a day, and just doing that consistently. Brown rice, grilled chicken, broccoli, a gallon and a half of water a day, and working out two to three times a day, six days a week for about a year and a half. And then your body will change. Wow. It will definitely change. That was a challenge, and I was happy about it because I looked forward to taking a body and making it into a sculpture. Changing the diet was the first thing. Cutting down the sugars, the breads, pasta, dairy. Ah, dairy. Jeez, God. Drinking a lot of water. Try to get through a gallon and a half of water a day. You know, I think you'll never be perfect and satisfied in your own mind because you're always going to point out something personally that you want to fix or something you want to improve. It's so hard to walk around in that shape, you know, and to kind of keep that with a diet and real life and traveling. It's just so hard to keep up with that. This is the biggest I've ever been. I'm about, like, 182. I think I want to gain, like, maybe another five or six pounds. Getting in shape is, like, 80% diet. So I eat, you know, every two to three hours, six or seven times a day, depending on how late I'm up. I've spent a lot of days indoors, you know, just working out, going to sleep, just staying to myself and stuff like that. But that's the work that you have to put in to kind of get the results that you want. Mike's got crazy work ethic, man. He's really committed and dedicated and got a lot of pride in his work. So I knew that he would do what was necessary to make it happen. When we finished, you know, the boxing sequence, you know, all the fighting, I mean, I was exhausted. I was done, like, physically, like, tabbed out to the point where, like, I couldn't get up the next morning and come into work and I had to film. And, you know, for me, you know, there's no days off. I mean, I'm like, nah, I got to get up. I got to work. But I literally physically couldn't get out of bed. I got a call from Sly or whatever. He basically said, you know, told me that he did the exact same thing after he finished his fight sequence and his body just quit on him. It's like the mental strength to cross that finish line. And as soon as you finish, like, OK, mission completed. And your body's like, all right, I got nothing left. You get the glue. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And it kind of gave me that, you know, that motivation. You know, it was comforting to know, you know, to hear from the man himself that, like, what I was going through was completely normal. The condition and the time these boxers put into the gym to get into that incredible shape and go out there and battle for 12 rounds, it's truly respectable. Yeah. And it's humbling as well. I'm not bad, but I tried to keep it. Honestly, once you get over the hill, you did 10, 11 months of training. You don't want to go back because you know how hard it was to get this. I want to stay a month or two out. As long as you have, like, maybe three or four other meals that's super clean, you can have that cheat, man. I think that's the misconception sometimes of diets and being healthy, that you can eat what you want, just within moderation. Never boxed before. This is my first time getting a full education on boxing. And do you still do it now after the movie's done or no? Yeah, I'm kind of in a routine. I'm hooked. Like, boxing is one of those things. It gets you in great shape. You're mentally focused and disciplined. And I just like it. My training has been pretty intense. I think I box three or four days a week and weight train it every day for about eight months straight. And then eventually, you start seeing the results. And that motivates you to keep going and stick to the crazy routine and strict diet. I got some good genetics too. Thanks, mom. Thanks, dad. Appreciate it. How ripped did you have to get for this movie? And how hard did you work? I worked pretty hard for this one. set the bar so high for Creed. So I'm trying to be the villain in this one. You know, I'm in a superhero kind of world. Right now, extreme. Like, I'm gaining weight. I'm in the process right now. I'm about six months out. So I'm gaining weight. I'm eating tons of carbs, lifting. When we get closer to the date, I'll start to shred down a little bit. But the goal is to be bigger than Creed. Different type of body style. Put on about 15, 20 pounds of muscle. Fight train, gun train, mixed martial arts, weapons. You know, a lot of weapons training. Secret? There's no secret. There's a lot of hard work and a lot of sacrifice. My dad used to tell me all the time, you got to be serious about something. When I reflect and think about how far I've come, I told myself at a young age that I was going to sacrifice. Diet is extremely important. I eat every, like, three hours. I work out once, twice a day if I can. Yeah, just being consistent. But this one, I just wanted to get bigger. You know, being the antagonist. You know, being the, quote unquote, bad guy. I wanted to look intimidating on screen. So I would work out two to three times a day, eat six times a day. It's hard to be, you know, go out to a club or a party when you're like, oh, wait, meal prep. We got to go, like, pop this thing in the microwave and eat food. Once you change your diet up, your body's going to eventually start to change a certain way. And you pair that up with working out two to three times a day. You do that six days a week for a year and a half, man, your body's going to, like, it's going to change really fast. Eat clean, drink a lot of water, exercise daily, rest. Sleep is super important. Be consistent. What's a daily workout regimen? Cardio, do some chest, back, trice, the whole body. I used to run myself into the ground to, like, pure exhaustion just because then I would feel like, oh, I deserve it. Probably why I go so hard in the gym, go so hard in life. Late night workout. Getting it. No days off. Ain't that right, Cole? Nope. Yup. For Creed 2, this time around, we're trying to get a more shredded look. Super lean. We're using a lot of calisthenics and stuff like that to, like, kind of, like, really, like, lean out on this one. So, a lot of pull-ups, a lot of sit-ups, jump squat. Hello. Oh, this is cold. Woo! Pretty much you go till failure, you know, and that's something that's important because you push your body to the limit, you know what I'm saying? You recover and then you go back, you know, and you hit that same muscle group again. You remember why you're doing it, why you're working hard. What's at stake? All the dreams that I have in my head that I want to, you know, see manifest. I want to do things that that's going to last longer than my physical body will.