Evolution: The Cutting-Edge Guide to Breaking Down Mental Walls and Building the Body You've Always Wanted - Softcover

Manganiello, Joe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1476716714 ISBN 13: 9781476716718

Verlag: Gallery Books, 2015

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“A comprehensive yet straightforward and effective roadmap to better health and fitness” (Shawn Perine, editor in chief of Muscle & Fitness), this accessible guidebook reveals exactly how to get the body of one of Hollywood’s hottest stars—promising to turn any Average Joe into a Joe Manganiello.

With a build that men envy and women adore, Joe Manganiello is more than qualified to write the end-all guide to sculpting the perfect body. His fit physique catapulted him to the top of the list of Hollywood’s most desired male actors following his memorable performances in HBO’s hit show True Blood and in the Magic Mike films. In Evolution, Manganiello shares his lifetime of experience and research in terms of diet, cardio, and anatomy to bring you the only fitness book you’ll ever need in order to look and feel your best.

Featuring black-and-white photographs and Manganiello’s step-by-step workout routine that combines weights, intense cardio, and a high protein diet.

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Joe Manganiello holds a BFA in acting from The Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. He won critical and popular praise for his role as werewolf Alcide Herveaux on HBO’s hit series True Blood. Joe has appeared in films such as Magic Mike and What to Expect When You’re Expecting, and played Flash Thompson in the Spiderman film series. He went toe-to-toe with his childhood hero and Evolution foreword author Arnold Schwarzenegger in David Ayer’s film Sabotage. He can be seen in the highly anticipated Magic Mike XXL and starring in Ryan Murphy's Scream Queens on FOX.

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Evolution
We live in a society that is headed in a frightening direction. It is rapidly becoming a culture that shields our fragile egos from failure. The result is a society of people who applaud potential instead of results, and a mentality of “good enough” rather than “better than ever.”

Our hypersensitive society has created a mentality that can’t handle failure. Whether you’re first or last, we preach “Good try!” instead of “Work harder.” We do it with everything, and we do it in the worst ways possible, such as with our health. We coddle ourselves, and it’s the reason why so many people think it’s okay to be overweight and out of shape. Or why so many have rationalized their inability to exercise and eat in a healthy way. You fail once and then tell yourself that something better isn’t a possibility.

The reality? You’ve been taught to quit at failure. You don’t smell success, because there’s no incentive to push forward. There’s no hurt, pain, or disappointment when you fall short. For you to evolve, that must all change.

The problem is apparent everywhere. Look no further than today’s youth. Children play sports games where goals aren’t counted and everyone gets a trophy at the end. I’m all for providing a nurturing environment for children to grow up in. Heck, almost all of the charity organizations I work with are designed to provide better lives for kids. But people need to be pushed—both externally and internally. That internal fire can never burn without some fuel, and that fuel can come in the form of disappointment, embarrassment, and even jealously. The poison, no doubt, is in the dose, as these traits are incredibly corrosive if held on to for extended periods of time, but if you can learn to convert them into positive actions, they can help you tremendously.

I benefitted from failure. I needed to feel it. I needed to sit in it. I needed to know what losing felt like, and I needed to get angry about it and never want to feel that way again. Without it, I would have been robbed of the lifeblood that has propelled me all these years later. It would have eliminated my opportunity to stand taller.

I hate failing, and, even worse, I hate admitting it. But at night, I can look at myself in the mirror and know that every time I did fail, it was the best thing for me. I got back up, devised a better plan of action, and went back with fire in my stomach for those who doubted me when I told them what I wanted to achieve, changes I desired to make, and who I wanted to become.

I issue that same challenge to you. I want you to look at your failures, embrace them, and immerse yourself in them. Then I want you to use that pain as fuel and set up this one seemingly simple goal: What can you change in a year?

I’m going to need you to accept nothing less than your best effort. You owe it to yourself to know, once and for all, how far you can go. I want you to look in that mirror and love what you see, inside and out. I want you to feel like you’ve earned your sleep at night.

All I ask is that you believe that what I’m telling you has worked for me and to do the footwork.

THE LONG, HARD ROAD OUT OF HELL

What do you see when you look at yourself?

It’s an honest question that I asked myself years ago. What you see now when you look at me did not occur by accident, and it wasn’t easy. My “instant” success was a twenty-year journey, and I want the path I took to inspire in you the confidence to rise up after you’re kicked in the face. Because as you’re about to learn, the most impressive people in the world are the ones who suffered from failure and learned how to respond.

After I played Flash Thompson in the movie Spider-Man in 2002, I ended up not acting for four years. How does this happen? The ins and outs of my fall from acting boil down to a vicious cycle caused by my drinking too much, smoking too much, and acting like I had won the lifetime lottery, because I’d had a role in a big movie. It began a downward spiral that resulted in my getting dumped off of my own personal elevator to hell, at the bottom floor.

One of my professors at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, Victoria Santa Cruz, used to say, “The moment you say ‘I did it!’ is the moment the devil walks in the door,” and that’s exactly what happened to me.

I spent several years in a blur and for the most part was unhireable. I had immense trouble finding the will to motivate myself to do simple things such as leave the house, let alone train the way I wanted. I began to accept that most likely acting wasn’t going to happen for me; that I had gotten into the wrong profession out of ego, had burned too many bridges and made a mistake. My mind spun all day, consumed by the question “What if?” What if I could somehow get out of my own way long enough to make a change? And unbelievably, through a series of bizarre events—and, looking back, perhaps divine intervention—I found it within myself to begin the process of cleaning up my life.

Through a friend of a friend, I was introduced to this professional hockey player: an NHL enforcer who had been suspended by the league multiple times. We became instant buddies. He mentioned that he needed a sparring partner to help him get back in shape and make his push to return to the league. We bonded over our similar struggles, and little did I know it, his comeback would mirror my own, in ways that I could have never imagined.

I had never really boxed before in any structured way, but I had absolutely nothing else going on for me, so I said yes.

We started boxing training three times a week. It was a habit that helped me put an end to my other vice: chain-smoking. We’d get in the gym at six o’clock in the evening. I’d make sure I wouldn’t smoke beforehand, and then afterward, I’d eat, shower, and go straight to bed—before the urge to smoke could overtake me. That good habit led to other good habits, and just like that, my entire mind-set began changing.

I was no longer seeing what I could get away with; I was seeing what I could do.

FINDING REDEMPTION

Eventually my friend went back to hockey, and I was left with an empty bank account, not having worked as an actor in four years. I now faced the overwhelming question of what to do with the rest of my life. I had always loved the book The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, which is loosely based on the life and personality of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. At one point in the story, the protagonist’s personal life and career as an architect completely implode. He is forced to close his office, and he decides to take a job breaking rocks all day at a quarry. I was always confused by and in total awe of that gesture. The fact that this highly trained, brilliant architect would lower himself and take an entry-level manual-labor job had perplexed me for years. Why would he do that? I decided to find out for myself.

I took a job at a masonry company working long days, shoveling sand and gravel from seven in the morning until four in the afternoon. In my mind, my acting career was over. No one would return my phone calls, and I’d been rejected by every agent and manager in town. There was something about driving the truck in the morning, picking up my orders, and shutting off my brain and shoveling for hours.
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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Gallery Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1476716714
• ISBN 13: 9781476716718
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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