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Zachary Levi is the new star of the superhero movie 'Shazam' coming out in next week.
He was also in 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' (excellent show btw) and a couple of comedies back in the day. I stumbled across this vid after watching the new Avengers trailer and it made me think of The Coli and how a lot of you cats were complaining or in disbelief on eating and calorie intake to build muscle.
Basically, he was a taller ectomorph type build when he got the role and gradually built his way up to the 230+ he is now.
To summarize the vid, his main secret was diet. He was eating up to 5 times a day at around 3700-4000 calories while working out 5 times a week. (IMO, you don't even need to work out that much either but different body types).
He was eating fairly clean meals of just variations of chicken and broccoli (not many carbs from what I could tell) as well as supplements. It was similar as to how I put on my weight gain years ago but I probably ate more carbs at the time.
The video also described how the 4000 is relatively LOW compared to what other actors, powerlifters, and bodybuilder had consumed to get their size, and that their is usually a falloff weight afterwards. It's a cycle of 8 weeks normally the 8 weeks cutting. He only did it for about 5 months in preparation for this role after he wrapped Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
So there you have it... eat fools and give your body the building materials it needs to build muscle. Some know this but it's amazing how many of you didn't believe this shyt