Fight Club Workout

How Brad Pitt got that lean muscular Hollywood look as seen in Fight Club and Troy.

Brad Pitt Workout

Brad Pitt has been considered one of the sexiest guys in Hollywood. The guy is not muscle bound, or big and bulky, he doesn’t have biceps like Ronnie Colmen, but yet still looks muscular and fit.

The physique Brad Pitt has in many of his moves like Troy, Snatch, and Fight Club was achieved through diet and the right workout program. Not being a big guy, Pitt was still able to look ripped and muscular following the Fight Club workout and keeping his body fat around 7%.

Fight Club Workout

To get in shape for the movie Fight Club Pitt worked out 6 days a week and followed a strict diet. This allowed him to add some muscle mass yet stay lean and give his muscles that shrink wrapped effect.

Brad did a body part split where he would only work one muscle group a day. That is more common for bodybuilders, but it worked for Pitt. The benefit of this method is that it allows you to work each muscle group a little harder and gives it more recovery time as each muscle group has a week to recover. This is important because muscle is broken down durning your workout then when you recover is when it grows and gets bigger.

In Pitt’s Fight Club workout he would spend the weekdays doing strength training, and finish off the week of training with cardio workout routines. The weekends were spent in fat-burning mode to help shed any fat that covered his muscles to give him that shrink wrapped effect to look ripped and, muscular, and chiseled.

Typical Brad Pitt Workout

Pitt did 3 sets for each exercise, with roughly 60 seconds to rest between sets. The first 2 sets most often were 15 reps and the last is to failure. Pull up and pushups follow a different rep and set scheme.

As mentioned before, both The Troy Workout and the Fight Club Workout were modeled after a typical bodybuilding routine where only one muscle a day is trained.

Bad Pitt Workout