Covering the January/February 2012 issue of
Men's Fitness magazine, inside,
Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. commented on the physical preparations surrounding his titular role in
Sherlock Holmes, the forthcoming
Avengers movie, and his 'Tony Stark' reprisal in
Iron Man 3. Check out the magazine excerpt below.
"I guess I had some notion about [being an action hero]," he says. "I think I wanted to be able to look good and defend myself and all that stuff. I've always really enjoyed that genre, but I mean, It's pretty outlandish. I'm not particularly tall or strong or fast or aggressive. Yet, I'm not faking it. To me, it's a cosmic chuckle."
The magazine further suggests that Downey Jr.'s training for
Avengers meant working out at least 12 hours a week, including strenge training, martial arts with Oram, Tracy Anderson Method workouts, and yoga with his good friend and instructor Vinnie Marino of Yoga Works.
"It was ideal," Downey says, "But it's completely unsustainable. I'm not a kid, and I'm not a professional athlete, so what I'm probably doing is feeling really good all the time and over-training wildly."
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