It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's Henry Cavill, starring as Superman in "Man of Steel." With those bulging muscles and steely physique, Henry makes flying look like a breeze. But the diet and fitness plan that he followed to achieve that fabulously fit body wasn't so easy. What did it take to become super-human? An intense diet and fitness plan that began for five full months even before filming started, reported the Los Angeles Times on June 15. ""Five months before shooting there was varying stuff which ended up being mass building and then leaning down," Henry told People magazine on June 14.
"The toughest stuff is the shirtless stuff," said Henry, according to the Los Angeles Times on June 15. "You're exhausted enough as it is and then you have to cut your calories right down." And when shooting began, "it was just waking up and making sure I got an hour in [of exercise] before I went to work," he told People magazine. Henry followed different diet plans, eating 5,000 calories a day at one point, and then shifting to "a horrible eating phase … where we really, really leaned down. It was exhausting."
Henry is happy that the intense diet plan has ended. His celebration after filming ended: "I had an apple pie," he said, "a tub of ice cream and a full pizza." And he's still foxy enough to make Katie Couric declare on her June 13 talk show, "I love my job!"
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