The 300 Workout

Mens Health.com recently published the workout that the stars of 300 used to gain their muscles. The following is the set of exercises they did. * Check out the video on top to see a demonstration of the different exercises.

a) Pullups - 25 reps
b) Deadlifts with 135lbs - 50 reps
c) Pushups - 50 reps
d) 24-inch Box jumps - 50 reps
e) Floor wipers - 50 reps
f) Single-arm Clean-and-Press with 36lbs Kettlebell - 50 reps
g) Pullups - 25 reps

All of this is supposed to be done without resting periods in between. The day you can achieve that, you can truly look like a Spartan. In the mean time, you can be a Spartan fan, try this:

15 bodyweight rows
25 bodyweight squats
15 pushups
50 jumping jacks
20 mountain climbers
10 close grip pushups
15 bodyweight rows

Good Luck!

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Welcome to the 300 Fan Club

These are a few of the fun trivia facts revolving the movie 300 directed by Zack Snyder. These are borrowed from Imdb.com.

• The script demanded that most of the male cast spend the majority of their screen time bare-chested, as per Frank Miller's original graphic novel. Therefore, in order to adequately present themselves as the most well-trained and marshalled fighting force of the time, the entire principal cast underwent a rigorous and varied training regime for 6 weeks prior to shooting.
• The film was shot in 60 days.
• The film was shot on blue and green screen in Montreal.
• Ephialtes is the Greek word for nightmare. Even though back then it was a name, since his betrayal, the word adopted in language with the meaning of nightmare.
• The actor who plays Leonidas' father in the film (Tim Connolly) was also Gerard Butler’s stunt double for the film.
• The filmmakers used bluescreen 90% of the time, and greenscreen for 10%. They chose blue because it better matched the lighting paradigm (green would have been too bright) and because red garments (a la spartan capes) look better when shot over blue.
• Leonidas's individual body count numbers 33 Persians, 1 Persian messenger and 1 wolf. This number does not include Persians that King Leonidas shielded off during battle sequences.
• Queen Gorgo had, indeed, said the line: "Because only Spartan women give birth to real men" but not to the Persian messenger. According to the Greek historian Plutarch (in book III of his Moralia, called "Sayings of the Spartans") she said this phrase to an Athenian lady who asked her "why can Spartan women speak amongst men".