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MEN’S HEALTH ARTICLE<\/strong><\/h4>\n
The Rock lifted weights. He elevated his game. He raised a single eyebrow,\u00a0then millions of them. Now he’s boosting himself to a whole new level.\u00a0Care to join him on the way up? … For this evolution, the Rock consulted\u00a0Billy Beck, and with a new plan in hand, slimmed down to 245 and cut\u00a0his body fat in half in 4 months.<\/h5>\n

Photographs by: E.J. Camp, By: Phillip Rhodes & Mike Zimmerman<\/em><\/p>\n

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The charisma, the comic timing, the smirks, the cocked eyebrow… they’re\u00a0all pinstripes on the Porsche. Without the body, none of these things\u00a0matter. See, Tom Cruise could potentially saunter into a Venice Beach
\ndiner wearing sunglasses, a ball cap, and jeans and make it to a booth\u00a0without anyone noticing. But not a 6’4”, bronze-skinned, redwood-muscled\u00a0monolith like the Rock.<\/p>\n

He’s greeted by, and greets in return, every server in the place, though\u00a0he clearly wants to make it to that booth with minimum fuss.<\/p>\n

No chance. Just by entering, he owns rooms he doesn’t even want to\u00a0invest in. This imposing presence–coupled with the pinstripes mentioned\u00a0above–has led to icon status.<\/p>\n

But make no mistake: It all starts with the body.<\/p>\n

Through the years, everyone’s body evolves. It can devolve, too. Compare\u00a0the still-sculpted stone of Stallone to, say, the butter of Brando. The\u00a0Rock has chosen evolution, because his career is evolving as well. In\u00a0the late ’90s, he made his entertainment bones in a venue that allowed\u00a0his larger-than-life physique to work for him–a wrestling ring in front\u00a0of 50,000 people. Now, in the early aughties, the 31-year-old is a bona\u00a0fide movie star, on the verge of flicking Governor Arnold’s final finger\u00a0from the action-hero title belt. That means hurling his physique upon\u00a0a canvas even less forgiving than the wrestling mat: a 50-foot theater\u00a0screen.<\/p>\n

As he transitions into meatier roles that require him to look less superhuman–this\u00a0spring’s gritty remake of Walking Tall; the summer 2005 flick Spy Hunter;\u00a0and a comic turn in Be Cool, the ensemble follow-up to Get Shorty–his\u00a0body has needed to transition as well. He’s lost 20 pounds and slashed\u00a0his body fat from 14 percent to 7 percent–all through a program you’ll\u00a0find in these pages. Just another Kafka moment in a pop-culture work\u00a0in progress? Hardly. The longer we sat in that diner booth with the Rock,\u00a0the clearer it became that, to him, change is sustenance.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0evolution of Dwayne Johnson began at age 13, when he lay down on a gym\u00a0bench for the first time. “I put 135 pounds on the bar, tried to\u00a0bench-press it, and it pinned me.” He re-creates the moment with\u00a0a grimace and an invisible bar, and then shakes his head and smiles. “I\u00a0had to let the weights slide off one side. I was so embarrassed.”<\/p>\n

Maybe then, but never again. Soon after that first bench press, his\u00a0workouts became dead serious–at least in his teenage mind. “I remember,\u00a0we had just moved from Hawaii to Nashville, and me and my workout buddies\u00a0were popping amino acids. ‘Oh, I gotta take my amino acids!? They were\u00a0these big horse pills,” he says, laughing. “We had no clue.”<\/p>\n

But a funny thing happened on the way to high school. The Rock we know\u00a0today began to emerge–a 6’4″, 240-pound behemoth. (“Kids thought\u00a0I was a cop.”) But that bigger physique led to better things in\u00a0his senior year, when he scored a football scholarship to the University\u00a0of Miami. He was a Hurricane alongside Warren Sapp and Ray Lewis, on\u00a0the road to the NFL. The body continued to evolve, and he tailored his\u00a0workouts to gain the weight and power needed to be a Division One defensive\u00a0tackle. He topped out at 280 pounds.<\/p>\n

“I looked like a Samoan Michelin Man,” he says.<\/p>\n

All signs pointed to a pro career until his senior year, when he ruptured\u00a0two disks in his back. The injury left him undrafted. Still desperate\u00a0to play football, he signed with the Canadian Football League and was\u00a0cut after 2 months. Yep–cut by the CFL. What does a man trained to play\u00a0football do when he is no longer welcome on the field? He goes home and\u00a0joins the family business.<\/p>\n

Body\u00a0slams are in his blood. As a kid, young Dwayne watched his grandpa, “High\u00a0Chief” Peter Maivia, fly around rings across the country. Then there\u00a0was dear ol’ Dad: Rocky Johnson, a World Wrestling Federation tag- team\u00a0champion–and whether he knew it or not, the man partly responsible for\u00a0the evolution of the modern wrestler’s action-figure body. Back then,\u00a0grapplers were just big. But Rocky Johnson was big and cut–a bodybuilding\u00a0precursor to the standard physique you see today in the WWE. He won the\u00a0tag-team belt in 1983 with Tony Atlas, another famous muscleman. Thus\u00a0the stage was set for Dwayne Johnson’s WrestleMania gene to express itself–and\u00a0once again, the body would have to evolve. His 280 pounds were now his\u00a0enemy, believe it or not. “For all those ‘suplexes’ and the Rock\u00a0Bottom [his signature slam], I needed to be able to move, needed to be\u00a0lighter.”<\/p>\n

He whittled 280 down to 260, and the one-body-part-per-day workout he\u00a0used to get there evolved into the plan he stuck with for years. Monday\u00a0Night Raws faded into WWF SmackDowns. The arena tours came and went.\u00a0Battling it out with his nemesis, Stone Cold Steve Austin, he won and\u00a0lost seven titles. Then he was cast as a hero-turned-heel in The Mummy\u00a0Returns and The Scorpion King, and this wrestling icon found himself
\nbecoming something bigger: a pop-culture icon.<\/p>\n

Another evolution was at hand–bigger and better roles were coming.\u00a0It was time to shed the cartoon qualities that work under wrestling’s\u00a0bigtop, and project totally unexpected qualities: human warmth, vulnerability,\u00a0and humor. That’s when the Rock’s blue-chip workout program–the one\u00a0that had kept him primed for years of turnbuckle abuse–failed him. “I’d\u00a0work out religiously,” he recalls, “but my muscles were flat.\u00a0And I always felt like I was running on empty. Not only was I not seeing\u00a0any gains, I was barely maintaining.”<\/p>\n

But the Rock has seen and accepted more change than the cheapie slots\u00a0at the MGM Grand. “I like change,” he says, spearing–maybe\u00a0even bruising–the tabletop with his forefinger for emphasis. “Being\u00a0on the road with my dad, traveling from state to state and living like\u00a0a gypsy, man, life made me deal with change. Now, whenever change is\u00a0needed, I say, ‘Okay, I get it. Let’s devise a plan and see what I can\u00a0do.’ ”<\/p>\n

For this evolution, the Rock consulted a new trainer, Billy\u00a0Beck<\/a>, and with a new plan in hand, slimmed down to 245 and cut his\u00a0body fat in half in 4 months. The amount of time he spent in the gym\u00a0didn’t change. The amount of food he ate did: He had to eat more.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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