So, where does Reacher find the time to get to the gym, - Reacher (2022) Discussion

It's a TV show!

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[–] TearofLys (2398) 5 months ago

Well, dude who plays Reacher overdid it with his off-season regimen.

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This stood out to me also. Those that don't see this have never attempted to build thier bodies. On top of that where does he source the food amounts required for the physique? We saw one scene with him at a smorgasbord, but he'd have to be visiting those daily all over the place. For those that want to find him it'd be fairly easy as a result.

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[–] robocat893 (13485) 4 months ago

I knew a fellow veteran who was homeless and he had a membership at 24 Hour Fitness centers. The membership fees were about $20 a month and it gave him a place to work out and shower every day. Many homeless do this even if they don't workout. As to diet a homeless person qualifies for food stamps and cash aid so that plus getting meals at soup kitchens one can eat pretty good on that.

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[–] 4Freedom (143) 4 months ago

>We saw one scene with him at a smorgasbord, but he'd have to be visiting those daily all over the place

And it would be the wrong kind of food to achieve a >10% body fat. To achieve that, you need to have a very specific and very serious diet, which has to be home cooked.

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[–] MCguy (949) 4 months ago

You posted about Reacher, not the actor.

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[–] TearofLys (2398) 4 months ago

The actor is playing Reacher, and making him look unrealistic. Reacher isn't a juiced-out gym bro.

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[–] MCguy (949) 4 months ago

It's TV show

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[–] MCguy (949) 4 months ago

Or you could complain to the producers!

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[–] Ranb (7255) 5 months ago

It is part of the fantasy. If you read the books, Reacher comes off as some kind of James Bond, but without the silly gadgets. But he is just a Military Policeman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Reacher

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[–] e3e34ifj (1341) 4 months ago

This is exactly how I feel. This Reacher is great but his physique in the new season is ridiculously shredded. This is something I hate in media; men are always at 1% body fat and we never see them dieting, training, or doing performance enhancing drugs. It's as if Hollywood wants us to think that some men are just born that swoll and the rest of us should feel bad. It fucks up a lot of men mentally.

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[–] alanparsons (541) 4 months ago

>It's as if Hollywood wants us to think that some men are just born that swoll and the rest of us should feel bad.

You sound like a whiny woman. Go exercise.

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[–] e3e34ifj (1341) 4 months ago

Ironically I'm a college athlete but I and most men, especially athletes, deal with body dysmorphia. As a kid, I always thought I was fat just because I didn't have 6-pack abs, even though I was actually pretty skinny. I was just conditioned to think that abs were the sole indicator of fitness. Most gym rats only hit the gym because they think they're small and/or skinny, or are highly insecure with themselves. I see it on a daily basis. One of the discus throwers on my team is 6'3 and 300 pounds but didnt want to be in our group photo because he was "too skinny" and said that he wanted to look like Rich Piana by the end of the 2024, even tho he's already huge.

Me calling out Hollywood bullshit isn't being whiny. You call me a whiny woman but I'm willing to place money that you're the incel who doesn't exercise. If you weren't an incel, I wouldn't have to explain any of this to you. Anyone who actually works out knows everything I said is fact. This is nothing new.

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[–] alanparsons (541) 4 months ago

Your entire rant reads like typical leftist whining. Stop sounding like a whiny woman. Go exercise.

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[–] 4Freedom (143) 4 months ago

>men are always at 1% body fat and we never see them dieting, training, or doing performance enhancing drugs

And on top of that, we see them drinking alcohol like it doesn't ruin almost all of their bodybuilding efforts.

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[–] Darren (1134) 4 months ago

Yeah, Reacher should look more like the late Clint Walker looked back in the 1960s. Apart from having black hair instead of blond, he is an almost perfect match for Reacher's physical description. He was 6'6" had a 48" inch chest, probably weighed around 200lbs. In the series he starred in, "Cheyenne," they found lots of excuses to feature him shirtless. You can see he was indeed very muscular, with massive arms and all that, but he's not shredded. He had a trim waist and flat stomach, but there was no visible six-pack. His body fat percentage wasn't low enough for that. He actually looked more like athletes who train strictly for performance do. There's a reason you didn't see football players or professional boxers and what not, looking like bodybuilders.

And, of course, even Clint Walker had to work out and diet correctly to maintain the brawny physique he had. There's a YouTube video of an old TV interview he did where he demonstrated his home gym -- and in interesting comment he makes is that he had a home gym because if he had to travel to a commercial one to work out, he might not always find the time to keep in shape. So yeah, Reacher, living the lifestyle he does, could never maintain the physique he has in the show.

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[–] 4Freedom (143) 4 months ago

Being homeless, with apparently little money to buy food (as his conversations reveal), he would not be eating enough to be that big. He would have to be eating for 2-3 people, proper, home cooked, expensive food, which would be way out of his budget, not to mention not having a home to cook it in. Eating diner food and drinking beer would make him much rounder, even if he was working out like a madman in between. He'd be so sore he couldn't walk for long after workouts.

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[–] beauq81 (1017) 4 months ago

He was fine in season 1, don't know why they needed him beefed up even more.

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[–] TearofLys (2398) 4 months ago

I don't think the studio necessarily encouraged it. I have watched videos of bodybuilders talking about steroids. They start out just wanting a small improvement, but just become addicted to the big gains, and keep chasing the dragon, in order to keep getting bigger, or even maintain. So, in my opinion, it was a choice made by Ritchson, and not the studio. It still works where he is at, but if in season 3 he has bulging veins everywhere and he has to use that awkward bodybuilder walk to keep his thighs from crushing his balls...he has definitely gone too far.

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[–] beauq81 (1017) 3 months ago

Not necessarily, but it is highly probable that they wanted him bigger. I watched Ritchson on the "Inside of you" podcast after season 1. He said that they had limited time to film it, so he had no down time and was in a lot of pain from all the action sequences that he had to take some heavy pain meds that messed up his testosterone levels, so he had to start TRT. Wouldn't be a stretch that he just added to it when he started preparing for season 2.

On top of that, season 1 was on a limited time and budget and the studio promised a bigger investment depending on its success, so - with more money comes more responsibility and, if course, more Reacher

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[–] PersistentViewer (1814) 4 months ago

Inbetween episodes. lol

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[–] newguy33 (320) 3 months ago

In the books he never exercises but still big.

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