When the record-breaking former professional climber became a Hollywood trainer, Mark Twight teamed up with the film director Zack Snyder in an epic of swords and sandals entitled 300the end result wasn’t just a smash hit of an action movie: the jacked cast of spartan warriors directed by Gerard Butler it also helped usher in a new era when it came to the physical expectations placed on leading men in mainstream cinema.
In a new video about his Heber “Heeb” Cannon and Marston “Mars” Sawyers, better known as the buttery brothers, join Twight at his Gym Jones workout space for an FYF (“Fuck You Friday”) workout. It’s an especially meaningful moment for Heeb, who says seeing 300 in 2006 inspired him to embark on his own fitness journey, and now he asks Twight how he came to work on the film.
“Sometime in early 2005, we put up the Gym Jones website,” he says. “[Snyder] I went to the studio and said, look at this shit these guys are doing, I want to hire this guy so all Spartans look a certain way. One guy in the studio was convinced that Zack had actually created that website, basically to sell them the training budget, because this guy was saying, there’s no way people are doing this in the real world.”
“Part of the premise for 300 they were put through this crucible so that they would have muscle for crushing, not for fashion, so to speak, and really begin to believe in their own ability,” he continues. “It would seem that training for an aesthetic appearance for a role From a movie versus training someone to climb a mountain or get into a cage to fight another person, it would seem like there would be a lot of difference, but the only real difference is not in the gym, the differences are in the sport-specific aspect of it. Everything that happens in the gym is the same, because it’s the human body.”
For Twight, however, the most powerful aspect of training, whether with an actor or an elite athlete, is not the physical, but the mental. “Taking people on these journeys through things that they didn’t think they could do,” he says, “if you put a person through a workout like that today, for about 20 or 30 minutes afterward, you have a direct pipeline to their brain. , and you can teach them whatever you want and it will stick, at that point.”
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