Dwayne Johnson refused to wear muscle padding in Black Adam as he details gruelling gym routine -Kim Novak-Entertainment – Metro

Dwayne Johnson hit the gym even harder for Black Adam (Picture: Flannery Underwood)

Dwayne Johnson might be known for his physique but the actor revealed that even he struggled to keep up with the workout regime for his latest movie Black Adam. 

The former wrestler, 50, revealed he chose to shun using a muscle suit for the role, instead spending hours in the gym to transform into the musclebound supervillain. 

Dwayne revealed to Men’s Health: ‘That was our goal, for me to bring in the best physique possible. So the challenge with that is not only do you set the bar high – which is fine . . . bring it on! – but then you realise you have to maintain that for months.’

He added: ‘What’s interesting is we could have said, “F**k this—put the muscle pads in the suit,” as they normally do. 

‘And it’s not a knock to my friends at all, but I felt like, “Let’s be disruptive and let’s do it differently.” Let’s take all the muscle pads out, which we did, from Black Adam. 

‘When you have that suit on, every detail shows. Man, it was constant work, constant tweaking, tweaking, tweaking for months.’

There was no muscle padding in his Black Adam suit (Picture: Alamy Stock Photo)

Dwayne, better known as The Rock, also revealed he is a ‘creature of habit’ and is known to eat the same thing each day for weeks and months on end to maintain his fitness at peak level. 

He learned the habit from his own father, former professional wrestler Rocky Johnson, adding: ‘He taught me very early on not to eat to please the tongue but to eat to nourish the body. He taught me that when I was five. That’s probably why I need therapy.’

Dwayne finds therapy in the gym (Picture: Flannery Underwood)

He is Men’s Health’s December cover star (Picture: Flannery Underwood)

Dwayne has also learned over the years that he needs to listen to his own body when it comes to training and has learned when the pain he is feeling means he needs to stop an exercise and when it is something he is able to push through. 

The athlete also uses the gym to help his mental health, admitting: ‘During those times when I fell into and was challenged by depression, the gym became my best friend—and I know it’s like that for a lot of people. 

‘You’re able to go to the gym to sweat out toxins and get a little bit more clarity when you walk out the door. It doesn’t fix the problem, but it helps.’

Read the full interview with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson in Men’s Health now. 

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