Zac Efron promised you a YouTube channel, and, damnit, you’re getting a YouTube channel.
The star of the upcoming Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile has just put up the second episode of his YouTube “Gym Time” series. The first go round featured him palling around with Nina Dobrev and hardly breaking a sweat through some hollow body holds. This time, he’s set himself up for a particular challenge: Training like an NFL linebacker in the offseason.
Efron invites Green Bay Packers Tight End Marcedes Lewis and NFL trainer Jamal Liggin into the gym for a sampling of a workout that Lewis would typically do between the end of the season and before training camp begins. The sports-centric workout is filled with functional drills.
The two work through a series of ladder drills, sled pushes and pulls, medicine ball slams and battle ropes that leave the actor visibly winded. (Note the look on his face when Lewis calls the routine a “light” workout.) And the two wrap up with what’s becoming our favorite interview platform: The cryosauna Q&A. Wherein we learn Marcedes Lewis has garnered the nickname Big Smooth.
The latest edition of gym time follows another video from Efron, about his recovery from knee surgery after tearing his ACL during a ski accident back in February. Without the flash of an NFL star and instead accompanied by a stoic physical therapist, we watch Efron strugglethrough the smallest of movements as he works to gain back his strength. It’s a testament to just how much work goes into physical recovery, even when the gains seem smallest, so you can go back out to trying to keep up with Pro-Bowlers.
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