Actor Mark Wahlberg follows daily routines most of us simply cannot. By 2:30 AM, he’s already up and in prayer mode. By 4 AM, he’s hitting a workout, and let’s just say it isn’t your average training, as you’ll see in his recent Instagram post;
Mark follows a HIIT type of training split, which involves circuits and super-sets, matched with a lack of breaks in-between. That style of training will definitely get the heart-rate going.
As grueling as the workouts are, the true key is the recovery, which needs to be optimal. Or else, it’ll feel like you hit a wall. Wahlberg admitted that at one point, his recovery wasn’t where it should’ve been;
“I wasn’t getting enough rest, doing two-a-days, six to seven days a week, eating seven to eight meals of mostly protein, and just not feeling good,” he says. “I did a bone broth fast, and then went plant-based for what was supposed to be twelve days. That was four months ago.”
He admitted with Men’s Health that the recovery part changed everything for him. With such a grueling training split, he’s doing his best to recover on the daily, and most recently, he shared one of his secrets.
King Of Recovery
Mark is doing his best with recovery methods, most recently, he showed off his new device, the Power Plate Pulse technology;
Of course, the role mark takes on plays a big part in his training, he isn’t lifting heavy on the regular like Dwayne Johnson, the training splits tends to vary, especially depending on his role;
“I train for whatever my next role is or whatever I gotta do for work,” he says in a new Gym and Fridge video. Different roles have very different demands on his body. “If I gotta get out of shape, then I’m eating fried food and drinking beer for the first couple of weeks," he says. "If I gotta get as thin as possible, like in The Gambler, I’m on a liquid diet and jump rope 200 rounds a day.”
Definitely contrasting styles but quite clearly nowadays, he’s maintaining quite the shape, in large part, thanks to his recovery methods.
Sources: IG & Men’s Health