Packing on 40 solid pounds is not an easy task, but Bradley Cooper challenged himself and set the bars high and that’s how he secured the lead role in American Sniper. The movie is an autobiography of Chris Kyle, a famous Navy SEAL who made a record of 160 confirmed kills in Iraq. He was told to be a 230-pound Texan who was professionally skilled in combat.
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Not only this, but after this crazy transformation, after American Sniper wrapped, he had to lose all the bulked weight for his next role, he said, “I shed about 15 pounds in three weeks.” “The next 15 to 20 pounds were really hard to lose.”
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How Bradley Cooper Gained 40 Pounds for American Sniper?
The challenge was actually bulking him up from 185 to 225 pounds and for that, he did some intense training along with some serious diet plans. He totally relied on unilateral exercises including Bulgarian split squats, single-leg deadlifts, and Romanian deadlifts with a landmine, and started building up from there. But he still didn’t get abs.
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He also consumed lots and lots of food during this whole process which is more than 5,000 calories a day. His personal chef use to prepare five proper daily meals, but even that wasn’t enough. The actor also shared:
“It was a real shock to my body. If it’s pizza and cake, that’s one thing. Putting 6,000 calories a day in your body gets old quick.”
“It changes absolutely everything, It changes the way you walk, the way people relate to you. If someone bumps into you on the sidewalk, they kind of ricochet off. You go to a party and everyone’s dancing, you’re not being moved by anybody.”
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Bradley Cooper Reveals His American Sniper Workout Routine
Bradley Cooper use to get trained twice a day which use to begin from 5 a.m. It was completely focused on structural exercises to bulk up, including, heavy deadlifts and squats to build some solid and hold the extra mass. The second workout routine used to start from late in the afternoon and was focused on core muscle-building. He also said it involved many downsides too, he use to wear only a pair of pants with an elastic waist and said even his hands got bigger. But when asked if he wanted to return to that phase of training again, he simply answered ‘NO’.
