I love the movie Road House with Patrick Swayze. 

It’s an absolute classic and great example of a movie where you can’t tell whether it’s awesome or awful.

 So many times throughout you’re thinking Did they want this part to be hilarious?

Did Jimmy really just say “I used to fuck guys like you in prison!” and then proceed to have his throat ripped out by Dalton’s bare hands?

It came from an era where you could be ridiculous and over the top in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way but not get eviscerated on social media in the aftermath.

It’s probably one of the reasons it’s stood the test of time and is even more appreciated now – because people are yearning for goofy shit that’s awesome for the sake of being goofy and doesn’t have to take itself so seriously.

That’s why it’s a great time for the new Road House movie with Jake Gyllenhaal.

It’s a different spin on the same concept – ridiculous and over the top but legitimately entertaining. 

I really enjoyed it.

The most compelling part of the movie is not the fights or the hat-tipping humor towards the original – it’s Jake Gyllenhaal’s physique.

Dude is fucking ripped.  Shredded to the bone.

Anytime this happens in Hollywood I get a text from a client who inevitably sees a clip of the actor training for the role and says “Hey I want to look like that.  Can we train like that?”

Fuck Me Sideways.

The clips are always the same – lots of high-intensity looking exercises, lots of fancy equipment, lots of unique looking movement patterns and lots of sweat and bare abs.

This is the part where a lot of trainers shit on “celebrity” trainers and say they don’t know what they’re doing, all celebrities are on steroids or performance enhancers, and they get paid millions to work out - of course they should be in great shape.

There’s validity to all of that. 

But instead, I’d like to shit on you – the consumer.

You are the ones that fall for this shit.

You may say you’re being manipulated by thinking Jake got his physique by doing these fancy exercises or with his overly “Intense” regimen.

But his trainer Jason Walsh said the only thing you need to hear towards the end of the clip.

To paraphrase, he says “I knew Jake could carry out this plan.  It took hard work, dedication, and patience.  And most of all consistency.”

There’s the secret sauce folks. 

It’s not the core rotational drills. 

It’s not the climber sprints.

It’s not the sled pushes. 

It’s not the safety bar squats.

All of that shit is completely interchangeable. 

You can nitpick the validity and efficacy of some choices here and there, sure.

Jake was playing a fighter, so he trained like a fighter, not a bodybuilder.

The biggest compliment I can give him is that there is no way he could have achieved that physique without consistency and hard work (and probably some diuretic use).

What my client Mike and most of you out there are not willing to do is make the sacrifices and commitment necessary to get that kind of physique.

Some of you are, but most aren’t.

I know I sure as hell am not – getting that level of shredded requires a discipline and nutritional insanity that I am not willing to partake in.

But I’m also not asking to look like that.

If you do want to look like that, great.  But grow up. 

Stop thinking it’s going to be easy or it’s going to be a matter of subbing in a few more “hardcore” exercises to your twice a week routine.

Do you expect those kinds of results anywhere else in your life?

Do you save a couple hundred bucks a month sparingly and inconsistently and expect to invest that money with a 100000x return?

That’s insane and you know better.

So is expecting to have a Hollywood physique by training a few times a week and eating whatever you want.