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The Stephen Moyer Workout: Slay Your Workout Demons

A new season of True Blood forces "lazy" actor Stephen Moyer to get back in shape—the hard way

By Jeff O'Connell, Men's Health, July 1, 2011

STEPHEN MOYER HAS FINISHED ONE gym workout and is walking to a boxing studio a block away for a second session. So it's odd to hear him say, in all seriousness, " I am lazy." And then, to drive home the point, "I am lazy. I am lazy."

When he works out, Moyer explains, a trainer must prod him. Otherwise he might quit and go home. "I find that I don't go at it if I don't have someone making me," he says. "You'd be amazed at how quickly I let it all go."

Part of Moyer's ambivalence toward training comes from his upbringing. "I'm an English boy," he says. "I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen. My working out was with my right arm and it involved a pint glass."

The 41-year-old actor is currently filming the fourth season of HBO's True Blood. In what has become an annual ritual, Moyer is shaping up so that a merely flat stomach doesn't look like a beer belly next to the six-pack of his costar, Ryan Kwanten, a man 7 years his junior. Kwanten's character, he says, "walks into a room and takes his shirt off. That's his normal entrance. Ryan has minus 6 percent body fat."

Moyer also worries about a different sort of immortality. "I didn't want my kids to look back at the show in 20 years' time and go, " 'Who's that slobby git? Oh, it's you, Dad.' "

Such is the lot of today's vampires. Where once they lurked in dark, cobblestone-paved alleys, they're now expected to have cobblestoned midsections. On True Blood, Japanese scientists have invented synthetic, drinkable blood, and vampires have been able to come out of the coffin as a result. From the looks of it, they headed straight to the gym and swore off not only human blood but carbohydrates as well.

So here is Moyer at Gold's Gym in Venice on a sunny California morning, grunting his way through ab exercises with his trainer of 3 years, Scot Guthrie. In order to prepare Moyer for filming in Louisiana, they turn up the heat on a training gumbo: push workouts, pull workouts, a little circuit training, some plyometrics and functional work, a dash of sports-specific training. They try not to repeat the same workout. What will all of these incongruous training styles produce when mixed together? Shock, and then forced adaptation. Guthrie points to his client's stomach, and then to his client's upper body: "We're trying to take a little from here and put it there."

Now the pair heads out to an open-air patio for medicine-ball work. Guthrie has Moyer lift the ball back behind his head as far as he possibly can, and then slam it onto the pavement. Repeatedly.

After that, Moyer turns his back to the high wall and uses both arms to heave the medicine ball as high as he can. The throws are punctuated by grunts that grow more pronounced with each rep. Workouts like this accomplish a neat trick, nailing your core and jacking up your heart rate. By the end, Moyer is winded and gasping.

"Cardio is the devil," he rasps. Guthrie, meanwhile, sets the outdoor stage for some box jumps.

Moyer finishes by jumping rope, a nod to boxing past. Through it all he insists that if he weren't shaping up for a physical role, he likely wouldn't be working out regularly—certainly not this hard. "I think half of what a trainer does is make you feel shame if you don't show up," says the actor, who was a smoker till 2004, when he saw his then-2 1/2-year-old daughter mimicking him with a piece of chalk. He quit instantly.

MOYER SHIFTS GEARS IN OTHER ways, too. In conversation he switches accents and personality types. He also has a stunning capacity to achieve total stillness (which, as it turns out, is key when playing a vampire). To move at vamp speed—the speed of light—vampires must hold energy in reserve. That means no extraneous movement.

In an instant, Moyer snaps from leaning forward to reclined and still. He's come to think that stillness is a quality that not just actors but every guy should add to his arsenal. "[The actors] who go into the room and don't do anything are the ones who turn people's heads," he says. "Might not be able to act for shit, but they're the ones people are interested in. They want enigmatic."

That lesson can serve you well in job interviews and business meetings, and on dates. You're always sitting across from casting directors. Allow them to see what they want to see in you. Keep your cards close to your chest. When you do move, be decisive, and make it count.

Consider Moyer's postworkout workout—a sparring session at the boxing gym. Moyer's boxing coach and sparring partner, a retired (but still young) fighter named Marcelo Crudele, stalks him around the ring, calling out cadences and instructions: "Double jab. Double jab. One-two. One-two. One-two." Moyer responds by popping rapid-fire jab and uppercut combinations off Marcelo's gloves.

Finally, a buzzer ends the workout. "You're preparing for what you think is coming, and then he does something else," Moyer says.

Boxing, then, is both a workout and a head game. It requires anticipating the next move of the person in front of you, as is often the case in acting. It's also the case in sports, business, or just about any activity where you need an edge.

Boxing is a passion Moyer shares with his Oscar-winning costar, Anna Paquin, who plays Sookie Stackhouse on the show. The pair met during rehearsals. "I was intrigued by her," he says. "She was very open about work. But she was withdrawn [personally]. I was like, 'Here I am, here's everything I've got.' I remember leaving the screen test and thinking, God, I'd like to spend some more time with her." Two months later, during the filming of the pilot, he had his chance. "I remember getting back to London [after the pilot] and just going, 'I have to keep speaking to this person.' We began speaking every night on Skype for 2 or 3 hours." Last year, the couple married.

In romance, fitness, and his career, Moyer has learned the value of dogged persistence. "There's no immediate payoff," he says. "Sometimes it feels like it's taking forever to see results. It takes commitment and time, but when you start to see results—when you feel a bit leaner or you're doing more reps—you start to think, Wow, I can see a difference! And it's palpable. I recommend it."

A Bloody Good Diet
Stephen Moyer was raised in an English village, on typical English breakfasts of eggs, bacon, mushrooms, sausage, bread, and baked beans. "The problem is, if you eat like that, you're hungry again very quickly because your metabolism wants to be fed again in the same way," he says. "Which means that every meal is a big meal."

Over the years, Moyer has learned that healthy eating is as simple as finding the perfect...

FREQUENCY
Eat seven times a day, he says; just don't eat huge amounts. If you do overeat on occasion, be sure to work it off in the gym later.

MINDSET
That means decoupling food from your mood so your eating becomes analytical, not emotional. Moyer has become good at this. "I certainly act out in other ways, but I don't think eating is one of them," he says.

SNACK
"I started a habit of eating an apple, a bit of cheese, and some almonds together. Like in Ratatouille, where the rat eats the cheese and goes, 'Mmm.' Then he eats the fruit: 'Mmm.' Then he eats them together and these fireworks go off in his head. Trust me: apple, cheese, almonds. It's bloody good."

CONVENIENCE MEAL
For Moyer it's chili, a dish you can easily make yourself. "Chop a bit of garlic, fry it in a pan, throw some onion in there, and instead of ground beef, put in ground turkey," he says. "Get it brown, pour in a tin of tomatoes, add salt and pepper, let it sit for 20 minutes. It's as simple as that. And it's great."

COOKING TECHNIQUE
"If you go to Japanese restaurants, they use big bamboo steamers to cook their fish," he says. "I do the same, but instead of steaming the fish straight on the bamboo, I put a piece of fish onto a plate inside the steamer. Put ginger on top and a few drops of soy sauce. Steam for 10 minutes, and it comes out unbelievable. It's so simple, it's incredibly healthy, and it tastes great. Ginger does things to food without adding fat."

Stephen Moyer's Ab Workout from Hell
Sometimes celebrity ab workouts surprise even us. Such is the case with Moyer's seemingly inhuman 17-set routine. To try it yourself, perform each exercise in the order shown, resting 60 seconds between each set. Do three sets each of the first five exercises, and one set of the last two. Finish with five four-minute sets of jumping rope.
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Protests in Pakistan over US gay rights event
(AFP) - July 4, 2011

KARACHI -- Islamists held rallies in major Pakistani cities Monday to denounce a gay rights event hosted last month by the United States embassy, calling for a "holy war" against ally Washington.

Around 100 demonstrators in the southern port city of Karachi protested, calling the meeting "an assault on Pakistan's Islamic culture", while there were similar demonstrations in the capital Islamabad and in Lahore.

"We condemn the American conspiracy to encourage bisexualism in our country," said Mohammad Hussain Mehnati, city chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Pakistan's largest Islamic party, while leading a rally.

"They have destroyed us physically, imposed the so-called war on terrorism on us and now they have unleashed cultural terrorism on us," he said above the din of slogans of "Death to America" by his party cadres.

"This meeting shows cruel America has unleashed a storm of immoral values on our great Islamic values, which we'll resist at all costs," Mehnati said.

A statement posted on the US Embassy website said its Islamabad office hosted its first lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Pride Celebration on June 26.

"This gathering demonstrated continued US Embassy support for human rights, including LGBT rights, in Pakistan at a time when those rights are increasingly under attack from extremist elements throughout Pakistani society," it said.

In the capital, about 30 youths from Islami Jamiat Tulba (IJT), the student wing of JI, burnt a US flag and shouted "we are ready for jihad against the US", referring to holy war.

A banner at the rally read: "Americans, we will not allow you to spread your vulgar and ugly civilisation in Pakistan."

"Through our peaceful rally we want to give message through the media that we will not allow these people (gays) to live here and they should be immediately deported out of Pakistan," said Noorul Bashar, of IJT Islamabad.

In the eastern city of Lahore, some 150 students from IJT and about two dozen activists of pro-Taliban Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam also held anti-US rallies, police and witnesses said.
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