STUNT FITNESS

PHYSICAL CONDITIONING for FILM STUNT WORK

Take a look at any good action movie and what do you see plenty of? Crash! Boom! Bang! Thud! Stuntmen being slammed, bounced and thrown all over the place.

Stunt performers must be physically and mentally tough and be able to take the knocks and the hard hits. That’s a stuntman’s job!

Now, that’s not to say you should be getting banged-up and smacked around unnecessarily, it’s about taking the wrecks in an intelligent way. It’s about knowing when to go hard and when to take it easy, padding-up smart, and knowing how to condition your body to cope with the various mechanical stresses and forces placed upon it.

A stunt performer should strive to build an industrial strength physique. A physique comprised of hard dense muscle, strong bones, tough hands, and tendons and ligaments as strong as steel. The stunt-physique must be robust, sturdy, and durable.

Excerpted from the book

This book is a MUST HAVE for any person serious about a career as a stunt performer. It is full of practical information on how to properly prepare your physique for the demands of film stunt work.

This is much more than a book about fitness, it gives the reader valuable insight into the working life of a stunt performer and outlines the physical and mental challenges that stunt people face on a regular basis.

What you WON’T find in this book is a whole bunch of boring exercises and page after page of tedious technical jargon. What you WILL find is plenty of functional exercises and training ideas that are directly transferable into stunt work – and you’ll learn exactly how and why they are beneficial to stunt performers.