Chris Hemsworth Celebrated His Return to LA With a God-Level Cheat Meal
Chris Hemsworth is back in LA to film Extraction 2 after getting jacked and building a "bulletproof" physique for the action sequel—but before he throws himself into another stunt-filled shoot, he took the time for an epic cheat day meal. The Australian actor shared his order on Instagram: two huge pizzas, two servings of chicken wings, and a beer.
"Just landed in LA and thought I’d kick things off with a super light healthy meal ????" he jokingly wrote in the caption for the post, which has garnered more than five and a half million likes.
Of course, consuming vast amounts of food is something that the actor is all too familiar with. Hemsworth's trainer Luke Zocchi, who programs the workouts and meal plans on the health and wellness app Centr along with a team of other fitness and nutrition experts, recently revealed that while filming the Marvel movie Thor: Love and Thunder in New Zealand recently, Hemsworth was eating protein-rich meals pretty much non-stop all day.
"With all those Thor roles, part of the work is also backing it up with the food," said Zocchi. "He’s eating so much that he gets sick of it. He eats every two hours because he’s naturally a taller, skinnier guy, so for him to put on that muscle he needs a lot of calories... On this film — I’m not joking — he was eating up to eight to 10 times a day. As soon as he went into hair and makeup on set at six o’clock he’d have his first meal, and then 460 calories every two hours."
"The quantity of food Chris is consuming is that of an athlete, rather than the average male, so it’s important to keep this in perspective," dietitian Kelly Jones R.D. told Men's Health in 2020. She added that the portion sizes in the actor's diet might not necessarily be giving him the most bang for his buck, saying: "Three chicken breasts greatly exceed the amount of protein that can be used for muscle repair at a time, and it's a slow, inefficient conversion of protein to energy."
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