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INSIDE THE WORLD OF
STUNTS
By Tony Lynch
Stair falls, car hits, fights, falls, jerk backs and
generally being kicked, punched, thrown and
slammed… these are commonplace occurrences in
the working life of a stunt performer. So it’s fair to
say that the stunt physique must be built for
heavy-duty purposes and must be able to withstand
more punishment than the average.
Before embarking on a career in stunts it is
essential to have a solid grounding in a combat
and/or collision sport of some kind. This helps to
prepare the physique for the demands of high
impact stunts such as those mentioned above.
Participation in any of the following sports is
recommended:
Rugby
Ice hockey
American football
Australian football
Recommended combat sports:
Wrestling
Boxing
Kickboxing
Muay Thai
Judo
To be successful and to have a career that is free
from injury, you must build what I like to call an
“Industrial Strength Physique”. Which simply
means: a physique comprised of hard dense muscle,
strong bones, tough hands, and steel like tendons
and ligaments.
The best way to build such a physique is to do
resistance training in the form of simple bodyweight
exercises – but they must be done at a high intensity
and preferably, wearing a weighted vest. The reason
for this is simple: it is muscle pulling on bone that
causes an increase in bone density; therefore, the
greater the pull the greater the increase in both bone
and muscle mass. (N.B. training with a weighted
vest only applies to people who are already