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Introduction

Hey, what’s up guys? This is David Hoang coming at you from supplementsuperhero.com and today I’m going to be talking about Duffy Gaver.

So if you don’t know who Duffy Gaver is, he’s basically the superhero trainer guy. He’s trained a lot of celebrities, a lot of celebrities who have trained for their superhero roles.

He’s done a lot of work with Marvel for example, and he’s trained guys like Chris Hemsworth, Tobey Maguire, Channing Tatum, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Pratt, who I recently did a video about.

And I watched a couple of videos about Duffy Gaver and I kind of got a good sense about his philosophy and some of the basic exercises that he teaches.

And what I really like about him is that he’s a very real, down to earth, raw guy and I just really love a lot of his generalized philosophies.

Duffy Gaver’s Basic Exercises

So, in one of the videos that I watched, he actually goes over some of the basic exercises that he teaches and I was just kind of surprised about how basic it was and how simple he keeps it.

For example, in one full body workout training that he does, he does a lot of simple stuff that you probably already do or have done in the past or things that you might be looking to do if you’re not a gym rat.

But basically, in one full body workout he basically suggested doing squats followed by some one arm dumbbell rows, some bicep curls with the bar, some dumbbell flies and a bench press.

And what he recommended was doing about five sets of 10 reps for each of these.

Now, I don’t know exactly where he got those numbers. It seems like a lot of reps, but basically this is what he does and obviously it works, if you look at a lot of the people he’s trained.

So again, squats, one arm dumbbell rows, dumbbell flies, bench press, and you’re good. I mean, if you follow those and you do those five sets of 10 reps each, I’m sure you’re going to get ripped.

The Afterburn Effect

And another thing that he really started doing, a philosophy that, or technique I should say, that he started implementing with a lot of the guys, clients that he works with, is bringing a stopwatch to the workout.

So, bringing a stopwatch to the workout, I think, is going to make the training a little bit more intense, especially if you’re timing everything.

You’re giving yourself a less chance to rest and creating sort of an afterburn effect. I think that helps a lot.

Also, it creates more of a generalized efficiency, in general. I know a lot of us typically we go to the gym and a lot of times, I mean at least for me, I have a tendency to sometimes lollygag a lot.

Maybe I rest too much, I give myself way too much a break in between sets. I sit down, and I stretch, and I think a lot and my mind wanders, and I just waste a lot of time in general.

So I think bringing a stopwatch is really, really smart, and it’s a great strategy to implement.

And this other video I watched, he actually walked this girl through a basic workout routine where she would do one pull up followed by a two burpees followed by five arm curls, five tricep extensions and five air squats.

So, just five very, very simple workouts with really a relatively low number of reps. So one pull up, two bicep curls, five arm curls, five tricep extensions, five air squats.

So, it’s all very simple. But the thing is when you have a stopwatch with you and you do all of those in a row and then you give yourself very, very little time to rest in-between sets of those.

I mean, you can imagine the kind of workout that you’re going to get, the kind of intensity that you’re going to get.

So, when he walked this girl through this whole workout, the girl was a little out of breath after the workout, but she wasn’t like completely dead, right?

It took her, like, less than a minute to complete all five of those exercises. But imagine just doing that, maybe resting for 30 seconds, doing that again, resting for another 30 seconds and doing that again.

You can imagine how tired you’re going to feel and how in less than 10 minutes you got yourself a really, really good workout just by timing yourself and bringing in the time factor.

So, those are just some of the general exercises that Duffy Gaver likes to implement with a lot of his clients, and although it’s very, very simple, obviously it’s effective.

And, one of the things that Duffy Gaver really brings to the table I think, that I really like, is just his generalized philosophy.

Lifestyle and Mindset

I mean he talks about how three things that people in general can’t be sold on, that he can’t sell his clients, are discipline, will, and desire.

So your discipline, will, and desire are three things that you’ve really got to bring to the table if you want to get a Chris Pratt body or a Tobey Maguire body or Chris Hemsworth, Thor body, right?

He says that if you want to look like an A-Lister, you’ve got to bring it. You’ve got to bring it to the table, you’ve got to work hard.

He says, if it was really easy, everyone would be doing it, right? It’s simple, but it’s not easy.

And another thing, too, is that he really breaks down the philosophy just as sort of like a three-legged stool.

He says that if you want to look amazing, you’ve got to train amazing, you’ve got to sleep amazing and you’ve got to eat amazing.

You screw up one of these, it’s going to mess up the entire balance. All it is …it’s like a lifestyle dedication: training, hard sleeping well, eating well.

Speaking of eating, what he mentions, in terms of diet, and what he suggests, is just keeping it very, very basic, keeping it very, very simple. Chicken, broccoli, brown rice, that’s what he says he eats, right?

So, that’s the Duffy Gaver diet for you. Very simple. Chicken, broccoli, brown rice, nothing crazy. Just very, very simple, very common sense, almost.

All Fitness is Good Fitness

And, another basic, really good philosophy that he has, is that all fitness is good fitness. So again, all fitness is good fitness.

You know, just in general, if you’re out of shape, if you’re unmotivated, if you’re a lazy slob, but you want to get in shape, you want to have the superhero body, then what he recommends is just go out and do something.

Go out and do something simple. Go out for a walk, walk a mile. If you can’t run a mile, walk a mile, and then gradually work your way up to actually running a mile.

He said, if you only get one pushup, that’s fine. Work on that, doing that one push-up, and then work your way up to two push-ups.

You can only do one pull up? Do that one pull-up but gradually work yourself up to two pull-ups. Anything’s better than laying on the couch, eating potato chips, and getting fat.

He says, if you want to become healthy, if you want that superhero body, just go out and start doing something. Again, all fitness is good fitness.

Conclusion

So hopefully that’s helped guys, and I think the biggest thing that you could take away is, ultimately, it’s up to us.

Ultimately, it’s up to our desire, our will, our discipline. Just keeping it simple and just sticking to it. Starting off small, gradually working our way up, and again, if we want to look amazing, we got to train amazing, sleep amazing, eat amazing.

Hopefully this helped out guys. Let me know your thoughts in the comment section below.

Have you heard of Duffy Gaver before? What do you think about his philosophies? What do you think about his workouts?

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Feel free to check that out if you are into supplementation. If not, hopefully you enjoyed the video. As always, thanks for watching guys. Have a fantastic day and remember to Supp It Up.