Sean Faris’s Workout Tips

He may have just started flexing his muscles on the teen TV show Vampire Diaries, but Sean Faris has been training for years. He once had to put on 15 pounds of muscle for a movie role, and even broke a bone in his lower back when he trained for his MTV Movie award-winning ‘Best Fight’ scene in Never Back Down. But he made it through and developed a baseline level of fitness and shares his fundamental fitness tips.

1. Start small
Sean says anybody can be fit but you have to give your body time to adjust and take on reasonable goals. Don’t overwork your body. Only once you’ve reached your goals can you begin to make your workout more challenging.

2. Embrace unsteadiness
Sean works out with weights, but doesn’t use a belt – this way you are forced to focus on keeping your midsection tight and your lower back in its natural position. Every exercise you do this way works your core, which strengthens your midsection and endurance levels.

3. Amp up your reps
Stick to your usual repetition ranges, but occasionally challenge yourself with an ambitious one of say 50 to 60 reps, depending on what you’re doing. But if you feel you can’t do another rep with good form, rest a little and then continue.

4. Lift lighter and better

“I see so many people in the gym just slinging weight around,” Sean says. “You can accomplish more if you squeeze the reps out in perfect form, instead of going big and trying to kill it every time.”

5. Play anything
Try new moves, add a little more weights or reps, but if you’re bored don’t continue doing the same exercises or you’ll plateau. You can take your workout outside the gym by giving a new sport a try.

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