5 Things Olivia Munn Did to Get Her 'X-Men' Body

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In X-Men: Apocalypse, out May 27, Olivia Munn joins the Marvel world as Psylocke, a character who uses telekinesis to strike with superhuman strength. To get in fighting shape-and fit in a risqué latex body suit she’s admitted needing lube to get into-the actress turned to husband-wife duo Karine Lemieux and Ken Tran of martial arts-focused DAX Gym in Montreal. Ahead, five things Munn did over five months to lose 12 pounds and transform her body:[CN]

在X战警：天启中，5月27日爆出，Olivia Munn加入这个奇妙世界，饰演灵蝶。超能力是意念攻击。为了达到战斗体型，穿上风情万种的乳胶制服，她承认得借助润滑油才穿上演员服，最后她向武术指导夫妻俩Karine Lemieux和Ken Tran求助。他们是蒙特利尔主打武术DAX健身馆教练。就这样，Munn在超过5个月的时间里做了5件事情，减了15磅，塑成身材。

1. She made training a (second) full-time job[CN]

训练成为第一（第二）全职工作

“If she wasn’t shooting, she was at the gym. No question,” Lemieux says, adding that Munn trained for six or seven hours daily. On top of filming. Lemieux trained Munn-who happens to have a black belt in tae kwon do, which she earned as a teen-using mainly body-weight exercises: punching, kicking, and other techniques from boxing and tae kwon do. “I tried to make it fun every day-she doesn’t like a typical workout,” the trainer says. Good thing he made it fun, because as Lemieux says, “I think she was at the gym more often than in her apartment.“[CN]

“她不是在练射击，就肯定在健身房，这是毫无疑问的。” Lemieux说道。她还补充说，Munn一天要训练6-7小时。拍摄时的训练除外。Lemieux给Munn做训练，Munn在跆拳道也是获得黑带的人，也是小时候主要的健身锻炼：拳打，脚踢，还有拳击和跆拳道的其他技巧。“我试图每天都让她练得开心点 – 她不喜欢古板的健身”。教练说道。好事是，他的确使健身充满乐趣。就像Lemieux说的，“她在健身房的时候比呆在家里的还多。“

2. She took sword fighting seriously

Two hours of training alone were spent perfecting sword work with Tran, who says Munn did 95 percent of her own stunts in the movie. She toned her arms with drills in striking, chopping, stabbing, blocking, and twirling. Tran was impressed in her investment in learning not only necessary choreography, but the whole art of sword fighting. “That’s the type of person she is. She’s not going to do it superficially,” Tran says of Munn. “She picks up really fast and she works really hard, so we went up levels very fast.” Observe:

Even Ryan Reynolds, aka Deadpool, couldn’t compete.

3. She skipped basic butt exercises

You’d never see Munn doing “boring” exercises like squats in the gym. Lemieux emphasized more creative methods. They favored working on kicking techniques. One move they did almost daily to work the the butt, quads, and hips: stand facing outward from a wall, point your toe to the wall and do 10 kicks in the air with one leg, hold it midair for 10 seconds, do 10 kicks with the same leg, repeat two or three times. “[Olivia] always goes for the tough workouts-she knows it’s going to be hard, but she likes it that way,” Lemieux says. “We made it different every day.”

4. She ate 80% raw

As for diet, Lemieux says she had Munn do an 80 percent raw diet, 20 percent anything else. Additionally, before she would head to training in the morning, Munn would eat only fruit, either on its own or in smoothie form. “She tried to eat as many fruits and veggies as possible. She cut down on complex carbs, and I told her to eat more quinoa, roasted sweet potatoes, and wild rice instead of white rice,” Lemieux says. Munn also had to cut down on bread and limited her meat intake, focusing more on getting protein in seeds and nuts. “She just wanted to put everything on her side. She was already disciplined for that as well,” the trainer says.

The 20 percent at least afforded Munn the freedom to eat things like Cheetos:

4. She got way more creative than crunches

In addition to all the core work she would do while running through boxing combinations, Munn trained her core by doing atypical movements. Lemieux would have her get in a plank position with her feet on a ball, and then she’d have to use her abs to bring them in (and she would do it sideways too). Another abs move Munn did was wrap her feet around a punching bag while in plank position and holding it. If ever there were sit-ups, she would be wearing boxing gloves and punching as she came up.

5. She paid close attention to stretching

An often neglected part of training, stretching was paramount for Munn in Lemieux’s training program. “She was pretty flexible already, but we really focused on a lot of deep stretching to get those high kicks,” the trainer says, adding that they did plenty of yoga-inspired stretches. One move they did was to have her back against the floor, her legs up on the wall and splitting the legs apart for one minute, continually pushing down further.

Ultimately, doing these five things for five months led to this:

100 percent payoff.