No Time To Diet...secrets of how 007 gets in shape
THE secret to Daniel Craig’s killer physique has been revealed by his personal fitness coach.
Trainer Simon Waterson says the 52-year-old No Time To Die star’s day begins with the Korean vegetable dish kimchi.
Gruelling
Then there is coffee and shots of turmeric followed by 30 minutes of high-intensity training.
Craig, who has worked out with Simon since 2005, took on a diet and fitness regime a year before filming for his final outing as James Bond. His fifth film as
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the hunky agent was due out in April but is on hold until November because of Covid-19.
Spilling the beans, Simon said breakfast constituted rye bread, poached eggs, avocado, kimchi and maybe some kale. He added: “Then it’s lemon and ginger shots and off to work we go. Oh and, you know, a coffee.”
Craig would follow a different plan each day, including vegetarian, fish, white and red meat.
But he would burn it all off with a gruelling workout incorporating exercises like reverse lunges and mountain climbers. Simon said: “If I can add three components into one movement, I bring down the time. What would normally take two hours? Done in 30 minutes.”
Anxiety
He also told of his role in Craig’s decision to cut cigarettes while filming his first Bond movie Casino Royale in 2006.
He said: “I knocked on his door and he said, ‘Ah, trainer?’ I said ‘Yes’. And he said ‘No?’ And I said, ‘Make it your last.’”
In terms of diet restrictions,
Waterson insisted that “nothing is off the table” but added that although Craig enjoyed a beer on a rare day off, alcohol “isn’t really on the cards” for “a professional like Daniel”.
In a recent interview, Craig opened up about how he had anxiety over the script for the newest film in the franchise – and also admitted to feeling “physically very low”.
He said: “I was never going to do one again. I was like, ‘Is this work really genuinely worth this, to go through this whole thing?’ I felt physically really low.”