HOW TO BE FIT LIKE Michael B Jordan

UAE trainers share their tips on how to look like the actor who plays a boxer in ‘Creed 2’

“Don’t think about right now,” says celebrity trainer Corey Calliet, the man responsible for transforming Michael B Jordan into a lean mean fighting machine for the boxing movie Creed. Calliet, who also trained Jordan for Black Panther and now trains a number of stars, from John Boyega to A$AP Rocky, says he didn’t always look like he does now.

“I was like, chubby,” he tells highsnobiety.com. “Tired of looking like a mess and feeling uncomfortable.”

So he made a bet with a football-playing friend that he’d train every day when he went to college.

“I didn’t miss a day,” he says in the interview. “I felt like I got sick if I didn’t go to the gym. It became a part of life, like drinking water. And that’s when I fell in love with it.”

For Creed 2, out on Thursday in the UAE, Calliet says fans of Jordan are going to see a more chiselled, more conditioned and more ripped physique.

“The same thing that goes for an actor, can go for you too,” he tells the website Shadow and Act. “You can train four, five, six times a day. You can eat four good meals a day,” he says.

And if you feel yourself getting off-track in your health plan, he advises do two things: “Turn your head to the left, turn your head to the right, and tell yourself, ‘no’.”

To get inspired, we asked UAE-based boxing and fitness experts on how we can aspire to get fit like Jordan: