For actor Paul Rudd who was People’s 2021 Sexiest Man Alive and this year’s Men’s Health’s March cover star, staying young is attainable and it just requires something as simple as getting an adequate amount of sleep.
“People ask me, ‘Can you send me your meal plan? How many times a week do you work out? Do you drink? Do you eat carbs? Do you have a cheat day?’ The most important part of training is sleep,” Rudd said.
The 53-year-old actor told Men’s Health that he gets eight hours of sleep each night.
Ant-Man needs enough sleep
This is followed by diet, weights, and then cardio.
He added that people who set their alarms for only four hours of sleep to give themselves more time to train are selling themselves short. “They’re doing themselves a disservice,” said Rudd in People’s Sexiest Man Alive in 2021.
The actor’s morning routine consists of a cup of coffee with a side of cardio. “I do cardio before I eat anything. I never would’ve done that before [Ant-Man],” Rudd said.
Rudd career change
The thought of playing a superhero was never in his plans, but it ended up changing his life in ways he never expected.
The actor mentioned that he never considered himself to be the type of person that would be offered these types of roles.
However, when the opportunity presented itself, he couldn’t resist the challenge of doing something completely different from what he was used to. He knew that the announcement of his joining a superhero franchise would raise many eyebrows.
To prepare for the role, the actor underwent a trans...