JOE MANGANIELLO - Life - Workout Tips and Ideas

Manganiello almost made it in Hollywood straight out of college. He was cast as bully-jock Flash Thompson in "Spider-Man" just a week after his classes ended at Carnegie Mellon University.

But that would've been too easy for our hero. Instead of serving as the launch of a brilliant career, this big break marked the beginning of a terrifying spiral. About 6 months after shooting the movie, Joe got thrown out of his apartment for not paying the rent. Lost his car. Lost his clothes and the sheriff told him he had 5 minutes to collect his stuff in a duffel bag and leave the apartment. Joe was essentially homeless when he attended the Spider-man premiere in 2002. He said that he had to take the elevator all the way down, start from scratch, and build back up. Sounds like the shaft actually. Manganiello quit drinking and smoking in 2002, but it took 4 years before he'd score his next acting credit. In the meantime, he delivered packages, worked as a roadie, and sparred with an NHL enforcer in his off-season training. (Yes, those guys literally train to fight.) His final gig, the one that helped him develop the physique you see was in construction. Concrete specifically. As Manganiello said, it was hours-long, total-body workout, lifting and carrying 100-pound bags of cement. After work, he would hit the gym, lifting hard and heavy again. Then he began to get big and bigger.

NEW HOPE - It was in 2006, he was just a good-looking guy, with impeccable dramatic training and the strength of a minotaur, who worked on concrete crew.But by 2009, after turnng down a couple of roles he didn't think were right for him, he was running low on money and began to wonder if the time had come to try something else. However, at this point he got cast for HBO "TRUE BLOOD", and then he has made it big ever since. Manganiello hired Ron Matthews, a trainer best known for transforming musical-theater star Hugh Jackman into Wolverine. In that year 2009, Joe did not get paid as much, and the money he had, he spent on training and prayed for his car not to break-down.The sacrifice paid-off and he transformed his 6'5" 240 pounds body into a Greek-god proportions to play his role on "True Blood". Joe said he wanted to look sinewy, and look like an animal when the shirt comes off, but he wanted to be a little misleading when he had the shirt on.

In terms of food, Joe loves steaks and green vegetables. A typical lunch may be a flank steak with white eggs and a green salad along with a side of meatballs, probably an estimate of 65 grams of animal protein. Joe believes he has never counted calories in his entire life, and he only eats to build and to keep him strong and healthy.

Joe keeps his diet more or less the same, whether he is training to lose or to gain weight. He says, it is a fallacy that you have to eat different to get bigger. In fact, we should know that we have to change our workout to get bigger or to lose weight.