![]() ![]() How have your ideas of what constitutes "fitness" and "strength" evolved over that long process? And then at some point, another path developed that was more individual, where everybody has a different history, expectations, and demands for work or sport. As our gym evolved, we also developed more of a group orientation, and educated people in our certified military seminars so they could direct their training on their own. We started training military in 1999, mostly cold-weather high-altitude training, and that continues to this day. ![]() So we decided to go down the road of more individualized training. ![]() We also couldn't stomach the bullshit politics coming down from the top of that organization anymore, and we realized that despite this idea that there's a sort of one-size-fits-all type of training, we didn't see it for our objectives. Then I realized, right about when started training on our own in our own space, that as a means, it wasn't fulfilling the needs that we had. I fell for that shit hook, line, and sinker, and spent a bunch of time involved in that project. I went through various phases, and in November 2003, somebody introduced me to CrossFit. I retired from climbing in 2000 and sort of cast around for something to fill the void-because that was 20 years of my life spent doing that, and only that. MAN OF STEEL TORRENT PROFESSIONALHe steered me in a good direction, and then I started working with a protégé of a Russian guy named Ben Tabachnik, a strength coach in the ex-USSR who came over here and worked with a lot of professional sports teams. His outdoor fitness business was a nice marriage of internal and exterior principles for physical and psychological training. We found our own way in the beginning, and then somewhere in the mid-90s, around '94 or '95, I started working with a guy named Steve Ilg, who wrote The Outdoor Athlete. That didn't apply to what we wanted to do. A lot of those guys back in the old days, maybe they'd go running, but a lot of others were just kicking Hacky Sacks and smoking dope. I like to think we were the first generation of climbers who were training using "artificial" means. What has been the key to making the switch? But actors and alpinists are two different animals. In your book Extreme Alpinism, you outlined a solid training program that included weight training, but also nutrition and supplements. You were kind of a trainer even back when you were a climber. Fresh off the release of Man of Steel, Twight spoke with about the challenges of getting inside actors' minds and transforming stars like Henry Cavill and Russell Crowe. In exchange for extreme results, he is known for demanding total physical and psychological commitment from his clients-fitting, when his gym's name is a play on Jim Jones, the cult leader who convinced hundreds of his followers to commit suicide in 1978. He trained the Spartan fighters in director Zack Snyder's 300 and the forthcoming sequel 300: Rise of an Empire, as well as the stars of Snyder's new Superman reboot Man of Steel. MAN OF STEEL TORRENT FULLBut make no mistake: The intensity that defined his climbing career came down from the hills with him.Īfter starting off training military units in high-altitude settings, Twight has carved out a niche helping professional fighters, football players, endurance athletes, and A-list actors achieve their full physical potential. "Strangely, I survived 20 years after my predicted expiration date," Twight writes on the website for Gym Jones, a training center he and his wife founded after he retired from climbing in 2000. "I made life or death decisions like I was choosing between brands of beer."īut then, something happened-or didn't happen. ![]() MAN OF STEEL TORRENT SERIAL"I am willing to cut it all away in order to have my way, to live how I want, and for only as long as I want," he writes in his memoir Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber. Instead, he built his reputation by targeting routes which other climbers deemed impossible or suicidal, and he conquered them quickly with minimal equipment. Waiting at home for this death to find him wasn't Twight's style, though. It was an arbitrary number, he admits today, but as a world-class mountain climber, he had plenty of time shivering in tents and clinging to exposed rockfaces to imagine doom lurking just over the horizon. As a young man, Mark Twight was convinced that his life would end at age 26. ![]()
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