While he came to promote the action comedy The Gardeneravailable January 10, 2025 on Prime Video, Jean-Claude Van Damme explained to us the secret of its current form. With a well-established routine…
He arrived a little after the two behemoths who were struggling throughout the 80s in terms of action films: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. Jean-Claude Van Damme took up the torch of the castagne at the end of this muscular decade. Coming straight from his native Belgium, JCVD conquered Hollywood when few people believed in him. The beginnings were not easy, including a painful experience on the set of Predatorbut the successes end up one after the other, with Kickboxer (1989), Double impact (1990) or Universal Soldier (1992).
Jean-Claude Van Damme reveals the secret of his shape to us
Jean-Claude Van Damme’s thing is kickboxing. An art visible in his films, particularly in Sudden death released in 1995, when the role could have gone to another action star. Despite certain problems with drugs, which he returned to in July 2021, Muscles from Brussels (his nickname) has always remained in good shape. While he had considered retiring at the beginning of 2022, the actor continues to tour. He will thus be showing, alongside Michaël Youn, in the action comedy The Gardeneravailable January 10, 2025 on Prime Video. A film in which he still gives of himself. During the promotion of the feature film, he told us the secrets of his almost perfect state of health. “I have sores, my neck, my hips, my back. I’m pretty lucky, I’m very flexible for my age. In the morning I train, I warm up well, I get my heart rate up pretty high, and then I wake up, the endorphin is great, you’re happy. Since I started very young, I worked on my tendons. It’s the tendons that are important.”
How does Jean-Claude Van Damme work his muscles?
The real health routine of Jean-Claude Van Damme, also appeared in the series Friends over the course of two episodes, is accompanied by valuable advice for gym regulars. “When you do dumbbells, you have to start light, stretch well, to strengthen the tendons. Guys who start very quickly, the tendons don’t know how to keep up with the speed of the muscle, and then, tack, they fail.“To the wise…
