Under the watchful eye of his trainer, Patrick Murphy, Efron explained to E! News that a typical workout could include "20 alternating jump lunges in one place, 20 jump squats, 60 mountain climbers, power push-ups, followed by a run up five flights of stairs, then one-leg squat hops using a TRX rope.”
Efron would then rest for one minute and repeat the circuit twice more to accumulate over 1,000 reps once the workout had wrapped. "Patrick's training was confusing at first... I just thought I was showing up to lift weights and get a deeper six pack (which is hard enough already)," Efron wrote in a statement.
"But rather than the typical bodybuilding type of movements I had become accustomed to, Patrick pushed me to my ‘functional' limits with a very multifaceted style: strength, explosiveness, fast paced, calculated, diverse and gut-wrenching workouts. It was fun… you never know what he's going to throw at you the next day."
Ready to give Zac Efron's Baywatch bodyweight workout a go? We've pieced it together below, swapping the stair drills for single-unders with a jump rope. Work for three total rounds:
- 20 alternating lunges (each leg)
- 20 jump squats (or air squats)
- 60 mountain climbers
- 20 plyometric press-ups, clap-ups or standard press-ups
- 20 single-leg squats (or 40 air squats)
- 150 single-unders
This article originally appeared on Men's Health UK
