Terry Crews Workout

What always confused me, was why Terry Crews wasn't a big action star. If he didn't look like someone who could beat the hell out of someone with their own arm, nobody did. Luckily for him, he's not a one trick pony, despite looking like one of the most bad-ass guys in the entertainment industry, the guy is super funny too. SO he can make you laugh while he's kicking your ass. This is why his comedic talents have been so in demand and perhaps not leaving him with the need to be the action star most people knew he could be.

Things changed of course when Sylvester Stallone cast him as Hale Caesar in the massive throwback action flick - The Expendables. From the second the casting news came out, I knew he was going to kill it, and sure enough, nobody was disappointed. Nobody else would have the strength and size to pick up the gun he used let alone anything else. He may not have been the biggest star in the star-studded blockbuster, but many would say it was Hale Caesar who stole the show in every scene he was in.

Now Terry Crews is just big, plain and simple. You don't get to spend years in the NFL if you're not tough and don't know how to get in and stay in shape. His incredible physique may be the result of many years of training and playing professional football, but there's no doubt we can learn something from a Terry Crews workout style and apply it to our efforts in the gym. If you want to see exactly how Terry Crews trains to look the way he does, we can now see his weekly training routine after he let Muscle & Fitness in on his personal regime.

Circuit 1: 4 sets of 6 reps with a 135lb barbell; no rest in between each exercise

1. UPRIGHT ROWS
2. CLEAN AND PRESS
3. BENT OVER ROWS
4. JUMP SQUATS

Circuit 2: 4 sets of 10 reps with dumbbells; no rest in between each exercise

1. FRONT RAISE
2. ARNOLD PRESS
3. LATERAL RAISE
4. BENT OVER REVERSE FLY

• ROTATOR CUFF CABLE WORK
• 30-MINUTE RUN

 

• POWER CLEANS (four sets, starting with 135 lbs and ending with a max set of 405 lbs)
• INCLINE BENCH (four sets, starting with 135 lbs and ending with a max set of 315 lbs)

Circuit: 4 sets with no rest in between each exercise

1. CHEST FLYES
2. CURLS
3. DIPS

• 30 TO 45 MINUTE RUN
• 30 MINUTE SWIM

• DEAD-LIFTS (four sets, starting with 135 lbs and ending with a max set of 405 lbs)
• PULL-UPS (to failure)
• BENT OVER ROWS (four sets, starting with 135 lbs and ending with a max set of 185 lbs)
• HAMMER STRENGTH ROW (four sets, starting with one plate on each side and ending with a max set with four or five plates on each side)
• 30 MINUTE RUN

• SQUATS (four sets, starting with 135 lbs and ending with a max set of 495 lbs)
• SINGLE-LEG PRESS (four sets, starting with one plate on each side and ending with five plates)
• HACK SQUATS (four sets, starting with one plate on each side and ending with a max set of four or five plates on each side)
• LEG EXTENSIONS/LEG CURLS (four sets)
• AB ROLLER (100-200 reps)