Chris Evans's (Captain America) Muscle-Building Workout

We pooled together our resources to bring you his training crib sheetBefore we begin, let's get one thing abundantly clear: there are few other Hollywood transformations more admired than that of Chris Evans' hardcore effort of becoming Captain America. Unlike the new aesthetic that Craig brought to Bond, Evans' portrayal of Captain America needed to be the product of several elements of training, including hand-t0-hand combat, swimming, explosive strength, sprinting and, unsurprisingly, mirror muscle."They briefed me on how they wanted Chris to look," explained Waterson in a 2015 interview in British GQ. "It was gruelling, it was brutal and I’d find any excuse possible not to go,” Evans explained of his Captain America workout programming in a 2011 cover interview with Men's Health. But I love shoulder exercises,” says Chris Evans of his Captain America workout, which assaulted his upper-body muscle groups. In a 2016 interview with Coach, Waterson shared his expertise on building Chris Evans' body for Captain America: Civil War, the actor's fifth outing as the first Avenger. “When I first started working with Chris for the original Captain America film, the studio had a very specific idea about how they wanted him to look,” Waterson said. Which is where stuntman Sam Hargrave came in — he was Chris Evans' Captain America double for The Winter Soldier, and shared his gruelling workout with Men's Health in 2020.