The Rock’s new ‘seven-meals a day’ diet is pretty intense

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is getting in shape to play Hercules in an upcoming movie. That involves one very scary diet.

For some of us, getting just three meals a day into us is a chore. We might skip breakfast, or grab a snack for lunch, and even if we do have three ‘meals’ at least one of them will probably be bad for us. That’s why we look the way we do and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson looks the way he does. The wrestler turned actor has just signed up to play Hercules in a new movie and as the Greek hero was well known for his physique, Johnson has to make sure he is in top shape. To get into that shape, he has started a new diet that is frankly terrifying to us mere mortals. Posted last night on Twitter Johnson calls it ‘The 12 Labors’, a reference to the mythical tasks that were set for Hercules to complete. This is the DAILY diet that Johnson will eat everyday for the next 22 WEEKS. As he says himself, the lion’s blood is a joke and another mythical reference.

My current 22 week diet for the role of HERCULES. Cardio & iron before going to set. (Lion blood is optional;) pic.twitter.com/HaklgWPJW0 — Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) June 24, 2013

Rather him than us...