Zac Efron was in incredible shape for the 2017 “Baywatch” movie, but he wasn’t happy. The actor speaks to Men’s Health about fitness and extreme dieting in a new interview, telling the mag: “That ‘Baywatch’ look, I don’t know if that’s really attainable.
There’s just too little water in the skin. Like, it’s fake; it looks CGI’d. And that required Lasix, powerful diuretics, to achieve.
So I don’t need to do that. I much prefer to have an extra, you know, 2 to 3 per cent body fat.” Efron adds of how long the ill effects of his “Baywatch” training lasted: “I started to develop insomnia and I fell into a pretty bad depression, for a long time. “Something about that experience burned me out.
I had a really hard time re-centering. Ultimately they chalked it up to taking way too many diuretics for way too long, and it messed something up.” He goes on to talk about re-evaluating his approach to fitness, admitting he considered letting himself go. “At one point, that was a dream of mine—what it would be like to not have to be in shape all the time.
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