What does it take to get the body of a 62-year-old Englishman to look like a buff, bronzed, taut-chested, Greek hero? Ralph Fiennes, currently starring on screen as Odysseus in The Return can tell us. Or at least his fitness trainer, Dan Avasilcai, can. A gruelling regime of 5.30am starts, six days a week to begin weight training, followed by running and on some days ballet got Fiennes into shape as the ultra-toned, ultra-lean king.
Fiennes’s astonishing body transformation has drawn as much attention as the film itself — which was released last weekend. For his role in the film based on Homer’s Odyssey, he needed to develop the physique of a hero in exile — somewhat starved, but fit — meaning Fiennes had
