March 07, 2023

Film & TV

Hugh Jackman's Wolverine diet plan UNVEILED: Black bass, salmon, more

Hugh Jackman took to social media to show off his daily meal plan to prepare his body for Wolverine

By Samantha David March 07, 2023
Hugh Jackman's Wolverine diet plan UNVEILED

Hugh Jackman is prepping up his Wolverine body.

The 54-year-old actor took to Twitter to show off his daily meal plan to bulk up ahead of filming Deadpool 3.

It was reported last year that the Son actor will reprise his role as the mutant superhero in the upcoming threequel of Ryan ReynoldsDeadpool.

“Bulking. A day in the life,” Jackman wrote in the caption. “Thank you, Chef Mario, for helping me stay healthy and properly fed whilst… Becoming. Wolverine. Again.”

The six-meal plan comprised a black bass (2,000 calories), Patagonia salmon (2,100 calories), two chicken burgers (around 1,000 calories each), and two grass-fed sirloins (1,100 calories each), all of which sums up to the consumption of over 8,000 calories a day.

The X-men alum revealed back in January that he was preparing his body to be able to take up 6,000 calories a day ahead of playing Wolverine.

“I’m building up. I’m on about 4,500-5,000 calories at the moment,” Jackman said at the time.

“I wore a heart rate monitor because my trainer said, ‘I need to know what I’m working with here, because I’m trying to bulk you up.’ I burned 1,500 calories in the show [he was starring at Broadway’s The Music Man at the time], eight times a week. So she goes: ‘Oh, you gotta eat.’ So I was eating 4,500 calories a day, it was not pretty. Now I’m just eating and training.”