Chris Hemsworth has shown his son exactly how he stays fit for action by taking him to a boxing session with Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Justin Fortune.
Fortune, a former Australian heavyweight fighter turned Hollywood gym owner, was Pacquiao’s strength and conditioning coach for the better part of 20 years, and has worked with many big-name fighters over the years. years.
In a clip shared to Instagram on Tuesday, the Thor star showed that his 10-year-old son is already a mini superhero while working with Fortune.
“I spent many hours on @fortunegymboxing years ago when I first moved to Hollywood auditioning and looking for work,” Hemsworth, 41, captioned the post.
“It’s been epic to see being back here with Justin keeping my son on his toes.”
Hemsworth and his son Tristan also posed for photos with Irish actor Barry Keoghan, who was training at the same time.
Hollywood megastar Chris Hemsworth took his son to train with former boxer and Hollywood gym owner Justin Fortune.
Hemsworth revealed that he trained with Fortune before making it big in Hollywood
Hemsworth has trained boxing since his teenage years, but always refused to compete in the ring due to his career.
“I didn’t want to ruin that pretty face,” his friend Luke Zocchi said in 2022.
‘He used to say, “Do you want to do a few rounds in the ring?” and he said, “No way! I’m going to Hollywood, you can’t punch me in the face!”‘
In May, it was reported that Hemsworth was filming the series Limitless in 2022 when he discovered he is “eight to 10 times” more likely to develop Alzheimer’s than the general population.
Shortly after the news became public, the actor took a step back from Hollywood when news quickly began to circulate that Chris was retiring or had already developed the disease.
“It really bothered me a little bit because I felt like I had been vulnerable with something personal and shared it,” she said. Vanity Fair.
talking to Body + Soul Magazine In the United States, Chris said, “the imagined scenario is always worse than the reality.”
Chris spent a year recovering from a back injury he suffered while filming Thor: Love and Thunder and coming to terms with the genetic predisposition he was diagnosed with.
Hemsworth and his son also posed for a photo with Irish actor Barry Keoghan.
Hemsworth photographed with his wife Elsa and twin children Tristan and Sasha, 10 years old.
At 41, Chris said he has never been more optimistic about his health, or about returning to the set in Los Angeles, where he moved to film for a while in early October.
“When you’re building or creating all kinds of disastrous outcomes for things, it’s very difficult to make clear decisions with any kind of precision,” he reflected upon receiving the news.
“It’s in the quieter moments of reflection and stillness that I can make decisions based on real purpose and drive.”
He also celebrated his 41st birthday in August and marked the fifth anniversary of his health and fitness app, Centr.
“I was going from job to job and getting stressed out,” Chris said about his life before taking a break.
‘I was always putting in an extra 20 per cent of my time. Sometimes it ended up being excessive and other times it had diminishing returns.’
He realized that pushing himself to his physical and mental limits would force something to give, and that it was better for someone to be a movie than his continued well-being.
“There may be a project I would love, but doing it means less time at home,” he continued.
The Hollywood star is an avid boxing fan and has been training in the trade since he was a teenager.
‘Alternatively, I can see that I’ve been home enough to feel like I’m not going to go to work and feel guilty about having to be home. And that is the daily conversation we all have in our lives, whether you are in this business or another.”
So he planned to spend some time with his wife Elsa Pataky and their three children at their sprawling Byron Bay compound: surfing, riding dirt bikes and horseback riding.
Breakup or not, it wasn’t long before Chris returned to movie screens with another blockbuster.
Chris walked the red carpet with his twins in Sydney for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, in which he starred alongside the indomitable Anya Taylor Joy as the film’s villain.
Now that he’s getting back into the routine of getting and staying in superhero shape, Chris revealed that a key component to not burning out is being “a little kinder and gentler with yourself” in the gym.
“I used to have the mentality that if I didn’t come out of the gym crawling, I hadn’t worked hard enough, which is not necessary,” Chris said.
“I’m also listening to my body more, being patient with the process and not just tearing myself apart every session.”