Putting many people half his age to shame, Billy Dee Williams threw himself into a fitness routine that helped the veteran actor ease back into his signature role of Lando Calrissian. Celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson was the man mapping out his routine and encouraging him as he developed a program that was light on weights but heavy on results.
While Williams’ age meant that he wasn’t pushing big weights, Peterson didn’t consider that a limiting factor to their programming. “I took it like an athlete in a return to play protocol,” he said. “It’s been a minute since he’s down this role—and by a minute I mean four decades—and he has not, on a regular basis, been doing the movements required by this role. So we had to ease into it.”
This meant that Peterson eased Williams back into the swing of things gradually, rather than pushing him to jump straight into the final form of the workout right away. “We started with basic simple movements, and then built on that.”
Peterson also emphasized a constant stream of activity. “I try to keep a pace, so we get x amount of volume done in a workout,” he said. “I think that’s an integral part of working with a trainer.”
Check out the full article for William’s workout and the benefits that Peterson gained from the process.
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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Putting many people half his age to shame, Billy Dee Williams threw himself into a fitness routine that helped the veteran actor ease back into his signature role of Lando Calrissian. Celebrity trainer Gunnar Peterson was the man mapping out his routine and encouraging him as he developed a program that was light on weights but heavy on results.
While Williams’ age meant that he wasn’t pushing big weights, Peterson didn’t consider that a limiting factor to their programming. “I took it like an athlete in a return to play protocol,” he said. “It’s been a minute since he’s down this role—and by a minute I mean four decades—and he has not, on a regular basis, been doing the movements required by this role. So we had to ease into it.”
This meant that Peterson eased Williams back into the swing of things gradually, rather than pushing him to jump straight into the final form of the workout right away. “We started with basic simple movements, and then built on that.”
Peterson also emphasized a constant stream of activity. “I try to keep a pace, so we get x amount of volume done in a workout,” he said. “I think that’s an integral part of working with a trainer.”
Check out the full article for William’s workout and the benefits that Peterson gained from the process.
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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