Joe Manganiello Is A Sports Lover: “Push The Mind Out Of Perceived Limitations”

Joe Manganiello was in 2020, for the third time, featured on the cover of Muscle & Fitness magazine. The actor described his conditioning in the magazine, and judging by his physique, it is highly effective.

Manganiello trains three to four times a week with coach Ron Matthews: "We have these huge sets," he said, referring to the sets of four 300-pound deadlifts. "There is a time when there will be 10 sets. And I'm on set 5 or even set 4, and I'm done. My body is starting to give up, I'm having a minor league panic attack in my brain because I can't visualize doing the next repetition, much less the next set, and I want to give up," he revealed to the magazine. "And I think, 'Why am I doing this? I don't have a movie coming up that I'm specifically training for.' And that's where you'll grow up. That's the place. That's when you break the well, if you want. And that seed is inside."

"In the first year I played soccer, I was the captain of the team. So you go to high school. Like The Breakfast Club, high school tries to put people in a category," he said. "I got along well with a group — the weird intellectuals — who usually hate athletes. And I was also the captain of a sports team. So I got along well with the athletes."

"There will always be someone bigger than you in the gym and someone thinner than you. You'll always be right in the middle — unless you're me. I was the thinnest. I was the only one who couldn't do a dive or a pull-up," he says. "And even if you are that person, there is still hope for you. So, just go in there and go to work," he told Muscle & Fitness magazine.