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Charles Melton’s fitness diary: HIIT classes with KJ Apa and subsisting on barley water and kimchi – British GQ

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High-intensity workouts, fascial stretching, powerlifting. In the winter we focused on bulking up, gaining mass. Running 20 miles a day, carrying 20 pounds of football pads on you. Even if you eat healthy for a year and regularly work out, it wont prepare you for football shape. I didnt know how far past my limits I could be pushed, by my teammates who were around me, all going through the same thing.

I got the nickname Kamikaze because I played with reckless abandon. I would knock players who were 50-60 pounds heavier than me to the side. If there was a time machine, I would go back and do it all over, but I would tell the person sending me back to erase my memory of the training because I would probably say no.

In my industry there are loads of things you cant control - Im not working every single day. Sometimes I need to get out of my head about things that dont matter, so I go to a class I have no control over and the instructors tell me what to do. I go to Hype LA, its a silent disco, everyone has headphones, Im with people who are trying their best.

Sometimes I book a HIIT class 20 minutes before it begins, because the longer I think about it, the more likely Im not going to do it.

Nowadays I work out with my friends and we motivate each other. KJ Apa (co-star on Riverdale) likes high intensity, 30 minutes - no chilling and out. When I train with Miles Chamley Watson, Olympian and fencing world champion, we have different body types, so we switch things up to keep the body guessing. Burpees I dont like them but Ill do them. Ill run six miles a week - spread out or all at once. 6.5mph at a 2.0 incline."

I drink barley water and eat kimchi all the time. Kimchi is Korean fermented cabbage. I eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. You can eat it with everything, eggs, tacos. I usually buy it off the shelf, but my family just came to visit me for Thanksgiving armed with jars of kimchi. Kimchi is great fresh, but its delicious grilled too with samgyupsal [grilled pork belly] and galbi [beef short ribs].

Ive just finished three months of not eating any red meat, after I spoke to a nutritionist. The plan he put me on has been life-changing and improved my relationship with food. It sounds like it could be tedious but I take pictures of everything I eat, creating a food diary on my phone. I have yet to have any KBBQ, but when I do it has to be the best red meat.

I like to use Korean skincare [products]. My mum taught me all about the skincare steps: hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Facial cleanser for 10-15 seconds, put on milk honey moisturiser. No SPF, although I should probably start doing that...

When I was in high school I was supposed to take medicine for acne but Mum insisted on treating me herself. She put a bag over my head to steam my skin with water vapour to open up the pores. Mum put on the milk honey and had this skin vacuum cleaner to pop my zits. No need to book a facial when shes around.

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