{"id":13791,"date":"2025-03-28T00:17:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=13791"},"modified":"2025-03-28T00:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:17:29","slug":"how-george-xanthis-stays-ripped-between-scenes-in-the-chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=13791","title":{"rendered":"How George Xanthis Stays Ripped Between Scenes in &#8216;The Chosen&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>George Xanthis is known to millions of <em>The Chosen<\/em> fans as the biblical character John the Apostle. As the intensely popular show gears up for its fifth season, the health evangelist sat down with <em>M&amp;F<\/em> to discuss his evolution with fitness and how he continues to make glorious gains on and off set.<\/p>\n<p>Xanthis has never been a stranger to hard work. Born in Sydney, Australia, the actor of Greek descent chose to progress his burgeoning career by making the move to Hollywood in 2018. He\u2019s appeared as John Travolta in the Olivia Newton-John based mini-series <em>Hopelessly Devoted to You,<\/em> and as Frank Capone in <em>The Making of the Mob: Chicago,<\/em> but he\u2019s most known for taking up the legend of Christ\u2019s disciple, Luke, in the epic series <em>The Chosen.<\/em> Xanthis is multi-talented and has a background in stand-up comedy and producing, but perhaps his biggest love is fitness.<\/p>\n<p>After moving to LA, Xanthis set about getting into his best possible shape by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/athletes-celebrities\/pro-tips\/how-paul-faulder-lost-45-pounds-and-transformed-his-body-at-48\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signing up with Ultimate Performance<\/a>. Xanthis\u2019 first coach was a former bodybuilder who got him started on eating clean with lean meals like the tried and tested staple of boiled chicken breast and broccoli. His next trainer would become a source of expertise when it came to setting reachable targets and tracking his macros while allowing himself to be flexible to sustain the course. A third trainer would consolidate what he had already learned and introduce the idea that the actor should find what he enjoys in the gym and really focus on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really worked on my chest in terms of working out,\u201d he recalls. \u201cAnd that\u2019s when I learned that I really like the free weight stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a busy actor, learning to work with free weights has meant that Xanthis doesn\u2019t necessarily rely on machines or cables, and can workout anywhere, including hotel rooms or between takes. It\u2019s a lesson that he\u2019s keen to pass on to aspiring actors who are trying to juggle their own auditions with arm days.<\/p>\n<h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:55.36519386835%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/George-Xanthis-showing-his-muscular-physique-on-a-shooting-location-of-The-Chosen.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" alt=\"George Xanthis showing his muscular physique on a shooting location of The Chosen\" width=\"1109\" height=\"614\" data-fallback-img=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/George-Xanthis-showing-his-muscular-physique-on-a-shooting-location-of-The-Chosen.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">George Xanthis<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/h2>\n<h2>How George Xanthis Stays in Shape Between Scenes of \u2018The Chosen\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The star is a huge proponent of adding both push and pull to his workouts and rather than separating them out into different sessions, he combines push and pull into supersets of two exercises so that if he finds himself being called to a shoot, he doesn\u2019t end up in a situation where either the push or pull is dominating his week. \u201cSo, if I\u2019m doing an incline push (like a dumbbell chest press), I just follow up with a dumbbell row on the inclined bench,\u201d he sensibly explains.<\/p>\n<p>Xanthis also likes to combine decline pushups with pullups in his supersets and loves to end his workouts with punishing eight-minute ab sessions that he replicates from YouTube. \u201cYou\u2019re doing eight versions of a crunch,\u201d he says. \u201cYou think you\u2019re doing so many different things but it\u2019s just a fun way to attack every area of the abs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actor, who plays Saint Luke shares that Jonathan Roumie, who plays Christ on the show, was a buddy on his MyFitnessPal app so that they could check each other\u2019s progress with hitting their calorie and macro targets. Even off set, Xanthis can\u2019t escape being accountable to Jesus! On-set, the cast\u2019s shared love of staying in shape has bonded them forever.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Jenkins, who is the creator and director of <em>The Chosen,<\/em> the most successful series of all time to be kicked off through crowd funding, has got the rest of the team passing their time on a horizontal bar that makes up part of the studio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is so sturdy that it\u2019s become like the pseudo, pull up bar on set,\u201d shares Xanthis. \u201cSo, Dallas will often, as he\u2019s thinking about a scene, he\u2019ll chew the heck out of the edge of his pen. He\u2019s almost inhaling ink by the end of it, but as he\u2019s thinking, he\u2019ll pop up, and he\u2019ll do chin ups, and then Shaha (Shaha Isaac plays Simon Peter) will pop up and do chin ups, and then the crew, and then I\u2019ll pop up. So, we have a chin up bar on our set!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just as well that the gang are all making gains, because <a href=\"https:\/\/thechosenlastsupper.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series 5 of<em> The Chosen,<\/em> titled \u201cLast Supper\u201d<\/a> is set to be epic with cinema releases for Part 1 on March 28, Part 2 on April 4, and Part 3 on April 11. The previous four seasons are available to stream now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a very passionate fan base,\u201d says Xanthis. \u201cAnd I think that the show has done a great job of positioning itself as an historical drama. I mean, obviously, our creators are very passionate about the story that they\u2019re telling.\u201d Since <em>The Chosen<\/em> is constrained by making the most of its budget, there are no Marvel-esque personal trainers here, but Xanthis is able to pursue his love of fitness while working with likeminded people on an extremely successful project, and that sounds divine!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/georgehxanthis\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To follow George Xanthis on Instagram, click here.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muscleandfitness.com\/athletes-celebrities\/news\/how-george-xanthis-stays-ripped-between-scenes-in-the-chosen\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Xanthis is known to millions of The Chosen fans as the biblical character John the Apostle. As the intensely popular show gears up for its fifth season, the health evangelist sat down with M&amp;F to discuss his evolution with fitness and how he continues to make glorious gains on and off set. 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