Matt Damon’s Odyssey Fitness Journey: The Greek Hero Was Built One Miserable Tuesday at a Time
Hollywood loves a transformation story because Hollywood understands that audiences enjoy being inspired almost as much as we enjoy being made to feel physically inadequate. Enter Matt Damon. At 55, Damon appears in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey looking lean, muscular, weathered, and entirely capable of surviving a shipwreck before breakfast. He has the sort of physique that makes the rest of us glance down at the soft architecture beneath our shirts and wonder whether carrying groceries inside on one trip still counts as functional strength. The photographs and footage invite the usual breathless reaction: How did he do it? We ask that question as if Damon stumbled across a forbidden Spartan supplement buried beneath the ruins of Troy. We want there to be a secret because secrets are convenient. A secret can be purchased, swallowed, downloaded, or performed for eight minutes before work. A process, unfortunately, requires us to keep doing something after the novelty has died and ou...
