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" Move over, Taylor Lautner\u2014Zac Efron is our new favorite boy of summer! Zac is all grown up and looking hotter than ever with his first major dramatic role in Charlie St. Cloud, a touching story of love and loss that will leave you reaching for the tissue box. Although we always love a good tear-jerker, we&amp;#039;ll admit it-seeing Zac sailing and shirtless is the real reason we&amp;#039;re totally obsessing over his latest movie! So Seventeen asked Zac&amp;#039;s on-set trainer Ramona Braganza (who also worked with his co-star Amanda Crew) to spill her secrets for getting the Charlie St. Cloud stars into their best shape ever-and having fun while doing it! 17: How did you get Zac fit for Charlie St. Cloud? What was his daily routine like? Ramona Braganza: He was training with us five days per week, if not six, for the very first part of the movie. (The last month or so we played it by ear because his schedule was exhausting-he was shooting and he also had to learn to sail!) Zac was already in shape before, but we did a lot of old-fashioned weight-training to bulk him up. He just really enjoys exercise and makes it a priority, so it easy for us. He would show up at 6 a.m. before he started shooting for the day, when he was tired and yawning, and still always give his workout 100 percent! 17: What are Zac&amp;#039;s favorite and least favorite ways to exercise?  RB: His favorite exercise was dips on a dip bar for his chest muscles, and his least favorite was probably leg exercises, like lunges with weights. 17: What kind of fitness regime did you set up for his co-star Amanda Crew? Which muscle groups did you focus on for her?  RB: With Amanda it was a little different: Men want size and bulk, but women want toning and definition. So I used my 321 training method, which is a circuit of strength training, cardio, and core work for when you want to look lean, toned and strong, but not too bulky. It consists of 10-minute increments of different types of exercises in this order: cardio, circuit, cardio, circuit, cardio, core. It&amp;#039;s a fun, effective, efficient workout that keeps things moving, calories burning and muscles toning! 17: How did you shape Zac and Amanda&amp;#039;s workouts specifically to make them look like sailors?  RB: The workouts we did were full-body workouts, but we definitely focused on shoulders and biceps, which are really important for sailing! Another thing that was really important for Zac was abs, so we did a lot of medicine ball and weighted abs work. 17: What pre-workout snacks did you recommend for Zac and Amanda?  RB: You want to have a meal about an hour and a half before a hard workout so that you have time to digest it, and then a small snack right before. With Amanda, I would do a small piece of fruit or a handful of almonds as a snack. With Zac (he had to eat more to bulk up) I would do a shake or half of a protein bar. 17: With so many intense workout sessions, how did you keep Zac and Amanda motivated? RB: To keep it fun, I tried to introduce some outside-the-gym activities into their weekly workouts, such as long runs along the seawall with Amanda and her dog or hikes up Grouse Mountain (it has 2800 steps!) with Zac. I always tried to mix up the exercises and push them hard, but I also understood their limits. I loved joking with them too! They were probably two of my favorite clients because they were very into it. So did you see Charlie St. Cloud this weekend? What did you think of the movie\u2014and of Zac and Amanda? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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