Dax Shepard Wanted A Bulked-Up Marvel Body, So He Got One

Britney Spears once said that if you want a hot body, you better work, bitch. And that’s just what Dax Shepard did. Dax worked, bitch, and now he’s got a body worthy of a $1 billion superhero franchise. But while Dax’s initial motivation was to get Marvel ready, that stopped being his motivation about halfway through his buff journey. Now he’s just looking buff for buff’s sake.

46-year-old Dax Shepard is an actor, a podcaster, and one-half of the marital oversharing couple consisting of himself and Kristen Bell. And if you had to describe his former body, you might say the man can really fill out a pair of Brawndo-branded basketball shorts. Recently he decided to get ripped. Dax wanted washboard abs, a rock-hard ass, and biceps that could crush 100 empty O’Doul’s cans without stopping for a break. Dax explained on a recent episode of his Armchair Expert podcast that he always wanted Marvel to call and offer him a superhero role, so he’d have an excuse to get a body like Chris Pratt’s. Marvel never called, but Dax wasn’t deterred, and decided to get absolutely wrecked at the gym anyway, and gained 24 pounds of muscle in the process. via Page Six:

“In quarantine, I said to [my wife, Kristen Bell], ‘I’ve been waiting for 10 years for Marvel to call so that I’d have an excuse to get huge.’ And they’re not gonna call. That ship sailed. I’m 46. They’re not gonna call. So, I just have to do it for my own amusement.”

The actor was able to put on serious muscle by staying regimented with his diet and workout routine, sharing that he hit the gym six days a week. He added that he relied on “lifting heavy, protein shakes, going bananas” and joked that he also did “heavy testosterone injections.”

This is what he looks like now:

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Dax still has a little ways to go before he’s Kumail Nanjiani or Chris Evans-levels of superhero shredded. And I know he thinks he’s too old to land a Marvel movie, but Marvel has around 1 million new Marvel movies in the production pipeline, so surely there’s a role Dax could play. Is there any untapped superhero out there who is built like a hurricane-resistant Porta Potty that’s also pushing 50, has a couple of kids, and can land a fart joke every time with expert precision? Does Deadpool have an older step-brother maybe? If Marvel does end up calling Dax, let us all prepare for the inevitable press tour, where we hear about how he and Kristen Bell got into a messy fight because he used up all her Jergens Natural Glow to prepare himself for his first shirtless superhero beefcake shot.

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