Taylor Lautner
Taylor Daniel Lautner (born February
11, 1992) is an American actor and martial artist. His
roles include the family films The Adventures of Sharkboy
and Lavagirl in 3-D, Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and as Jacob
Black in the Twilight film series.
Lautner was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the son
of Deborah, who works for a software development company,
and Daniel Lautner, a commercial airline pilot. He was
raised in Hudsonville, Michigan, and attended Jamestown
Elementary School until the age of eleven. Lautner is
of mostly Dutch, French, and German descent, and claims
some Native American (specifically Ottawa and Potawatomi)
ancestry through his mother. He has a younger sister,
Makena.
Lautner is an accomplished martial artist, having studied
karate from the age of six to thirteen. When he was
eleven, he was ranked number one in the world for NASKA's
Black Belt Open Forms, Musical Weapons, Traditional
Weapons and Traditional Forms and, at the age of twelve,
he won the Junior World Championships.
Lautner began acting in 2001, appearing in the made-for-television
film Shadow Fury. He subsequently had roles on the series
Summerland, The Bernie Mac Show, and My Wife and Kids.
He also appeared in a number of other television shows
and movies, including The Nick & Jessica Variety
Hour. He appeared as himself in America's Most Talented
Kids, putting on an exhibition of his Martial Arts skills.
In addition to television, Lautner has been very successful
in voice-over work. Lautner has booked a recurring role
as Youngblood on the cartoon Danny Phantom, and has
recorded episodes of What's New, Scooby-Doo? and He's
a Bully, Charlie Brown. Taylor has also been booked
as a series regular on a pilot presentation called Which
Way Is Up?, in addition to voicing the character of
Silas in the animated series Silas and Brittany.
His big break came in 2005 when, at the age of thirteen,
Lautner won the role of Shark Boy in the Robert Rodriguez
film, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D,
a film that showcased his martial arts skills. He spent
three months on location in Austin, Texas filming. Within
months, he successfully auditioned to play Elliot, the
son of the Bakers' rivals, in Cheaper by the Dozen 2.
In October 2008, Lautner played Christian Slater's son
in the television series My Own Worst Enemy, until the
show was canceled after only 9 episodes. Lautner then
played Native American character Jacob Black in Twilight,
the movie adaptation of the novel by Stephenie Meyer.
Due to major physical changes that occur in the character
of Jacob Black throughout the series, the director of
Twilight's sequel, New Moon, considered replacing Lautner
with a different actor in the second film. In an attempt
to keep the role, Lautner weight-trained extensively
and gained approximately 30 pounds. Lautner reprised
his role as Jacob in New Moon. Lautner has also been
cast in the film Valentine's Day as Tyler Harrinton.
How Taylor Lautner
Got His Body From Workout?
Taylor Lautner had no choice,
either he had to build muscles or had to decide quitting
next Twilight movie. Exact 1 year in time, fully grown
muscles and at stake was his next project, the clock
was ticking.
His fitness trainer is Jordan Yuan who runs Virtual
Fit Club (VFC). He encourages the people with no muscles
to try his fitness regimen because it’s worth it. He
says that it is much difficult for an already muscular
person to grow more muscles compared to the person who
has no muscles on his body and is just starting to develop
them.
Taylor Lautner’s workout guru says that genetics do
play a role but we seldom try to achieve even the limit
that genetics pose. The regimen is easy and consists
of maintaining the workout schedule. The second step
is not eating junk food just to fill up the stomach.
The trick according the fitness guru is to make body
comfortable with heavier weights. He stresses lifting
30~40% heavier weights than the weight one can normally
lift. He advises if one’s body can bear 100 pounds one
should give 140 pounds a try and gradually increase
the number of times the weight is lifted.
Taylor Lautner’s Workout consisted of exactly the routine
described above that is making the body to bear much
more than it can usually does and eating the right food
full of nutrients.
A Little
Bit About Taylor Lautner's Background
Lautner was born in 1992, on February 12th. At the time
of the filming of Twilight : New Moon, Lautner was 17
years old. Until he was thirteen years old, Lautner
focused much of his time on martial arts. By the time
he was twelve, he had already won a black belt at the
Junior World Karate Championships. In 2001, Lautner
started acting. In 2008, he was in Twilight as Jacob
Black, a Native American.
Lautner was not the director's initial choice for the
role of New Moon's Jacob Black.
Director Catherine Hardwicke even thought about finding
someone else to fill in for Lautner's role. The aim
was to find a person who was more realistic and muscular
to play Black. Because the character of Jacob Black
transforms into a wolf, the director was looking for
an actor who had more of an imposing appearance than
Lautner.
If he didn't bulk up quickly, Lautner was going to be
re-cast out of New Moon.
Fortunately, Taylor's background in martial arts was
helpful when he needed to improve his physical conditioning.
If Lautner was a kid without a history in athletics,
it's unlikely that he'd have been capable of developing
the muscle that he did in such a brief span of time.
Taylor Lautner's
Six Pack Abs...
Lautner trained for nine months before New Moon began
to film, though his abs can be credited to much more
than just this exercise. Because he maintained an athletic
lifestyle when he was younger, his natural muscle maturity
and density was already that of an average twenty year
old. A tight core is where many martial artists derive
their power from. As time passes, this core becomes
even tighter, more solid, and defines the existing muscles.
To make your abs more apparent, one needs to lower the
percentage of their body fat through dieting, though
Lautner's abs can be credited to his experience in the
martial arts.
For Lautner, gaining muscle was relatively simple.
Because of his youth, Lautner could quickly gain twenty
pounds. One aspect of working out that the fitness magazines
don't make you aware of is that gaining mass is easy
when you begin your regimen. Lautner was easily able
to gain the muscle mass that his body was ready to accommodate.
He's not a very large person at all, and this is positive.
Just like most younger males, Lautner could move towards
his body's maximum efficiency very quickly. Because
his life consists of little more than acting, he could
dedicate every moment of nine months towards this. Usually,
this process will take a year or two.
Lautner was questioned about how he attained his New
Moon body.
Lautner doesn't give away many details regarding his
workout during interviews. He makes broad statements
like, "I ate a lot of food and worked out".
It doesn't take much more than this for a guy Lautner's
age to put on up to 25 pounds. After this, the secret
is how to drop the fat and just have lean muscle. Taylor
Lautner has his high metabolism rate working for him
as he's still young. Anyone this age will have to alter
their weight loss and muscle strategies as they grow
older.
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YouTube Film - Shadow Fury
- The Bernie Mac Show
- My Wife and Kids
- Summerland
- Cheaper by the Dozen 2
- Danny Phantom
- Duck Dodgers
- Love, Inc.
- He's a Bully, Charlie Brown
- Twilight
- My Own Worst Enemy
- New Moon
- Valentine's Day
- Eclipse
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