Training for “American Psycho”. How did Patrick Bateman work out and what went wrong?

The story of the charming rich maniac Patrick Bateman from the movie “American Psycho” shocked the public back in the early noughties. A resonant movie about the American consumer society, a satire on white-collar workers with a touch of madness.

Last year, the Internet revived its popularity and gave it a second and, perhaps, now eternal life. The motion picture spawned a gigantic number of memes and videos of the main character, with millions of people trying to replicate his facial expressions. Together with the fitness trainer took apart Patrick Bateman’s workout.

Ekaterina Kravchenko

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This workout is unrealistically long, perhaps only a movie hero can endure it. There is a feeling that it takes about a day to complete it. And if to be good, such a complex can be divided into three full training days.

Training for titans

Patrick Bateman is a very colorful character, he is rich, narcissistic, leads a consumerist lifestyle. But there is something good in everyone. The hero carefully monitors his appearance: his morning facial is spread all over the publishers, and a lot of his life is taken up by training.

In the movie excerpts show exercises that Bateman performs, but we went further. The movie is based on a novel by Bret Easton Ellis: in its pages you can find this workout plan for the day. Gather your courage before you decide to read it.

  • Stairs 20 minutes
  • 5×10 leg exercises
  • Back trainer 5×10
  • Weighted crunch 6×15
  • Bicep curls 7×10
  • Exercise bike 20 minutes
  • Leg curls 3×15
  • Leg curls 3×15
  • Leg press 3×15
  • Arm curls with barbell 3×20
  • Pull ups 3×20
  • Cable rows 3×20
  • Bench Pull 3×20
  • Incline barbell pull 3×20
  • Incline bench 3×20
  • Lateral Raise 3×20
  • Dumbbell bench press 3×20
  • Narrow Grip Bench 3×20
  • Push-ups on a rope 3×20
  • Stretching exercises

Workout breakdown

Ekaterina Kravchenko: 20 minutes of stairs as a warm-up is a normal practice, but I would do 10 minutes. After all, this cardio machine is quite energy-consuming, and 20 minutes on it is a warm-up for very experienced athletes.

The first four exercises look like one big warm-up, because then it’s cardio for 20 minutes again. Apparently, to rest. And if we’re talking about training a living person, during this second cardio it will just be necessary to eat. Otherwise, enduring the rest of it is not possible.

Let’s move on to the most important disadvantages of this complex. In the middle of the workout comes the deadlift, which is a basic exercise. If you want your workout to be effective, it should be the first one – it is the most energy-consuming movement of the whole list.

What’s wrong with this workout?

The main question that arose, perhaps, for everyone who familiarized themselves with the training plan: where do you get so much energy and strength to perform it?

Ekaterina Kravchenko: after five or six exercises a normal person will not be able to do all the strength work. And the essence of training is the growth of muscle mass. It increases only when each exercise is practiced one hundred percent and brought to the maximum weights in each repetition. Here it is impossible to do this, it will be just exhaustion, and recovery will take about two weeks.

Despite the fact that such training, of course, will perfectly work your body, every muscle, every centimeter, it is unrealistic to endure it. And even despite the presence of stretching at the end, this kind of training will only do harm. A clear, though hyperbolized example of how to exercise is not necessary, because your body is not rubber.

And if you really want to exercise on this program, divide it into at least three parts, leave the cardio. Don’t forget to warm up and choose one or two muscle groups that you want to load.

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