Skip to player
Skip to main content
Skip to footer
Search
Connect
Watch fullscreen
Like
Comments
Bookmark
Share
Add to Playlist
Report
The Brothers Sun Share Their Full Body Strength Workout | Train Like | Men's Health
Men'sHealth
Follow
26/01/2024
The Brothers Sun duo, Justin Chien and Sam Song Li share the training routines that keeps them in shape and feeling good – both for on set stunts and in life.
Category
🥇
Sports
Transcript
Display full video transcript
00:00
That's 45 now?
00:01
No.
00:01
46?
00:02
47.
00:03
98!
00:04
99!
00:05
100!
00:06
Hey, Men's Health.
00:10
My name is Justin Chen and I play Charles Sun.
00:12
And I'm Sam Song Lee and I play Bruce Sun.
00:16
We are the brother Sun.
00:17
Today, we're going to work out for you guys.
00:19
[Music]
00:32
So, the Brother Sun is a gangster, dark comedy, family drama with some heavy action elements.
00:37
I play a Taiwanese gangster who, after his father is assassinated, has to go from Taipei to LA to protect my estranged brother and mother.
00:45
And at the same time, find out who's behind the assassination.
00:47
So, there's a lot of action in our show, which luckily I was prepared for because I come from an athletic background.
00:52
I started in cross country, rugby, and track, but I didn't have a consistent weightlifting program until I was in college.
00:58
Nowadays, I'm a lot more into jiu-jitsu.
01:00
I train about three to five times a week.
01:03
And all of those things really prepare me for the stunts in our show.
01:07
Similarly, I also did a lot of sports in high school and throughout college, but I'm very hot and cold with my workouts.
01:14
I go through phases where for about a year, I'm just like super into it.
01:17
And then, like if it's busy, I'll kind of drop it.
01:20
And throughout the filming of the show, I did not partake in any physical activities.
01:25
Made a lot more sense that way, but then shortly afterwards, I just was really inspired to take care of myself, you know, build my physique.
01:33
Big part of it was on you.
01:35
And then he got ripped.
01:36
[Laughter]
01:37
Try my best here. Try my best here.
01:38
Yeah, no, I feel like my transformation was pretty extreme.
01:42
I mean, I really was not taking care of my body in the sense that like I didn't have a workout routine.
01:47
You know, I didn't have the best diet, but you know, I tried my best to be as healthy as possible.
01:53
So, you know, I didn't have a six-pack at the time.
01:56
So, I remember drawing one for a video just to kind of cheat my way there.
02:01
And then afterwards, a year later, I ended up working really hard to get one.
02:05
Oh, yeah.
02:06
But we have a wonderful stunt team, and I was super thrilled to work with them.
02:12
And then I met with them, and they were like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Get away from us. You're overqualified.
02:16
You're not supposed to look like you know what you're doing."
02:20
So, they kind of put me in a corner to just watch.
02:22
But I did get a chance to do my own stunts.
02:24
I think they were very happy that I was capable of doing my own stunts and that I had an athletic background.
02:29
So, I think my favorite, though, is probably – it's got to be the Dino-Fly.
02:33
Yeah, that's a good one.
02:34
That is so crazy. I've never seen anything like that on TV before.
02:37
My favorite stunt scene in our show is probably the Episode 6 golf sequence.
02:43
It was inspired by "Old Boy."
02:45
It was a lot of long takes of crazy sequences, and I adjusted my training to match that.
02:51
So, I was doing a lot of 45-second bursts to try to match the length of what I thought the takes were going to be like.
02:56
So, today I was thinking of taking everyone through a typical full-body workout for myself.
03:00
I like to keep things simple.
03:02
I try to lift at least twice a week, sometimes maybe three times.
03:06
And then Sam and I are going to show you some of our favorite exercises.
03:09
All right, so normally with every workout I do, I like to start with my legs first.
03:13
So, I like to do a variation of a squat, lunge, or a hinged deadlift-type movement.
03:19
Today, we're going to be doing one of my favorites, also one of my least favorites, the Zurcher reverse lunge.
03:24
The way we set up is you want it just below your elbow, the crook of your elbow.
03:30
You're going to lift in, brace, come up, keep your upper back tight.
03:35
And I like to squeeze my glutes and core before I start each rep.
03:38
Brace.
03:42
Try to step as far back as you can.
03:46
So, imagine like you've got another person right here, and you're trying to take them down.
03:51
And that is the Zurcher reverse lunge.
03:54
All right, so now I'm going to show you one of my favorite exercises.
03:57
It's pretty simple. It's just a pull-up.
03:59
Now, the reason why I love the pull-up is because there was one time, like a year ago, when I first started working out,
04:05
there was a sort of like a fair, like an expo, a fitness expo I went to, and they had a pull-up competition.
04:12
And I thought I could do pretty well.
04:14
So, I tried it, and I couldn't even do six pull-ups. I did five.
04:18
It was so embarrassing.
04:20
And since that day, I promised myself that I'm going to be able to do ten pull-ups every single day.
04:25
So, up to this day, I do ten pull-ups every single day just to make sure I can do those pull-ups.
04:31
All right, here we go.
04:35
Now, I usually just go pretty simple, or if I'm feeling like I want to save some time and, you know, get a little bit of abs going too,
04:42
I tend to just kind of activate those abs and--
04:46
Nice.
04:47
That one's a hard one.
04:49
Yeah, let's get it.
04:52
Nice.
04:54
There you go.
04:57
Yep.
04:58
I try my best to go, you know, as low as I can and kind of hang.
05:05
Sweet.
05:07
Your turn.
05:18
That's 45 now?
05:19
No.
05:20
46?
05:21
47.
05:22
48.
05:24
48.
05:25
48.
05:26
49.
05:27
49.
05:28
50.
05:29
50.
05:30
50.
05:31
50.
05:32
50.
05:33
50.
05:34
50.
05:35
50.
05:36
50.
05:37
50.
05:38
All right, so this next exercise is a landmine rotation.
05:39
I like this one a lot because in stunts and in jujitsu, there's a lot of rotation, a lot of awkward movements that your body's put into.
05:40
So, this really strengthens your obliques and a lot of those rotational muscles and just gets your core to really fire well.
05:42
So, the way you set it up is you bring it up, and then I alternate between rotating my feet and not.
05:49
So, sometimes I'll go just like this, and then you can play around with the distance that you are from the bar.
05:55
And sometimes I will rotate my feet and drive a little bit from the legs.
06:00
So, yeah, that's kind of how it goes.
06:07
I didn't have as much time to work out while we were filming, and I was trying to maintain as strict of a diet as I could.
06:11
The hardest thing was going off salt for like three or four days.
06:14
That completely took the joy out of eating food, which for me is a big part of my happiness.
06:19
But I wanted to give everything that I had for the times that I had to take my shirt off.
06:25
Didn't you gain like five, ten pounds right after because you wanted to go right back to bulking?
06:29
Yeah, so I mean, for those shirtless scenes, I'm at my lightest and most depleted.
06:34
So, I knew we had some big fight scenes coming up.
06:36
So, yeah, you're right.
06:37
So, I definitely tried to put back on more weight and more muscle.
06:40
So, when I started working out last year, I didn't have anything.
06:44
I didn't have a gym membership.
06:45
I didn't have, you know, a bench press.
06:47
So, I started off doing push-ups, and I had a set of dumbbells.
06:51
And so, the exercise I'm going to show you right now is a push-up to renegade row.
06:56
So, we start with just a regular push-up with the dumbbells.
06:59
So, we go down, and then we come back up, and then go right into a row.
07:06
And the goal is to just keep your body as straight as possible.
07:13
These are really good.
07:14
There's also a variation called the man-maker where you add a clean into a shoulder press,
07:19
and then you drop back down to do the push-up.
07:21
What do you mean? So, you finish, and then you come back up, and you--
07:25
Yep.
07:26
Ooh.
07:27
Yeah, and try to do it like a little more explosively, like pop it up to your shoulders.
07:30
Okay, I'll try that.
07:31
Yeah, let's go.
07:33
Go down?
07:34
Yep, row.
07:35
Row.
07:36
Pop up to your feet close to the dumbbells, and then pull.
07:39
Yep, there you-- Yes, there you go. Nice.
07:42
Oh, my goodness.
07:44
Thank you, Men's Health, for joining us on our workout today.
07:46
Remember, doing something is always better than doing nothing, and that consistency is key.
07:50
And make sure to catch us on The Brother Son, streaming exclusively on Netflix.
07:55
[grunts]
07:57
[laughs]
07:58
Yeah.
07:59
(upbeat music)
08:01
[BLANK_AUDIO]
Recommended
0:36
|
Up next
Gracie Abrams is Charli XCX Apple Girl Dance - Glastonbury 2025 Unrated
Burger Buzz
yesterday
5:27
Laith Ashley's Workout for Prolonged Health & Longevity | Train Like | Men's Health
Men'sHealth
14/06/2023
4:07
Learn the Secret Science of Getting the Perfect Sleep
Gayety
23/12/2022
8:02
'Rebel Moon' Star Staz Nair’s Favorite Exercises | Train Like | Men’s Health
Men'sHealth
04/05/2024
4:07
Joel Kinnaman's Martial Arts Workout to Prep for 'Silent Night' | Train Like | Men's Health
Men'sHealth
13/12/2023
4:56
Gunna | Train Like | Men's Health
Cosmopolitan USA
23/08/2024
3:52
Sun Salutations | Yoga Deconstructed | Gaiam
Gaiam
23/05/2016
3:46
5 Nutrition Tips to Supercharge Your New Year's Resolution
Gayety
23/12/2022
9:19
How to Know Which Muscles to Train Together - Best Training Split Advice | Men’s Health Muscle
Men'sHealth
02/02/2024
7:30
Intense 5-Minute Row and Core Workout | Men’s Health Muscle
Men'sHealth
09/01/2024
3:27
Maximize Your Mental Health Management
Gayety
23/12/2022
1:04
WATCH: In My Feed - How To Do A Couples' Workout Like Joey Bada$$ And Serayah
essencemagazine
05/10/2024
12:35
3 Biceps Tips from 'Creed III' Trainer Corey Calliet | Men’s Health Muscle
Men'sHealth
10/03/2023
12:37
Lawmen: Bass Reeves' David Oyelowo Shows Off His Gym & Fridge | Gym & Fridge | Men's Health
Men'sHealth
31/01/2024
1:00
Joel Kinnaman on His Favorite Workouts
Men's Journal1
24/06/2019
6:43
Hit This Brutal Kettlebell Swing and Thruster Workout | Men’s Health Muscle
Men'sHealth
12/04/2022
10:29
How to Do the Leg Press | Men’s Health Muscle
Men'sHealth
10/01/2023
0:45
Joel Kinnaman 'Silent Night' Garage Workout
Men's Journal1
30/11/2023
7:24
Brutal 5-Minute Dumbbell Thruster and Plank Drag Workout | Men’s Health Muscle
Men'sHealth
21/11/2023
7:41
Peloton's Tunde Oyeneyin's Workout & Recovery Must-Haves | Everything But The Sweat | Women’s Health
Women'sHealth
16/11/2023
9:44
NY Liberty' Star Sabrina Ionescu's Pre & Post-Training Routine | Everything But The Sweat | Women’s Health
Women'sHealth
17/10/2023
5:09
Olympic Wrestler Jordan Burroughs Shares His Workout | Train Like
Men'sHealth
23/07/2020
3:53
Strengthen Your Entire Shoulder Complex With These Exercises | Men’s Health Muscle
Men'sHealth
19/08/2022
8:16
Brutal 5-Minute 2-Move Kettlebell Create Your Own Hell Workout | Men’s Health Muscle
Men'sHealth
08/12/2023
5:31
'White Men Can't Jump' Star Sinqua Walls' Full Body Workout Routine | Train Like | Men's Health
Men'sHealth
09/06/2023