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Jacob Bertrand | Train Like | Men's Health

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00:01Yeah, that's basically how I train on Cobra Kai.

00:04Train like me!

00:06And you can look like this.

00:08Hello, Men's Health.

00:09My name is Jacob Scott Thomas Bertrand,

00:11and this is how I train for Cobra Kai.

00:18I started martial arts like most children

00:21in a strip mall karate class when I was about six years old,

00:25and I got my blue belt.

00:27But I forgot all of it before we started filming.

00:29It did not help me at all.

00:31And then when we started filming, they were like,

00:33hey, you look kind of uncoordinated

00:35when you hold your hands up like that.

00:37So we did a month of training.

00:39After we did that, I realized a month is not enough,

00:42and I started training on my off time.

00:44So I trained a lot of Muay Thai, a lot of Jiu Jitsu.

00:47That didn't help me at all, but it was just fun to do.

00:50I don't know.

00:51I normally don't work out with weights.

00:54For some reason, my body is too weak to do it,

00:57and my brain doesn't have fun doing it.

00:59So a lot of the workouts that I do are more dynamic, maybe.

01:03Today, we are going to be doing the warm-up stretches techniques

01:08and little workout that we do on set before we do fights.

01:11All right, now let's get into it.

01:13Welcome, everyone. You've made it to the shirtless part of the video.

01:17It's very important for what we're about to be doing that I'm shirtless

01:21as we are learning to be stretching.

01:23Yeah, you can't kick someone in the face if you're not flexible enough to do it,

01:26and that is the goal of training, is to kick people in the face.

01:30My main form of working out is rock climbing.

01:33That is the fix that I like.

01:38But yeah, I've been climbing since middle school.

01:42I'm not super tall, but my long wingspan does help a lot with climbing.

01:47I don't feel anything when I do the stretch.

01:49To me, the stretch is so big.

01:51It's so placebo.

01:52So, like, how can I actually stretch my garage?

01:54I go like this.

01:55And you.

01:56Something that we do a lot or every time before we start doing crazy kicks or choreo

02:06or any type of workout, which just really helps with flexibility and kicking strength,

02:11it's the static endurance kicking exercises.

02:15So what we're going to do is we're going to just do a very slowed down version of a roundhouse kick.

02:20Start here for five seconds.

02:24And you hold out for five seconds.

02:27So you come back.

02:30And you go down, you get a little bit of a rest.

02:33Alright, so we're going to start with just low kicks.

02:38Training is pretty much whenever we're not shooting.

02:43The vibes on set, everyone knew that it was going to be bittersweet, but it was fun.

02:50And we had a really big priority on making sure we sort of appreciate that it's the last season

02:57and everyone got to hang out a lot.

03:00We made that a priority.

03:02Yeah, it was just, it was a good time.

03:05Just getting to focus on being with everybody, act like a family, you know.

03:11Alright, so now we are going to be working on body kicks.

03:15It's very important.

03:17Lots of good knockouts come from body kicks.

03:20I think one day I will be a UFC champion.

03:25And I will be knocking lots of people out.

03:27So I got to train like it now, you know.

03:29Who are you going to knock out in the UFC room?

03:32Give me a second.

03:34Taeda.

03:35He's a pretty easy knockout.

03:37He's a couple pounds on me, but I think that's kind of light work.

03:41I love Brandon Moreno.

03:43I probably will train with him.

03:45He'll probably be my training buddy.

03:47Okay.

03:48Least high kick.

03:49Head kick.

03:50We don't throw head kicks too much because Johnny pulls his groin a lot.

03:55So to not make him feel bad, you know, all of us will keep our legs a little farther down for him.

04:04They always want me to do some crazy 10-40, you know, Superman wild kick that, you know.

04:13I have learned how to do flips for this role, but that is not where I started.

04:19I was not a gymnast or, you know, any of this karate stuff.

04:23So a lot of those spinning kicks.

04:25I had to learn a kick called a fei long, which it's a 360 crescent kick into a push kick.

04:32And it just requires so much air time that we didn't even have like enough time to end up doing.

04:40So I learned a cool kick that I'll never be seen.

04:45Probably.

04:46Right now, we're going to be doing the sort of speed round stuff.

04:53So normally what we'll do is we'll go low, high, or low, body, low.

04:58And you just want to do them clean and quick.

05:02You know, you want to have a good rhythm to it like that.

05:05Good rhythm.

05:06Good rhythm is best.

05:07Good rhythm.

05:08That's what you want.

05:10Oh, man.

05:13Wow.

05:14Oh, man.

05:15Muay Thai to me is the most fun.

05:16And my character specifically, I get to throw a lot of elbows.

05:22a lot of elbows I do a lot of knees and it feels very Hawk you know which they

05:29were right because I loved it and it's been super fun and each character feeling

05:34very different and you know it is a karate show but you know we're throwing

05:41Superman punches and you know elbows and crazy kicks and you know there's a lot

05:48of different influences you know throughout all the characters yeah Muay Thai

05:52I think it's like when you get to do like a Superman elbow on someone that's sick I get to do that in

05:58season one right off the rip Muay Thai crazy guy throwing elbows at people that should be

06:02illegal I don't know if it is or not but yeah the backflips the flips they all kind of started where

06:12I was just talking with a lot of the stunt guys talking about how I've always wanted to learn

06:16how to flip but it's just so scary and John G. Hangir one of our stunt guys he plays Rick and

06:21Burger um he's like dude I'll teach you to flip right now five minutes super easy he pulled out

06:26a little rinky dink mat and was like all right just flip I'll help you get over I was like what he's

06:30like just do it just flip right now and I was like ah you know did a horrible flip as I jump he just

06:37backs off completely and it's just and I realized mid I'm like what the heck I said I'm going up and

06:44uh I landed my first flip and since then every other sort of trick I've had to do has been

06:50a similar version of that of just come on try it we'll help you okay he kind of did it let's just

06:56like fake it help him this up and then they're like all right you got it

07:00wow

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