Richer doping? “I don’t want to have surgery after every season,” says the star of the Prime Video series about getting testosterone for the role

In Lee Child’s early Jack Reacher novels, the character is described as “extremely tall” and “very broad”. Easy to write, but not so easy to embody.

The man tasked with this task on the show spoke to Alan Richson Men’s Health UK about getting in shape to play the Titanic hero and why he decided to take a different approach, using testosterone, ahead of season two.

Ahead of filming the first season of Reacher – which immediately hit Prime Video – the 41-year-old actor was given the unlikely task of packing on 30kg of muscle in just eight months.

He has explained in previous interviews how he built a gym in his home to achieve this, but as he told Men’s Health UK, it wasn’t in vain.

“I was ruining my body– says Richson.I had a fractured acromioclavicular joint in my shoulder that had to be repaired. There was a huge hormonal imbalance in my body. I was falling apart. So even though I succeeded, it’s probably true that it shouldn’t have happened so quickly, this way.“

Still, from the shirtless selfies Ritchson posts on his Instagram, it’s hard to tell there’s anything wrong with his body. Simply put, it looks like a Greek statue.

But there were rumors that his massive muscles and rock-hard abs were obtained through unsavory means.

In an interview with Men’s Health, the actor emphasizes that – despite what has been said about him online – his physique for the start of Season 1 of Reacher was built entirely through hard work.

But the stress and fatigue that followed – a direct result of ‘building’ this physique – meant that his body could no longer withstand such training and that he would need help if he wanted to continue playing. Reacher over the years.

That was a challenge he faced before filming the second season, and it’s one of the reasons Alan Ritchson has become an advocate for men exploring testosterone therapy as they enter middle age.

“Taking testosterone was crucial for me“, she said. “By the end of the first season, I had no more left because of the stress, fatigue and what I put my body through.“

For me, it’s a long run. I want to play Reacher for 15 years… I don’t want to have surgery after every season and testosterone helps.

“I am a strong advocate of testosterone, especially for people over 40. Men don’t know it exists, but it can really change their lives. It can stabilize people’s moods… it can do a lot more than help you build muscle, but it’s definitely helped me on my journey.“

That being said, that didn’t stop Alan Ritchson from always working hard in the gym to build his muscles and have a Jack Reacher physique. “At a very low clinical dose, you won’t notice anything other than these systems working properly“, he says.

“If you increase a little, which I did, you can start to gain muscle mass. I have never taken 600 milligrams a week. I don’t know if I can handle it.

But studies have shown that it is possible to increase muscle mass without exercise and by taking only 600 milligrams of testosterone per week.“

“Testosterone undoubtedly promotes muscle growth. If you take a little and then work out like you would in a regular gym, you will see huge results.”

However, these comments should be taken with a grain of salt. This practice is very popular, especially in the bodybuilding community in the United States, where the health policy is completely different from the practice in France.