The last time he skillfully brandished a $10,000 blade. In 2011, the legendary Arnold was replaced by a new Cimmerian barbarian, a native of Hawaii - Jason Namakeaha Momoa, who is best known as Ronon Dex from Stargate: Atlantis and Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones. With a height of 193 cm and a weight of almost 100 kg, Jason perfectly suited the role of a barbarian, appearing in front of the audience with an amazing physique.
“If a Cimmerian feels thirsty, then this is a thirst for blood. If it feels cold, then it is the cold of the steel of the blade.
“I have never pumped iron before. Jason Momoa says - But the most difficult thing, perhaps, was to gain 11 kg of muscle mass by the time filming began. I only had 6 weeks left to create the muscular physique of an ancient outcast warrior. After all, it's Conan's muscles that are the focus of the film, or at least because that's what happened in the previous Conan movie."
Ask anyone how they imagine the mythological barbarian, and their answer is likely to be: a tall, taciturn warrior with huge biceps who relies heavily on brute force to defeat his enemies and get the girl. Since Jason Momoa was far from Schwarzenegger's once huge and ideal proportions, he hoped to create a slightly different image of the Cimmerian hero.
“Conan is like a big cat - a lion or a tiger. A truly massive physique would only slow him down. He is fast and agile, always ready for action,” says Jason.
Jason has always led an active lifestyle and still enjoys surfing, rock climbing and skateboarding. But even this athletic training and athletic figure was not enough for filming in the upcoming film. Jason Momoa had to gain as much as 11 kg of muscle in a month and a half. Many believed that he would not cope with the test. Even Jason himself had doubts. Jason Momoa's training started at 5am with sword training. He then spent 1 to 2 hours of strength training before diving into a 2-hour cardio load. And so every day, six days a week.
“It was relentless and exhausting, but I gave it 100 percent to relax a bit at the end of the day. - Oddly enough, this "relax" was nothing but Saison DuPont beer, which Jason prefers - When you're covered in sweat, blood and dirt after a hard and long day of filming, a cold can of beer is the most wonderful thing in the world!
By the time Jason Momoa arrived in Bulgaria to begin filming, he was down to single digits. He transformed himself from a slender surfer into a huge 100-kilogram warrior - agile and agile.
“It was difficult, but I completely changed. I started to feel very different. I became much stronger - physically and spiritually!”
Jason Momoa Workout Program
Years of surfing and rock climbing have strengthened Jason's body, but to transform himself into a barbarian giant, the 33-year-old actor had to befriend a barbell. But Jason Momoa's training was not quite traditional. To have time to gain such a huge amount of muscle mass in such a small amount of time, it was necessary to come up with something completely new. Jason Momoa tried out the Accelerated Results 7 training method, which focuses on doing more sets with fewer exercises and minimal rest to get more work done in less time.
For 30 minutes, Jason Momoa did 3 exercises that consisted of 330 repetitions, which is 2-3 times more than in the old school strength training. But, since these exercises are grouped into sets of no more than seven repetitions, the program is still aimed at. Jason did 2 such workouts a day to pump his whole body.
Follow the example of Jason Momoa if you decide to try out these incredibly intense workouts for yourself. The idea is to choose a weight that will allow you to handle this incredible load in each exercise.
First, perform seven sets of squats of seven reps with a barbell, with seven seconds of rest between sets. Then rest for one minute and do six sets of the same squats, each consisting of six reps and six seconds of rest between sets. Rest again for one minute. The final series of squats will consist of five sets, five reps and five seconds of rest. Once you complete the 7-6-5 series with one exercise, rest for one minute and repeat the same with the other two exercises.
American actor Joseph Jason Namakeaha Momoa/ Jason Momoa was born on August 1, 1979 in the capital of Honolulu, Hawaii. See also: The most beautiful Hollywood actors
One of the most famous and striking works Jason Momoa:
Conan in the movie "Conan the Barbarian"
Jason Momoa as Conan in the film "Conan the Barbarian"
Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones
Ronon Dex in the series "Stargate: Atlantis"
Jason Momoa grew up as the only child in the family. His mother was a photographer and had German, Irish and Native American roots.His father worked as an artist and had Hawaiian roots. After his parents divorced, Jason stayed with his mother.
Photo of Jason Momoa as a child
Jason traveled a lot, studied painting in Paris,Buddhist teachings in Tibet, but he eventually returned to the Hawaiian Islands to continue his college studies.
Height Jason Momoa is 199 centimeters, he had an outstanding exotic appearance and this could not help but draw attention to his stately person. In the end the guywas noticed by the famous designer Takeo Kobayashi, who invited him to his place as a model. At 20 Jason Momoa won a modeling contestand became Hawaii Model of the Year. Immediately after the victory Jason invited to the series "Malibu safeguards", where he starred in seasons 10-11.
Jason Momoa co-starred with Sylvester Stallone in the film "Unstoppable". In 2014, he starred in the 1st season of the series "Red Road" Season 2 is slated for release in 2015.
In 2014 Jason Momoa became the director and producer of the dramatic thriller "Road to Paloma" where he also played a major role.Robert Wolfe, determined to avenge the death of his mother. As a result, he becomes a target for the FBI and is forced to hide.The film is due to be screened in July 2014.
For 2014-2016, Jason Momoa many projects, which indicates the excessive demand for the actor. Movie is getting ready for release "Wolves", Wherethe actor will have to embody the image of the leader of the werewolves from Wolf's Ridge.
And for 2016, Jason Momoa film is scheduled to be released "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", whichis a sequel to the Man of Steel movie. According to director Zack Snyder, the inspiration forthere will be a series of comics by Frank Miller "The Dark Knight Returns".
Jason Momoa's personal life
Jason Momoa is the nephew of famous Hawaiian surfers named Keaulana.On the set of the series "Malibu safeguards" at Jason Momoa began a relationship with an Australian actressSimon Jud McKinnon/ Simmone Jade Mackinnon and in June 2004 the actor proposed to her. They decided to get married in 2007, but theirplans were not destined to come true.
In 2005, the couple broke up due to a new hobby. Jason Momoa actress Lisa Bonet, whichwas 12 years older than the actor. See also: The most beautiful black actresses and singers. Jason And Lisa They got married in 2007 and had a daughter, Lola Iolani Momoa, the same year.A year later, the couple had a son, Nakoa-Wolf.
Photo of Jason Momoa with his wife and child
Jason Momoa loves the tattoos that can be seen on his arms. On the left arm is a traditional Hawaiian tattoo - small triangles that look like shark teeth. On the actor's right hand there is an inscription in French: "être toujours ivre", which means "always be drunk" or verbatim "perpetually drunken creature".
In 2008 Jason Momoa badly cut his face with a beer glass in one of the Californian cafes in Hollywood.As a result, he underwent surgery. The actor's face was left with scars that are visible in his later works.
The actor keeps himself in good physical shape, loves sports, as well as roller skates, mountain biking, snowboarding. Jason Momoa adherent of the Buddhist religion,often visits Tibet for spiritual knowledge.
In the comic blockbuster "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", further consolidating the success of the appearance in a solo project, which became the highest grossing in the history of the film adaptation of the DC Extended Universe.
Childhood and youth
Joseph Jason Namakeaha, known to fans as Jason Momoa, was born in 1979 in Hawaii, Honolulu. His father is a native Hawaiian. Mom is of mixed descent: she has Native American, German and Irish roots. Parents lived together for a short time. The mother left, taking her son, to the American state of Iowa, when Joseph Jason was just a child.
Jason Momoa (full name - Joseph Jason Namakeaha Momoa) is an American actor, model, producer, and screenwriter. He gained fame thanks to the TV series Baywatch, Stargate: Atlantis, Game of Thrones, Conan the Barbarian, as well as the role of Aquaman from the DC Comics Cinematic Universe. The first appearance of Momoa in this image took place in 2016 (“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”).Another successful page in the actor's filmography was his work in the Canadian action movie Wild. The hero Momoa is a forester who has to enter into an unequal battle with a clan of drug dealers.
It was rumored that in 2018 the performer would appear in the film The Crow, a remake of the mystical action movie of the same name, in which he planned to play the role of Eric Draven. But the filming process was suspended.
Personal life
Jason Momoa's personal life is associated with the name of his wife. The history of their romance is interesting. Jason is 12 years younger than his chosen one. For the first time he saw her and immediately fell in love at a young age. This happened when the series "The Cosby Show" was released, where Bonet played the main role. Then Lisa was the wife of a musician. At the time of meeting Momoa, the actress had a daughter already growing up.
Embed from Getty Images Jason Momoa and his wife Lisa BonetThe first meeting of the future spouses took place in 2005 in a jazz club in New York. Jason and Lisa spent the rest of the night chatting at the bar. It seemed like they had known each other all their lives. With the wedding decided not to rush.
In 2007, Jason and Lisa had a daughter, Lola Aiolani, and a year later, a son, Nakoa-Wolf Manakoapo Namakaha, appeared. The marriage ceremony was held by husband and wife in 2017. It was a chamber wedding, which was attended only by the people closest to the couple.
Embed from Getty Images Jason Momoa and Lisa BonetJason and Lisa look unusual together. If the actor's height reached almost 2 meters, and weight - 110 kg, then the height of his petite wife is only 157 cm. In addition, Momoa has a brutal, at the same time frightening and attractive appearance. Nevertheless, Momoa and Bonet are a wonderful couple that journalists love to shoot.
Jason's body is painted with tattoos: from traditional Hawaiian triangles to phrases and names of loved ones, and on the actor's face there is a scar that crosses the eyebrow. Some sources claim that Momoa received a scar in his youth during a bar fight, others that the scar appeared as a result of a complex operation that Jason underwent as a child.
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Jason Momoa and his dogs
Momoa is a Buddhist. He often visits Tibet, where he receives spiritual knowledge. Jason is also a big fan of mountain biking, snowboarding and roller skating. It is known that a popular artist thoroughly prepares for each role. He studied various martial arts before appearing as Conan the Barbarian and before playing Aquaman. In 2018, the performer began to study Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
In between filming, Momoa loves to draw. For some time he studied pastel painting in Paris. It is noteworthy that the actors do not have a TV in the house, which they consider a useless and harmful thing for their children. However, Jason gets along with technology and new technologies. The actor maintains an official account in "
Jason Momoa's childhood
Jason Momoa was born on August 1, 1979 in Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii. He was the first and only child of artist Joseph Momoa and photographer Koni Lemke. The boy's father is a full-blooded Hawaiian, while his mother's pedigree is mixed German, Irish and Indian blood. Such a cocktail gave the actor an exotic appearance and impressive natural data: the actor’s height is 193 centimeters (the muscular relief, which is admired by the female audience, is already his personal merit) 
Jason's parents divorced when their son was still a toddler. The boy stayed with his mother. In the new composition, the family moved to Iowa. Free time Jason, from an early age who showed athletic abilities, spent in the fresh air. Growing up, he became interested in mountaineering and ax throwing. After high school, Jason entered a local college where he studied marine biology.
In his youth, Momoa traveled a lot and developed comprehensively. As a student, he traveled half the world, studied painting in Paris, studied Buddhism in Tibet. Shortly before completing his bachelor's degree, he returned to Hawaii to bond with his father.
Career
In 1998, Japanese designer Takeo Kobayashi drew attention to Jason Momoa's atypically beautiful facial features, toned figure and tall stature. It was he who brought the tanned handsome man into the modeling business, from where it was a stone's throw to an acting career. In parallel with participating in local beauty contests, the guy worked as a salesman in a surfer store. 
In 1999, Momoa got into the cast of the iconic TV series Baywatch. The creators gave him preference out of 1300 candidates, and this despite the fact that he had no idea how to behave on the set. His character Jason John appeared in forty episodes and, after the series closed, in its feature-length spin-off Hawaiian Wedding (2003).
In 2004, the actor appeared in the TV series "North Shore", which delighted the audience with an abundance of seascapes and semi-nude models, in the same year he played a small role in the comedy "The Johnson Vacation", and in 2005 he got the role of Ronan Dex, one of the key characters in sci- fi series Stargate: Atlantis, which aired until 2009.
By that time, it was hard to recognize in him the languid young man from the posters of youth magazines, which Momoa was only five years ago. Thick dreadlocks became a recognizable feature of his image. However, he got rid of them by the final season - a heavy hairstyle caused pain in his neck and back. To avoid the wrath of the fans, a wig was made for him.
In 2010, he played the main character in the feature film Conan the Barbarian. The film failed at the box office and was panned by critics. Momoa did not avoid comparisons with the young Arnold Schwarzenegger and, as is often the case in such situations, the comparison did not work out in his favor.
But the failure did not affect the actor's career, because in the same year he was approved for the cast of a new project from HBO, which promised to turn the global serial industry around. And so it happened - the legendary "Game of Thrones" became an Event with a capital letter. Momoa was cast as Khal Drogo, leader of the fearsome Dothraki. At the very beginning of the series, he buys a young Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) to make her his wife and give birth to an heir.
Interestingly, he got the role of Drogo not so much because of the muscles, but because of the dance. To stand out among the many competitors, he danced a traditional New Zealand war dance, and in doing so, he definitely caught the attention of the casting director.
Jason Momoa audition for the role of Khal Drogo
One after the other (in 2013 and 2014), two unsuccessful projects in Momoa's filmography saw the light: the action movie Wolves (Momoa played a werewolf) and the horror film Debug. In 2014, he wrote and directed the thriller Road to Honor (in another translation, The Road to Paloma), which tells the story of the friendship of two rebellious hearts: Robert, who avenges the death of his mother, and the disenfranchised biker Cash,
The actor admitted that most of all he likes to play good guys with a not very good reputation. In his opinion, this type is the most loved by the audience.
In 2016, another project with Momoa was released that deserves attention. This is the post-apocalyptic drama The Bad Batch. The action takes place in the near future - Americans who do not meet the requirements of society are evicted to desert lands, and not everyone can get to a safe oasis because of a hunting gang of cannibals. Jason plays one of them, a cannibal who falls in love with his victim (Sookie Waterhouse). 
Jason Momoa's personal life
While filming Baywatch, Momoa met actress Simone McKinnon and became very close to her. In 2004, they announced their engagement, but the wedding was not destined to take place - 2006 was the last year for their couple. 
In 2005, while still in a relationship with Simon, the actor met actress Lisa Bonet, ex-wife of musician Lenny Kravitz. Neither Jason's engagement nor the age difference interfered with their romance - Lisa was 12 years older than her chosen one.
Contrary to popular belief, Jason and Lisa did not get married in 2007, but in 2017. By that time, they already had two common children - daughter Lulu Iolani (b. July 23, 2007) and son Nakoa-Wulf Manakauapo Namakea (b. 15.12. 2008). The boy received such an unusual name for a reason. Due to the fact that he was born in Los Angeles at night during a terrible thunderstorm, his parents gave him this name: Nakoa means "fighter", Mana - "fortitude", Kaua - "rain", and Po - "dark" . In addition, Momoa is considered the stepfather of Lisa's daughter from her first marriage, actress and singer Zoe Kravitz.
Momoa has a scar on his left eyebrow, which has become his trademark. He received it rather banally - during a fight in a bar, someone broke a glass on his head, and a fragment dug into his eyebrow, miraculously not hitting his eye.
Religion plays an important role in Jason's life. He is an adherent of Buddhism and often visits Tibetan temples, where each time he discovers something new.
What is she - this married couple and Lisa Bonet? (Lisa Bonet is an American actress, fashion model, Jason Momoa is an American actor). Their age difference is 12 years, and exactly Lisa older than her husband Jason. But despite this, they have been together since 2005 and the couple has two wonderful children - the eldest daughter Lola Iolani(July 23, 2007) and son Nakoa Wolf (December 15, 2008). It is interesting that the full name of the boy is Nakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha Momoa, if everything is clear with the boy's surname, then a transcript is needed about the name. The fact is that the child was born on a rainy, restless night, and the star parents decided to be smart with the name of the child. So Nakoa (warrior), Mana (strength / spirit), Kaua (rain) and Ro (dark), Namakaeha is part of the name of Jason Momoa himself, and for a child it means something like our patronymic.
Photo: Lisa Bonet with her daughter Lola
Photo: Jason Momoa, Lisa Bonet with daughter Lola
Photo: Lisa Bonet with daughter Lola and son Nakoa Wolfe
At the very Lisa Bonet already had a daughter from his first marriage with Lenny Kravitz is a world famous musician. Zoe She followed in the footsteps of her parents and became an actress. Plus, she still sings and acts as a model.
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Photos: Jason Momoa, Lisa Bonet, Lenny Kravitz, Zoe Kravitz
Lisa Bonet she looks very good despite her mature years, perhaps because she is a supporter of a healthy lifestyle, she eats everything only raw, does not consume foods with gluten and carefully ensures that pesticides are not used to grow vegetables and fruits. Or maybe she is so young and beautiful because she loves her husband very much, and he passionately loves her? Well, really, how can you not love such a handsome man?
