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Gabriel Mann's Fitness Regime & "Revenge" Teasers

Gabriel Mann's Fitness Regime & "Revenge" Teasers

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YH heads to The Fix gym to catch up with co-owner and "Revenge" star Gabriel Mann to get some juicy tips on what to expect from Season 3 of his hit ABC series, including why he refers to it as "The Naked Season"! Gabriel also reveals 3 other shows we should be watching, then he hands us over to his biz partner Brian Woodruff to put us through our paces and offer some great fitness and nutrition tips! Hosted by Nikki Novak (@nikkinovak).

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Young Hollywood

You could just give us a preview of of Revenge for season three. We are here with Gabriel Mann. Notice the grass. Yes. Very Hamptons-esque, but we are at The Fix. We are at the gym. Yes.

Gabriel Mann

We are, we are, yes, we are inside actually. We we brought the outside in. I should preface by saying I am, uh, I am a, a partner and this is kind of, uh, I I would like to say this is my brainchild the whole concept of of The Fix but, uh, it's really not. I I'm just kind of, uh, jumped on the Fix train because I thought it was such an amazing concept and in looking toward season three of Revenge, um, it is, uh, a very naked season. It's a very sexy season. It just adds another, another layer to things. I mean, because as you move forward and as we enter like the third year of the show, we have to continue to push, to continue to sort of find new ways of exploring this concept of of Revenge.

Young Hollywood

So, I know you've, you've said there was going to be a Twitter explosion about your love interest in season three. I know there's been men, there's been females. Can you give us at least the gender?

Gabriel Mann

Right. The question, I think, more so is this year, is it love or is it revenge? Right. It's a very dangerous proposition to come on Revenge and and be a Nolan love interest. Very, very bad things you could die. You generally die. Um, or get carted off to the looney bin. You just don't get me. Right, ever. By the way. Your life span is considerably blah. But again, I think it's he's fairly guarded this year because of everything that's happened in the last couple of seasons. And, um, I certainly don't think he's looking for, uh, love.

Young Hollywood

The fitness and the and the getting more being more sexy than they're getting getting more shape. Is that, is that a bit of a spoiler? Um, Because he's had to defend himself so many times.

Gabriel Mann

Yeah, well he has and he's not always been great at it. I mean, I generally find that, you know, he, he ends up, uh, choking to death on a wall due to Emily or anybody else who decides to come at him. So, uh, it it's such a good year. It's such a good season.

Young Hollywood

He knows how to tantalize us. And his interviewer. So who does work out here? Or who from the show works out here? I I I I I

Gabriel Mann

Yeah, I mean I, uh, well, we've got

Young Hollywood

And is it a man cave or are females allowed? Is Emily making an appearance? Is she because she has to be tough on the show too.

Gabriel Mann

No, Emily, Emily is kind of the badass of all badasses on the show. The nudity thing has really been the guy's responsibility so far this year. Which I so appreciate.

Young Hollywood

Which I think, you know what, it equal opportunity women have had to carry that torch for years and and I think it is only right that it is. Absolutely. Objectified males. Absolutely. Objectify away. Speaking of objectifying, I think, I mean, just being honest, I think women, when we feel that we look fantastic, we feel sexy. Would It makes a guy feel sexy.

Gabriel Mann

I I I I think, uh, I I think that that that goes doubly so for guys in a lot of ways. You know, I know sort of growing up as kind of this skinny tall guy. Um, really, and and I think it's part of what appealed to me about getting involved in in in this gym and in this business is, um, I know I had a really different sense of myself when motivated either personally or through work or a character I was playing to start to change my body and feel really fit.

Young Hollywood

So I know a lot of fans, um, this fan included, would love to see you and Emily, your character and Emily's character. Right. Sort of explore that. I mean, not that she doesn't have enough going on in her life. What are we three now? Is she dealing with three guys? But, you know, she has to deal with Nolan too in in a in a way. I mean. In a different way. Yeah. Now, is that something you'd like to see happen? I, you know, me, Gabe as as as an actor,

Gabriel Mann

Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, I I think the more complicated the better and that certainly would be complicated. It really depends how many years we're on the air. Right. Because at a certain point I would say anything and everything will probably happen. Just by process of elimination, eventually, there're gonna be nobody left but Emily Nolan. Although I think the way we start off this year, I mean that the big cliffhanger we are dealing with going into season three is, uh, is who shot Emily Thorne? You know, and and everybody loves Emily VanCamp. I mean, she, she went off during her hiatus this year and did, uh, Captain America Winter Soldier, so now she is in the Marvel Universe.

Young Hollywood

So speaking of hiatus, are you, are you that we ever see you in the Hamptons in your off time? Are you that guy? Because the Hamptons has that sort of, you know, that vibe. Or what kind, what type of guy are you? What are you doing in your hiatus?

Gabriel Mann

I I I definitely was not in the Hamptons on my hiatus. I'm almost embarrassed to admit, but not really that embarrassed. Um, I've never been to the Hamptons. This past year, I I was basically everywhere all over the world, uh, doing press for the show. What has been incredibly amazing to me is the way that this show has sort of translated. And we're in Singapore, and we're in England, and we're in Germany, and we're in, uh, you know, we're in Japan, and Beijing, and Australia, New Zealand, I mean, just everywhere basically.

Young Hollywood

What what were a couple of cities that stood out to you? I'm I don't know how much time you got off, but um.

Gabriel Mann

I did get to go to the Great Wall of China. Wow. That was amazing. Um, epic actually. There wasn't really a whole lot of time off. I mean, we finished season two. I got on a plane basically didn't stop until, uh, I got off the plane and went back to set. And here we are in season three. But, uh.

Young Hollywood

Let's say you did get a little time off. I mean, it's obviously fantastic to be a working actor, but I know the pace of the show's crazy. If you could have a week, go anywhere, do anything, what would it be?

Gabriel Mann

You know, I think for me now, like the biggest vacation is a staycation. It's like to just be able to be in my place, see friends, like, you know, I don't know, do some Netflixing, uh, get on the computer, catch up with people, make some phone calls.

Young Hollywood

So, uh, when you talked about the Netflixing thing just so your fans can feel a little closer to you. If you were going to recommend either, like, just three things, either TV show or movie, three things to watch that you're really into.

Gabriel Mann

Okay. First off, top of my head, if if you guys have not seen Orphan Black yet, it is time. They have one season. They are just going in to, uh, I think they just started filming season two. This show completely and totally blew my mind. Number two, I'm kind of a comic book geek. I'm not kind of, I'm a comic book geek. I just, uh, watched The Dark Knight Returns cartoon, um, which was based on the Frank Miller graphic novel. It's really dark and kind of grown up, but, uh, yeah, grown-up cartoons. So, that would be number two, Dark Knight Returns. And then, uh, I I guess my my number three, uh, watching at home, uh, staycation viewing choice would be, uh, Orange Is the New Black. It's everything you want to get when you're having kind of a sit-down dramatic experience. Probably not for kids.

Young Hollywood

There is a reason why I'm dressed in these clothes. And you're not. You're not working out today. You're gonna put me to work with this partner. I'm I'm going to put you through your paces. I think it's time to bring him into this in here. So unfair that you are wear, you're looking all dashing. I'm just looking like, whatever. I will meet you at the top of the monkey bars. I love that. Perfect. I will see you there. You'll see me there. Thank you for chatting with us. Pleasure. Since you have snaps on your shirt, you could just give us a preview of of Revenge for season three. Just kidding. Or not.

Gabriel Mann

Oh, no, actually, it was. No, no. I'm just going to leave. You can just do. No, that's that's you have to watch actually to, uh, Yeah. To see what happens to us. There's a preview for season three of Revenge.

Young Hollywood

I'm here with Brian. You are partners with Gabriel and in in The Fix and I'm terrified. The interview part I can do. I know I can do that part. The workout part scares me a little bit. So, who from the show you've been training a lot of the cast members from Revenge. So, who has been hitting this grass here?

Brian

Um, almost all of the men.

Young Hollywood

Where's Emily in this whole equation? I I think Emily would love to train at The Fix. It's a little far for her to travel, but, uh, I I heard a little bird told me that the the cast members that aren't training here are trying to glean information from the cast members that are training here.

Brian

Yes. This sounds like almost like something that would happen on the show.

Young Hollywood

Yeah, it's exactly. For somebody who wants to look like Emily, because she's in great shape. She's in amazing shape. What are what are some things that girls can do to sort of get fit?

Brian

Definitely resistance training. Okay.

Gabriel Mann's Fitness Regime

And I think I think women have an aversion to fitness training, uh, resistance training, using weights. So, I I'm just gonna say it to all the women out there right now that talk to the women. Unless you're taking steroids, you really don't have to fear resistance training. There. I said it. Don't be afraid. Don't resist. The weights are your friends.

Young Hollywood

All right, so we're gonna do a step-up to start. Okay. Just to experiment and see how you're feeling about it. Just like this. That's beautiful. But bring your right leg up to balance. So when you step up, bam, balance. It's perfect.

Gabriel Mann's Fitness Regime

This is slightly embarrassing.

Young Hollywood

Okay. What? Really? No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. No, I'm kidding. And never want you to feel embarrassed.

Gabriel Mann's Fitness Regime

Well, just if the legs start to shake, you know.

Young Hollywood

We can do like a tag team. Like if you are over here and you want to be in the middle with Brian and then we'll sort of alternate. We'll sort of. Oh, yes, yes. And then my turn. There you go. See. Any given time. Like that. See. I should put your picture on the wall. What's your what's your motto gonna be?

Gabriel Mann's Fitness Regime

Yeah. Uh, my motto, you know what, my motto is, actually, this is my motto, never, never, never, never give up. And that applies to everything and anything. I mean, anything, so.

Young Hollywood

I'm I'm interfering with your work. Back to work. It's great. This is a nice little break. I got to catch my breath. Okay. All right, let's take this to the next level. Okay. All right, what's next? What, uh, let's do a row on the rings. What do you think? So, lean back into the rings and then pull up. Interesting. So, draw your navel tight through the middle because we want to work your abs at the same time we're working everything else and then roll this under your rib cage. Is that right?

Gabriel Mann's Fitness Regime

That's beautiful. This one's so hard. I know, right? I think we know what I need to work on. Okay. So, now do I go eat a cheeseburger?

Young Hollywood

Let's talk diet for a second.

Gabriel Mann's Fitness Regime

The nutrition is always a challenge because I can control what the client does in the gym. What I don't have control over is what they do on their own time. So, what I do is I have my clients shoot me a picture of everything they eat.

Young Hollywood

That's a good model because before you eat it, it's like, if I actually could send this to my trainer and get away with it, then it makes you think about it before you.

Gabriel Mann's Fitness Regime

Absolutely. And that's that's that's almost the whole point is you become conscious of what you're eating. What would be one food? If I said, I'm a totally unhealthy eater and you just said one food. What if I said it was chicken, which is a great source of protein, that's awesome. But you're gonna get bored of chicken. Uh, and that would sabotage the whole point of making this a part of your lifestyle. So, every food is on the table. Balance. Balance. That's right.

Young Hollywood

Thank you so much. This is this is fantastic. I actually do feel a little bit stronger. I feel this butt cheek quivering a little. That will go away, right? That's just because I'm close to you. It's just the nearness of me. It's just getting all a quiver, right? Thanks for having us here. Congratulations.

Gabriel Mann's Fitness Regime

Oh, it's my pleasure.

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PEOPLE MENTIONED

  • Gabriel Mann

    Co-owner of The Fix gym and star of 'Revenge'

  • Nikki Novak

    Host of the interview

  • Brian Woodruff

    Business partner of Gabriel Mann and fitness trainer

  • Emily

    Character on 'Revenge' and frequent subject of discussion

  • Emily VanCamp

    Actress who plays Emily Thorne, mentioned for her role in 'Captain America Winter Soldier'

  • Frank Miller

    Author of 'The Dark Knight Returns' graphic novel

FAQ

What does Gabriel Mann tease about 'Revenge' Season 3?+
Gabriel Mann refers to 'Revenge' Season 3 as a "very naked season" and a "very sexy season," emphasizing that the show continues to push boundaries and explore the concept of revenge in new ways.
What shows does Gabriel Mann recommend watching?+
Gabriel Mann recommends 'Orphan Black,' 'The Dark Knight Returns' cartoon based on the Frank Miller graphic novel, and 'Orange Is the New Black'.
What is Gabriel Mann's role at The Fix gym?+
Gabriel Mann is a partner at The Fix gym, having joined because he found the concept amazing, although he states it's not entirely his brainchild.
What fitness advice does Brian Woodruff offer for women?+
Brian Woodruff strongly recommends resistance training for women, reassuring them that unless they are taking steroids, they do not need to fear using weights, as weights are their friends.
How does Brian Woodruff help clients with nutrition?+
Brian Woodruff has his clients send him pictures of everything they eat, which helps them become more conscious of their food choices and maintain a balanced diet.
Who plays Emily Thorne in 'Revenge'?+
Emily VanCamp plays Emily Thorne in 'Revenge' and also appeared in 'Captain America Winter Soldier'.

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