Sunrise star Sam Mac recently underwent a body transformation to appear on the cover of Men’s Health magazine, but it wasn’t accomplished without lots of sweat in lots of different places, as a new video shows.
The popular weather presenter went from Dad Bod to Fab Bod in eight weeks, shocking his co-hosts and fans with his newly-buff look when the magazine hit the newsstands.
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In a video posted to Instagram on Thursday, the father-of-one gave an insight into what it took to get the look.
“This is a taste of my eight-week transformation for the cover of Men’s Health Magazine,” he captioned the video, which includes some brief cameos from his partner Rebecca James.
In the video montage, we see Sam lifting weights, running on the treadmill, doing virtual training sessions, and sweating a lot.
“No alcohol. No carbs. No sugar,” part of the video was captioned.
“20,000 steps per day minimum.
“Every single day. No rest days.”
And while it’s clearly hard work, there are moments when Sam also looks like he is actually enjoying himself.
Fans were quick to nickname Sam “Daddy Mac.”
“Smoking,” one follower wrote when the Men’s Health cover shot was posted to Instagram.
“I would like to say ‘hot’ but that would be especially weird so I’ll go with ‘well done’,” Sunrise colleague Edwina Bartholomew wrote.
“Well done mate. Awesome effort. The new Magic Mac film in cinemas soon,” joked Chris Brown.
“HUBBA HUBBA,” Rebecca James added.
“Go you good thing! You look unreal!!” said one fan.
Mac did the big magazine cover reveal during the weather segment on Sunrise last week.
“A lot of our viewers have been writing to me over the past weeks asking ‘Have you lost weight – what’s going on?’” he said.
“Yes I have lost weight, I’ve been training for the last two months, and I can reveal that I’m on the cover of Men’s Health magazine.”
“You look good!” co-host Matt Shirvington exclaimed.
“Stop it!” co-host Natalie Barr added.
“It was really hard,” Sam admitted.
“Basically you become the most boring human – no alcohol, no sugar, no bread, no pasta, no pizza …all the good stuff”.
“But it’s all worth it because what a challenge it was and I’m really proud to share this story.”
“You can be interesting now,” Nat joked as the segment wrapped.
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