Fitness YouTuber Greg Doucette has once again taken aim at Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Hugh Jackman over their claims about how Jackman prepared to play Wolverine, and the numbers do not hold up.
The story, which Jackman has told in interviews, is that he called The Rock for advice and was put on a 6,000-calorie daily diet paired with a rigorous training plan. When asked directly whether it was true, Jackman confirmed: “It’s absolutely true.”
Doucette is not buying it. He sarcastically impersonated Jackman to highlight what he views as a complete reversal of the original story, saying: “There was one day where I consumed 6,000 calories. I was trying to have a big ch3at day and I had 6,000 calories. I exaggerate. It’s not like I ate 6,000 calories every single day. As you know, it’s calories in, calories out. And if you eat 6,000 calories a day, I don’t care who you are, you’re going to end up big and fat, not shredded and vascular.”
Doucette’s position is that this admission should have ended the narrative entirely. He points to his own intake of around 4,000 to 4,500 calories on a heavy training day as a reference point. Doucette races bikes at an intensity that can burn over 1,000 calories per hour and is on hormone replacement therapy. If he cannot justify 6,000 calories, he argues, no one should believe Jackman could burn through that amount either.
The details of The Rock’s own weekly indulgence push the story further into unbelievable territory. Jackman described The Rock sending him a photo of his weekly meal: a bottle of tequila, three pizzas, and a large bowl of chocolate chip peanut butter cookies.
The accompanying advice was: “Dude, make sure you have a ch3at meal on whatever day you choose and go for it. Like, it’s important for your body as well as for your mind.”
Doucette’s counter is that a meal of that scale only makes physiological sense if someone has spent six days in a serious calorie deficit. If the daily baseline is 6,000 calories, advising someone to go even further once a week is not coaching, it is fiction. He argues the actual daily intake was far lower, and the 6,000-calorie figure was there to explain the transformation publicly without revealing the full picture.
His conclusion is that the calorie story was always cover. Doucette says Jackman “forgot to mention the test, deca, tren, and anavar that The Rock gave him.”
In his view, The Rock would never tell someone to eat that many calories to get lean and vascular. The real plan, Doucette contends, involved PEDs alongside a controlled calorie intake, leaving the diet story standing for public consumption.
As Doucette put it: “Hugh Jackman is a great actor. He’s able to tell this story from start to finish and make some of you actually believe it.”
