Remember how Hugh Jackman only ate boiled chicken to achieve his much coveted Wolverine Bod? Or how Chris Pratt stopped drinking beer to become Star-Lord? Or when Ben Affleck went from fatfleck to Batfleck? It wasn’t always this way, though. In fact, action stars used to be built a lot more like you than Adonis. Here then is our Weekend Binge on the history of swole action heroes: