"I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on"
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The subtext is Hollywood physics. Lautner isn’t describing “getting healthy”; he’s describing maintaining a marketable shape under a timeline, a trainer, and a camera. Even the language is outsourced. “My trainer told me” signals how expertise and authority move from the actor’s intuition to the professional apparatus surrounding him. “I couldn’t break a sweat” is an almost absurd instruction, but it’s also a clear admission: the training had crossed from building muscle into managing depletion. Sweat, the classic symbol of effort, becomes evidence of failure.
Contextually, this sits in the post-Twilight era when young male stars were sold as sculpted spectacle and the press treated their bodies like public property. Lautner’s story works because it’s both humblebrag and cautionary tale, revealing how easily “dedication” gets mislabeled as self-erasure when the job is to look like an action figure on demand.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Lautner, Taylor. (n.d.). I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-in-the-gym-five-days-a-week-two-hours-a-day-95054/
Chicago Style
Lautner, Taylor. "I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-in-the-gym-five-days-a-week-two-hours-a-day-95054/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-in-the-gym-five-days-a-week-two-hours-a-day-95054/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.




