So Jessica Biel toned up for Blade Trinity and looked like she could have entered a figure competition. Her shoulders and arms in particular are noticable in the film, and she and co-star Ryan Reynolds talked about the training, results, size and strength they gained in this interview.

It’s good to see portrayals of women who actually look like they can kick ass and do in films, and in another interview, Biel said she’s “trying to stay in the middle range size-wise so I can get big really quickly or get small really quickly.”

When discussing her training she had this to say: “Yeah, heavy weightlifting for bulk. To bulk up in the beginning, then once I got to a certain size it was a more a maintaining and lots of cardio to kind of lean as much we can down. That’s why I have those striations down my muscles. Work to build, then maintain, then lean it out as much as we could.”

And when discussing how her stunt double didn’t look quite like her she mentioned specifically “she was an amazing, amazing stunt double and an amazing martial artist, but I had been in the gym so much that I was even bigger than she was. I was totally ripped in my arms. So from the side or running, I can see when it’s me, I can see my arms and hers are just a little bit different.”

There are some shots from her training which show her delts with striations (check out her website for more):