Like one tablespoon of Flax oil has like 15 grams of fat in it.'Įven her sleep was coordinated into her daily regimen. Flax is a really important oil for your brain and to also just keep everything moving when you're eating that much protein. So with a meal, I would drink my egg whites because I could never eat 8 to 12 egg whites in a sitting. Now, your body can only assimilate so much protein, so I had to eat every hour and a half. And in order to do that, I had to eat 210 grams of protein a day. 'The producers asked me to gain 10 pounds of muscle. 'My training was two and a half hours of boxing and approximately an hour and a half to two hours lifting weights every day, six days a week,' Swank said. To portray a female boxer, she had to not only learn how to box, but mold her body into the guise of someone who has probably spent her whole life training. Take Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby. From Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 to Jennifer Garner on TV's Alias, women have been transforming themselves to appear in short segments of entertainment through means that take months and months of real time. With all the tough girls in Hollywood now, audiences may take for granted what it takes to be buff and toned. Hilary Swank talks training, boxing and Clint in Million Dollar Baby

Who played in million dollar baby