Dwayne Johnson: Actor/Wrestler

Dwayne Johnson was born in 1972 from a generation of wrestlers. His grandfather was a professional wrestler and his father a wrestler. Dwayne was doing rather well for himself including not planning on following his father’s footsteps. He was making a name for himself as a college football player until he had a back injury that shattered his chances in the NFL. Without having professional opportunity in football he turned to wrestling to continue his family legacy. Dwayne Ascended through the WWF winning the WWF heavyweight title six times as well as the WWF tag team championship five times.

Dwayne started off in a relatively poor household even with his families wrestling background and was determined to make a name for himself. In interviews with Dwayne Johnson, as well as his own social media posts, he likes to emphasize his intense dedication to fitness. In the movies we see Dwayne act in as well as wrestling he is extraordinarily fit. According to Dwayne he wakes up at 4:00 am every day to work out before he goes on set for a movie for the rest of the day. He is no professional bodybuilder but his work ethic eclipses many in the industry and he applies much of his life to staying fit. Closely related to Arnold Schwarzenegger in the sense that his muscularity attributes to his acquisition of hardcore character acting roles, one example being Agent Hobbs from Fast and Furious six and seven.

Dwayne Johnson appears to be extremely dedicated to everything he does, whether it be fitness, acting, wrestling, or even reaching out to his fans in a genuine manner, he does everything 100%. It’s not just his muscular stature that makes Dwayne Johnson an inspirational figure, it’s his compassion to his fans, he doesn’t work just for money, but for the belief that he is giving his fans something they want. One of the hardest working men in the business of acting as well as a very well disciplined athlete, Dwayne Johnson is surely an iconic figure for the fitness world.