Kellan Lutz: Men’s Health July/August Cover Story

Kellan Lutz has landed on the cover of Men’s Health Magazine for July/August:

“Kellan Lutz’s abs epiphany came during an eighth-grade graduation party at a water park. “Before then, I never knew abs were attractive,” he says. “Where I grew up in Arizona, you would never see anyone without a shirt on at school. But when I took off my shirt, all the girls were, like, ‘Oh, look at your abs!’ And I was, like, ‘Yeah!’ ”

Psychologists call this “positive reinforcement.” And Lutz instinctively knew what to do: Stay active.

It’s understandable to be ticked off by Lutz’s looks, which are great despite the deathly pallor of his vampire character in the Twilight flicks. Men resent other men who are that good-looking and that fit. It seems too easy.

But it wasn’t. The 25-year-old’s advantage was an early love of athletics, but he’s had to put in constant effort to maintain his physique. He played football in high school (plus trombone in the marching band–a hell of a timemanagement trick), hit the gym regularly for years, and considered becoming a Navy SEAL. One of the reasons he attended Chapman University was its location–near the beach.”

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