Jaime Lannister covers the April issue of Men’s Health 

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Jaime Lannister covers the April issue of Men’s Health

The Westeros kingslayer (known at home as Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) reveals his training secrets, the future for

look like a school play. And its viewership (18.4m an episode) makes even

look more wiseguy than godfather. Especially since a certain leader of the free world considers it a must watch.

At its heart is the one-handed but still sword-wielding kingslayer Jaime Lannister, a man whose lust for his sister is only matched by his taste for battle. But the man who portrays him, Danish star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, couldn’t be further from the circus that has, as he reveals in our exclusive cover interview out on Friday 6 March, inspired fans to hide out in golf course bunkers to catch a glimpse of him.

The gym is his refuge from “that craziness”. But rather than building raw power like the Mountain or

alum Jason Momoa, Coster-Waldau turns his own body into the ultimate strength-building machine, for lean muscle that’s as functional as it is aesthetic. “I spend more time on mobility,” he says. “But I feel stronger than I ever have.” Get a taster of what we couldn’t fit into the mag below, then grab the April issue for the full interview and the Jaime Lannister training and diet plan to take you to the top of your own personal battleground. Mr Obama, your new workout programme has arrived.

[The show bosses] know as much as George RR Martin knows. He hasn’t written the books, but he knows how he wants it to end. Well, I think he’s written one of them now. I don’t know when it comes out but I’d assume soon. All the details, they’re going to have to come up with them themselves. It’s going to be interesting because I think the show is going to finish before the last book comes out. There’ll be quite a big difference when it does.

For breakfast I’d have five eggs and salmon then a protein shake a couple of hours in. Lunch would be two skinless chicken breasts, veggies, some carbs as well. In the afternoon more protein, another shake. But if you have too many shakes, you can’t take a dump. Jason’s very advanced in that whole bulking up thing. He will literally always carry a chicken breast on his body. You can find it in a pocket in his trousers. It’s always there.

In the gym, I’d crush him. But who’d win in a fight between Jaime Lannister and Leonidas from

? That’s a good question. Jaime would probably talk to Leonidas and make him do something stupid. He had a bit of a short temper. I think Jaime would just have called the Mountain. Why risk it, if you’ve got a Mountain to call?

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