BROKEN LIZARD’S BEER TRAINING MANUAL

(VIDEO)Broken Lizard went through rigourous beer training in preparation for their roles in Beerfest.

Broken Lizard don’t usually subscribe to method acting but it took some very specific preparation to be able to down as much beer as they possibly could in Beerfest. The guys reveal their secret beer training routine.

And after they got out of shape the trick was getting back into shape.

“You have to do reverse training. You have to get out of shape to get into shape. You have to get as fat and gross as you possibly could which is quite hard you know and eat a lot of ice cream sundaes. We hired a beer personal trainer and he hung out with us in our living room and we trained with him for six months. He makes you sit down and not move so that you’re not allowed to exercise at all. We sat around in EZ Boy recliners. He shouted slogans at you, ‘keep drinking.’ We threw beer cans at the television set, stuff like that.”

What could they possibly do to top a story about marathon beer drinking? Well the sequel for Beerfest is already in the works.

“Do we look in shape? We’re on the national tour of drinking beer every day. I dropped about 80 pounds. I gained like 80 pounds. I used to weigh 90 pounds.”

Beerfest opens Friday in theaters nationwide.

“We keep making this joke about Pot Fest. We joke about it and Warner Brothers jokes about it. They’re like, ‘are you gonna do it?’ We’re like, ‘oh yeah.’”