To achieve the "ripped" look seen in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and subsequent films, Hugh Jackman worked with world-class celebrity trainers who specialized in high-intensity muscle building.
It felt... wrong.
This juxtaposition highlights the film’s central conflict: the battle for ownership of one's body. Stryker trains for ownership; Wraith trains for liberation. The tragedy of the film is that Stryker’s training is initially more successful. He successfully erases Logan's memory (temporarily), achieving the ultimate goal of a totalitarian trainer: a subject who does not know he is a subject. Logan becomes a blank slate, a living weapon wandering the wilderness, proving that Stryker’s psychological conditioning was far more potent than any physical combat drill. x-men origins wolverine trainer
