Zac Efron is used to looking extra beefy when he gets ready for a movie role, but now the actor is telling normal folks that it’s not the healthiest way to go about things. 

Recently, the actor teamed up with Amazon Sports to curate a list of his go-to fitness products. In an interview with People magazine, he said he treats training for movies “like it’s an Olympic event.”

“It’s definitely fun because you get to put everything on the line in terms of your work ethic and seeing how far you can push it,” he said. “It’s a finite period of time, but I would not consider that a healthy or normal way to live everyday life.”

There were times that exercises took a toll on his mental health, too.

“My mood was terrible,” he added. “In retrospect I can look back now and say that. People weren’t telling me I was mean or anything, but I could feel that lack of carbohydrate.”

Read more at People.