Chris Pratt covers the summer issue of Men’s Health, which didn’t try very hard to impress with their cover text. The focus is on Pratt, who is still promoting Jurassic World. They even had him pose with a sand dinosaur. Pretty cute stuff, although it’s only been two weeks since Pratt last talked about his physical transformation. His PR people signed him up for all sorts of fitness magazines, so body talk comes with the territory. Pratt allegedly talks about his recent half Ironman in this interview, but these excerpts are different:

He’s a role model: “I can tell that people are motivated by my transformations, and that feels really good. But everyone should know when the movie star stuff is over, I might go back to being the fat guy. My wife wants a pizza oven — she’s going to learn how to bake bread, and I’m going to eat it. I love the health benefits of exercising, and I have a kid now. By exercising, you really can add 20, 30 years to your life. But you gotta live too, so hopefully I’ll find a nice balance.”

A fit body helps his mind: “It’s all right; you can say that I’ve been fat. As an actor, I can’t have proper mental prep without proper physical prep. Even though I knew it deep inside, it look me a long time to realize how getting physically sharp helps me get ready for other things in my life. It nagged me when I wasn’t physically fit. It was just another thing on my to-do list that I wasn’t capable of getting done. I was like, ‘I feel kind of sh*tty about myself right now. I knew I had to get back on a path to becoming fit again, that I was going to make a splash when I walked into a room with a casting director from then on.”

[From Men’s Health]

Is it a humblebrag when Pratt claims to be a fitness role model for chubby dudes? What Pratt says is true. This doesn’t feel like a case of Goop and her “stripper” butt. Some guys really do covet Pratt’s makeover, but I admit the subject is getting tired.

More Pratt news. He received the Guy of the Year honor from Spike TV’s Guys Choice awards, which aired on Saturday night. He delivered an amusing speech (which you can see here) where he made fun of overly long Oscar speeches. Dude thanked his spray tan guy and Bowflex. Pratt did crack a joke about his love for hunting, but he praised equality for women without saying anything obnoxious. Baby steps.

Photos courtesy of Emily Shur/Men’s Health & Fame/Flynet