The Shaq Was Not Bulked in the Retirement Phase

I'm actually just wondering about the timing here, because even at the beginning of the montage where he's supposed to be like a little, you know, he's not in shape yet. And I would just like to know the how to. If you were making a film in which you went through a radical physical transformation, would you get super cut ahead of the film and then start there with that stuff? Or would you work through it the way that like Shaq would play himself into shape during a season? Oh, yeah. He always came into the season overweight. Of course, he's a specimen and he like works very hard and it's part of his art.