--- title: The Rock Cheers Josh Gad on for His Workouts in Video description: After Josh Gad tweeted at The Rock with a funny video, the notoriously fit actor shared some support and advice. canonical: https://time.com/5140460/the-rock-josh-gad/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-08T21:31:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:27.868Z og:title: Of Course The Rock Is Josh Gad's Workout Cheerleader og:description: "It ain't easy, but embracing the 'ain't easy' part is what defines us." og:url: https://time.com/5140460/the-rock-josh-gad/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Of Course The Rock Is Josh Gad's Workout Cheerleader twitter:description: "It ain't easy, but embracing the 'ain't easy' part is what defines us." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Of Course The Rock Is Josh Gad's Incredibly Supportive Workout Cheerleader > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 8, 2018 9:31 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 8, 2018 9:31 PM UTC It should come as no surprise that [Josh Gad](http://time.com/4690001/beauty-and-the-beast-gay-character-josh-gad/) can count on The Rock to be the ideal [long-distance cheerleader](http://time.com/5086778/the-rock-mark-hamill/) for his new fitness kick. In a tweet exchange shared by the voice of [_Frozen’s_](http://time.com/4755592/frozen-2-disney-release-date/) Olaf and the [_Ballers_](http://time.com/3926314/review-ballers-the-brink/) star, Dwayne Johnson proved himself to be the ultimate supportive friend. “Keep workin’ hard buddy,” he wrote. “Great job! It ain’t easy, but embracing the ‘ain’t easy’ part is what defines us.” He was responding to a tweet in which Gad, who has been [documenting](https://twitter.com/joshgad/status/961698478685499392) his workout journey on social media as he works on getting in shape this year, posted a funny gif of another person scrubbing away and dancing in a shower. “After a month of hardcore workouts, I’m really starting to look like The Rock,” he had joked then. The Rock is notoriously obsessive about his own fitness, [always making the time](http://time.com/4742306/the-rock-pikachu-easter/) — often pre-dawn — to hit up local gyms, no matter where he is in the world. (That dedication has resulted in a famously buff physique.) And he kept his sense of humor in his comeback to Gad, too: “For the record, this is my daily shower routine while listening to Prince’s ‘Sexy MF,'” he joked. 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