When the Utah Royals’ Becky Sauerbrunn returned from her injury, she didn’t just return to soccer. She began training for raiding tombs.
Magnus Lygdbäck, the personal trainer and nutritionist who helped actress Alicia Vikander put on 12 pounds of muscle to play Laura Croft in the latest Tomb Raider movie, flew out to Utah to train with Sauerbrunn and promote the movie. They produced a video of the Tomb Raider training challenge and began to spread it through social media leading up to Tomb Raider’s United States release Friday.
“It was also a good idea because it’s such a strong female lead to somehow tie it in with women that are also strong in their fields,” Sauerbrunn said, “and that happens to be professional soccer players.