Matthew McConaughey has signed on for Ben Stiller’s upcoming comedy Tropic Thunder, replacing Owen Wilson who dropped out of the movie last month after he was hospitalized for what police called a suicide attempt.

Hollywood trade paper Variety reports that McConaughey will now take on the cameo role, joining an all-star ensemble cast. Other actors set to appear in the comedy include Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr and Nick Nolte. Tropic Thunder sees a group of actors filming a big-budget war movie on a remote island forced to become actual soldiers when they unwittingly get pulled into a country’s armed revolution.

The $150M budget Tropic Thunder is scheduled for a 2008 release.

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Matthew McConaughey gets his work out on at his home in Malibu.  “Sometimes you can get the body in shape, and the head ain’t in great shape,” he says. “But it’s real nice if you can coordinate ‘em.” And he has an eight-step program to do just that.

• Lesson One:  Tie Your Shoes

“Tie your shoes,” he says. “It’s that simple. You tie your shoes, man, you know you’re gonna do it.

• Lesson Two:  Say, “iBuenos dias!”

“Most people travel with an idea like I’m going to conquer this place,” he says. “I’ve gone to conquer. But I’ve learned that I’m much happier traveling to absorb. Hell, that’s where this whole workout came from. Instead of saying, I’m gonna FedEx some dumbbells in here and get me a bike, I said, I’m gonna go out and find something. I found this trail and found the lessons along the trail, and I get a buzz each morning when I run it.”

• Lesson Three:  Let It Burn

“When we get to the top of this, the whining’s over. ‘Cause a whiner is one who wishes to go back after he has already entered the inevitable. At the top of this, the burn starts. It’s the first time your mind gets out of the way. That’s the meditative asset of exercise. The brain’s working on surviving. I can’t think, so I have to submit to the entire run because it’s inevitable. That’s a cool point. I’ve come this far. I’m not going back.”

• Lesson 4:  Go For Distance, Not Time

“I go for distance instead of time,” he says, “to where I’m sweating and tired as far away as possible from where I started.”

• Lesson 5:  Throw In A Monkey Wrench

“I say to myself, You’ve got an hour on this run–give me 200 [push-ups]. Not based on time, not saying do 100 right this second. I’d rather give myself more time and do more reps. Then, when I’m running, I’ll stop and throw down 30, get up, and just keep moving. And try to do 200 within the run.”

• Lesson 6:  Add Some Adrenaline

Run to the local bouldering rock and scramble; join a new pickup game and test your chops; or challenge yourself to a scary goal, like that triathlon you’ve been conveniently avoiding. Scare yourself enough and you’ll tap energy you never knew you had. Like a bat out of hell. Or a cave, as it were.

• Lesson Seven:  Master The Art Of Running Downhill

“I’ve had times when I’ve been successful, things were going great, but I forgot to enjoy it. I would finish a movie and be like, I gotta go to work tomorrow, gotta do another one. In not understanding what I was doing, I didn’t feel like I deserved the success, so I was like, This is too easy. I gotta make it harder. And we’ve all done the proverbial whoop, tripped myself, face-plant! These days I’m old enough to say, Dude, it’s downhill for a reason. Cruise when you can.”

• Lesson Eight:  Use What’s Around

McConaughey has a few other sweat strategies that employ whatever’s available: dancing, for one. “We all forget it, but that was the original workout, long before gymnasiums were ever around,” he says. “You get in a good night of music and dancing, you don’t have to go running in the morning. You break a sweat on an honest dance, that’s fun, and there ain’t no right or wrong way to do it.”

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  • Bonus Lesson:  Remember Why You Do All This

“That’s easy”, says McConaughey. “So the cocktail and food taste better tonight! That’s what inspires me. It’s fun to feel healthy, and it’s fun to feel good,” he says. “And I gotta have both. Working out is Monday. Eating good food, having a cocktail, going dancing? That’s Saturday. But you can have it all in the same day.”

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