From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.
In many ways, I feel I'm still as physically fit as I was 20 years ago because I've always been athletic.
In the game of football, you need to be strong, and at my position, you need to be able to put up a good fight. So I work on my upper body and lower body strength because your body's got to be able to last.
I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle.
High-intensity training works well for cricket because we spend long periods waiting around and then have to perform sudden sprints or dives.
It is a lot of pressure to prepare for the Mr. Olympia.
I swim three times a week.
I'm strong, but my arms are skinny; they're never going to get big and bulky like a football player.
None of the body was designed to play football. Excuse me, you know, football, we're just not designed for.
How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again.
It's sexy and beautiful to be strong.
I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.
Running is a way for me to relax. With one hour of intense running, I can get a lot of physical exercise. I can relax my body. I feel a tension in my muscles when I don't run. In that sense, I need to get out a few times a week in order to do my work as a scientist, which involves a lot of sitting still.
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
I never stop working when I'm on stage, and that's my fitness.
Biceps for show, triceps for go.
The reality is that my style of drumming is largely an athletic undertaking, and it does not pain me to realize that, like all athletes, there comes a time to... take yourself out of the game.
When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.
My back and shoulders are my strengths. They are well-toned and do not require too much of maintenance.
Swimming keeps me fit and flexible, and it helps that I have a large pool at my house in Beverly Hills.
Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.
I was as big as I have ever been. I had a personal trainer and was working out. I was feeling good. I was muscular. I had never weighed more than 155 pounds.
I train hard.
Eventually, I developed compartment syndrome in my calf and had to get surgery. I run three to five days a week now, mixed in with walking and other things. I want to run just because I enjoy it.
I'm a great inside and outside runner.
