I'd say the challenge of DHing is going to be learning the routine and to stay loose and stay warm and kind of be ready for it.
It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.
I practice every day, I warm up before I play.
When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.
I go out there every day, take early batting practice, fly balls.
On game days, I do yoga as just a really short routine. It's more to warm up and to calm down in the morning.
I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.
For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.
You can't really sit around when you're sore. You've got to get up and work all that lactic acid out.
Well, any time I'm preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, it's as if in a way, like any other athletes, these are muscles that support the vocal cords which are just I believe cartilage. It demands a kind of constant warming up and a constant feeling of where is the voice today.
People think I can just walk out and shoot 75 without taking a warm-up shot. But believe me, it's not that easy.
Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.
I don't need to practise. The only thing I need to do is build up my match fitness.
My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.
I sing 'Nessun Dorma' when I warm up backstage.
If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.
It's like swimmin' without warmin' up, yuo know what I mean? So [cackles] we use the drum machine, and we take it out.
All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.
A good pre-season is essential if you want to do well.
My dad always told me you have to be as quick as you can straight away out of the box. Some people say, 'Feel your way into it; build it up.' No. My dad would say, 'Straight away, you have to be there.' And I think that helps to warm up your tyres and brakes to be on it a bit more from lap one.
Stretching was a major part of my preparation.
The importance of a warm up and cool down can't be stressed enough.
Cardio is a nice way to start the morning, man. Whether you sit on the bike for half an hour or throw on two jumpers and just sweat, it's good to get up, get the body active, put on your headphones, and just pedal away.
I have a specific routine before every match. I like to grip my rackets, because I feel that someone else won't do it how I like them. But the biggest thing is that I don't like to stress about my match all morning. Twenty minutes before, I'll sit down and think about the game plan and warm up. And then I just play.
The regular season, it's kind of like a rehearsal. That's the way I look at it.
