My name is Timbaland.
I'm a music producer.
Every day I come to the gym is a great day.
It's like therapy, it's like gettin' your meditation.
It's my time to commit to myself.
My relationship with my body has been
terrible.
Now it's great.
And my reason why I say terrible
because you can hide behind other things
to mask the terrible.
And for me, I think I hid behind money, the fame.
I always had confidence, but when I get by myself,
I remember I had this ex-girlfriend,
I told her my breasts can't be big as your breasts.
And she know, she felt bad, you know,
I said, but me, it was like, mentally,
it just came out, like my thoughts are so loud in my
head that it just blurted out.
'Cause that's what I was thinkin' when I was sayin' it,
when I was settin' beside like, this gotta change.
Those were the terrible times and you know,
I just got a grip on myself and just been like,
enough is enough.
With my body, I always had this imagination
of a action figure, 'cause I know have the body type.
I'm a guy that was been big all over,
I don't like to say fat or whatever,
but it is, it's the truth.
It's fat, it's obesity all over.
Not, just some people can just be have a big belly.
I got, you know, fat from kneecaps to, you know,
to the hands to all the way.
So, for me, it's just extra work.
And I don't know why God designed me that way,
but I'm proud of it because it pushes me,
it pushes me mentally, and I always had
this figure of how I should be.
And long as I keep havin' this figure in my head
when I wake up, I gotta go for it.
I always wore baggy clothes
because I was uncomfortable with my weight.
I never was secure with my weight.
That's why, you know, I praise a lot of people
that are comfortable, like Lizzo,
I praise her, I think that's great.
She teaches me to just be comfortable in your skin.
The passion for fitness doesn't come overnight.
Probably got started doing fitness maybe 2006.
But seriously, I would really say about 2017.
I mean like nonstop going 2017 all the way up to now.
I feel like when you tryin' to be great at something,
you can't half-ass something.
And I feel like before, it wasn't productive for me.
But until 2017, 2016, I made up my mind
to really go forward with health
and really give it all because I didn't wanna
just lose weight, I really, I might have a goal in mind,
my goal is to just to be ripped,
at least by the time I'm 50, you know what I'm sayin'?
I wanna be like this is the new middle-aged look.
What I had to stop doing is focusin' on the results
and just keep goin'.
And when I started doing that, I started,
one day I just blanked my mind out and said,
stop lookin' at yourself, just keep goin'.
And I stopped lookin' at myself
and one day I turned around, I mean, I put some pants on,
I'm like, wow, these pants are loose.
It didn't, you know, I didn't praise it, but I felt good.
The hard part was convincing myself to do it every day,
even when I don't see results.
I'm not a athlete, but I wanna train with the athletes.
Like, when I go out to the track with the football players,
they commend me for goin' out there with them,
but I'll be a little bit low key intimidated
'cause I never knew what team spirit,
team sport, all of that really was
until I got out there with those guys.
And they'd be like, good job, OG.
It's good to hear 'cause I never knew
what team spirit, team sport.
And I really wonder what an athlete goes through.
Just the pressure, the everyday pressure,
'cause I watch LeBron, I watch The Rock,
I watch these people that are great at their career,
really have dedicated time for workout and their health.
And you know, in order to be great,
you've gotta take great responsibility.
I'm an advocate of gettin' checked out,
goin', you know, just takin' better care of yourself,
especially as a minority, as you know, as a black people.
As you get older, you take for granted stuff like,
and especially in black men, I think,
prostate cancer, stuff like that.
All that is, you know, we take for granted.
We take liver, we take kidneys,
we take all these little things
and I just kept hearin' that,
and so, I was like, I just wanna not only
the aesthetics of looking great,
I wanna feel great and be great inside,
so this journey of health and this passion,
it's a ongoing thing.
Diet is 90% of it.
90% of it, and me and Dave have a diet plan,
it's on the website, DBC.
We have a meal plan for the average person,
not for a bodybuilder, but just for the average consumer,
the mom, the pops, they're like just home every day,
this is what you can eat to be healthier and lose weight.
A typical workout changes.
Dave never keep it the same.
He always changin' it up
because he trains professional athletes.
For the most part, he always find a new,
inventive way of creatin' things
and keepin' it interesting.
I'm listenin' to Dave instruct me,
makin' sure my body mechanics are right,
makin' sure my posture's right.
All of that plays a part because these,
all these things never worked on my body.
So, I'm almost like building a new man,
I call it like Westworld, like, hey, rebuilding myself.
This is the easiest thing you can do,
but the hardest thing at the same time.
It don't cost you nothing,
just costs you your effort.
The hard part is do you have the effort?
Do you have the energy?
Do you have the willpower to do?
So, I just take that same energy that I apply to my music
and apply it to my health.
Fitness gives, it didn't really,
I don't know if it changed, it added to my life.
It gave me more willpower,
more drive to not quit on certain things outside of fitness.
Because when you fit, and you have will
to do certain things at a certain time every morning,
a person will take you serious.
Somebody will always wanna do business with me
because he take his body serious,
he take his lifestyle serious.
The road to 205, I mean, it's still goin',
it's like, but I don't, it's what my body type
think I could be, 205.
But it might wind up being 215. It's a
journey, it's not something that happens overnight.
It's a journey, so I'm just showin' you, that's the goal.
Like, I don't have to post everyday to blah, blah, blah,
this is what I'm doing, this is what I--
Nah, I'm workin' out every day, so the goal never changed.
And now this is what I do.
Not for a living, to live.
Not for a living, but to live.