- [Host] Yo, Nick, we're here to see your gym and fridge.
(grunts)
(bell dinging)
- Good morning!
(hip hop music)
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Let's go ♪
♪ First in it, first round ♪
- [Host] All right Nick,
so we got eight questions about your gym
then we're gonna go check out what's in your fridge,
and then we have a lightning round of questions at the end.
- Come on in Men's Health.
This is my gym, I'ma show you my fridge.
Get my food on, probably I'm one of the only cats
who works out and eats the entire time.
- [Host] So first up, how long have you had this gym?
- Hold on, chewing.
This is a fairly new gym,
it's connected to my office building, and my music studio.
So I never really leave this place.
No-one else is allowed to use this gym.
I'm sure there's a lot of artists,
and people that work with me
that come in here and get it in,
but this is all my personal stuff.
From martial arts, core training, lifting weights,
the bare essentials, mirrors of course, I love mirrors.
I work out every single day, sometimes twice a day
depending on what it is, always making working out fun.
- [Host] Two, what's your morning routine?
- I'm part of the 5 a.m. club.
Uh, and I don't know if that's morning or night,
I don't even really know how to define it.
Sometimes it's the end of a long day, been in the studio,
DJ-ing at the club whatever, if it's 5 a.m. I get it in.
I love music, uh, when I work out.
Specifically gospel music, ironically, uh,
there's just something about that energy that is uplifting.
(piano music)
Uh, is that public domain?
Either gospel music or R&B slow jams so I could,
picture myself next to a nice little lady.
♪ I wanna rock wit'chu baby ♪
Lifting, just gunning it. (laughs)
- [Host] Three, explain what a fire drill means to you?
- Ooh, anybody on my team that screams out fire drill,
everyone has to drop down and do at least 50 pushups.
But no matter where we are, we can be in the studio,
we can be in a board meeting, the mall,
if somebody yells fire drill, you gotta drop down
and knock out your five zero pushups.
- [Host] Four, we've seen you in jeans and Tims on Instagram
do you really work out like that?
- The Tims and jeans one I was actually trying to be funny,
with like, you know, the New York mentality,
to just show like yo it can happen anywhere.
It's like, that's like the street workout.
- [Host] Five, do you have any special equipment
in this gym?
- Uh, I turn anything into workout equipment,
from the chains, cinder blocks, pulling trucks,
um, sledge hammers, axes, wood, uh I do my leg workouts
by building a wall, not like Donald Trump, but like,
(laughs) you know like, a wall of power.
(laughs)
It's just gotta be fun, and it gotta be challenging,
so all our workouts, we just turn into challenges.
My kids love to work out, they're all into martial arts,
kind of like I was at their age.
Kind of introductory
because you don't want them to go too hard,
but you want them to understand endurance and discipline.
- [Host] Six, if you could take one thing on the road
with you from this gym, what would it be?
- It's easy to pack, best total body workout
you ever wanna see.
Lightweight, you can put this in any bag,
but it takes a true G to be able to do this.
(exhales)
- [Host] Seven, mental fitness, how do you keep
your mind fit?
- Mentally fit, all meditation.
I don't sleep enough but that's one thing like,
I could say is one of my downfalls, or flaws
when it comes to fitness.
You can get the same amount of rest and recuperation
but your body just do meditation so,
I've been trying to get my chakras aligned.
Fitness goals, uh, fitness goals honestly health first
uh, I'm kind of at the weight that I've always wanted to be,
but I fluctuate 'cause my metabolism is so fast,
so, to just maintain 175.
People make fun of my legs, (laughs),
even though they're not that small,
they say I look like Mike Tyson up top,
and Spike Lee on the bottom.
I'm Spike Tyson.
- [Host] Last question in the gym.
You got a ton of tattoos, which one is your favorite?
- Ooh, this one right here says fearless,
and it's actually written backwards,
so I can look into the mirror and see it,
so I can remind myself how fearless I am
when I wake up everyday.
All right so, that's the gym.
We gonna go in here into the studio
so y'all can see my fridge.
Can't tell y'all my secret password, stop looking.
(rap beats)
Welcome to my humble abode.
My piano, this is my calming space.
The refrigerator right next to it.
You know how we do, got the True Mass, Creatine.
Keeping me all together.
Shall we open up the fridge?
- [Host] You got a lot to drink in there.
- (laughs) 'Cause that's how I get down.
Being somebody who was diagnosed with lupus in 2012,
my body went through so many things, near death,
pulmonary embolisms, all that stuff at once,
the one thing I can honestly say
has got me to where I am today, water!
Specifically alkaline water, but any water.
Try to do at least two gallons of water a day.
To balance all of the water out,
you got to have your protein.
I'm a big fan of Muscle Milk 'cause it's just quick,
you know what I mean?
40 grams of protein, drink a couple of these a day
you can get all your protein in that way.
Then when you working out you need sugar, you need snack,
I don't drink alcohol, so this is the closest thing
I can ever have to like a sugar beverage, is ginger beer.
But you gotta get something that actually has real ginger
in it so there's benefits to it.
I would say I'm a privileged individual,
because I have prepared meals.
Looks delicious straight out the fridge,
but you know what, I'm not the chef,
so I'll let the chef explain to you.
Schlef, shoo, I can't even say it, schlef,
he's the schef slash, he's the chef slash trainer.
Yo, Aaron!
- What's up, what's up?
- Explain (laughs) to Men's Health,
what's going on here, what'd you prepare for me?
- [Aaron] I try to give Nick a high carb meal, um,
we're bulking right now but we trying to make sure
we stay as lean as possible so for today,
we have pasta with turkey meatballs,
you know, we get it in right after workouts.
He also eats his oatmeal during the workouts,
so we try to get as many calories into him
throughout the whole day.
- And I'm a huge candy freak, which he hates.
We made a bet and a deal, some months ago,
that I'd stop eating all candy for six months,
and I did it!
- Everything's in moderation, you know,
I still give him the opportunity to live life,
you know, so, it's not always eating clean, eating clean.
We get, he loves bean and cheese burritos
and I have no problem with him eating on those.
(piano music)
- [Host] What's goin' on with your music?
- We're really excited about this new project
I been working on for like over a year called Model Music.
I got a hot single right now featuring Ty Dolla $ign
and Jacquees that's on Model Music called Nobody Else
and really just inspired everybody
to have that model behavior, that model personality,
like everybody can feel like a supermodel,
everybody can feel and be a role model,
and it's just inspiring music,
like whether it's when you in the gym, um,
whether you going out to the club,
it's that Model Music vibe so get it now.
(piano music)
I gotta go do my workout for real,
I'll let y'all hang here, y'all saw my fridge,
y'all saw my gym,
now you about to see me get it in, in the gym.
Get to it!
- [Host] Time for quick fire questions, here we go.
- All right, all right now let's get it in man.
Ab, ab game.
- Game time.
- [Host] 7am workout, or 7pm workout?
- Uh, 7am workout!
- [Host] Squat or deadlift?
- Deadlift!
- [Host] Favorite song on your playlist?
- Favorite song?
Incredible Game, Nobody Else.
- [Host] Crossfit, yay or nay?
- Yes, crossfit.
- [Host] Pull ups or chin ups?
- Pull ups.
- [Host] Dumbbells or kettle bells?
- Kettle bells.
- [Host] Run on a treadmill, or run outside?
- Run outside.
- [Host] Cardio or weights?
- Uh, weights!
Speaking of, let me have those 20s.
- [Host] Big legs, big arms?
(grunts) - Big arms.
- [Host] What's the biggest compliment,
jacked, ripped, swoll, cut?
- Jacked!
(Aaron giggles)
- Ah, we jacked! (exhales)
- [Host] If you could workout with anyone, dead or alive,
who would it be?
- I want to workout with Jesus,
'cause his six pack is crazy! (laughs)
Jesus got abs!
Person alive though, I would love to work out with The Rock.
We all got this like running joke, Kevin Hart,
we hate him, because he's just perfect,
and he's just a bite size of endurance and power.
(laughs) You can't stop him.
Me and Kevin workout together all the time but
I haven't got a chance to workout with The Rock.
Kevin has, so, The Rock, let's get it in!
So the real workout begins,
I need y'all to get up out of here, y'all in the way now!
(hip hop music beats)