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- [Cameraman] Hey, Travis van Winkle.
It's Men's Health.
- What's up Men's Health.
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Karen's been expecting you.
I hear you guys are here for the Gym and Fridge segment.
Come on up.
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- All right, are you ready to work out?
All right, guys,
I'm excited to show you my gym.
This is obviously my garage and this is reserved for myself
and for Karen, Karen, come on.
Let's go.
We're not in any rush.
Here, at your own, at your own pace.
This is a blood, sweat, and tears gym.
This isn't a fancy gym,
but it has everything I need to get the job done.
- [Cameraman] How often do you work out?
- Oh, I probably work out like five days a week.
- [Cameraman] How is your exercise regime changed over time?
- I would say my regimen has,
is probably just gotten more specific, you know?
I feel like I've gotten smarter with how I work out more
focused on where I want to build my body out the most.
- [Cameraman] What's one exercise you hate?
- It's the tens, tens, tens, I love to hate this one.
You basically start crossing your body twist at the top.
So you do 10, nice and slow again.
Cross the shoulder.
Once you get 10 arms back,
and you get 10 hammers, twist out the, the arms.
Solid 10, nice slow pace.
- [Cameraman] What keeps you motivated?
- You know, it depends.
I feel like motivation, it needs a strong why.
During my training for YOU, it's a pretty popular show.
I knew I was going to be shirtless and like naked.
My why was strong to look good.
I feel like if you have a strong why,
you show up on those days that you don't want to,
if your motivation is strong enough,
you'll show up and you push through it
and then you're happy you did.
- [Cameraman] Do you use any special equipment?
- I don't know if you'd call it special,
but I got me a pulley system here, 180 bucks.
And it gives you the same bully systems
that you have in the gym.
I call this one, the monkey clap.
So this is for, this is a really good uh chess workup.
I don't know if this is for your upper you look,
this is just a good chess workout all right?
Bring it, mid-range here.
Clap.
And then a slow drag up.
I usually get heavier and heavier with every set.
So my rep count goes down,
and I always talk myself through it.
I always say clap, squeeze, uh so stupid
- [Cameraman] What kind of music do you listen to
when you work out?
- Sometimes I'll listen to podcasts.
Just something to keep my mind going.
Your, your endorphins are flowing.
So your mood just increases.
And that's a really good time to learn and to just fill your
brain with good stuff, so sometimes I'll,
I'll just listen to like positive affirmations or listen to
like really uh inspiring podcasts.
Or sometimes it's just gotta be straight up, hardcore rap,
rap, rap, rap.
- [Cameraman] Let's go check out your fridge.
- Welcome to my fridge,
it's filled with all sorts of good stuff.
- [Cameraman] What do you always have in your fridge?
- Avocado, I must have avocado in my fridge.
I would bathe in avocado if that was an option.
Uh I always have blueberries for sure.
You know I think it's important to have
garlic in your fridge.
I don't put a lot of salt in my food,
so I usually flavor it with garlic, so that's important.
Believe it or not, I don't have eggs in my fridge.
This may be the first time I've I've ever not had
eggs in my fridge.
I have this thing.
I don't, I, I bought it,
I think it makes your face cold, uh like around your eyes.
I've never used it,
but I thought it'd be a good idea to like,
I don't know, relaxed.
- [Cameraman] How was your diet change over the years?
- You know, I've loosened up the ties a little bit.
I'm not as strict as I was,
but I generally always eat healthy because when I eat
healthy, I feel good.
I eat a lot of salmon, eat a lot of chicken, you know,
a lot of greens, oats, super simple.
- [Cameraman] What will we never see in your fridge?
- What you would never see my fridge, is probably radishes.
Every time I have a radish,
I feel like I've got that like gag reflex thing
come up in me.
No offense to radishes out there, but no.
- [Cameraman] What do you eat for breakfast?
- When I was training, I had two breakfast.
My first breakfast was usually, you know,
a scoop of oats with almonds and blueberries and almond milk
with a scoop of protein powder.
And then usually around 10:00 AM or 11:00 AM,
I'd have four eggs, spinach, uh avocado,
half an avocado because I knew I'd have the other half
for dinner.
- [Cameraman] What is your go-to comfort food?
- I'm a sweets guy.
I'll usually go for donuts, some kind of cake,
always has to have some kind of chocolate in it.
That's that's where I go to when I need to
have something sweet.
- [Cameraman] Do you drink coffee?
- The answer to that is, yeah.
But during my training for the show, zero caffeine.
What I found was without caffeine,
I had all the energy I needed,
but I wouldn't have necessarily known that until I tried it
because caffeine is just so good.
- [Cameraman] What's your snack strategy?
- My snack strategy is usually I'll do a cup of blueberries
with almonds and some honey mix that up.
Here's kind of a unconventional snack strategy,
but I'll do a banana, I'll do cashews,
and I'll do a scoop of spirulina.
And it looks like someone vomited in a bowl,
but I'm telling you it's so good.
- [Cameraman] What does your cheat day look like?
- First of all, I don't call it cheat days.
They're called load days,
Cause cheat has this negative connotation to it.
Load days, there's a purpose to it.
So when I was training for YOU,
I wanted to put on 10 pounds of muscle
and I hired a nutritionist.
We put together this really cool structure where
I did five days on and two days off.
And so the weekends were my load days and the whole goal was
to just fill up my body with as much carbs as I could.
- [Cameraman] What do you grab from your fridge at 2:00 AM?
- When I come to my fridge at two,
I don't come to my fridge at two in the morning,
I'm sleeping and those who aren't sleeping at two in the
morning, what are you doing?
What are you?
What are you what's going on at two in the morning?
Uh did I just look old by saying that? (beep)
- [Cameraman] Alright, time to rapid fire questions.
Workout time, 7:00 AM or 7:00 PM?
- 7:00 AM.
- [Cameraman] Squat or deadlift?
- Squat.
- [Cameraman] CrossFit, yay or nay?
- I did CrossFit for a while and uh yeah sure why not?
- [Cameraman] Pull ups or chin ups?
- What do you think?
- [Cameraman] Dumbbells or kettle-bells?
- Uh dumbbells.
- [Cameraman] Cardio or weights?
- I'm real tired,
uh, combo,
life is not just one thing, so both.
- [Cameraman] Big legs are big arms?
- Ha, big arms.
- [Cameraman] Biggest complement,
jacked, cut, ripped or swole?
- Ripped feels pretty nice.
- [Cameraman] If you could work out with anyone
in the world, dead or alive, who would it be?
- Robert Redford.
One of my idols, you know, he's just, he's just a cool dude.
So if he wanted to have workout with me, I'd be into it.
You guys and you girls and maybe their dogs watching,
I don't know.
Thanks for checking out my Gym and Fridge.
Make sure to check out season three of YOU on Netflix.
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