(knocking)
- [Interviewer] Howdy, Kip.
We're here to see your gym and fridge.
- Yeah, yeah!
What's happening, fellas?
(ding)
Y'all come on in.
(country music playing)
- [Interviewer] All right Kip.
First, let's go to the gym,
and then you can show us your fridge.
Ready?
Let's go.
- All right, come on in guys.
I don't know how I feel about this,
but this is my sanctuary right here.
So this is my favorite gym to come to, period.
I'll show you a few workouts.
I'll show you how I stay in shape.
- [Interviewer] What's a typical week of training
look like for you?
- A week of training for me varies.
These are my gym workouts right here.
A lot of times, I'll focus on one body part.
I'm doing a lot of functional workouts.
I'm working my legs, my core.
So I try to do workouts that aren't necessarily
gonna get me super bulky, but to stay lean and fit,
I never go super heavy.
I find that it builds the most,
the most muscle in the spots that you want to
at the same time too.
- [Interviewer] Do you work out in your jeans?
- Nah, they're not jeans.
These are my, these are my climbing pants.
I use these pants to rock climb
but I'll also train in them sometimes too.
They're super thin so you got all the mobility,
and you got the style at the same time.
So this way right here, I love this one right here.
I'm getting a good workout for my legs.
I pretty much always workout solo.
- [Interviewer] Do you have a trainer?
- Nah, I've never had a trainer.
I've always tried to figure out how my body responds
the best, and I feel like I've learned my body
through the years and knowing what it needs,
and I don't like listening to anybody
telling me how to workout so.
(laughs)
(weights clanging)
That's probably the main reason.
- [Interviewer] What do you do on those rings?
- This always gets a little bit more of a pump
than regular pull ups for me.
It works your lats a little bit more.
Then you can turn it around,
and you got a bicep workout,
and you're working your core.
(upbeat guitar)
This is another one that I like to do to work.
I'm working multiple parts of my body doing this.
I go into a press and I work my stomach at the same time.
I haven't researched any of it.
I've just learned how my body responds to certain things,
and it's all been trial and error for me.
- [Interviewer] Did you play any sports
when you were younger?
- [Kip] I played basketball my whole life
until I was about 20.
And I think that, always training for that,
always having to keep my body in a certain type of shape,
it kind of transposed to the rest of my life
and even doing music.
With my fitness, with being able to sing
and having the stamina to go and do 150 shows in a year,
it's super taxing.
Mentally, physically, all of it.
So for me, it's kind of a competition
on how ready can I be,
which translates to the sports world too.
- [Interviewer] What kind of music do you listen to
when you workout?
- You know, I will say that
I listen to all types of music while I'm working out.
I love some old school pop.
I was listening to a Wild Feather's record today.
They're great.
I even listen to Lord Huron, which is pretty chill.
I don't have to have music that's thumping
the whole time for me.
I change it up when I'm working out.
This is an essential, just a standard squat.
Once again, if you're trying to get in shape,
these are essential.
It's all about tone and strength for me, so I go high reps.
- [Interviewer] What are your fitness goals?
- To be honest,
I don't really have specific goals with my fitness.
For me, it's all about maintaining.
It's not about getting bulky for me.
It's all about keeping my body ready
for whatever activities I'm gonna get into.
And if you're working your legs constantly,
you're gonna pretty much always be in shape
to tackle any kind of outdoor activity.
- [Interviewer] How do you keep your mind healthy?
- [Kip] Keeping my mind healthy is a whole 'nother animal.
(laughs softly)
I've always been a bit of a basket case.
I'd be lying if I said that this is how I keep it healthy.
I try to meditate, I try to pray.
But the road it really, the road really beats you up,
and does a psychological damage to you sometimes
and that's just part of it.
There's so much beautiful things that come with
playing music and constantly traveling.
But the tough part is the lack of sleep,
the lack of the proper diet,
your highs and lows are so drastic every single day.
So trying to keep your mental sanity in a balance,
that's been the most difficult part for me.
But I will say that this does keep me from going crazy.
This is my sanity.
Getting here everyday about an hour and a half,
and really getting after it.
- [Interviewer] Do you have any scars?
- I've got a couple really bad skateboarding scars
on my shin and on my knee.
I had a little scar on my face for awhile
from surfing, hitting the reef.
Other than that, I'm scar free except for the skating.
- [Interviewer] What's your most meaningful tattoo?
- Most meaningful tattoo for me is this right here.
Psalm 40, verse one and two.
I read that verse every single night
when I first moved to Nashville,
probably the first six months.
There was so much talent in this town,
I felt overwhelmed.
I felt inadequate.
And that was the one verse that gave me comfort.
I told myself if I ever got a record deal,
it'd be the first thing I got tattooed on me.
- [Interviewer] All right, Kip.
Now show us your home fridge.
- All right.
This is my fridge right here.
This is not the most exciting fridge
you're gonna ever probably look in on this show,
but I'm gonna let you check it out anyway.
All right, for the most part, breakfast every morning.
I got my eggs right here.
I got some avocados and tomatoes in here,
I'm pretty strict with that.
Like fruits, vegetables, eggs every single morning.
- [Interviewer] How do you spice up your eggs?
- I put salsa.
That's the key, like if you want to make
a good breakfast scramble.
You gotta put salsa.
Lunch... I do like pretty much two lunches every single day.
I get a lot of these meals.
It's just like a company here in town.
It's called Eat Well.
It's all clean food.
They don't soak in all the stuff that
a lot of other places use, like butter and olive oils,
and all that kind of stuff so that's why I get these.
- [Interviewer] What's in that Tupperware?
- This right here is probably two week old chicken
that I need to throw out that I haven't done yet.
(laughs)
I've been gone for like two weeks,
so you don't need to worry about that chicken.
You don't need to get close to that chicken.
That chicken will make you sick really fast.
- [Interviewer] What about that thing?
- I don't need to tell you what's in this.
I might not be able to get through Canada again
if I tell you what's in here.
(laughs)
This right here, this is some good stuff right here.
A company out of Miami right here,
they make this all natural almond butter.
I put it on everything.
I put it on my toast.
I put it on pancakes if I make pancakes.
- [Interviewer] How do you stay fit on the road?
- You know the hardest thing when you're traveling is,
I don't have access to all this prepped stuff.
Your sleep habits are all messed up.
That's the hardest thing.
I usually lose a lot of weight on every single run
because I can't get an adequate diet
because I'm still working out,
I'm still going on stage running around,
I'm burning all these calories.
So that's the hardest part is
finding a clean diet on the road.
The main thing for me when I'm on the road
is not jumping into a lot of bad foods,
and making myself feel bad.
So I can deal with losing some weight
and not getting sufficient calories
because I can always put that right back on.
- [Interviewer] How did you first get into fitness?
- I think I've always been into fitness
just from playing sports my whole life.
I started really learning about foods probably 10 years ago,
researching a lot about foods
and what certain ones will do for your body.
So that's just been a part of my life.
For me, it's all kind of functional training
so that whenever I get back out,
I'm rock climbing or I'm surfing,
I'm right back in the game.
Because I'm taking care of myself in the kitchen.
- [Interviewer] Is there anything special you do
to take care of your voice?
- I don't really do anything for my voice.
This is au naturel.
This is all the goodness, you know what I mean?
So people ask me do I take certain foods
or certain vitamins for my voice,
and do I do warm ups and all this stuff.
I've never done any of that in my life.
I know at some point that's probably gonna
bite me in the ass,
but I don't know any tricks for my voice.
This is just,
I'm just incredible I don't know what else I can say.
(laughs)
- [Interviewer] That's an impressive whiskey collection.
- All the whiskey that's behind you guys right now
makes me feel like a raging alcoholic looking at it.
But for the most part, I take these bottles
from off the road.
I do love to sip on a little whiskey on the rocks
but for the most part, I usually go to tequila every time.
- [Interviewer] Do you have any foods that you hate?
- The only food that you will probably
never see in this fridge is squash.
I hate squash with a passion.
I don't care how it's cooked, I can't do it.
I don't want any part of it.
- [Interviewer] Have you tried any diets?
- I've never been on a fad diet in my whole life.
I feel like if you're truly taking care of yourself,
you workout everyday and you're eating clean,
I just haven't found the need for any fad diets yet.
- [Interviewer] Do you ever eat unhealthy?
- If I'm gonna be really bad,
I'm gonna eat that whole bag of M&Ms,
and then if I'm done with that,
I get the old school fudge pops,
and then I go into this and then I pass out.
(laughs)
- [Interviewer] All right.
Time to go back to the gym for our rapid fire questions.
7am workout or 7pm?
- 7am.
- [Interviewer] Squat or deadlift?
- Squat.
- [Interviewer] Favorite song on your playlist?
- Quittin' time, Wild Feathers.
- [Interviewer] Crossfit... Yay or nay?
- No.
- [Interviewer] Pull ups or chin ups?
- I'm gonna go with pull ups.
- [Interviewer] Kettle bells or dumbbells?
- Kettle bells.
- [Interviewer] Treadmill or the great outdoors?
- Anything but a treadmill.
- [Interviewer] Cardio or weights?
- Weights.
- [Interviewer] Big legs or big arms?
- Legs.
- [Interviewer] Which would you rather be:
jacked, ripped, swole, or cut?
- You got a great rig on you, man.
- [Interviewer] If you had to work out with anyone,
dead or alive, who would it be?
- Gotta say Arnold, right?
It's gonna be Arnold if you're gonna work out with anybody.
Y'all get the (bleep) out of here.
I need to get back to my workout.
Later.
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