- What's up?
I'm SAINt JHN, and these are my friends.
- Hi.
- I have cool friends.
All right.
My fitness goals are pretty simple.
I want to be sexy.
And I'm about to work out.
So we're about to do ropes for one minute.
They're gonna do jumping jacks for one minute.
And if you mess up,
you get an extra 30 seconds on top of it.
I just added that.
I ad-libbed that.
But that's what I want.
(feet and rope hitting against floor)
Don't be countin' my card!
Don't worry what I gotta do!
So now we're wraps. We're doing wraps
'cause we're about to start boxing.
- It protects your wrist, a little padding
on the knuckles and it protects your thumbs.
- Even if you lose your wrist,
don't lose your thumb.
That makes sense, right?
When you learn the rhythm and you perfect
the dance, you get better with the actual fight.
- (Trainer) Little step forward, quick shuffle,
then step back. Yeah, on your stand; step forward...
Shuffle real quick... come in.
- (Trainer giving instructions)
- We're about to do combinations, I think we're
gonna do combinations on the pad, you'll see Vic
holding a pad like this going (simulating hitting).
- (Vic) Step in on that jab! Step in on that jab!
One-two!
- (Vic instructing)
- Every time you twist your body,
it's breath control, you gotta remember to
breathe in, breathe out, throw your punch,
remember your footwork, remember your words,
I'm doing verses in my head. This is me being
on stage, the audience is of one,
as far as I'm concerned. Just you, just me.
That's my stage right now.
I wanna get better.
- Here we're gonna work on light punches
up here, power punches to the body, all right?
Body punches are very important to drop
your opponent's guard.
Tap-tap the head, come in, power punch,
his defense goes down, ready for the chin-check.
- You heard him. So we're doing the big boy junk.
Being a performing artist, rhythm is key.
It helps your breath control, it helps your stability.
Imagine you're on tour and you're jumping up and down
for 45 minutes to 72 minutes a night,
you need the clarity, the breath control,
and the stamina to perform it. So boxing,
it's like a small rendition of that.
- Three, two-- push, push, push, push-- one. Time.
- I told you it wasn't easy. But it's absolutely
worth it.
We're doing 20 squats,
and I'm crying deep down on the inside.
- (Vic) All right, now stay down, 20 right here,
you go one knee at a time, you go...
- So this really works on stability, and it's a squat.
You feel a burn right above your knee?
- (Vic) So, left knee, right elbow. 10 reps,
all 10 reps on one side.
- (Vic counting the reps)
- So it has a resistance band around my ankles,
weights because I'm about to do Russian Twists
into a press.
Left, right, press. You see?
Left, right, press.
Right, left, press.
When I press, I expand.
- (Vic) Working your inner thighs, abs,
shoulders...
- This look fun? It's not.
So we're still working core, and we're
working a little upper body here.
All right? So you come up...
- (Vic) So it's a cross-body mountain climber at the top.
So now you gotta Spider Plank, remember that?
Two shoulder taps, and then drive your knees
to the outside of your elbow.
- (JHN) The magic is when you know you're doing
the work, so it's working. And the excitement
comes from that, knowing that you're doing something,
knowing that you're executing.
- (hiphop music)
- All right, so we're about to do crunches,
toe-touches, and isolations with a resistance band,
'cause I love the resistance band so much,
can you see it in my face, does it look like
I'm happy? I'm really happy.
- (Vic counting)
- (JHN) You gotta want to be great. Even when
nobody's looking, I'm pushing myself.
They're pushing themselves.
The real reason why I work out in the morning,
the nights, and the afternoons, is 'cause
I love myself. Hold onto that for a second.
- (Vic counting down)
- So after you do a full workout, so that you
avoid any risk of injury, is a cool down period.
- (clapping)
- I'm SAINt JHN, this is the whole gang,
this is us working out. This is day to day,
day in the life, this is normal.
It has to be normal.
I'm gonna let Hal lead it off with a dance real quick.
- All right!
- (communal cheering, laughing)