(knocking)
- [Host] Hey Derek, we're here to see
your gym and fridge. - Hey guys.
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Come in through my garage?
That's creepy, awesome, so you guys are here
to see my gym and fridge? Come on in, check it out.
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- [Host] Let's check out your gym
and then head to your fridge.
- This is my backyard,
I like to, we're in Los Angeles, so it makes sense
to work out outside, it's weird to be indoors.
- [Host] How often do you work out?
- I would say at least five times a week,
whether it be just like, yoga, strength training,
cardio, I always try to do something physical,
something active, on top of dancing.
And of course, dancing itself is an immense workout.
But this machine right here, for me,
I get my cardio goin' with.
(machine whirring)
- [Host] What keeps you motivated?
- The idea that, I think when people say,
like, oh, there's a shelf life for an athlete
or you know, in my case, a dancer,
which is an artistic athlete,
defying the odds or creating your own destiny,
not sort of just falling into that habit of like,
oh, I'm gettin' older now, I gotta...
That motivates me.
That keeps me motivated.
- [Host] What's your favorite part of the workout?
When I feel like my heart is beating out of my chest
but I can like, taste blood almost.
It hurts, but I like the feeling of it,
because I know I'm workin' really hard.
- [Host] What's your least favorite.
- I hate doin' legs.
You know, bein' a dancer, I don't wanna be like, stiff,
so my sort of rationalizing not doing a lot of legs
is that I wanna keep these fast and nimble, quick,
but my trainer makes me do 'em anyway, so.
(laughing)
- [Host] Do you work out with anyone else?
- Yeah, I work out with my girlfriend,
my best friend, my brother-in-law,
it's more fun when you work out with people.
To push them, they push you, just to joke around,
it becomes like a social activity.
- [Host] What does your morning routine look like?
- C'mere bud, c'mere!
Come here.
Take this guy out for a pee,
goes to the bathroom, have my green drink,
take a plunge in the pool, get the adrenals goin'.
Get ready, go work out.
- [Host] Do you eat before you work out?
- I don't really like eating before a workout,
I feel too heavy and it sloshes around.
- [Host] How do you keep your mind fit?
- I have my daily rituals, you know,
whether it be things I listen to, podcasts, a YouTube video,
something to sort of get my mind in the right set.
'Cause I feel like that part is as important
if not more important than the physical part,
you know, especially for men, in general.
- [Host] Do you use any special equipment?
- Yeah, I use a few fun little toys.
Let's go check it out.
So the garage slash ping pong room,
I love ping pong.
This is where I keep all my recovery toys.
Yeah, boom.
So it doesn't look like much right now,
but let me break it down.
So this should be in anybody's arsenal that's, you know,
an athlete or works out is a Hypervolt, it's the bomb,
it's the best.
Work out the IT bands, the adductors,
another thing, this is great for the glute,
you know, I sit on it and it doesn't feel great
and it hurts, but afterwards it's delightful.
But right now, I wanna cry.
So that's that.
It also vibrates.
Foam roller, see and these, this one also vibrates.
(roller buzzing)
I'm into vibrating things that are good for your health.
Power dots, freakin' awesome, I love this so much.
You put these pads anywhere on your body
that's sore or hurts,
you put the electrodes on 'em, boom.
Stimulates the muscle, they're magic, magic.
That's pretty much it,
that's all the good stuff right there.
- [Host] How do you stay fit when you're on the road?
- Well, when I'm traveling I'm performing
and that is as much fitness as I can fit in a day, honestly.
So I don't really wanna stress the muscle,
I just wanna activate it,
I wanna turn everything on, you know, keep it,
get it mobile, and then go out and do what I do.
- [Host] What other types of training do you do?
- I'll also just like to go you know, bike
and get on this thing, except for it's an electric bike
so it's not a huge workout.
I like to box, I love mixed martial arts,
I like to swim, I like to hike, anything outdoors.
I'm a very adventurous person.
I try not to do stuff that, where I can like, hurt myself.
Just recently, on New Year's, ah, it's so stupid.
I'm in Park City, where I'm from,
you know, up in the mountains and beautiful snow
and everyone's like, come on, you gotta go snowboarding,
'cause I can snowboard, I can ski,
and I'm like, no guys, I can't go this year,
I got like, you know, something comin' up this year,
big, I gotta stay healthy, gotta stay strong,
I don't wanna risk it.
So what do I decide to do?
I decide to go to a trampoline park,
which is the worst thing you could do
and they had like an American Ninja Warrior course
and I was the only one out of 30 people
that completed the course
but as I was doin' this one right here,
I came down and I landed weird on my foot.
So I basically like sprained my foot.
Luckily it's good, I heal fast,
it feels good, it feels strong.
- [Host] What are your fitness goals?
- I think being a competitor, you know,
I used to compete in dancing around the world
and one of the things that I always struggled with
was my stamina.
The eighth round of a 12-hour day and it's the final dance
and I'm like, dying and all your technique,
all the hours of training kind of go out the window
and you're just surviving,
that's a terrible feeling, it's a terrible feeling
when you've worked so hard on all this technique
and all this nuances, goes all out the window
when you lose that energy.
So for me, it's about energy,
it's about just having strength and mobility
and flexibility and endurance, you know,
that's my main goal.
- [Host] Do you have any tattoos?
- I don't have any tattoos, I am tattooless.
- [Host] Any meaningful scars?
- Well, just recently I got my appendix taken out,
right here, boom, and there's a scar here,
and there's a scar here.
2 AM I woke up, I was like, babe.
And I'm crawling on the floor,
I dunno if anybody's had this before,
but you can't like, stand up.
Yeah, she took me to the hospital, you know,
had it taken out straightaway.
So I've been strengthening that back up.
You know what I mean, kind of that muscle,
'cause they cut into the muscle.
All right, well, speaking of my appendix,
let's go check out my fridge.
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Here we are, we're here at my fridge.
It's a mission trying to figure out how to open this thing.
There it is.
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There she be, the glorious fridge,
where all the food and the nourishment is provided.
- [Host] What do you normally keep in your fridge?
- Lots of oat milk, love that, or almond milk.
Got the celery juice, we got lots of celery
for the celery juices in the morning.
Seems to be a thing right now that's poppin' off in LA.
Alkalize and energize.
Green, green, green, as much as you possibly can.
Avocados, I love putting avocados in my shakes,
in my protein shakes.
This is like, the nice healthy fats.
Farmer's market, we got these nice pickles.
Spicy dill, this is like a snack.
I love Bubly, love sparkling water.
Love kombucha.
A very LA looking fridge.
Let's move over to the freezer, shall we?
I don't know what's in here.
I don't think I've been in this freezer for a minute.
And...
This is definitely my girlfriend's part.
'Cause I had no idea we had corn dogs, that's...
Yeah, she supplies the cheap dates.
- [Host] What does your diet mainly consist of?
- Chicken, fish, lots of vegetables,
pretty boring, honestly, especially when I'm on tour.
When I'm on tour, I have the same meal every single day.
Quinoa, chicken, and sweet potatoes.
But I just feel like the consistency is important
because if I try something different
and I'm on stage, and I'm dancing,
I'm doing a performance and all the sudden,
I'm like blegh, and there's a reaction,
I can't like run off-stage, or...
You know what I'm trying to say, right?
You know, I don't wanna mess up the system.
- [Host] What would we never see in your fridge?
- Scallops, you won't find scallops in here.
My sister cooked scallops one time
in my old apartment, stunk the whole place up
for months and my sort of rule is like,
no fish in the house.
Like, no cooking fish in the house.
If we're gonna cook fish, we're gonna go out to the barbecue
we could smoke it, I got a smoker out there,
we can smoke the salmon.
We'll crush it out there, but we're gonna do it out there.
Not in the house.
- [Host] What's your cheat meal look like?
- Man, I dunno, I mean, if we go in the theater room
I got popcorn, I got candy in there,
all sorts of stuff.
It's all about the cheat days, you know, I'm good with that.
The Red Vines, the Peanut M&Ms,
I'm salivating right now, as I'm sayin' this.
But if I do that I have to be very prepared for the next day
to have like a popcorn hangover.
My body doesn't like it.
- [Host] Do you cook?
- No, not really.
I will say, I've been getting into smoking.
I have like a smoker outside,
crank that thing on, I just love that smell
of that like, smell like a campfire, you know?
- [Host] Do you drink coffee, alcohol?
- Drinks, I don't drink alcohol but yeah,
I actually, I have a coffeemaker in here.
I got a little espresso machine.
I'll put it in my shakes sometimes.
- [Host] Have you tried any special diets?
- No, not really.
I never really did something like followed a plan
or a system, just use common sense, for me at least.
I just felt like, okay, clearly this food
doesn't agree with me, I just kinda listen to my body
and just kinda go with what it says.
And I guess my mom instilled this sort of sense
of like, we had a wheatgrass machine in our house
when I was a kid.
Literally had the grass, you put it in there
and it grinds it and it comes out
and I thought she was torturing us, I was like,
yo, my mom is a psycho, she's crazy, she's feeding us grass.
- [Host] Have you always been this healthy?
- More or less, I think as I've gotten older
I've been more mindful about how I eat.
Slow down the hands of time, as far as the way you feel.
- [Host] Do you take any supplements?
- Supplements, check out my supplements.
Yo, let's check out the supps, this is it right here.
Boom, it's pretty organized.
The protein powder, chocolate flavor, my favorite flavor.
Collagen, I hurt myself, sprained my ankle,
tore some ligaments, and just ever since I did that
I was just conscious of collagen to help that.
A BCAs, glutamine, in the mornings this is what I have,
like, this preworkout, it's like mango flavor.
And this green powder which has like,
a lot of vitamins in it and a lot of just green vibrance.
And of course, the maca powder.
Just to add some dudeness, you know what I'm sayin' fellas.
You know, you already know!
All right, so these are the supplements I take right here.
Pretty easy, straightforward.
All right, let's go check out my last workout
in the garage.
- [Host] Time for rapid-fire questions.
- All right so my favorite part of my workout is ping pong.
Just somethin' about it, the hand-eye coordination,
minimizes injury.
- 7 AM or 7 PM workout? - 7 AM.
- Squat or deadlift? - Squat!
- [Host] Favorite song on your workout playlist?
- "Duality" by SlipKnot.
- CrossFit, yay or nay? - Ah, yay?
- Pull-ups or chin-ups? - Pull-ups.
- Dumbbells or kettle bells? - Dumbbells.
- [Host] Run on a treadmill
or the great outdoors? - Outside.
- Cardio or weights? - Cardio.
- Big legs or big arms? - Big arms.
- [Host] Jacked, ripped, cut, or swole?
- Ripped!
- [Host] If you could work out with anyone in the world,
dead or alive, who would it be?
- Bruce Lee!
Now that I've given you guys some of my secret sauce
and my ping pong skills,
I think it's time for you guys to get on outta here!
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