- [Interviewer] Hey, Mario, are you there?
- Men's Health.
(bell dinging)
Welcome to mi casa.
I hear you're here to see the fridge and the gym?
All right, come on. This is the way.
(upbeat music)
- [Mario] Voilà.
- [Interviewer] What staples do you have in your fridge?
- I gotta have coconut water.
It's the next best thing to water to me.
Almond milk for all my protein shakes.
I gotta have hot sauce.
And I wish it could get hotter than this,
but this is pretty much the hottest one you can get.
If y'all know of anything hotter,
let me know.
DM me at marioworldwide.
I need that.
- [Interviewer] What does your diet consist of?
- I would consider myself a pescatarian.
I don't eat chicken or anything like that.
I pretty much stick with fish,
and then vegetables, and fruits.
- [Interviewer] What did your diet look like
before you got healthy?
- As I drink this wine,
definitely eating chicken,
definitely eating red meats.
Fish filet from McDonald's,
they used to be my go-to.
But those days are over,
you know?
No more dark nights.
- [Interviewer] What would we never see in your fridge?
- Honestly, I don't even be opening this fridge this much.
Y'all got me looking through the fridge.
Like, I don't even be in here.
Sometimes I just order food.
I don't even cook.
I just order Uber Eats or some (bleep) like that.
- [Interviewer] What would we always find in your fridge?
- This is a must,
and it's also a probiotic.
So it's always gonna be in my fridge.
If you don't see this in my fridge,
you know I'm having a bad week, for sure.
- [Interviewer] What do you have for breakfast?
- I like to have,
sometimes one of these for breakfast.
Mixed fruit with everything there.
Kiwi, strawberry.
- [Interviewer] Do you cook?
- I'm the best assistant cook
that you're ever gonna meet in your life.
So my assistance includes telling you what to cook,
helping with the seasoning,
I'ma sing to you while you cook.
♪ Braid my hair ♪
- [Interviewer] Any foods you hate?
- I don't know what it is about okra,
but I can not eat okra.
Like, the texture of it,
the seeds in it.
Like, I don't--
Don't.
Just keep--
if you cooking Oprah-- Oprah (laughs)?
(beep)
If you're cooking okra,
I'm not coming to your house.
- [Interviewer] What's your go-to comfort food?
- My go-to comfort food
is Jalapeno Kettle Chips, gluten free.
This bag right here can easily get devoured in 10 minutes.
Easy.
Pick.
You want some? You want some?
(chips crunch)
- [Interviewer] What's your go-to protein?
- So the protein I like, this raw organic protein,
It's Garden Of Life.
I drink this for breakfast sometimes.
Sometimes I drink it after the gym.
Really, it just depends.
- [Interviewer] What do you eat if you're hungry at 2:00 AM?
- What I do is,
I come down to here,
in the freezer.
And I'ma come and grab me some dairy fruit ice cream
with chocolate.
Dairy free.
And I'ma go crazy.
(upbeat music)
Wassup, wassup, wassup, everybody?
Welcome to Cali's Fitness, man.
Shout out to my Cali Fitness squad.
We have the gym right now.
It's a private gym.
Well, we're about to get it in, man.
So welcome.
- [Interviewer] What do you consider an intense workout?
- Anything above the track,
stairs, and inside my trainer, Pierre,
he's training me.
This is his facility, and he's a beast.
- [Interviewer] What's one of your favorite workouts?
- Tire flipping.
Works your core, legs,
the chest, shoulders, everything.
It's one of my favorite workouts for sure.
- [Interviewer] What's one exercise that you hate?
- Planks.
But they gotta be done.
I try to hold for that two to three minutes
every time.
- [Interviewer] What do you listen
to when you're working out?
- Definitely Travis Scott.
Future, Gunna, and Young Thug.
Anything in that space gets me hype,
it keeps me going.
- [Interviewer] What does a week of training look like?
- Monday, I usually start with like, legs.
Rest on Tuesday.
Wednesday, I'll do chest.
Friday, I'll do back.
Saturday, I do like, a compound workout.
- [Interviewer] What other kinds of training do you do?
- Boxing is definitely one of my favorite trainings
'cause it works every part of your body.
Boxing is lit, for sure.
- [Interviewer] What's your favorite part of working out?
- Seeing results.
Feeling my body kind of get used to a certain type
of workout and then pushing myself to the next level.
There's nothing like seeing the results, baby.
- [Interviewer] Do you train with anyone else?
- I don't really work out with too many people.
My trainer, Pierre, and he kicks my ass.
It's crazy.
So I'm actually happy he wasn't in any of this video
because he probably would have embarrassed me.
- [Interviewer] What's your morning routine like?
- My morning routine usually consists of waking up,
I meditate for about 10 minutes.
And I get on my phone and I start working.
Probably should take more time
to myself in the mornings, but I rarely do.
- [Interviewer] All right, Mario.
Time for some and rapid fire questions.
Workout time.
7:00 AM or 7:00 PM?
- 7:00 PM.
- [Interviewer] Squat or deadlift?
- Deadlift.
- [Interviewer] Favorite song in your playlist?
- [Mario] "Franchise" by Travis Scott.
- [Interviewer] Pull-ups or chin-ups?
- Pull-ups.
- [Interviewer] CrossFit. Yay or nay?
- Nah.
- [Interviewer] Dumbbells or kettlebells?
- Dumbbells.
- [Interviewer] Running on a treadmill
or the great outdoors?
- Outdoors, for sure.
- [Interviewer] Cardio or weights?
- Weights.
- [Interviewer] Biggest compliment; jacked, cut,
ripped, or swoll?
- Cut.
- [Interviewer] If you could work out
with anyone in the world,
dead or alive, who would it be?
- Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Yo, Men's Health, thank y'all so much for having me.
Thank y'all for joining me.
I gotta get ready to close the gym down.
Thank you for coming to my crib and the gym.
Peace.
Lights out. (light switch flickering)