American DJ and record producer Diplo shows off his go to exercises to stay strong and lean while on the road. Plus, he shares his tips for staying active while traveling,
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00:00 They have gyms at the airports.
00:01 What are you gonna do for three hours?
00:02 Eat some spaghetti at McDonald's, go to the gym.
00:05 Hey, this is Diplo.
00:06 I've got a crazy schedule, you know.
00:08 I'm a traveling producer, musician, DJ.
00:11 I'm on the road probably 300 days a year,
00:14 but somehow I make time to always train every day,
00:16 sweat once a day.
00:17 This is a little bit of my regimen on the road.
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00:22 I'm traveling a lot.
00:25 I have long layovers.
00:26 Like this weekend, we went from Bali to New York
00:28 and had to stay in Dubai for four hours.
00:30 And a lot of these big airports, these big hubs,
00:31 like they have gyms at the airports.
00:33 So if you have a layover,
00:34 I suggest anybody go to the gym during your layover.
00:36 What are you gonna do for three hours?
00:37 Ride a bike for an hour,
00:38 and you're like having a great night's sleep
00:40 on the next flight.
00:41 When I do have time at home or in New York,
00:43 or places that have like a reliable gym,
00:44 we do like regiments.
00:45 We do a lot of mobility exercises.
00:47 Yeah, here's some simple stuff that I do
00:48 whenever I have a real functional gym.
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00:56 This exercise on the bench,
00:59 this is like a little protocol I like to do
01:00 that does all your core muscles.
01:03 And it's just fun.
01:04 When you sit on the bench, you don't have to move around.
01:06 I was at this Dior show in Tokyo,
01:07 and Kate Moss was there, the audience I was DJing at.
01:09 She was in the gym with me,
01:10 and I remember she came up to me and was like,
01:12 "That looks like the craziest exercise I've ever seen."
01:14 And I made sure I had a really heavy weight,
01:16 did the rows, did all the core exercises,
01:18 and Kate Moss was really impressed by that exercise.
01:21 So I call it the Kate Moss sequence.
01:23 It's important for the number to be really big.
01:26 So everybody in the gym knows what you're doing.
01:28 And then you do eight or 10 rows on each side.
01:33 But I kinda like to have my back arched a little bit,
01:41 so I really feel like,
01:42 I can feel the shoulder lat really pulling.
01:45 'Cause if you hunch a little bit,
01:46 that's not safe, I feel like.
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01:52 My shoulders was always important for me.
01:56 I love doing core stuff.
01:57 You do your triceps.
01:59 20, and then, (laughs)
02:03 I'm just like, "Edit those."
02:04 And then you do like.
02:05 As a lot of you might've seen,
02:11 I made headline news by escaping Burning Man.
02:13 I didn't mean to, I mean, I was with a big group of people.
02:15 We just decided to walk out,
02:17 but I documented it a little bit.
02:18 We walked six miles, took us like two hours.
02:21 And from there, we hitched another ride,
02:22 and I made it to Reno, and got myself to D.C.,
02:24 and I had a show that night.
02:25 So, I think all year round, I do train.
02:28 And maybe it is for something like that,
02:29 where you're stuck at Burning Man.
02:31 I got kind of famous for the weekend.
02:33 Pretty cool.
02:34 Anything is possible, you know?
02:35 Keep this up the whole time.
02:37 And I do like.
02:38 And sometimes,
02:46 this is something I learned when I was a wrestler.
02:49 We do this exercise on the floor.
02:51 Everybody had to write their name with their feet.
02:54 Name's Wesley, so I would be like.
02:56 But you get every part of your abs working on this.
03:06 And putting it back is kind of like,
03:10 move like that, and go like this.
03:12 You drop it, and that's like one set.
03:14 That three times, that kind of does everything,
03:17 from here all the way down to your core.
03:20 That's a really good core burnout.
03:23 It's mostly just a show off.
03:24 I don't know if it's that functional.
03:25 If I do the L-sit on kettlebells, that's kind of difficult.
03:28 I love just body weight exercises,
03:30 'cause that's so functional for me.
03:32 If I'm in a hotel room or wherever I'm at,
03:34 you can always do that.
03:35 - Change the angle a little bit, Wes.
03:38 - Okay, more straight?
03:39 - Yeah.
03:40 - Just go ahead and lay from there.
03:42 I wanna make sure I don't get injured on the road.
03:44 And that's a really good functional exercise
03:45 that makes my shoulders healthy.
03:47 Having functional shoulders is very important
03:48 for what I love to do, which is boxing and surfing.
03:51 That L-sit exercise is actually my triumphant return
03:54 for my labor room to be back again.
03:56 So I did my first triathlon last year,
04:01 the Malibu Triathlon.
04:02 Made a huge mistake.
04:03 I bought the most expensive bike I could find,
04:05 and I didn't charge it.
04:06 So I just was on the highest gear setting,
04:08 which is like, you pedal like this
04:10 and you're getting nowhere.
04:10 I'm like, bro, everybody's passing me.
04:12 People are passing me on beach cruisers.
04:13 I'm just like, this is fucking trash.
04:15 So I turned back around, I just parked it.
04:17 I kind of cheated.
04:18 And I finished the triathlon, I just disqualified.
04:20 So I have a Peloton at home.
04:22 I don't really ride a bike around Malibu.
04:24 It's a little bit dangerous in the PCH.
04:26 These stretches I do on the ground.
04:30 Things like that, I might do a whole hour
04:31 of just stretching and small core exercises.
04:34 Probably my favorite kind of workout.
04:37 This kind of stuff is good
04:38 because it's really good for your mobility,
04:39 but it actually takes a lot of leg strength.
04:42 And every time you do this,
04:43 you really see how much more flexible you are
04:46 like every time you go down.
04:48 Anywhere in the world, there's gonna be yoga.
04:50 Kazakhstan, St. Petersburg, Lagos.
04:52 There's gonna be yoga class in the city.
04:53 I swear to God, I'm not lying.
04:55 There's always yoga anywhere
04:56 and there's always a trail to run on.
04:58 I remember we had a show in Kenya, Nairobi.
05:00 The show ended at like 5 a.m.
05:01 and our flight was at like eight or 9 a.m.
05:04 And I went on this little running path near my hotel
05:07 and the running path like entered a safari.
05:09 So you were running and there's literally like giraffes.
05:12 Got back to my hotel, caught the plane.
05:13 And I slept on the plane like a baby.
05:15 Just kind of like get my mental health
05:17 and my physical health up
05:18 for those little spare times that I have.
05:21 We're done.
05:21 That's my little regimen here for men's health.
05:23 I'm Diplo and there's no excuses.
05:27 Whatever time you have,
05:28 take advantage of it and be healthy.
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