One of the original members of the legendary hip-hop super group, Run-DMC, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels was living the American dream throughout the 80's and 90's. Touring the world, eating and drinking whatever and whenever he wanted, until his body told him something different. The 6' 1", 220 lb shares what happened and how he started on his road back to health:
"Admittedly, I used to drink a lot and eat very little," remembers DMC. "When I ate it was almost always whatever was available, and whatever wasn't at all healthy. In 1999 I was laid up in the hospital with a very serious health problem."
"I was mostly on the 'alcohol diet'. Beer, wine...any kind of liquor was what I mainly put in my body. It was bad," said the legendary rapper.
"I spent almost nearly a month living intravenously. No solid food or liquid for a month, then weaned on to clear liquids, fish, chicken, and veggies. Needless to say, I lost a lot of weight. When I was released from the hospital people commented that I was too skinny since I lost so much weight. But you know what? I thought I looked good and I really felt better. I wanted to stay this way so I started weight training to get even healthier."
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DMC's Secrets to Fitness:
"It starts with my training philosophy which is......'consistency, discipline and dedication'! I try not to lose or gain too much and try to maintain. I do full-body workouts every three days because touring and travel is so unpredictable. Every couple of months I work with a personal trainer to break the monotony, switch it up to learn new things and change up the workout to shock my body just to make sure I don't get bored doing the same routine over and over."
"I like free-weights the best and love body-weight exercises, for some reason they seem harder than everything (laughs). I mix in machines depending on how I'm feeling, and just to do something different."
"I typically do pull-downs, rows and those all so hard pull-ups. For most exercise I typical do 3 sets within a rep count of 8-12. Changing your hand positions target different areas of your back. Wide, narrow, palms facing in or palms facing out, you need to switch it up."
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