Zac Brown Talks About The Importance Of Working Out While On The Road
etcanada.comStaying fit is important, even for a musician. Country music superstar Zac Brown is featured in the new issue of Men’s Health, talking about his workout regimen and the toll being on the road has taken on his body. READ MORE: Zac Brown Band Pays Tribute To Randy Travis With Special Performance “One thing I noticed, just bouncing down the road on a bus for days and days in a row, you get hunched over,” he said. “I had L5 issues, a bulging disc, and I couldn’t move my leg.
I had to have a surgery last year to take some of the trash out.” Discussing his (lack of) a workout regimen during his early days, Brown said, “Yeah, we’d drink a bottle of Jäger before the show, during the show, and after the show.” As it turns out, it was Bruce Springsteen who put Brown on the path to better fitness. “When I met Springsteen, I said, ‘Tell me something that’s helped you to stay feeling good,'” he said. “He was like, ‘Man, you need to sweat for an hour a day.
I don’t care what you do, doesn’t matter. You need to sweat for an hour a day.’ I was like, ‘You’re the Boss. Let’s do it.’” Brown added, “If I go four or five days without working out, everything just seems to be a little darker than it should be.
Your perception of things is really all that you have. I can tell some days when I wake up if I’m a little off. Those are the days I need to push myself to go and do it.
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