To remedy that problem, Eminem turned to Shaun T, who created Insanity, a 60-day, DVD-based workout plan. “I know a lot of these DVD guys are wacky, but I’m alone in my gym; I need someone on the TV yelling to motivate me,” the hip-hop musician wrote in Men’s Journal. ‘In 2007, I overdosed on pills, and I went into the hospital.
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- “I needed to lose weight, but I also needed to figure out a way to function sober,” he tells Men’s Journal.
- “I started getting OCD about the calories, making sure I burned 2,000 every day. In the end I got down to about 149 pounds.”
- I would get up in the morning, and before I went to the studio, I would run eight and a half miles in about an hour.
- I’m not sure how I got so big, but I have ideas,” the 42-year-old writes.
- He hit the gym and shed his diet of carbs, which led to him living a diabetic-free life.
The “Stan” performer trained with big-name boxers and tried to motivate himself, but “wasn’t taking it too seriously” while he was still using drugs.
“And you don’t need a gym membership for that kind of workout.” Eminem’s excessive running ultimately led to him injuring himself. “All the constant pounding from the running began to tear up my hip flexors,” he said. Eventually, the “Phenomenal” rapper learned how to function sober with the help of running, even to the point where he began to injure himself. He continued, “When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn’t concentrate on my problem.”
“In 2007, I overdosed on pills, and I went into the hospital,” says Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers. “I was close to 230 pounds 104 kilograms. I’m not sure how I got so big, but I have ideas. The coating on the Vicodin and the Valium I’d been taking for years leaves a hole in your stomach, so to avoid a stomachache, I was constantly eating — and eating badly.” Then I moved on to the Beast.” The first time he did the Body Beast leg routine, he said, “I couldn’t walk for two days.” The “Kings Never Die” rapper wrote an essay for the September issue of Men’s Journal, in which he opened up about his past drug and alcohol abuse and the toll it took on his body. “In 2007, I overdosed on pills, and I went into the hospital. I was close to 230 lbs. I’m not sure how I got so big, but I have ideas,” the 15-time Grammy Award winner recalled.
- “I didn’t get in shape for anything having to do with the public, maybe there was a little bit of strategy behind it for transitioning outside of Entourage, but I can promise you the main goal was to get healthy,” he told the Huffington Post.
- When he first started the at-home routines, Eminem said he couldn’t move for two days.
- Since weighing close to 230 pounds, the rapper has since dropped down to 149 and now doesn’t feel like the world’s on his shoulders.
In 2007, Eminem overdosed on pills and weighed close to 230 pounds. Eminem has opened up about his prescription pill addiction and how his habit caused a huge weight gain in a revealing new article. Speaking to Men’s Journal, the rapper also discusses how working out assisted in the recovery process and the various workout routines he now employs to stay lean and sober.
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“The coating on the Vicodin and the Valium I’d been taking for years leaves a hole in your stomach, so to avoid a stomachache, I was constantly eating—and eating badly.” “I got an addict’s brain, and when it came to running, I think I got a little carried away,” Eminem told Men’s Journal. Eminem has never been one to shy away from his past drug addiction, but in an essay for Men’s Journal, the rapper revealed new details about how his pill popping greatly impacted his weight. First, the rapper turned to running – “I became a fucking hamster.
“One addiction for another but one that’s good for them. I got an addict’s brain, and when it came to running, I think I got a little carried away. I became a f—ing hamster. Seventeen miles a day on a treadmill.” DETROIT, MI – Eminem is speaking out about a very tough time in his life. His overdosing on pills which lead to his big weight gain to 230 pounds. Eminem, who had “always been more into cardio,” hopes to maintain his fitness routine. “Once you’re at a place where you’ve made progress and you’ve got some time invested in it,” he wrote,”you don’t wanna quit and give up what you started.”
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The artist got so obsessed with exercise that he says he was running 17 miles a day on a treadmill. The rapper tells Men’s Journal in the September 2015 issue, he replaced one addiction with another. Eminem’s fitness revelations come a week after Southpaw, a boxing film featuring a soundtrack executive produced by the rapper arrived in theaters. In a recent Twitter Q&A, Eminem admitted that he was recruited, at one point, to star in the film, but ceded the role to Jake Gyllenhaal. The coating on the Vicodin and the Valium I’d been taking for years leaves a hole in your stomach, so to avoid a stomachache, I was constantly eating — and eating badly,” he dished. One of the first DVDs Eminem tried out was Shaun T’s Insanity, which promotes a challenging, but effective, body conditioning workout.
And he loved it so much he soon ditched running altogether. He has detailed his prescription pill addiction – and his battle to overcome it – in his rap albums. “The truth is, I’m not getting up an hour earlier and walking on a treadmill. I have the greatest workout partner in the world,” he said.
Eminem on how his Vicodin and Valium addiction made him balloon to 230 pounds
“It gave me a natural endorphin high, but it also helped me sleep, so it was perfect. It’s easy to understand how people replace addiction with exercise. One addiction for another but one that’s good for them. I got an addict’s brain, and when it came to running, I think I got a little carried away.” In an interview for the September 2015 issue of Men’s Journal, Eminem reveals how fitness helped him during his battle with drug addiction. Detailing his weight loss strategies after an overdose, the storied rapper revealed his on-and-off relationship with fitness, which included boxing and a stint of working out with Dr. Dre.
The Grammy winner, 42, opened up in a new interview with Men’s Journal, spilling to the magazine about his past history of drug addiction and his renewed commitment to his health. These days, Eminem’s work out routine revolves around a workout called the Body Beast routine. The rapper hasn’t released a record since 2013’s ‘The Marshall Mather’s LP 2’, and last played live in Washington D.C in November 2014. Trying out DVDs such as Shaun T’s Insanity and Body Beast, the father-of-three eminem 230 pounds says that he does his best to keep up with it. “I feel like if I step away from it for too long, if I have a crazy week and take a five-day break, it’ll be like starting over,” he admits. But it wasn’t until he relapsed a month later that the “Not Afraid” singer (whose real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III) realized he needed to lose weight and “figure out a way to function sober.” So he turned to workout DVDs in an effort to maintain some structure.
After his release from rehab, Em recalled how he slimmed back down from a whopping 230 pounds. After he completed treatment, the 42-year-old “Lose Yourself” rapper wrote, “I needed to lose weight, but I also needed to figure out a way to function sober. Unless I was blitzed out of my mind, I had trouble sleeping. So I started running. It gave me a natural endorphin high, but it also helped me sleep, so it was perfect.” “In 2009, I overdosed on pills, and I went into the hospital. I’m not sure how I got so big, but I have ideas,” Eminem says in his first-person account. “The coating on the Vicodin and the Valium I’d been taking for years leaves a hole in your stomach, so to avoid a stomachache, I was constantly eating — and eating badly. When I got out of rehab, I needed to lose weight, but I also needed to figure out a way to function sober.” Eminem’s drug problem weighed heavily on his 2009 LP Relapse and its 2010 follow-up Recovery.
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He released “Recovery” in June 2010 which when platinum four times and sold over 15 million copies. In 2013, he put out “The Marshall Mathers LP 2,” which also reached platinum status. Eminem’s drug issues feature heavily on his sixth studio album, Relapse – which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart in 2009, selling 608,000 copies in its first week. ‘I also needed to figure out a way to function sober,’ Eminem writes in the Men’s Journal article. The rapper, whose organs were shutting down, was treated and eventually released from hospital. When he was admitted to hospital after his overdose, 5ft 7ins Eminem weighed 230 pounds.
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Seventeen miles a day on a treadmill” – and while that helped Eminem drop down to less than 150 pounds, it eventually took a toll on his legs. He then moved to workout DVDs like Shaun T’s Insanity, P90X and, most recently, the Body Beast workout. Marshall Mathers focused on his fitness routine in the interview, and traced his habits back through various stages in his life. He explains that he started running to keep his lungs healthy and was willing to try various workouts before he picked up boxing a few years back. “I got an addict’s brain, and when it came to running, I think I got a little carried away.
Two years later, Eminem nearly died from an accidental methadone overdose, which prompted another attempt to get clean, this time without entering a rehab facility. He says he can now do the workout, before he goes to the studio, without pausing the DVD. But despite being both lean and sober, he admits that he is still ‘pretty compulsive’ with working out. However, while his treadmill sessions helped him to sleep, he quickly became addicted to them. When he emerged from rehab, he knew he needed to ‘lose weight’.
The 46-year-old showed off his weight loss in a blue-striped gray suit. After leaving rehab, the SoundScan’s Artist of the Decade, who has sold 32 million albums in the past 10 years, decided it was time to do something about it. “I was going to McDonald’s and Taco Bell every day,” he told the magazine. “The kids behind the counter knew me – it wouldn’t even faze them. Eminem has opened up about turning his weight and his life around.
In an interview with Men’s Journal, the Detroit rapper explained that previous drug problems had probably played a role in him to reaching a weight of 230lbs, before boxing trainer Emanuel Steward (who’s worked with world champion Wladimir Klitschko) helped get him back into shape. In a documentary, How to Make Money Selling Drugs, released last year, Eminem revealed that he nearly died from his prescription drug addiction when he was hospitalized following his overdose. However, after he ‘started plateauing’ on the workout, the rapper changed to the P90X workout program and later, to the Body Beast workout – which he continues to do every morning. But now, Eminem has revealed in an emotional magazine article how the addiction caused him to balloon to 230 pounds – before he found the perfect work-out video and lost the excess weight. “I didn’t get in shape for anything having to do with the public, maybe there was a little bit of strategy behind it for transitioning outside of Entourage, but I can promise you the main goal was to get healthy,” he told the Huffington Post.