Q: How do you keep in such good shape?
Put simply, diet and exercise. I love martial arts to the extreme. In addition to teaching Olympic Taekwondo and Fight Choreography, I also train in Capoeira, Karate,
Kobudo, Hapkido, and more or less anything else I can manage to squeeze into my
schedule. Additionally, I also have 3 different home fitness routines that I alternate
between my non- training days just to keep general strength up. (A few of which you
can see on my youtube channel). Beyond that however, as any personal trainer will
tell ya, having a beautiful body is 70% diet and actually only 30% exercise. As such,
I usually start off the day with oatmeal with honey, and then for lunch have sweet potatoes (an excellent complex carb that your body doesn’t need a lot of to run well on),
chicken breast, and some veggies. For snacks, I have fruit and/or nuts. (Almonds are
best, but oftentimes cashews as well). Every once in a while, I have a cheat day or a
cheat meal, and just eat or drink whatever I want... but usually only if I am exercising
that day and/or I have been strict on my other meals. Then it’s easy to do guilt-free
while still maintaining a hard body.
Q: Which celebrity do you think has the best taste in fashion?
This is an interesting question for me, because for myself, I don’t particularly follow
celebrity fashion. Partially just because out here in Tokyo, the only way I keep track of
western celebrities is just by what movies they are in that come out here. As for Japanese celebrities, as aforementioned, I don’t necessarily fit into the whole metro-male
thing, so I don’t particularly follow male Japanese celebrity fashion either. One exception however is an entertainer named Gackt. On Japanese variety shows that test
people on their knowledge of fashion sense, etiquette, fine foods, etc he usually out
performs everyone else, so even if my own style is different, I always keep an eye on
his perspective or opinions on things.