Balance: Healthy Hollywood LivingThe Secret to Adam Levine’s Killer Bod
Maroon 5's lead singer Adam Levine may have an amazing music career going with his super successful band and his gig as a judge on reality competition show "The Voice," but he's become well known for something else too -- his killer body. So what's his secret? Yoga. In the December/January issue of Details, Levine reveals why he'll take yoga over a gym workout any day.
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"Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state," he tells the magazine, "and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed."
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And while the 32-year-old definitely benefits from yoga's meditative and relaxation properties, he admits a big part of the draw is the way the poses makes his body look -- something that someone with that many tattoos must pay attention to!
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"Weights made my neck thick, and I would be like, 'I'm turning into a monster!' Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel," Levine says. "I don't like how people bulls*** about how yoga is not about vanity."
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Behind every yoga fanatic is usually a pro instructor who got the journey started. For Levine, that person is New York-based yogi Chad Dennis. Just months after their first session together, Dennis began joining Maroon 5 on tour, where he puts the lead singer through daily on-the-road routines … often difficult ones that pay off in the end.
"He'll take me on a friggin' obstacle course of yoga." All of it, Levine says, adds up to "an investment in happiness for the rest of my life."
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