The Party Hard, Look Great Workout
Cedric Gervais knows his profession doesn’t lend itself particularly well to proper body maintenance. “It’s very hard on the road to stay healthy,” says the French DJ, whose chart-topping 2013 remix of Lana Del Rey's “Summertime Sadness” rocketed him to global fame “Especially with the traveling and staying out late at night and drinking."
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To that end, for the past five years the 35-year-old has adopted a rigorous fitness regiment: when at home in Miami, he works out five days a week at Anatomy 1220, and consults with a trainer diet and workout routines to take on the road. Gervais, who says hitting the gym has aided him in his career ("It’s helped me focus on my music”), switches up his routine from one week to the next. Here, he offered one of his favorite upper-body circuits he regularly employs on the roads — whether on his way to Coachella (this weekend) or a nightclub.
Seated Reverse Fly
“I’m doing the fly for my back on the reverse fly machine. We do a combination of machine and free weights. You always want to break it out and change every week in order to shock your body.”
Plank Pushups
“This is for my core. My trainer usually places a ball on top of my back and pushes on the ball for resistance. It’s for my abs and for all around the core. The core truly helps with everything else.”
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Ab Pulse Ups
“This exercise focuses on the lower abs. I have both legs raised and one drops at a time before the other one slowly comes up. It really gives a good workout on the abs.”
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Incline Chest Press with Dumbbells
“Here I’m using a hammer grip with dumbbells and doing a chest press on the incline bench. We change it up on the upper-body workout days between doing this exercise and the more standard bench-press. For example, the following upper-body workout day I might be using a barbell. It really just depends. It’s never the same and that’s a good thing.”
Scapular Push-Ups
“This exercise is for the scapula, the muscle between your shoulders. Its purpose is to basically learn how to push on the barbell correctly and to keep your arms straight. You basically want to bring your arms down and back up and then down again in as controlled a motion as possible. It’s so when you’re on the bench and push the bar up by your shoulders one arm is not pressing more than the other. It’s to learn your balance. A lot of my exercises are centered on technique and learning how to not hurt yourself. This is one of them."
By Dan Hyman
