Steven Bartlett Shows Off His Home Gym and Fridge | Gym & Fridge | Men's Health

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Hey Steven, it's Men's Health. We're here to see your gym and fridge.

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Let's go check out your fridge.

I know exactly what you want to see.

When I first got this fridge, I was like clawing at it, figuring out how to open it, but you just press and it

abracadabra.

Wow, that's fancy.

And this is my fridge.

What's your morning routine?

So I come downstairs, I go into the supplement cupboard, which is over there.

I'll have the same sort of three basic supplements. I'll have omega-3, I'll have vitamin D, and I'll have creatine.

Supplements that I think everybody should be taking.

And then I use this little device here.

Which is called a keto reader.

And I prick my finger, I put this little slip in there.

And it tells me my blood ketone levels, which is the amount of ketones that are in my blood.

And a lot of the year I spend in a ketogenic diet.

So this tells me if I'm in ketosis or not.

What do you always have in your fridge?

So because I don't eat sugary things, I have my substitutes.

And so some of them are things like blueberries.

Raspberries as well, and sometimes I freeze these and eat these.

I also love watermelon, so you can see how much watermelon is in my fridge.

Which is my girlfriend cuts this up for me every day.

Is empty because I love watermelon and it's suitable for a ketogenic diet.

What else is imperative?

I would say

probably eggs.

I eat a lot of eggs.

Oops, sorry dude.

I won't eat that one.

I'll leave that one for someone else.

I have a lot of eggs, so I always have boiled eggs in the fridge and sometimes I'm going to be honest, I just come across it.

And when I'm time poor, and I'll just eat the egg.

And then for hydration, it's all on this end.

So in the morning before a podcast conversation or a busy day, I go up here.

And I have one of these little shots, which makes me incredibly focused.

I have my hydration products down here for when I'm working out or I'm going for a run or when I'm in the gym.

And that's really it.

Those are the staples.

How has your diet changed over time?

My diet has changed profoundly since the pandemic.

And so is really my fitness regime.

And the big things are sleeping.

I I changed my calendar to make sure that there's nothing in my diary before 11:00.

No meetings, no appointments at all.

And the reason I do that is because sometimes I stay up late working on something because my team's all around the world.

So what it does is it means that sleep still has a chance of not ruining the next day.

The next thing in terms of my nutrition is thinking about the glycemic index of the food.

So I think about my food and my diet based on the demands that I'm going to place on my body and my mind that day.

So if I'm podcasting for nine hours in a day, there is no chance I'm going to eat a food that has a high glycemic index.

Because I used to do that and I used to find halfway through a conversation, I couldn't think straight.

I couldn't articulate myself clearly.

I found myself stumbling over my words trying to say simple sentences.

And you learn your lesson and you just go, what life do I prefer?

It it requires a little bit of discipline to to stay away from certain foods.

But when I think about the trade-off, I like the trade.

I like the fact that I can give my podcast guest, who might have traveled 15 hours across the world to tell their story, a great interview.

And I don't ruin it based on what I had for breakfast that day or dinner the night before.

Do you know how to cook?

I can cook and actually me and my girlfriend have a cooking competition once every month.

We both have to cook a starter, a main, and a dessert.

And I've never not won.

I'm currently the cooking champion.

I was raised in a restaurant by my mother, my Nigerian mother.

And I started working in the restaurant about seven.

My job was just like chop stuff.

And you kind of graduate through the kitchen and you start making things that are a bit more sophisticated.

And really what it taught me is like flavor.

A lot of the things that I'm good at cooking are jollof rice and jerk chicken and those kinds of things.

Because that's the home I was raised in.

And I'm a big fan of steak.

So at the moment I'm trying to figure out how to cook the perfect steak.

So there's it's trial and error.

Learning how to cook a steak is a is the journey of a lifetime, you just gradually get better at it.

And I'm I'm trying to get better.

What will we never see in your fridge?

Oh gosh, yeah.

There's several things you'll never find in my fridge.

You'll never find a full sugar soda in my fridge.

You'll never find bread, not that people put that in a fridge.

But you'll never find bread or pasta in my fridge.

Not because I don't love it, listen, I love it.

It's because my gut doesn't love it.

So if I ate bread, I would have pains in my stomach for about one or two days.

I just I just can't.

You'll never find sweets in my fridge.

Let me be clear.

I eat carrot cake, I like cookies.

I'll have ice cream.

I try to make my baseline close to ketogenic.

You've just knocked on my door and caught me at a moment where I am deep into the ketogenic diet at this moment in time.

What do you grab from your fridge at 2:00 AM?

2:00 in the morning.

I make some bad decisions at 2:00 in the morning.

I know I should be eating.

I know I shouldn't be eating.

All these scientists on my show have told me, don't eat three hours before you go to bed.

I've heard it, I understand it, but I'm hungry.

This is why these bowls are here.

Make the easiest thing to grab is healthy as possible.

If I opened up this fridge and there was a big carrot cake right there.

I might lose the debate.

And what I mean by lose the debate is, you know the debate that you have in your head.

Where you go, I know I shouldn't and I've got that podcast tomorrow morning and I'm going to feel like shit, but maybe this time I won't.

Like

you might lose that debate.

You never crack discipline and motivation.

You never crack it.

It's really about figuring out what you do after you've made a mistake.

Because one thing is for sure.

Life happens.

I'll go for three months being absolutely possessed like I feel right now.

And then something will happen and you'll have a month where you're just kind of like hanging on for dear life.

And it's just about finding a way to get back on, understanding that you falling off isn't evidence that you're inadequate in some way.

It's what happens and uh slowly step by step you can pick yourself back up and get back on.

It's that time of day where I'm going to

go downstairs and start my workout, so come with me.

All right, are you ready to work out?

I use this gym

kind of like a backup gym.

Typically I leave the house and go to a gym in LA called High Map.

But if I don't manage to get out of the house, I have some things here that I can use to get a little bit of a workout in.

So

the most important thing for me in this room is these incredible new dumbbells.

That I just based on the weight that you want.

So

if I want to go up to 55 lb or 60 lb weight.

I can do that as well.

You don't need a big rack, you just need to turn the handles and the weights get bigger.

Which I love.

How often do you work out?

I work out pretty much every day.

I became consistent with exercise when I said to myself that I work out every day.

And I tried to work out every day.

Because it became routine.

And actually we track it with my friends.

So me and my friends have this WhatsApp group called Fitness Blockchain.

10 people in it, whoever works out least that month in terms of days is evicted from the group.

We have a guy in there whose only job is to track everybody's data.

So he looks at our Apple Watches and our Whoops.

And he makes these graphs and every single day he posts the graphs in the chat.

And I've been in that group for four years.

I haven't been evicted yet.

That is awesome.

Way to go.

What keeps you motivated?

Like everybody else, I want to look good, I want to feel good.

I want to live long.

I want to extend my health span.

And I think people think a lot about life span.

But for me it's like how long can I be healthy for?

And when I say that, I I want to be active while when I'm old.

I remember being in Bali with my girlfriend.

And we went white water rafting.

And to get to the white water raft, we had to walk down 70 stairs vertically down in this like cliff face.

And I remember as I was going down those stairs asking myself,

could my dad do this at his age now?

And unfortunately, the answer in my head was no, my dad couldn't walk down these stairs now.

And I thought that was such a great shame that there's experiences in life with your kids or with the people you love that you're robbed of.

If for whatever reason your health doesn't hold up.

So being able to walk down those stairs when I'm 70 so that I can go white water rafting with my kids and the person I love.

So that's a big motivation for me as well.

Do you have any scars?

I do have a scar.

I have a scar here.

Do you want the the truth or do you want the hero's journey story?

Because I can do the whole dragon was eating the orphans and then I saved.

Or I can do the like my brother threw a pot noodle at me and the noodle burned me when I was a kid.

Which one do you want?

Your call, man.

Okay, my brother threw a noodle at me and it burned me on the arm when I was a kid.

And so that's what that is.

I also have a scar in the back of my head.

I was training for Soccer Aid, which is a national football tournament, which is televised in the UK where they get legends from the game.

And public figures to play in a match arena.

And when I was training, a guy ran into the back of my head, his tooth went into my head and he collapsed on the floor and was unconscious for about 5-10 minutes.

The ambulance came and I just have a scar from that.

Which was about six months ago.

I think that's it, really.

All right, it's rapid fire time.

Workout time.

7:00 AM or 7:00 PM?

7:00 PM.

Really 11:00 PM if I can, but

I'll go for 7:00 PM.

Squat or deadlift?

Oh, I kind of hate them both, but

I'm going to go for deadlift.

Favorite song on playlist?

Uh, I'm going to say Burna Boy Last Last.

I just think it's proven to be really timeless for me.

So Burna Boy Last Last.

CrossFit, yay or nay?

It's one of those things that's like broccoli.

I know it's good for me, but I hate it.

So yeah.

Yeah.

Pull-ups or chin-ups?

Pull-ups.

Dumbbells or kettlebells?

Dumbbells, of course.

Can do much more with them, I think, so much more versatile.

Dumbbells.

Run on the treadmill or the great outdoors?

The great outdoors.

It's actually better for your brain, I learned this from a neuroscientist that told me that when you run outside,

it's better for neuroplasticity and expanding your brain because you're seeing more and you're stimulating more.

So outside.

Cardio or weights?

I'm going to say weights.

Of course.

Big legs or big arms?

Big arms, of course.

Biggest compliment, jacked, ripped, cut, or swole?

Ripped.

When my girlfriend calls me ripped, I take it as a compliment.

When she says that I'm swole,

I think I've been eating too many carbs.

So yeah.

Okay, before my arms fall off.

I'm going to have to ask you to leave, time is money and I've got to get on with my day.

So thank you for stopping by.

That's been my gym and my fridge.

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