BUCKCHERRY Frontman Talks To MEN'S FITNESS Magazine

August 22, 2008

Men's Fitness magazine recently conducted an interview with BUCKCHERRY frontman Josh Todd. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow.

Men's Fitness: We know you're into boxing, but do you box before you hit the stage for a show?

Josh: Well, I train when I'm home, but I don't box before I get on stage. I just get warmed up. I like to get myself breathing a little hard before I start to sing, because I want to open up my lungs. Every morning, I do a series of 160 pushups, 38 at a time. I do ab work, and then some sort of cardio, usually jumping rope, shadow boxing, or working focus pads.

Men's Fitness: You do sets of 38? That's a weird number.

Josh: Oh, yeah. I do sets of 38. It just came to that. Halfway through, at about 25, I started doing military pushups, where I'm alternating lifting up my right leg going down, lifting up my left leg going down. There's a ton of different ways you can do pushups, they work all different types of your body. Pushups are great.

Men's Fitness: Most BUCKCHERRY songs are the perfect workout pace.

Josh: We get a lot of people that come up to us and say they listen to particular records and they make playlists of Buckcherry songs when they work out. And I always love that. I'll buy a new record and I'll always listen to it for the first time when I'm working out, because it's a place where I'm going to be for an hour. It's a really fun way to get introduced to a record.

Men's Fitness: Do you ever do more traditional gym workouts? Do you lift weights, run on a treadmill, things like that?

Josh: I don't lift weights because I travel all the time, and it's just a beating to fucking find a gym. I lift my own bodyweight, pushups, situps, pull-ups, and, man, I'm fucking cut just because you can get ripped with a six-dollar jump rope, and use the ground to completely chisel your body. Or sometimes I'll just go to a public park, find the pull-ups bars and do pull-ups and tricep dips. A big part of my workout is timing. I don't ever stop doing something more than 30 seconds.

Read the entire interview from Men's Fitness.

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