WWE chief Vince McMahon’s workouts are the stuff of legend, and now the man himself had opened up on his regime.
The 76-year-old media mogul is still incredibly active as the chairman of his wrestling empire and he’s still a regular presence backstage at Raw and SmackDown events every week.
Despite that, he still finds time to stay in incredible shape with late night sessions in the gym.
Appearing on the Pat McAfee Show this week for a rare interview, Vince laughed: ‘I’m not like anybody else in the world. I probably finish training at around 3am. On a good day, [I start at 1.30am].
‘Maybe a little bit more than that, depends on how much time I can actually spend in the gym. Sometimes I have to force myself to get out, and I’ve always over-trained, which is not good for you. It’s just that it’s my only socially acceptable outlet for aggression.’
McMahon – who opened up about his lengthy career in the in-depth interview – admitted he doesn’t like to admit defeat when it comes to the weights he’s lifting.
‘You can’t pick some of them up, they weigh too much,’ he smirked. ‘The hell I can’t! You do the best you can.’
Asked by SmackDown commentator Pat if he was ‘always a meathead’, Vince insisted it was something he ‘just got into’ – and more for the mental benefits than the physical.
‘No, no. I just got into it. I do this for my head more than I do for my body. It’s good for you, I love that, I take care of me as best I possibly can,’ he explained. ‘I try to eat the right things, all of that.
‘It really helps more mentally, psychologically, so that I can handle the workload and handle all the stuff that comes my way. A lot of it’s emotional, because you’re doing business with people – people are people.
‘They all have problems, they all have ambitions – dealing with all of that can be a little bit challenging sometimes. It helps me deal with that and whatever business problems comes – people get hit by a bus every day, how do you deal with it?’
Elsewhere in the interview, Vince also confirmed he will personally induct The Undertaker into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2022 to kick off WrestleMania Weekend in Dallas, Texas on April 1.
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