Eminem overcame his addiction to pills with the help of workout DVDs. Eminem said that being a father to his biological daughter Hailie and his two adopted daughters, Lainey and Whitney was central to his motivation to get sober. “I love my kids so much, and they’ve helped me through so many things,” he said. Eminem first tried to get sober in 2005 by going to rehab, but relapsed after the shooting death of his friend, DeShaun “Proof” Holton. Eminem has made some health revelations that could change perspectives on his 2010 album ‘Recovery’, revealing that themes that seemed to deal only with drug issues were also about exercise.

“And you don’t need a gym membership for that kind of workout.” Eminem’s excessive running ultimately led to him injuring himself. “All the constant pounding from the running began to tear up my hip flexors,” he said. Eventually, the “Phenomenal” rapper learned how to function sober with the help of running, even to the point where he began to injure himself. He continued, “When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn’t concentrate on my problem.”

The “Stan” performer trained with big-name boxers and tried to motivate himself, but “wasn’t taking it too seriously” while he was still using drugs.

  • But it wasn’t until he relapsed a month later that the “Not Afraid” singer (whose real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III) realized he needed to lose weight and “figure out a way to function sober.” So he turned to workout DVDs in an effort to maintain some structure.
  • The rapper tells Men’s Journal in the September 2015 issue, he replaced one addiction with another.
  • The “Kings Never Die” rapper wrote an essay for the September issue of Men’s Journal, in which he opened up about his past drug and alcohol abuse and the toll it took on his body.
  • To remedy that problem, Eminem turned to Shaun T, who created Insanity, a 60-day, DVD-based workout plan.

I’m not sure how I got so big, but I have ideas,’ reveals Eminem, real name Marshall Bruce Mathers III. “The Real Slim Shady” rapper says he started doing Shaun T’s Insanity and P90X as his daily exercise routine, and then moved on to Body Beast. “It’s just me, so it helps that the Body Beast dude is over-the-top,” he said of the workouts. He started with Shaun T’s Insanity videos, switched to P90x and then moved to Body Beast videos. When he first started the at-home routines, Eminem said he couldn’t move for two days. But now the 149-pound musician can finally do the videos without pausing.

The 42-year-old star would order the steak from an expensive restaurant almost every evening, causing him to pile on weight, break out in pimples and suffer other health issues, Nelson wrote. Lt was then, he says, that he realized how much weight he had gained. He hit the gym and shed his diet of carbs, which led to him living a diabetic-free life. Last year, the funnyman told Conan O’Brien he had stopped drinking and the weight just melted away.

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In June, a picture emerged on Twitter of a healthier and happier looking Eminem. Sources told US weekly that Eminem had been focusing on his health. Musically, the “Rap God” rebounded better than ever after rehab as well.

Eminem weighed close to 230 pounds at the height of his addiction to drugs in 2007, and in a new interview, Em told Men’s Journal he has a good idea of how he got there. His dedication to weight loss caused him to drop to 149 pounds, but over time, the father of three tore his hip flexors, forcing him to hang up his sneakers. The rapper revealed in the September issue of Men’s Journal how drug use caused him to balloon to 230 pounds before a 2007 overdose forced him to finally face his demons.

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“It wasn’t, ‘I want to look a certain way.’ It was more so feeling better. I didn’t feel good. I smoked cigarettes. I was really overweight. I was always tired.” “In 2007, I overdosed on pills, and I went into the hospital. I was close to 230 pounds. I’m not sure how I got so big, but I have ideas,” the 42-year-old wrote. “In 2007, I overdosed on pills, and I went into the hospital.

  • In 2013, he put out “The Marshall Mathers LP 2,” which also reached platinum status.
  • Eventually, the “Phenomenal” rapper learned how to function sober with the help of running, even to the point where he began to injure himself.
  • Eminem, who had “always been more into cardio,” hopes to maintain his fitness routine.
  • Eminem’s fitness revelations come a week after Southpaw, a boxing film featuring a soundtrack executive produced by the rapper arrived in theaters.
  • But despite being both lean and sober, he admits that he is still ‘pretty compulsive’ with working out.

The artist got so obsessed with exercise that he says he was running 17 miles a day on a treadmill. The rapper tells Men’s Journal in the September 2015 issue, he replaced one addiction with another. Eminem’s fitness revelations come a week after Southpaw, a boxing film featuring a soundtrack executive produced by the rapper arrived in theaters. In a recent Twitter Q&A, Eminem admitted that he was recruited, at one point, to star in the film, but ceded the role to Jake Gyllenhaal. The coating on the Vicodin and the Valium I’d been taking for years leaves a hole in your stomach, so to avoid a stomachache, I was constantly eating — and eating badly,” he dished. One of the first DVDs Eminem tried out was Shaun T’s Insanity, which promotes a challenging, but effective, body conditioning workout.

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I’m not sure how I got so big, but I have ideas,” the 42-year-old writes. “I would get up in the morning, and before I went to the studio, I would run eight and a half miles in about an hour. Then I’d come home and run another eight and a half,” he recalled. “I started getting OCD about the calories, making sure I burned 2,000 every day. In the eminem 230 pounds end I got down to about 149 pounds.”

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Running, it turned out, could be just as addictive as drugs. He stepped out for an event in New York City in November 2014, and made headlines with his gaunt appearance. In recent days, Slim Shady has looked happier and healthier, and he credits his change to an entirely different workout.

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Two years later, Eminem nearly died from an accidental methadone overdose, which prompted another attempt to get clean, this time without entering a rehab facility. He says he can now do the workout, before he goes to the studio, without pausing the DVD. But despite being both lean and sober, he admits that he is still ‘pretty compulsive’ with working out. However, while his treadmill sessions helped him to sleep, he quickly became addicted to them. When he emerged from rehab, he knew he needed to ‘lose weight’.

I would get up in the morning, and before I went to the studio, I would run eight and a half miles in about an hour. Then I’d come home and run another eight and a half,” Eminem told Men’s Journal. The rapper also said that he replaced “addiction with exercise” after ballooning to 230 pounds after his overdose. The 42-year-old Detroit native opened up to Men’s Journal about his addiction and how he got back to being healthy through exercise. Since weighing close to 230 pounds, the rapper has since dropped down to 149 and now doesn’t feel like the world’s on his shoulders. Eminem has never been one to shy away from his past drug addiction, but in an essay for the new issue of Men’s Journal, the rapper reveals new details about how his pill popping greatly impacted his weight.

Eminem Battled Drug Addiction With Running: ‘I Became a F—ing Hamster’

Seventeen miles a day on a treadmill” – and while that helped Eminem drop down to less than 150 pounds, it eventually took a toll on his legs. He then moved to workout DVDs like Shaun T’s Insanity, P90X and, most recently, the Body Beast workout. Marshall Mathers focused on his fitness routine in the interview, and traced his habits back through various stages in his life. He explains that he started running to keep his lungs healthy and was willing to try various workouts before he picked up boxing a few years back. “I got an addict’s brain, and when it came to running, I think I got a little carried away.

The Grammy winner, 42, opened up in a new interview with Men’s Journal, spilling to the magazine about his past history of drug addiction and his renewed commitment to his health. These days, Eminem’s work out routine revolves around a workout called the Body Beast routine. The rapper hasn’t released a record since 2013’s ‘The Marshall Mather’s LP 2’, and last played live in Washington D.C in November 2014. Trying out DVDs such as Shaun T’s Insanity and Body Beast, the father-of-three says that he does his best to keep up with it. “I feel like if I step away from it for too long, if I have a crazy week and take a five-day break, it’ll be like starting over,” he admits. But it wasn’t until he relapsed a month later that the “Not Afraid” singer (whose real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III) realized he needed to lose weight and “figure out a way to function sober.” So he turned to workout DVDs in an effort to maintain some structure.

“One addiction for another but one that’s good for them. I got an addict’s brain, and when it came to running, I think I got a little carried away. I became a f—ing hamster. Seventeen miles a day on a treadmill.” DETROIT, MI – Eminem is speaking out about a very tough time in his life. His overdosing on pills which lead to his big weight gain to 230 pounds. Eminem, who had “always been more into cardio,” hopes to maintain his fitness routine. “Once you’re at a place where you’ve made progress and you’ve got some time invested in it,” he wrote,”you don’t wanna quit and give up what you started.”