Shaboozey has made fitness a major priority. The genre-fusing artist has a music career that is undeniably red-hot right now, but Laurence Ng, his Beverly Hills–based trainer, explained to Men’s Health, that the singer wasn’t at all conditioned for the physical demands that come with that career.
“When we first started training two years ago, ‘Boozey was not in good shape,” Ng recalls. “I feel like the last time he probably worked out with a trainer that knew what they were doing was, like, high school football.”
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Ng helped Shaboozey (born Collins Chibueze) build a five-day fitness program that has worked wonders. The days break down like this:
Mondays: upper-body pushes
Tuesdays: explosive, lower-body athletic movements, such as box jumps and heavy medicine ball work
Wednesdays: upper-body pulls, pull-ups, and rows
Thursdays: are rest days, but still active — walking on steep inclines or hitting boxing bags
Fridays: full-body athletic gauntlet, which includes sled pushes, jump rope, sprints, and conditioning
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And for Shaboozey, his grind doesn’t stop when he’s on tour. When the “A Bar Song” star is on the road, Ng creates mobile workouts for him that feature bodyweight sets in Shaboozey’s hotel room or wherever they happen to be
“When he’s on tour, he’s doing workouts in the arena, outside of the tour bus – wherever,’ Ng says. ‘It’s just being very versatile and flexible and improvising different workouts for him.”
It didn’t happen overnight. Initially, Shaboozey struggled to hold a plank for 30 seconds and could barely do five push-ups. The key was consistency and commitment, and now he says being fit is something he values.
“Whenever I’m physically at my best, or whenever I know that I’m consistent with my workouts, as soon as I step onstage, I know there’s a presence there,” Shaboozey says. “The one thing I got to communicate with the most is my body. I love being in shape. I love being confident.”
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