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  • - (Men's Health) Hey, Dave Bautista. It's Men's Health.

  • - (Dave Bautista) What's up, guys?

  • Here to see my gym and fridge. Hell no!

  • - (Announcer) Bautista! Drax, AKA the Destroyer. Come on.

  • - Let's go check out your fridge.

  • - This is my fridge. Behold. (refrigerator opens)

  • - What staples do you always have in there?

  • - Staples- I do multi plant-based,

  • I do fish couple times a week so I usually

  • have a couple fish meals and I typically

  • eat eggs every morning so I'll eat an egg in the morning

  • and then everything else is kind of

  • typical healthy foods, plant based, rice and beans.

  • We always have chicken and broccoli for the pups.

  • - How has your diet changed over time?

  • - Way back when, when I was bodybuilding,

  • it was all about getting calories

  • and getting high, high protein

  • and I used to eat typically everything.

  • I found out in about 2005 that I was terribly allergic

  • to dairy and it affected my asthma so I cut that out.

  • Then in about 2010, I started training with Cesar Gracie

  • and the whole team was under a gluten free diet.

  • Most of the guys were vegetarians or pescatarians

  • and so I cut out red meat and I cut out pork in 2010.

  • Then I chose poultry since then,

  • just poultry, dairy free, gluten free,

  • and about six, seven months ago

  • I completely cut meat out of my diet

  • and went just predominately plant based.

  • I do have fish couple times a week and I do eat eggs.

  • - Which meat dish do you miss the most?

  • - The only thing killing me is

  • because I grew up on chicken adobo,

  • which is a very common, standard Filipino dish

  • and it's one of the few dishes that I make constantly.

  • I make it for myself and make for my friends

  • and now I still make it for my friends

  • but I have to just sit there and watch them eat it

  • and it's torture because I want to be committed

  • to cutting meat out of my diet

  • and eventually I want to go, I'll go vegan, eventually.

  • - What's your diet like on set?

  • - When I'm on set, I still have my meal prep.

  • So I eat, it's actually in my contract that I have to

  • eat no less than every four hours.

  • Then in between those meals if I get hungry,

  • I typically do an almond butter

  • and banana or a vegan, gluten free

  • grilled cheese, it's my favorite go-to.

  • - Is that a bottle of Cristal?

  • - So this is a very special bottle of Cristal

  • and the story behind this is in 2005,

  • when I won my very first World Championship with WWE,

  • afterwards at the after party, Triple H

  • and his wife Steph McMahon came up

  • and gave me this bottle of champagne.

  • Anyway, it has been in my refrigerator since 2005.

  • - What is your go-to comfort food?

  • - Easily, go-to comfort food is sushi.

  • All day long. Any day, every day.

  • Every day. All day. All day every day. Hahaha.

  • - Do you take any supplements?

  • - I take a ton of supplements but most

  • of them are old man health supplements

  • like a lot of CoQ10 and some ribose and some fish oil.

  • - What's your favorite lunch?

  • - My favorite lunch, let me show you. (refrigerator closes)

  • - Wow. How did this collection start?

  • - I started collecting lunch boxes in 2003 and I didn't

  • actually start collecting for myself. I actually bought

  • that lunch box right there for my ex-wife

  • because she had got her first office job

  • and I wanted to get her something cool.

  • So that was her favorite movie.

  • Then I thought, "God these things are so great.

  • They're so cool and they bring back so many memories."

  • So I started looking for my first lunch box

  • when I had when I was a kid which was this one, Fat Albert.

  • So I got that one because we were

  • super poor as a kid and so my mom

  • got my lunch box second-handed at a thrift store.

  • It was already... when I got it, the thermos didn't match

  • and it was already beaten up and it just brings

  • back memories to a special time in my life

  • and then my collection just started growing.

  • I just became kind of obsessed with them,

  • they're just so nostalgic and they bring back

  • so many memories from my childhood.

  • - Which lunch box is the most meaningful?

  • - Oh man. The most meaningful one to me...

  • This is my favorite. It's the Green Hornet

  • and it was 1967 Green Hornet lunch box

  • and the reason I love it so much is because

  • it has Bruce Lee as Kato and I always thought

  • that was the coolest thing, man.

  • You kind of... I don't know. He's a special person

  • and to have him on a lunch box and it's pretty great.

  • - All right. Let's see where you work out.

  • - Welcome to the gym. - How often do you work out?

  • - If I had my choice I would work out every day.

  • Sometimes I work out twice a day.

  • So this is not only a place where I stay in shape

  • but this is also my sanctuary.

  • I come here peace of mind, it's therapeutic for me.

  • It's not really something I have to do to stay in shape

  • but something I need to do to keep my mind right.

  • - Tell me more about those dumbbells.

  • - We had these dumbbells, and these were hard to get

  • from a company in the U.K. called Watson.

  • They designed this Drax logo for me

  • so they're kind of special made.

  • There's 202 on a lot of my stuff.

  • 202 tattoos and it's just a representation

  • of my home town Washington D.C.

  • - How has your training changed over the years?

  • - When I first started working out in the WWE,

  • I was very concerned about how I looked.

  • You know I wanted to look like a star.

  • I wanted to look the part so it was

  • very much a bodybuilder style of work out routine.

  • Further along in my career as I started getting injured,

  • I realized that I didn't have to put that much pressure

  • on my body, to do that much damage to my joints

  • because I was doing double damage while I was wrestling.

  • So then I kind of focused towards the end of my career,

  • focused more on better cardio.

  • Cardio's always been a struggle

  • for me because I have severe asthma.

  • I'm still medicated daily for my asthma

  • and I would have to hide inhalers around certain arenas.

  • I'd have them all over the place

  • like have two or three inhalers around the rings.

  • Not joking, during matches... in the middle of matches

  • I'd have one under the ring and I'd fall

  • onto the ring like I was hurt just kind of roll under there

  • (inhaler puffs) roll back out ready to go.

  • It wasn't because I was in bad shape,

  • it was just because I struggled with my asthma.

  • - You trained differently for each film roll?

  • - I don't really vary my training all that much

  • for film roles. I did a little bit

  • for some of the Marvel stuff because I

  • really wanted to look the part

  • and I wanted to invest in the part of Drax.

  • So you probably notice that I'm the only

  • Marvel character who is shirtless in every film.

  • Even when I'm in outer space, I am shirtless.

  • - What was it like training as a blind

  • character for the series, See?

  • - I worked with a blind coach.

  • He went through certain drills with me

  • and tried to teach me what it was

  • like to live life without sight.

  • You follow without sight. You don't look with your eyes.

  • You look with your ears, so you're always listening

  • and you're following your ears

  • rather than following your eyes.

  • So and that was one of the thing,

  • even finding my way around because typically people,

  • they reach for things like this with their finger tips.

  • But if you reach for things like this with your finger tips,

  • and you happen to touch something sharp,

  • you stab yourself and that's going

  • to do damage to your finger tips.

  • So they typically reach like this instead,

  • they feel like this until they have what they want

  • and they grab it and pick it up.

  • That's the most kind of training I've ever done.

  • I did on Army of the Dead, we did train with some Navy Seals

  • and we did some military style training.

  • - What do you consider an intense workout?

  • - Fight training is the hardest training I've ever done.

  • It is... it's HIT training while you're getting

  • punched in the face and it sucks

  • and I don't think people realize

  • how grueling a five minute round is.

  • It's absolutely the most grueling

  • thing that I've ever done in my life.

  • To watch these guys and go a five minute round

  • and going full out, I know what they're going through.

  • It's just something you have to respect

  • and admire but I think fight training

  • is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.

  • - What's your favorite exercise?

  • - Not that I'm great at it, but I really love squatting.

  • I'm one of those tall guys, for some reason,

  • I had this complex when I was younger

  • but I never wanted to be the guy

  • with skinny legs. I love squatting, love it.

  • - What other kinds of training do you do?

  • - Besides the weight training, which I've done for years,

  • I've done a little bit of stuff outside. I was obsessed with

  • cycling for a while when I was much smaller.

  • Now I look like a gorilla on a bike. I'm just too big

  • so I typically get my cardio in on an Assault bike

  • and up stairs with martial arts,

  • in particular, boxing. So, you want to head up?

  • - Let's check out your boxing ring.

  • - So my favorite type of training, which I prefer

  • over weight training, is actually martial arts.

  • So I've been doing jiu-jitsu for years now.

  • So I do that on a regular basis but boxing is my thing.

  • I love it, man. Best cardio in the world.

  • I also think I'm not a natural boxer, I'm a natural grabber.

  • I'm good at it. I'm comfortable with it.

  • Boxing, I'm just all kinds of awkward

  • but I've also been obsessed with boxing

  • since I was a little kid, so I love it.

  • I love to do it, it takes me to a better place mentally,

  • gets me in great shape physically.

  • I think anybody should, especially if you've

  • got anger issues, or you're just mad at the world,

  • or just have stress and anxiety,

  • punch something over and over. Man, there's nothing better.

  • - What are your fitness goals?

  • - You know, I hit my stride later in life

  • and I want to make the most of it

  • so you know, just stay young and healthy

  • and rejuvenated and everything that

  • makes me feel good about myself

  • but also continues my career.

  • It's priceless to me but I think

  • if I just had one goal, I think I'd keep my abs.

  • - What kind of music do you listen to when you work out?

  • - I'm super old-school, like a Metallica

  • or something like that or I'm going old-school hip hop.

  • I love listening to some Wu Tang,

  • even Rage Against the Machine,

  • I love listening to some Rage.

  • - Do you have any scars? - Yeah, I've a load of scars.

  • I mean I've had so many surgeries throughout my career

  • and even some from being a knuckle-head on the street.

  • I had scars before I went into wresting

  • and it's because I grew up on the streets.

  • I grew up fighting. I grew up... I bounced for 13 years.

  • I've got scars you're looking at that you can't even see.

  • These that look like dents on my head,

  • are actually, I have a scar here

  • and I have a scar here from two different blows.

  • - What'd your most meaningful tattoo?

  • - I have a couple. One is on my leg, and you can't see

  • but it's a portrait of my dogs.

  • My dogs are like my children.

  • They're more important to me than anything in this world.

  • The other is actually my child, my son.

  • He is here and when he was a little baby,

  • he had this curly blonde hair.

  • This was actually a picture of him when he was sleeping

  • and I thought he looked like a little cherub,

  • so I went to my tattoo artist

  • and I told him to put that portrait

  • of him on my arm with some wings.

  • - All right. Time for some rapid fire questions.

  • Workout time, 7:00 AM or 7:00 PM? - 7:00 PM.

  • - Squat or deadlift? - Squats.

  • - Favorite song on your playlist? - Triumph, Wu Tang Clan.

  • - CrossFit, yay or nay? - Nay, definitely nay.

  • - Pull-ups or chin-ups? - Pull-ups.

  • - Dumbbells or kettlebells? - Dumbbells.

  • - Run on the treadmill or the great outdoors?

  • - Great outdoors. - Cardio or weights?

  • - Weights, I'm embarrassed to say that my weights.

  • - Big legs, or big arms? - Legs, baby!

  • - Biggest compliment: jacked, ripped, cut, or swole?

  • - Jacked, it's all of the above.

  • You're all the above when you're jacked.

  • - If you could work out with anyone in the world,

  • dead or alive, who would it be?

  • - So if I could... man, that's tough.

  • If I could work out with anybody in the world,

  • dead or alive, it would be Sugar Ray Robinson.

  • Yeah, Sugar Ray, he's the greatest.

  • All right, so you guys, you saw my fridge, you saw my gym.

  • You wandered around here and you've seen

  • my dogs and so pleasure having you but now get the out.

- (Men's Health) Hey, Dave Bautista. It's Men's Health.

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