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Jun 8

Jaboukie Young-White Bulked Up With Mangoes and Croissants – GQ Magazine

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When I was in L.A. I was doing classes, and then...I had a hernia surgery last year, so I needed to go at my own pace when I got back into it. I've mostly been doing one on one stuff at Five Points in Manhattan, and also with my good friend comedian Diego Lopez, who does MMA.

I also have been seeing a trainer for strength training because that's not my strong suit at all. She set up a little gym inside of a box truck. That's what I've been doing for the past couple months.

Is strength training totally new to you?

I'd been doing it before a little bit. I initially started for the stress release. It's not gonna cure any of your problems, but picking up and putting down really heavy things, it just does something to you [laughs].

One thing that I think was kind of an "aha" moment for me was after a while of doing strength training, I looked in the mirror and was, like, "Oh my god, this is the first time in my life that my head has ever looked proportional to my body." I normally look like a walking lollipop. And now I look like a well-proportioned person.

Is this routine sort of getting back on the horse after a year off?

It is kind of getting back on the horse, but with a different mentality. I feel so grateful to even be able to do anything with my body. We went through a period of having to be very concerned about our bodies, and it's given me a newfound appreciation for, like...being able to breathe even. Before I was very goal oriented, like, I need to get to this point or lift this much. Now I'm just here for the ride. I'll give it my best. It's definitely more rewarding.

Do you exercise outside of the training right now?

I try to bike every day, which is a recent development during the pandemic. I got a bike last April. The city was so empty, I was going down Broadway swerving lanes. I found biking after I got surgery was one thing I could get back to without too much complication.

My legs just got gigantic. My bike also has really small wheels because its foldable. I'm always working, like, ten times as hard as the other bikers.

So your legs get bigger than everyone with normally sized wheels.

Exactly, that's the secret. Comically small bike for good quads.

What are your eating habits like right now?

For the longest time I had a wheat allergy, which...I'm sorry, I know it's insufferable. I found out when I was 17. Recently I got another allergy panel because I was traveling and wanted to make sure I knew what I could and couldn't eat in a foreign country. I got tested and I found out that I was no longer allergic to wheat, and that really fucked me up.

Before I was so lean I actually had trouble bulking. It's hard to eat carbs if you can't eat pasta, bread, the delicious carbs. You have to just eat, like, whole boiled sweet potatoes. No shade on sweet potato, she's delicious, I love her, I just don't want her all the time.

So I now have more free rein. I ate so many croissants because it had been so long. I had my fill, so now it's mostly meats, veggies, fruits. I love fruits. I'm a fruit head. I would even go so far to say I'm a fruit. Mangoes are the best. Stone fruits? No other fruit family is touching stone fruits. Stone fruits have avocados, peaches...blackberries! Stone fruits. Just looked that up the other day.

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