16 MUSCLE & FITNESS JUNE 2016KID
DYNAMITE
Ty son w on
44 of 50
fights by KO.
His quickest
was 30
seconds.BOB THOMAS/GETTY IMAGESWhere would you rank
yourself among the greatest
heavyweights of all time?
It’s not my position to do that.
People saw me perform and do
whatever I did when I did it. It’s up
to them to choose where I belong.You had a great physique
throughout your career. When
you were coming up as a
fighter, did you lift weights at
all or were you just boxing?
No way. Only hitting the bag and
boxing all the time. I did lift later in
my career, when I came back in
’95. I started lifting weights because
that’s what everybody was doing.
Everybody had strength and
conditioning guys at that time.Is there a workout regimen
you follow today?
Normally it’s just an hour and a half on
the treadmill, 200 Russian twists withIf there’s a real-life Jekyll and
Hyde in the sports or entertainment
fields, it’s “Iron” Mike Tyson,
who for 30 years has straddled
the line between terrifying
competitor and sympathetic victim.
We sparred (figuratively, thank
goodness) with the youngest
heavyweight champ of all time.a 15-pound [6.8kg] medicine ball and
then I do chest exercises. I don’t do
heavy weights. I’ll do bench presses
with about 100 pounds [45kg], a bar
and plates. I just do repetitions.
I get addicted to running sometimes.
Sometimes I’ll do it until I have to go to
the hospital and get shots through my
foot. I haven’t been on the treadmill for
two months. I’m so happy because
this is the first time I’ve stopped
running and I didn’t gain a pound.You lost 160 pounds by
adopting a vegan diet.
What were you eating?
I stopped eating basically
altogether. I was miserable.
Every time I travelled I had
to bring food with me.So what are you eating now?
First thing in the morning I eat a
bison burger and some cream of
wheat [a breakfast porridge mixUndisputed icon
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