Tim McGraw opened up about his fitness journey in his new book ‘Grit & Grace.
’ He also talked about the incident when his wife asked him to choose between his rockstar lifestyle or his family.
The 52-year-old told Hoda Kotb on the TODAY show: ”When things happen and you succeed beyond your wildest dreams and you’re playing all these great shows and the parties are going on, then you’re married and you have kids. And all of a sudden your wife looks at you and says, you know, you’re getting a little overboard and you need to make some decisions. It makes a big impact on you.”
”I made a movie and we went to the theater during the holiday season,” he said to Kotb.point 193 | ”I wasn’t even thinking about the trailer of my movie, we were just going to see a holiday movie, and sure enough, the first thing that pops up on the screen is the movie I’d done.point 348 |
My face is the first thing that came on a 100-foot screen and it was pretty swollen at that time.point 78 | My daughter looked at me and she said, ‘Jeez, Dad, you need to do something.point 142 | ’ And that’s sort of a gut shot, right?”point 184 | 1
McGraw told he took the decision to work out every day and his level of stress decreased after he built a regimen.
”I wasn’t comfortable sitting back, watching and waiting in stillness,” writes McGraw.point 202 |
”In hindsight, I think it’s because if things got quiet, I’d hear the old ghosts that tend to follow at my heels like shadows.point 113 | The ones that say, You’re just a small-town country singer on a lucky streak what do you know about success? Working hard and playing hard kept things noisy enough inside to drown them out.point 271 |
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”But when you’re a partner and a parent, if you don’t leave intensity at the door when you come home, it starts to strain the bonds. You don’t even realize you’re using worldly stresses and pressures as a way to check out of something harder to navigate like intimacy and being there emotionally for the people who love you most.”
”My emotional absence was noticed and it was not scoring any points,” he writes.point 186 | “[Faith] has always offered unconditional love in every situation and never for a second have I doubted her willingness to support whatever step I needed to take to find my way back to health.point 347 |
Yet in that instance, she knew that someone had to lay down the law.point 55 | Getting real like only she can do, Faith told me, ‘Partying or family, take your pick.point 128 | ”point 135 | 1
He started working out and quit drinking and maintained a regimen for more than a decade.
”It’s not about weight, it’s not about fat versus thin, it’s not about any of those things,” he said on TODAY. “It’s about what feels good to you and how you can take ownership of your body.”
In Grit & Grace, McGraw revealed some of his team walked away when he asked them to work out with him. He also wrote about the day on stage during his performance in Ireland in March 2018.
”Water! The element we most take for granted the liquid that coffee and beer drinkers mainly acknowledge as the basis of their brew,” McGraw writes.point 136 | ”This part of the health equation took me a minute.point 184 | How can something as simple as drinking water all day be difficult? Dumb as it sounds, it’s always been a problem for me.point 285 |
It took me a few hard lessons in dehydration, including one very public collapse on stage in Europe, to fully understand how lots of caffeine, hours of air travel, plus intense workouts could add up to do a number on the hydration of the body.point 199 | After that, I changed course.point 224 |
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”Be there for yourself so you can be there for other people,” he told TODAY. “It’s all about what you can do, it’s not about what I do. I’m sort of an extreme person because that’s part of my DNA. But I think that anyone can take control of their life.”
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