Worldwide gross sales for legendary rockers Def Leppard exceed 100 million copies, and the band’s longtime lead guitarist, Phil Collen, has put up some spectacular numbers within the fitness center, too. As soon as guitar-neck skinny, Collen bench-pressed almost 400 kilos in his prime and is now a lean and ripped 60-year-old, due to vegetarianism and rib-busting Muay Thai kicks. We caught up with Collen in the course of the band’s not too long ago launched 58-city tour with Journey.
Greater than 30 years later, Def Leppard’s Pyromania and Hysteria albums nonetheless maintain up. Does that make you are feeling proud or previous?
It’s superior. I distinctly bear in mind somebody asking me after we have been making Hysteria, “Why are you spending all this time and placing a lot effort into this report?” And I stated, “So that you’ll be speaking about it in 20 years’ time.” We needed to ensure the songs have been nice and had lasting energy.
Why are ’80s steel bands nonetheless well-liked?
Def Leppard by no means cut up up. We’ve had just one yr off since I joined in ’82. There’s an integrity that goes with that.
What has your bodily evolution been like from the ’80s to right now?
I used to be stingy in the course of the Pyromania days—I had zero muscle tone. I haven’t had meat in 35 years, and I haven’t had a drink in 31. That has had a big impact. Now, at age 60, I may head-kick a man who’s 6’6″ with out even warming up, as a result of I consistently do all these things. There’s one thing to be stated for consistency. You don’t must go so hardcore, however you do must do one thing. In any other case, it’s like the rest. It’ll atrophy.
COLLEN’S HOTEL WORKOUT
No fitness center in sight? Be like Collen and carry out 5 rounds of the next strikes.
- 25 pushups
- 25 band curls
- 25 band extensions
- 25 excessive knees
- 25 crunches
Decide up Def Leppard’s new field set, The Assortment: Quantity 1.
