Ueda in Nikkei Health October 2008: Healthy Tsuushin
As this interview is interesting and different from usual interviews, for, this is edited like a letter from him and since this is on the health magazine he mentioned a lot about his training and health, that I enjoyed reading.
I won't be able to train hard like him as I am totally less muscle, but still it gives me some ideas for training.
I really hope that he will be totally succeed in his concerts!
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Thanks for reading♥
Hello.
This summer it was really hot, but was your body okay?
I had been busy for the concerts as KAT-TUN and my first solo concerts which are going to be held in this month(September).
Still, when I was in Tokyo, almost every day between my jobs I went to my boxing gym and continued the real training from jump rope to sparring, actually punching each other on the ring.
Every night after work, I was running 40minutes for 10km pace.
To talk about my encounter with boxing, it is from my favorite comic 'Hajime no Ippo'.
In fact, I want to be strong as a man.
Not only physically, but also mentally.
While I am playing the boxing, I am feeling like fighting against myself.
While I am feeling hard, I'm driving and driving myself into a corner, it's really tough though.
When I sparred, I find a moment that I'm recognizing my growing up and being stronger.
It's my happiness.
That's why I can endure.
My trainer at the gym is kindly training me seriously without any allowances such as "as you are an idol......"
I am thankful for him.
It often happens that I am punched on my face and my nosebleed splashes on the ring.
If you want to be thinner, how about playing boxing?
If you train for 1 and a half hour every day, surely you can spend 600-700kcal.
As I am using my body like this, I become hungry very much.
Since I want to eat much, I am paying attention to the calorie.
When I cook by myself, I eat such as rice, miso soup, a pack of tofu with natto, and fried vegetables.
To talk about my fried vegetables, I fry 6 pieces of white meat of chicken and lots of various vegetables such as egg plant and sprout with a sort of oil which can't be a fat on ease by a Chinese pan quickly at once.
Somehow I like that sound.
As I fry with high-powered fire, it can't be wet but tastes good.
And, when I try not to take fat, I eat foods served with a pot.
Even when I eat outside, I use my cellphone's browser to check the calorie.
However, even though I am such a person, I sometimes stay lazy and think "I will give up for today", or, I eat lots of my favorite rice crackers(osenbei).
On such time, instead I train more after that.
In conclusion, I am keeping my body fat percentage as about 5-7%.
By the way, now I have a little pain with my body.
Well, it's not from boxing.
As I want to show my muscle performance which is really like me at my solo concert, I am working slightly harder.
Do you think "it sounds strange with you to have a pain with your body by a performance even though you are regularly training hard"?
At boxing, all the muscles such as belly, shoulder, back, legs and waist are needed to be used, and the usage has peculiarity.
At punching, I tighten the muscles of the upper half of the body then push them out.
However, at the performance, to show myself wide and beautiful, surely I need to widen muscles.
Then, ...it's slightly spoiling the content of the stage(LAUGH), for example, if I climb the hanged rope only with the upper half of my body without using my legs, I need to use muscle of my chest.
However, we boxers generally tend not to train chest muscle as once we have trained chest muscle it disturbs punching.
So, this time I am fairly overusing my muscles of those are generally not used.
In this summer, I worked hard at writing songs.
I finished 7 original songs for my solo concerts, for some I wrote both lyrics and music and for the rest I wrote only lyrics.
Even at night after the concert of KAT-TUN at the local city, once it finished I went back to the hotel and considered about lyrics.
In case music is already prepared, I continue singing by lalala~.
Then, proper words for music naturally appears in my mind.
From it I tend to organize the whole.
When I can't do it smoothly, I feel a mental hardship, but at such situation I try to leave my present condition such as "I have no time" or "I want to put butter on the bread" straight on the music.
So finally it becomes the one which is similar to people's daily life and everyone can picture it from listening, and a persuasive one.
Rather, they seem to have become ones which can express the movement of my emotions.
Then, about health..., I think, it's from 'guts'.
For, to become healthy, we need to limit something or yell at ourselves who are going to be lazy....
But, now I also want to know how to relax and cure myself.
In fact, my body has energy but I can't fall asleep easily.
It means the tense can't be loosened on ease.
It seems that I can't be relaxed to get to sleep.
The other day my acquaintance said that if we try '温冷浴(on-rei yoku)', continue taking cold shower and sink in the warm water for 3 minutes alternately for several times, the switch of nerves can work smoothly, from sympathetic nerve which works hard at tensed to parasympathetic nerve which at relaxing, and we can get to sleep easier.
I am planning to try it now.
So, I will sleep well.
I will settle my physical and mental condition, and at my solo concert, I will show all myself.
Please watch me of various aspects.
Then, good-bye.
In 2008, at the beginning of autumn. Tatsuya UEDA
I won't be able to train hard like him as I am totally less muscle, but still it gives me some ideas for training.
I really hope that he will be totally succeed in his concerts!
If you want to repost my translations somewhere...
- Tell me first by giving me a comment below the translation post.
- Credit me properly. (for example: masuda_takahits@LJ or @livejournal)
- Do not edit/rewrite it unless you slightly correct my grammatical mistake/typo. (if you summarize, please mention that you've summarized it)
Thanks for reading♥
Hello.
This summer it was really hot, but was your body okay?
I had been busy for the concerts as KAT-TUN and my first solo concerts which are going to be held in this month(September).
Still, when I was in Tokyo, almost every day between my jobs I went to my boxing gym and continued the real training from jump rope to sparring, actually punching each other on the ring.
Every night after work, I was running 40minutes for 10km pace.
To talk about my encounter with boxing, it is from my favorite comic 'Hajime no Ippo'.
In fact, I want to be strong as a man.
Not only physically, but also mentally.
While I am playing the boxing, I am feeling like fighting against myself.
While I am feeling hard, I'm driving and driving myself into a corner, it's really tough though.
When I sparred, I find a moment that I'm recognizing my growing up and being stronger.
It's my happiness.
That's why I can endure.
My trainer at the gym is kindly training me seriously without any allowances such as "as you are an idol......"
I am thankful for him.
It often happens that I am punched on my face and my nosebleed splashes on the ring.
If you want to be thinner, how about playing boxing?
If you train for 1 and a half hour every day, surely you can spend 600-700kcal.
As I am using my body like this, I become hungry very much.
Since I want to eat much, I am paying attention to the calorie.
When I cook by myself, I eat such as rice, miso soup, a pack of tofu with natto, and fried vegetables.
To talk about my fried vegetables, I fry 6 pieces of white meat of chicken and lots of various vegetables such as egg plant and sprout with a sort of oil which can't be a fat on ease by a Chinese pan quickly at once.
Somehow I like that sound.
As I fry with high-powered fire, it can't be wet but tastes good.
And, when I try not to take fat, I eat foods served with a pot.
Even when I eat outside, I use my cellphone's browser to check the calorie.
However, even though I am such a person, I sometimes stay lazy and think "I will give up for today", or, I eat lots of my favorite rice crackers(osenbei).
On such time, instead I train more after that.
In conclusion, I am keeping my body fat percentage as about 5-7%.
By the way, now I have a little pain with my body.
Well, it's not from boxing.
As I want to show my muscle performance which is really like me at my solo concert, I am working slightly harder.
Do you think "it sounds strange with you to have a pain with your body by a performance even though you are regularly training hard"?
At boxing, all the muscles such as belly, shoulder, back, legs and waist are needed to be used, and the usage has peculiarity.
At punching, I tighten the muscles of the upper half of the body then push them out.
However, at the performance, to show myself wide and beautiful, surely I need to widen muscles.
Then, ...it's slightly spoiling the content of the stage(LAUGH), for example, if I climb the hanged rope only with the upper half of my body without using my legs, I need to use muscle of my chest.
However, we boxers generally tend not to train chest muscle as once we have trained chest muscle it disturbs punching.
So, this time I am fairly overusing my muscles of those are generally not used.
In this summer, I worked hard at writing songs.
I finished 7 original songs for my solo concerts, for some I wrote both lyrics and music and for the rest I wrote only lyrics.
Even at night after the concert of KAT-TUN at the local city, once it finished I went back to the hotel and considered about lyrics.
In case music is already prepared, I continue singing by lalala~.
Then, proper words for music naturally appears in my mind.
From it I tend to organize the whole.
When I can't do it smoothly, I feel a mental hardship, but at such situation I try to leave my present condition such as "I have no time" or "I want to put butter on the bread" straight on the music.
So finally it becomes the one which is similar to people's daily life and everyone can picture it from listening, and a persuasive one.
Rather, they seem to have become ones which can express the movement of my emotions.
Then, about health..., I think, it's from 'guts'.
For, to become healthy, we need to limit something or yell at ourselves who are going to be lazy....
But, now I also want to know how to relax and cure myself.
In fact, my body has energy but I can't fall asleep easily.
It means the tense can't be loosened on ease.
It seems that I can't be relaxed to get to sleep.
The other day my acquaintance said that if we try '温冷浴(on-rei yoku)', continue taking cold shower and sink in the warm water for 3 minutes alternately for several times, the switch of nerves can work smoothly, from sympathetic nerve which works hard at tensed to parasympathetic nerve which at relaxing, and we can get to sleep easier.
I am planning to try it now.
So, I will sleep well.
I will settle my physical and mental condition, and at my solo concert, I will show all myself.
Please watch me of various aspects.
Then, good-bye.
In 2008, at the beginning of autumn. Tatsuya UEDA