Fans might remember Omarion from his early days in music, but he’s grown up a lot since then, musically and personally. And with that growth comes a new outlook on health and fitness, too.
The singer recently invited Men’s Health into his home to break down his gym routine—and the one exercise he swears by to keep in shape. “The pull-up builds the kind of strength that not everyone can see,” he says. “If you can do a lot of pull-ups, you don’t just appear to be strong. You are strong.”
While Omarion admits a lot of his fitness regimen is about keeping himself looking good onstage, it’s not just about appearances. His main goal for keeping up with intense workouts is to ensure he can keep up the stamina for performances.
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“[Working out] definitely helps me manage my energy better,” he says about his overall gym philosophy. “Thirty minutes onstage for me is literally a full day’s work. So I make sure I eat right and I make sure I keep my energy high.”
“As you mature, and someone like me, in my position, that performs and uses their body all the time, it has intensified,” he continues. “Just doing sit-ups one day, doing weights another day. It’s cool, but you really have to have a plan. You have to have a purpose on what it is that you wanna look like.”
After a quick workout, it’s off to the kitchen where Omarion starts assembling all the ingredients for his morning smoothie: frozen pineapple, spinach (his favorite food), ginger, dried cranberries, and honey. While he acknowledges his diet has changed significantly over time, he does laugh about the reason he’s so health conscious.
“Maintaining a good diet is the key to having great abs,” he says. “A lot of people wonder where good abs come from—it starts in the kitchen.”
When he’s not working on maintaining a performance-ready physique by cooking healthy staples like jerk shrimp and smoked salmon, the singer indulges, too. (Soul food and ice cream are his go-tos.) He doesn’t sweat it, though, because he gives himself leeway to have a cheat day once in a while. At the end of the day, it’s all about maintaining a healthy, balanced diet.
“If I’m going to get it in with the sugar, if I’m going to have some cake,” he says, “I always make sure I put in a hard workout after that for sure.”
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