“It always fucking hurts, no matter how many times you do it,” says Steve Aoki. “Oh yeah, baby. I’m telling my brain to relax through the pain, but it’s telling me to run. Breathe, breathe, breathe.” It’s 102 degrees midafternoon on a blue-sky day in early September in Henderson, Nevada, and Aoki, the superstar DJ known for popularizing electronic dance music (EDM) in America and a budding biohacker, is hard at it, optimizing his mind and body with a workout/ice plunge/sauna trifecta. He’s about 90 seconds into a five-minute ice-bath challenge.
Aoki flew into Las Vegas after back-to-back gigs in Waterloo, Ontario, and Fayetteville, Arkansas, arriving at 2:00 P.M. They were something like gigs number 197 and 198 he played this year, out of a projected 250. He has a career side quest to play in every state and is currently at 48, with just West Virginia and Mississippi to go. Aoki went straight from the airport to exercise at home with his training partner Glen Cordoza, a fitness-book author. His 16,779-square-foot, four-bedroom, 11-bathroom multilevel glass-and-concrete home—@aokisplayhouse on Instagram—is perched on a ridge, with the Vegas Strip in the distance. There are several playrooms—one with arcade games, another with tables set up for chess and backgammon—as well as a library, a tea bar, a gym, and two music studios. Outside, there are three pools, a sauna, and three ice-plunge tubs.
“It always fucking hurts, no matter how many times you do it,” says Steve Aoki. “Oh yeah, baby. I’m telling my brain to relax through the pain, but it’s telling me to run. Breathe, breathe, breathe.” It’s 102 degrees midafternoon on a blue-sky day in early September in Henderson, Nevada, and Aoki, the superstar DJ known for popularizing electronic dance music (EDM) in America and a budding biohacker, is hard at it, optimizing his mind and body with a workout/ice plunge/sauna trifecta. He’s about 90 seconds into a five-minute ice-bath challenge.
Aoki flew into Las Vegas after back-to-back gigs in Waterloo, Ontario, and Fayetteville, Arkansas, arriving at 2:00 P.M. They were something like gigs number 197 and 198 he played this year, out of a projected 250. He has a career side quest to play in every state and is currently at 48, with just West Virginia and Mississippi to go. Aoki went straight from the airport to exercise at home with his training partner Glen Cordoza, a fitness-book author. His 16,779-square-foot, four-bedroom, 11-bathroom multilevel glass-and-concrete home—@aokisplayhouse on Instagram—is perched on a ridge, with the Vegas Strip in the distance. There are several playrooms—one with arcade games, another with tables set up for chess and backgammon—as well as a library, a tea bar, a gym, and two music studios. Outside, there are three pools, a sauna, and three ice-plunge tubs. |
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