All The Little Details

Nick Jonas recently spoke with DETAILS magazine to promote his new show Kingdom. Highlights from his interview are below.

On how he prepared for the role of a MMA fighter: “I had about six weeks to put on 12 to 15 pounds of muscle before filming started on [DirecTV’s] Kingdom—my character is a fighter whose strong suits are wrestling and grappling. Diet had a lot to do with it. I went from consuming about 3,000 calories a day to 4,200! Paleta, a food-delivery service, sent me three meals a day and snacks.”

On his workout for the show: “When I was getting in shape for the show, I was doing three sessions a day: one fight-training with Kingdom‘s coach, Joe ‘Daddy’ Stephenson, and two strength-building with Gregg. Each workout focused on a different region of the body—upper body, core, or legs—and we’d do a circuit of six different moves for one area. Lifting a lot of weights, really trying to break the muscles down.”

On how is diet and workout regiment changed after to filming: “I got pretty Hulk-ish. Now that I’m on tour for my album, I’ve leaned out about 10 pounds from what I’d gained. It’s been fun to change my physicality. My meal plan came down to about 2,500 calories, and the portions got really small. I exercise only three or four times a week. I’ve been working on stretching and lengthening my muscles with hot yoga—my girlfriend introduced me to Modo Yoga on La Brea—and I’m trying to incorporate more cardio.”

You can check out more from his interview here. Kingdom airs ever Wednesday on DirecTV.