John Cena is a man of unique accomplishments. Just last week the sixteen-time WWE world champion had a movie released in which he tries to stop teens from bangin’, had his butt described in great detail by Leslie Mann, and lost a WrestleMania match to the retired mortician he’d been harassing for weeks.
You’d have to guess such a man would have also a unique schedule, but we didn’t know the specifics of it until now.
In an interview with Vanity Fair (see the embedded video above), Cena reveals what he does in a day. Here’s a basic outline:
- “I wake up between the hours of six and seven a.m. I wake up with an alarm. If the wake-up is past seven a.m. it is by the sun. I think, personally, snooze is the worst device ever invented.”
- “In the shower, I wash myself.”
- John Cena eats a very regulated, high-protein diet.
- John Cena spends 45 minutes to an hour warming up when he goes to the gym.
- John Cena has a lot of cars available for him to drive.
- If he listens to anything while driving, it’s NPR.
- John Cena uses Google Maps if he’s going somewhere unfamiliar.
- John Cena is always trying to maintain some sort of activity and hates procrastinating.
- He’s learning Mandarin (but you might already know that.)
- He’s also learning to play piano (you might have already known that too.)
- John Cena tries not to take phone calls during the day because he knows “phone calls are full of conversation, and sometimes conversation can get away from you.”
- John Cena calls his mom often.
- When John Cena gets home between 5-7 p.m., he ends his work day and lets time escape him.
- Someone else prepares John Cena’s dinner – it’s either takeout, catered, or at a restaurant.
- John Cena sleeps in the nude.
- “If I do dream, they aren’t dreams that I remember.”
- John Cena “plays the catch-up game when it comes to sleep.” Over a five-day stretch, he averages between one and four hours of sleep a night. Then on day six he sleeps between eight and twelve hours.
Turns out that when you have irregular work hours, the need to maintain a bodybuilder’s physique via diet and exercise, and tons of money, you end up with an unusual day-to-day lifestyle.
To me, the most interesting thing about this video is the way John Cena describes his routine – with a lot of detail and a serious tone. It could support multiple popular John Cena conspiracy theories: 1) that he is a robot, and/or 2) that he method-acted The Marine so hard that he now believes he was actually A Troop.
