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Adam Levine Statistics
Full Name: Adam Levine
Weight
Height
Age
77.1 kg (170 lbs)
5’11” (180.44 cm)
44 years
Date of Birth
Birthplace
Nationality
March 18, 1979
Los Angeles, California
American
Adam Levine Biography
Early Life
Adam Noah Levine, popularly known as Adam Levine was born on March 18, 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA. His father Fredric Levine was the founder of retail chain M. Levine while mother Patsy was an admissions counsellor. Fredric and Patsy’s father were Jewish. However, her mother was protestant. Adam Levine considers himself Jewish irrespective of his mixed ancestry. He also has a younger brother. Television producer Peter Noah and Timothy Noah, noted journalist and author are both related to Adam Levine.
Adam’s time during his childhood was split between his mother and father as they divorced when he was only seven years old. As a result, he spent his weekdays with his mother while his father accompanied him on weekends. Adam Levine attended the Brentwood School in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA where he met his future bandmates Mickey Madden and Jesse Carmichael.
Levine developed a passion for music long before he met his future bandmates. He attributed his first steps into the field to his family. In one of the interviews, Levine described his family as being ‘very musical’ and stated that his mother Patsy started him out on the path of music. Patsy idolized Simon and Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac and Beetles. Their music formed a significant part of Adam’s upbringing and it helped him shape his own musical style.
Career
Early Success and failure
Adam Levine formed his first band, Kara’s Flowers, along with friends Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden and Ryan Dustick. They started out with playing their gigs at night clubs and independent music producer Tommy Allen discovered the band when they were performing in Malibu. Allen and his partner John DeNicola recorded an independent 11-track album with Kara’s Flowers.
This led to the band getting noticed by producer Rob Cavallo who helped them sign with the music label Reprise Records. The band’s first album, The Fourth World, was released in 1997 but failed to gain commercial success. After Cavallo’s exit from Reprise Records, the label decided to part ways with Kara’s Flowers which also marked the end of this band.
Disheartened by the failure, the band broke up and Levine, along with Carmichael decided to pursue higher studies at the Five Towns College in New York rather than getting right back in the industry.
Maroon 5
The move to New York would prove to be a revolutionary step in Adam Levine’s career as he admits to having opened up to Hip Hop and R&B music during his time in New York. Having found the purpose once again, the duo left college after the first semester and got back with Mickey Madden and Ryan Dustic. The passion for music reinvigorated, the band experimented with a wide variety of music ranging from country to folk and came to a conclusion that groove-based music was the genre that would be the basis of their musical journey thereafter.
The initial demos prepared by the band were rejected by many music labels. However, they found a ray of hope with the label Octone Records. The label’s executive Ben Berkman advised the band to add a fifth member who could become a guitarist so that Adam Levine could be freed up to enhance his own performance as the lead vocalist.
The band added James Valentine as the guitarist and it was renamed Maroon 5. As the band was shaping up and taking its initial steps, Adam Levine was working as an assistant writer on CBS show Judging Amy. During this time, Levine would write songs about his ex-girlfriend which became a part of Maroon 5’s debut album Songs About Jane. In spite of having a slow start, the album became an eventual hit and sold more than 10 million copies. It became the 4th best selling album of the year 2004.
Subsequent success
Maroon 5 won their first Grammy award for the ‘Best New Artist’ in 2005. In 2006, they bagged the second Grammy for the Best Pop Performance By A Duo or Group in Vocals.
Levine never looked back after this and went on to amass huge success in the music industry. As a part of Maroon 5, he then released six more albums It Won’t be Soon Before Long (2007), Hands All Over (2010), Overexposed (2012) V (Five in Roman, 2014), Red Pill Blues (2017) and Jordi (2021). He won several accolades along with the third Grammy award for his contribution to music.
Levine made a foray into television, movies as well as media. He appeared in the 33rd season premiere of Saturday Night Live in 2007 and performed on various shows such as Comedy Central’s Night of Too Many Stars. He also served as a judge / coach on the music reality TV show The Voice from 2011 to 2019.
Adam Levine also played a recurring role in the second season of the television series American Horror Story called the American Horror Story: Asylum. He was also a part of the Keira Nightley and Mark Ruffalo starrer musical romantic Drama Begin Again (2012).
Adam Levine Workout
Adam Levine firmly believes that you don’t spend your entire time in the gym. As a result, what you do outside of the gym is as important as the efforts you put in the gym. No matter how hard you train, it is impossible to stay healthy and fit if you do not maintain control over everyday habits.
While it is good to have a carefully formulated training program, Levine is of the opinion that staying active with consistency is more important. And that can look different for everyone. You can do marathons, focus more on weight training or martial arts training, it doesn’t matter. Everything is good if it suits you well and keeps you active.
It is very important to incorporate the training methods you like. At the end of the day, it is difficult to make gains by doing things you hate to do as you probably won’t be able to stick to it for a long time anyway. Therefore, do the activities that are effective and enjoyable.
Being an extremely busy individual, Adam Levine spends a lot of energy throughout the day and remains active through most of his waking hours. He worked with personal fitness trainer Austin Pohlen. While speaking about Levine, Pohlen once said that Levine does not sit still at any point in the day and logs over 14000 steps per day on the fitness tracker.
Adam Levine’s training methods
Adam Levine does not like to spend long hours in the gym. For strength training, he prefers to do circuit training that can be completed within 25 minutes or less. Levine has a reputation of getting bored with the routine very easily. However, he counters this by doing activities that get him moving quickly. To do this, he performs heavy sets of his favorite exercises.
Yoga, treadmill and Pilates are Adam Levine’s primary cardio exercises, apart from running behind the kids in his Los Angeles house though! He dedicates a lot of time to cardio for improving cardiovascular health.
Monday – Yoga and Full Body Strength Training Circuit
Adam Levine starts his training week with yoga and strength training sessions. After practicing Yoga for 30 to 45 minutes, Levine performs a full body strength training circuit. This session sets the tone for Levine’s rest of the training week. Overall, the Monday training routine includes:
Yoga
- 30 to 45 mins of Yoga Practice
Repeat the circuit six times with one minute rest periods between circuits
Tuesday – Pilates
Pilates are a full body training method that aims to improve daily activities. Improved core strength, injury prevention, improved posture, enhanced body awareness and increased energy levels are some of the several benefits this training method offers. Adam Levine subjects himself to an hour of Pilates training every Tuesday after getting sufficient cardio work on the treadmill. Levine’s Tuesday training session looks like this:
- 1.5 Hours on the Treadmill
- 1 Hour of Pilates
Wednesday – Cardio
Levine takes a step back after intense strength training and Pilates sessions on the previous days. Instead of doing intense works on Wednesdays, he typically spends an hour and a half on the treadmill and does 30 minutes of Yoga to improve heart health, relax and improve strength, flexibility and balance.
- 1.5 Hours on the Treadmill
- 30 minutes of Yoga
Levine reverts to strength training, cardio and yoga on Thursday and Saturday. The training sessions on these days are a combination of treadmill, strength training circuit of dumbbell rows, reverse lunges and superman as well as Yoga practice. Typically, it consists of:
Cardio
- 1.5 Hours on the Treadmill
- Incline Dumbbell Rows – 30 reps
- Reverse Lunges – 30 reps
- Superman – 30 reps
Friday – Cardio, Yoga and Strength
Cardio
1 Hour on the Treadmill
Strength Training Circuit
- Incline Dumbbell Rows – 30 reps
- Reverse Lunges – 30 reps
- Superman – 30 reps
Yoga
- 30 minutes of Yoga
Fitness is not Levine’s entire life but it is for sure an important part of his life. Therefore he does not push himself too hard in terms of training. Also, it is essential to give time for your body to recover from the wear and tear. As a result, Levine takes two days off from training every week. While on Saturday he does light stretching, Sundays are full rest days that Levine spends with his family.
Adam Levine Diet
Consistency is the basis of Adam Levine’s dietary practices. He does not believe in extreme forms of diet but ensures that his body is fueled with nutritious food after intense training. Levine avoids sugar laden processed foods and tries to eat home cooked nutritious food as far as possible. He gives utmost importance to staying hydrated and also avoids too much dairy.
The Maroon 5 vocalist adheres to a simple three-meals-a-day diet and also takes dietary supplements like Melatonin to promote sound sleep for full recovery. While eggs and fish are the primary sources of protein in Adam Levine’s diet, food like leafy vegetables, yoghourt and whole wheat pasta provide the right amounts of carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and other micronutrients to maintain the fitness level.
Typically, a full day of eating in Adam Levine’s routine looks like this:
Breakfast
- Coffee
- Egg Whites
- Spinach
- Greek Yoghourt
- Salmon
- Vegetables
- Sweet Potatoes
- Whole Wheat Pasta
- Steamed Vegetables
- Superfood Shakes
- Melatonin
Adam Levine was romantically involved with the Russian model Anne Vyalitsyna. They met when Levine was performing at the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue release party in Las Vegas in 2010. The couple ended the relationship with mutual respect in 2012.
Levine started dating Namibian Victoria’s Secret Model Behati Prinsloo the same year and the couple got married in 2014. The couple has three children. Their eldest daughter, Dusty Rose, was born in September 2016. They were blessed with a second daughter named Gio Grace in February 2018. Adam and Behati welcomed their third child in January of 2023.
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