Inside Steve Aoki's Quest to Live Forever

“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. [View in Browser]( [Men's Health]( [SHOP]( [MVP EXCLUSIVES]( [SUBSCRIBE]( [Alternate text] THIS WEEK'S MUST-READ [Alternate text] [Inside Steve Aoki's Quest to Live Forever]( [Inside Steve Aoki's Quest to Live Forever]( [“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.]( [READ MORE]( [Alternate text] [We Found the Best Black Friday On Running Shoe Discounts]( [We Found the Best Black Friday On Running Shoe Discounts]( [Get new models like the Cloudswift 3 for less than full price.]( [READ MORE]( [9 Signs You May Develop Erectile Dysfunction]( [9 Signs You May Develop Erectile Dysfunction]( [There can be more to it than just having trouble getting it up.]( [READ MORE]( [Alternate text] [Alternate text] [73 Foolproof Holiday Gifts That'll Impress Any Woman on Your List]( [73 Foolproof Holiday Gifts That'll Impress Any Woman on Your List]( [There won't be any exchanges this year.]( [READ MORE]( [We Tried the Viral Juice-Like Protein Powder. And It Didn’t Suck.]( [We Tried the Viral Juice-Like Protein Powder. And It Didn’t Suck.]( [Sick of downing a milky protein shake after the gym? We were, too—until we found this.]( [READ MORE]( [Alternate text] [Alternate text] [22 Cooler-Than-Cool Crewneck Sweatshirts to Add to Your Closet]( [22 Cooler-Than-Cool Crewneck Sweatshirts to Add to Your Closet]( [From the graphic to the vintage, the minimalist to the super functional.]( [READ MORE]( [Alternate text] [How Men From 35 Years Ago Compare to Now]( [How Men From 35 Years Ago Compare to Now]( [So much has changed in the past three and a half decades. Are men better off? We took a look at the data.]( [READ MORE]( [Alternate text] [Improve Sleep With Blue Light Blocking Frames From Men's Health]( [LiveIntent Logo]( [AdChoices Logo]( Follow Us [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Notice]( | [CA Notice at Collection]( Men's Health is a publication of Hearst Magazines. ©2023 Hearst Magazines, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent by Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779