“I’m No Angel…”

There was a time in my life when I pushed the envelope—hard. I was a hard-core “honky tonker” during my first marriage and that’s the very reason it ended. …and that’s when I took a good look in the mirror and decided…“I want to live past 30.”

My own anger and frustrations led me to the gym. I used bodybuilding as an outlet to vent…and then, I fell in love with it. I became addicted. My daily schedule revolved around my workouts and then I began to compete.
I trained hard and studied the value of vitamin supplements—anything I could do to enhance my physique. I even “cocktailed” my own natural supplements to meet Aaron Tippin daily value nutritional standards.

When I moved to Nashville and landed my recording contract, physical fitness became even more important to me. Not so much as to enhance my appearance, but, again, as an outlet to release energy.

When you sign a contract and start having hits, your life no longer remains yours; you turn it over to the music industry “powers that be.” That was difficult for me.

So, to “hang on to me,” I went to the gym where I was in complete control, where “I” could affect the results. Although I didn’t realize it at the time, I concentrated on me, to become a better person (friend, husband, father) for others. ...Enter my wife, Thea, and my sons Teddy and Thomas.

My will to “be there” for my family enabled me to cross a number of personal hurdles. I was addicted to tobacco—I gave it up—and nobody loves it more than I do. Being a full-fledged southern boy, I love all of that southern fried food. Thea taught me how to change and improve my diet and eating habits. The boys, well, they keep me fit as a natural course of being their dad!

In the meantime, I’ve maintained the good part of my lifestyle that “worked” for me, my workout regimen and my belief in the value of nutritional
supplements.

…and we’ve incorporated what “works” into the Tippin every-day-way-of-life…living well.

For the past 20 years of my music career, folks have asked me how I stay in shape. I just tell them…“my lifestyle…it’s the stuff that works.”