The legend designation? That word excuses my performance, Jagr thinks
Jaromír Jágr (50) has recently embarked on a business career and launched his own brand JJ68. These are products that the hockey player believes will contribute to an active and relaxed lifestyle. In an interview with iDNES.cz, he spoke not only about his activities, but also reminisced about his legendary hairstyle.
You are marketing products with harmless cannabis. This was preceded by your pain, which you fought thanks to cannabis. Why have you now decided to share this help with others?
To explain. I've been using this product for the last two years, but not before. However, I have felt pain on a daily basis throughout my career. I trained extremely and had no problem with it. But the body speaks up and its speech is clear. Either you're happy, that means everything is good. Or your body is bothered and doesn't want you to keep doing it. And that's the negative body language, that's the pain. You know you have to, but at the time, you didn't have many options to silence the pain, so you used cold showers, painkillers. But I don't think that's ideal. It's much better here, or at least it works for me.
How disciplined is your diet when you have a looser regimen?
Problem! I have an absolute problem with that. I love food, junk food. When you're twenty, twenty-five years old, you're in top shape, your metabolism is great and fast, you can get away with a lot of the wrong things by letting your metabolism or your body sort it out for you. At an older age, it's already a problem. So, once the hockey season is over, I stop training like I used to during the season, I start exaggerating. At least I've got five, six extra pounds now. It's only been a month. But it's because I love food and sweets.
What do you think of hockey's current new talent? The Czechs just took bronze.
We've been waiting ten years for a medal to happen. I think it's the right thing to do, a step forward. An important step for different reasons. To get more kids into hockey, to get them playing sports after the covid era. A lot of kids don't have the movement they used to have and any sporting success will make them start playing more sports.
They call you a legend. Is that an honor or just a reminder of your age?
They call you a legend and of course it means that you're over it, that what you're doing on the ice isn't the same anymore. But you are the legend. So I take it more that people use the word legend to excuse my performance. I mean, he was good. (laughs)
How would you describe in a nutshell the 90s when you went to the U.S.?
Nineties. A tremendous freedom in everything. I always thought that the most important thing for people was to be free, to have freedom of choice and freedom of any kind. For us it was doubly so. 1989, suddenly the borders were open, you could go wherever you wanted. You could decide how you wanted. You didn't have to obey or follow some directive that was predetermined. So for me it opened the door to go abroad and anywhere. Views, things I'd never even seen before. So those were my early years in the '90s. Of course, I went to play in the '90s in America, experienced a new world, new hockey. Everything completely new and more challenging.
Which products give you the most energy?
So the most energy is the pre-workout. I'm a lover of not only sweets, but coffee. So there are days when I'll drink, like, eight, ten coffees. But sometimes my body says no, too, or I don't even like it that much. But I love it. So that caffeine will totally replace the pre-game, I call it a kicker. It's a pre-workout, but it's kind of a kicker. It's an instant kick and you can perform at your best. It's all legal, natural.
Turning back to the unhealthy stuff, does Dominica have to know how to make the proverbial schnitzel?
I love steaks. It depends on how you make them, too. If you're making them greased and fried, I like my mom's best. Nobody used to deal with it the way it's dealt with now. So it's food prep and food. It can be the same food, but you prepare it completely different and healthier. And that's where Dominika is good at, she was interested in it, she always dealt with it. I'm not the one who demands it. I just prefer to warm up sometimes, but I prefer the taste.
When you look at old photos of yourself from the early 90s, what do you think of your hairstyle in retrospect? Because it's a hit in pop culture now.
Yeah, right. It's all coming back. Maybe I should take out the stuff I wore in the '90s. If I didn't throw it away. I'm sure I'll have something, if not here, then in America. It's funny when you look at the pictures, but everybody wore it back then. I loved music. We didn't have the opportunity to listen to foreign music, heavy metal bands in the '90s. Suddenly there was Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, Metallica,... These were bands that I loved and suddenly I had the opportunity to go to their concerts. So when I had the opportunity, I never missed a show. I used to go to rock band concerts, well, they had their haircut at the time - long hair. And I think that was one of the main reasons I had them too. Because I loved the bands here and all the singers or members wore a similar style.
And then outside of that metal, you were also captivated by the singers Sandra, Sabrina, Samantha Fox. But I guess that's something else...
I got into that a little bit earlier. But that was about something else.
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