Elon Musk says he doesn’t like figuring out however must do it anyway — simply days after the barrel-chested billionaire’s father criticized his son for “consuming badly.”
“I gotta work out and be in higher form,” Musk mentioned. “I truly don’t actually like figuring out, however I gotta do it.”
Musk mentioned that his present morning routine consists of waking up at 9 or 9:30 a.m., then taking a look at his cellphone. He known as it a “horrible behavior” and mentioned he desires to work out as a substitute.
“I’m gonna change from taking a look at my cellphone very first thing once I get up to figuring out for no less than 20 minutes then taking a look at my cellphone,” Musk mentioned in an episode of the Full Ship podcast launched late Thursday.
The Tesla CEO’s candid feedback got here days after his father, eccentric South African engineer Errol Musk, said he was not proud of his son and wished him to take slimming capsules to shed extra pounds.


“Elon could be very well-built and he’s very, very strongly constructed, however he’s been consuming badly,” mentioned Errol Musk, a 79-year-old South African engineer who not too long ago admitted to fathering a child with his stepdaughter.
The elder Musk mentioned he had really useful his son take a weight reduction tablet known as garcinia cambogia, which he claimed has helped him shed a couple of kilos.
Errol Musk’s feedback got here after photographs revealed in July confirmed his 50-year-old son frolicking shirtless in Greece with Hollywood super agent Ari Emanuel.
Elon Musk initially took feedback in regards to the footage in stride, joking, “Haha rattling, perhaps I ought to take off my shirt extra typically … free the nip!!”
Further reporting by Snejana Farberov