Hulk Hogan inspired Keith Urban's 'ridiculous' pre-show workout for residency

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It seems Keith Urban has been taking inspiration from the world of wrestling during his Las Vegas residency.

The country music star kicked off a Sin City run this month playing at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, and he’s admitted he turned to WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan to help with his pre-show workouts and get him pumped and ready.

No, Keith didn’t physically train with the Hulkster – but he did credit an ‘absurd’ workout tape the wrestler released in 1985 with making sure he was in the right frame of mind to make a big impression in Vegas.

Keith Urban and his wife Nicole Kidman at the Golden Globes (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images)

Speaking to Billboard about his unlikely motivator, he said: ‘I keep loose. The thing is to just stay loose. Matt Chamberlain, a great drummer who plays on a lot of our stuff, I was at his studio the other day and he had a cassette deck.

‘He just bought this old boombox and he wanted to make sure it worked. So he found a tape. The only cassette that he found was a whole Hulk Hogan’s Hulkamania workout from 1985. It’s a riot. So I found a copy of that and we cranked it backstage and we did this ridiculous workout with the band with Hulk.

‘It’s beyond absurd, I mean, in all the right ways. It’s heightened. So I went crazy on that. And then last night, I was cranking up Elvis performing in Vegas, doing a song called “Patch It Up” with the band just going nuts. It was good inspiration.’