Football players have some bodies! Oh my goodness!
I'm agile.
Seven-thirty to five, every single day. Getting up, eating breakfast, lifting weights, going outside on the turf, doing movement and agilities and things like that. Then I take a little break to eat lunch and come back to work out again.
We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.
I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.
I'm getting a lot better with my conditioning, making smarter moves on the floor.
As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys.
Core strength and stability is very important to me. Tennis is all about rotation of the body and my ability to create power. I incorporate a lot of abdominal, back and glute exercises into my gym sessions.
The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.
It's always tough to get back into football shape.
All the normal lifts that bodybuilders do, we didn't do them in basketball.
A combine is a series of athletic tasks that help a coaching staff measure an athlete's ability to be competitive in a sport. A bobsled combine requires a sprint, broad jump, two-handed shot toss, and a back squat and power clean.
A lot of fighters just go to the gym and spar or wrestle, but they forget about their conditioning. Things like that cause lots of injuries.
My workout routine changed pretty dramatically in the NFL. Workout programs from college to the NFL are significantly different.
I like to make my training sessions harder than an actual game with very high intensity workouts, lots of sprints and plenty of weight room lifts.
I do tennis ball drills mostly for bouncers, for my muscle memory as well.
Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill.
The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.
I work on my recoveries, coming back into the defensive line and things like that.
