Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has a workout regimen that keeps his gifted physique healthy and ready to play each week. The secret routine is now out of the bag and it's as easy as "ABC."
Bobby Stroupe, Mahomes' personal trainer, explained it in detail in episode three of the Netflix docuseries "Quarterback," which was released Wednesday.
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Mahomes, 27, convinced Stroupe to move to Kansas City so he could work with him on a daily basis and the workout routine seems to be working wonders.
"If you look at the beginning of my career, when Bobby wasn't here, I had a couple of high ankle sprains, I had a couple of little injuries here," Mahomes says in the episode. "And knock on wood since Bobby has been here, we've kind of gotten rid of those things."
Mahomes failed to actually knock on wood and went on to suffer a high ankle sprain during a postseason victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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The reigning league MVP was able to play in that game and would eventually go on to win his second Super Bowl despite the injury, proof that Stroupe's system works.
Stroupe, 41, focuses on a different task each day and splits it into days A, B and C.
"'A' day is focused on rejuvenation renewing the tissue. This involves a lot of manipulating the body in space, checking to see if everything works the way it should, get to zero, get the base," Stroupe said. "'B' day is focused on movement literacy and power development. So that Wednesday I want him moving in the way he needs to move on Sunday.
"'C' day is full speed. I want him to have movements that are faster than any movement he'd do in the game. Because then the game is gonna feel very slow. It's gonna feel very comfortable."
Patrick Mahomes is an owl
Stroupe also explained how they focus on something called "tissue resilience" to prepare his body to move in different directions.
Part of that also involves Mahomes' owl-like vision, which differs to other quarterbacks by the way he's able to keep his head steady while rotating the body.
"There are quarterbacks that when they're rolling right, they can't turn their head and some that can. The same athlete maybe when they roll left, they can't," Stroupe said in the show. "There's many quarterbacks that have deficits going both ways. Patrick keeps his head perfectly still like an owl and (can) still be able to visually see what's going on here and also manipulate his body due to the mobility that he has in his spine.
"How fast can you rotate and swivel that part of your body independently of the rest of your body? Patrick has strengthened his spine. ... And his hip-shoulder separation is the best that I've seen. I've worked with some of the hardest throwers in the sport of baseball and at the quarterback position. It's incredible."
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