Tom Brady turned 42 final week. The week earlier than, he reported to his twentieth Patriots coaching camp—the crew he’s been the beginning quarterback for since 2001 (he was drafted when Invoice Clinton was nonetheless in workplace). Brady’s ascension to all-time nice takes only some stats to summarize: a sixth spherical draft decide who’s now a six-time Tremendous Bowl champion (document), a 16-time division champion (document), and a 14-time Professional Bowler (tied … for the document).
Earlier than coaching camp quantity 20, quantity 12 spent a part of July at a good friend’s home within the Bahamas. The home lies on a non-public stretch of a distant island that pulls different notables like Michael Jordan (the 2 often play golf—only a couple GOATS on the course).
Brady’s Bahamas seaside home is close to a fully-loaded health club and a apply subject. Regardless that Brady says he’s “on trip,” the reality is that his Bahamas keep doubles as pre-training camp boot-camp.
“I’m doing a variety of chillin’,” Brady tells Males’s Well being. “However I additionally wish to get my exercises in.” Brady works out right here along with his coach and cofounder of his firm, TB12, Alex Guerrero. Exercises start on the message desk for deep muscle work. Brady then picks up a resistance band and completes numerous motion drills together with squats, lunges, and planks. He then returns to the message desk. The philosophy is “pliability”—a phrase scrawled throughout Brady’s shirt and baked into TB12.
For solo muscle work, Brady says he takes his pliability curler on the street. “I take advantage of it at all times earlier than my exercises—which is vital—after which at all times proper after,” he says.
Brady says he tries to get in 4 or 5 exercises every week now, together with quite a lot of banded-shoulder workout routines—the sort you would possibly see a pitcher pump out within the bullpen. Brady’s favourite piece of kit: “the butt blaster.” Why? “As a result of it blasts my butt!” (He says his glutes are his “engine”; “that’s what I want extra of.”)
Brady jokes that the best impediment to staying in form at 40 is dealing with his children. However even with Sunday morning pancakes with the children, Brady workout routines guru-like kitchen self-discipline.
Within the Bahamas, his fridge is stocked with fruit—grapes, blueberries, apples, pears, bananas—and veggies cucumbers, kale, and spinach. Cupboards are stuffed with protein, restoration fluids, and TB12 electrolytes that he provides to his water—“just a bit squirt.” The one fruit staple that’s undoubtedly not in Brady’s fridge is … the strawberry. “Colour, odor, style, look …” Brady pauses. He hates strawberries.
The culinary key to Brady’s gameday success: A smoothie and an almond butter and jelly sandwich.
Cheat day? Don’t even get Brady began about that nonsense.
