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Before training camp #20, #12 spent part of July at a friend's house in the Bahamas. The house lies on a private stretch of a remote island that attracts other notables like Michael Jordan (the two occasionally play golfjust a couple GOATS in a field).
Bradys Bahamas beach house is near a fully-loaded gym and a practice field. Even though Brady says hes on vacation, the truth is that his Bahamas stay doubles as pre-training-camp boot-camp.
Im doing a lot of chillin, Brady tells Mens Health. But I also like to get my workouts in. Brady works out here with his trainer and cofounder of TB12 Alex Guerrero. Workouts begin on the message table for deep muscle work. Brady then picks up a resistance band and completes various movement drills including squats, lunges, and planks. He then returns to the message table. The philosophy is pliabilitya word scrawled across Bradys shirt and baked into his company TB12.
For solo muscle work, Brady says he takes his pliability roller on the road. I use it always before my workoutswhich is criticaland then always right after, he says.
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Brady says he tries to get in four or five workouts each week now, including a variety of banded-shoulder exercisesthe kind you might see a pitcher pump out in the bullpen. Bradys favorite piece of equipment: the butt blaster. Why? Because it blasts my butt! (He says his glutes are his engine; thats what I need more of.)
Brady jokes that the greatest obstacle to staying in shape at forty is kids. But even with Sunday morning pancakes with the kids, Brady exercises guru-like kitchen discipline.
In the Bahamas, his fridge is stocked with fruitgrapes, blueberries, apples, pears, bananasand veggies cucumbers, kale, and spinach. Cabinets are full of protein, recovery fluids, and TB12 electrolytes that he adds to his waterjust a little squirt. The only fruit staple thats definitely not in Bradys fridge is the strawberry. Color, smell, taste, look Brady pauses. He hates strawberries.
The culinary key to Bradys gameday success: A smoothie and an almond butter and jelly sandwich.
Cheat day? Dont even get Brady started about that nonsense.