Aaron Rodgers wants to play for a long time, and what better way to make that happen than to try an emulate Tom Brady?
Rodgers told The Sidelines with Evan Daniels Podcast that he’s watched Brady and how he stays fit during the offseason and tried to copy it as much as possible.
“When you’ve reached the level of success that I have, and we have in Green Bay, you continue to have to find ways to reinvent yourself, and adapt, and change, and challenge yourself. And for me, the challenge has become, how do you stay at your best for an extended period of time, and how do you get your body in the best shape possible?” Rodgers said, via Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk. “You look at the Super Bowl, I’ve been a huge fan of Tom Brady for a long time, and consider him one of the greatest if not the greatest of all time. And he’s doing it at 39. And the way that he takes care of his body is really a model for all quarterbacks.
“Young quarterbacks and quarterbacks kind of in the middle, the second half of their career like myself, who would love to be 38, 39 or 40 and be playing at a high level and be healthy and have their body where they want it at that age. That’s kind of the standard and the model for what I want to be.”
Considering how long Brady wants to play, he’s probably pretty great to try an emulate. It’s also probably easier said than done.
