Yahoo Finance NFL's new 17-game season will change how I train: Kansas City Chief star Patrick Mahomes
NFL phenom Patrick Mahomes may still be only 25 years old, but even his youthful healthy self will have to alter how he trains to make it successfully through the NFL's new 17 game regular season.
"I mean obviously it'll be different and it'll be something that we'll have to adjust to. But it's something that we had talked about in the collective bargaining agreement. Whatever your beliefs are you got to go out there and adjust, and do whatever you can to be the best football player you can be every single day. I'll be trying to figure out ways to take care of my body more and more, so you can adjust your body for a 17 game regular season," the star Kansas City Chiefs QB told Yahoo Finance Presents.
In a widely expected move after the new 2020 collective bargaining agreement, the league's owners voted this week to extend the regular season by one game to 17 from 16. The pre-season will be shortened to three games from four.
The Super Bowl will be played on Feb. 13, 2022 as opposed to Feb. 6. The addition of the extra regular season is expected to upend everything from football records to how players train and recover.
Super Bowl champion Mahomes is already in full preparation mode.
"You'll have to change your day-to-day work, work ethic, work involvement and how much you're going to put on your body every single day because you want to be in that Super Bowl again and you want to be playing for a championship and you want to make sure your body can take the workload of that and adding in another game is adding more to your body. So you have to make sure that you're prepared," Mahomes explained.
While Mahomes is doubling down on his training efforts, he is also building out his business empire.
After signing a record-setting 10-year $503 million contract in 2020, Mahomes purchased a minority stake in the Kansas City Royals. He then invested an undisclosed sum for a stake in surging wearable device company Whoop. The tech unicorn has an estimated valuation of about $1.2 billion.
Those moves come in addition to Mahomes having endorsement deals with athletic-wear maker Adidas, sports recovery device seller Hyperice, NetJets rival Airshare and supplement seller BioSteel.
More recently, Mahomes has dabbled in the exploding NFT market (earlier this month he reportedly sold $3.4 million in NFTs) and attached his name to a SPAC that is on the prowl for tech investments.
"I am trying to build an empire off the field in every way," says Mahomes.
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