Year 4 for Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs will be different.
He’s set to take on Detroit’s bell-cow role in his first season without running mate David Montgomery, but he’s also been prepping in new ways ahead of the 2026 campaign.
Gibbs started incorporating mixed martial arts into his offseason training in March, per ESPN’s Eric Woodyard, helping to change his body for the better.
“It helps with body control. Your base and all that and faster hands,” Gibbs told Woodyard. “I would say with blocking, I get my hands up before they hit me.”
“I feel like my body’s gotten in better shape, like physically it looks better. And conditioning-wise, that conditioning is way different from here because you use nonstop movement in every muscle of your body. Out here [in football], you get more breaks and [there is] much more using your legs. But there [in MMA], it’s just constant shoulders, knees, elbows, you go to the ground and all that so out here I barely get tired.”
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