Ray Lewis says martial arts keep him healthy
23rd July 2010
This interview goes back and forth between football and health but Ray Lewis, the famous Baltimore Ravens linebacker gives us a few health tips. He mentioned Underarmor compression suits for sleeping and airplane rides. And he mentions different types of combat sports:
I just think that I train totally differently. I don’t train for football; I train more for a lifestyle. I do so much, and it’s not just football-specific things. You see a lot of these guys; they just do football-specific things, and that ain’t what life is about. Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life. That’s why I try any form of [martial] art – kempo, taekwondo, karate, whatever it is. Then moving into boxing and wrestling, and that’s what I think helps your body out, when you try all these different things. Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I’m training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions.
So, if I give any credit, besides giving all credit to God, for being totally healthy, it’s just my workout and how much torture I put my body through in the offseason.
Considering that he has aged very well despite running into people for a living I think we need to consider what he says.