The three-time Super Bowl champion spoke with the seven-time champion Tom Brady about everything from his legacy and family to his own body in an interview that was broadcast prior to the Kansas City Chiefs vs. San Francisco 49ers game on Sunday, October 20.
Mahomes, 29, stated, “I use those hips and that oblique muscle to really rotate through there,” following the Fox Sports analyst’s praise of the quarterback’s ability to make quick passes.
Brady, who is well-known for closely following his own nutrition, concurred.
Brady, 47, jokingly said, “We’ve got to keep a little padding there.” “They don’t realize that we can’t always look like those receivers, which is why we’re constantly getting hit.”
Critics who make fun of the Chiefs star’s “padding” have been amusing to the father of two, who is expecting another 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 with wife Brittany Mahomes.
Weeks after the Chiefs defeated the 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII last March, the MVP shared two images of himself on Instagram with teammates Rashee Rice and Marquise “Hollywood” Brown in a gym.
Rice was wearing a jersey that had the widely shared image of a shirtless Mahomes celebrating the Chiefs’ victory in the AFC Championship the previous season.
In a post on X at the time, Mahomes wrote, “Yoooo why they have to do me like that!?!?!?,” along with three laughing emojis and the hashtag “#DadBodSzn.”
However, Bobby Stroupe, Mahomes’ longtime trainer, supports his midsection.
There is a method to the Texas-based trainer’s insanity, he revealed in an interview with PEOPLE last month.
Stroupe, who has trained Mahomes for 20 years, told PEOPLE, “I’ll be the first to tell you that I think an NFL quarterback should have at least 14% body fat.” It’s from the perspective of force absorption, not a harmful one.
We are aware that there is a reason why there aren’t many quarterbacks with six-packs in the Hall of Fame. We must identify the thin line between health and performance. Additionally, the visual component is a topic for another discussion,” he continued. “Mahomes’ style of play necessitates a particular kind of physicality, and that physicality requires more body fat, so I don’t need him to appear like a model. That is one of my fundamental beliefs about him.
