“He’s always working on something. That’s what makes him different. Always working on his craft,” Boese said. “Best I’ve ever seen as far as being dialed into his preparation of him.”
Or as Burrow said, “I’m addicted to getting better.”
Boese loves where Burrow is when it comes to his speed and movements, as well as his strength. He can see the results of the diet.
“Nutrition is a humungous part of it. Recovery. Muscle mass. Body composition. You name it,” Boese said. “Nutrition is a big part of maintaining the same weight during the season that you had coming into training camp. It’s a hard thing to do.”
The Seamless Joe Diet? Notestine says it’s as much about timing as it is food.
“We wanted things that didn’t have him too full … That he wasn’t filling up too much on vegetables first and missing out on the things of high caloric value and the things he needed to repair and restore,” Notestine said. “Just organizing things a little better. Having a better overall plan for what a week entails and what he needs calorically. It’s not simply, ‘Here’s a plate, just re-create this.’
“We want to make it so he can do it over and over again and not have any guesswork. That’s very much how he operates.”
No question Burrow puts in the painstaking nuts-and-bolts work. “I think we’re getting to the point where we’re making sure he’s not working too hard,” Boese said. Notestine says he’s invested “for this team and this city.” The long haul.
Will the Joe Burrow Diet cushion those AFC body shots?
“I don’t know. That’s what we’re going to find out. That’s kind of a work in progress of somebody’s career,” said Burrow, still tweaking the craft. “You’re always growing and learning and I’m trying something new this year, so we’ll see how I feel when the season rolls around, when camp rolls around, when we’re on the field every day. But I don’t “I don’t know the answer to that. We’re going to find out.”
