Derrick Henry’s quarter of a million dollar maintenance plan to stay in tip top shape

You don’t become one of the NFL’s best running backs by accident. It takes talent, will, dedication and of course the body to be able to take a beating week after week. That’s why Baltimore’s Derrick Henry spends a quarter million dollars a year maintaining his body in tip top shape.

Brilliant debut season in Baltimore

At 30 year old, in his ninth season in the NFL, Derrick Henry almost recorded the second 2,000 yard rushing season of his career. He scored 16 touchdowns and was the anchor of a Ravens offense that was one of the tops in the league with him in the backfield and Lamar Jackson under center.

It seems like Henry has been around forever, but he is just 31 years old and still has plenty of gas in the tank. One of the key factors to him seeming to get stronger as time goes on, is the way he takes care of his body. At 6’2” 247 pounds of pure muscle, Henry is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, player in the league.

It’s not just lifting weights the makes him one of the best, or most durable running backs in the league. He spends $250,000 dollar a year on keeping his body in tip top shape with various treatments, and then keeps a strict diet and regiment that only adds to one making him not just strong, but fast and explosive and nearly impossible to take down.

King Henry looking for his ring

FOX Sports sideline reporter Tom Rinaldi told fans during a game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Baltimore Ravens, that ”He spends more than a quarter million dollars on what he calls body maintenance. No fried food, no dairy, no gluten, no artificial sugars. Doesn’t eat until four or five o’clock during the season, maybe has a banana or avocado before practice.”

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Henry played all 17 games for the Ravens in his first year in Baltimore, and proved once again that he is the most unbreakable back in the league. Last year was the sixth year of his nine in the NFL that he didn’t miss a single game. He carried the ball 325 times with Baltimore last year, marking the fourth time that he got 300+ carries in his career.

He is one of the best backs of this generation, but Henry doesn’t do all this work, and spend all this money, and maintain such a strict diet to stack up stats. He moved to Baltimore in search of his first Super Bowl, and the Ravens are gearing up for another season in which they hope to make a deep playoff run. Henry and the Ravens start training camp on the 22nd of July and will be hoping to still be playing in mid February.