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But everyone has one mo-
ment when the timing isn’t
quite on target—in Jennings’
case, his first Lambeau Leap
in 2006, in which the touch-
down-celebrating choreogra-
phy fell, well, a bit awkwardly.
“When they showed it in the
film room, my head was in
someone’s lap,” Jennings ad-
mits. “The person’s holding a
beer while their hand is on my
head. It just didn’t look good.”
Jennings no longer leaps
or runs. “Once football was
over, it’s like, ‘OK, no, I’m not
running anymore,’ ” he says.
Now the Fox Sports analyst
is attacking the weight room
like he did cornerbacks in an
attempt to break into the sport
of bodybuilding with the goal
of taking the stage at a 2020
amateur physique contest.
“I’m going to take bodybuild-
ing as far as it can take me,”
Jennings, 35, says. “Or how far
my wife will allow me to take
my physique.”
PHYSICAL RECEIVER
Jennings’ determination to
GREG JENNINGS become a bodybuilder isn’t
the only thing keeping his
physique ripped after foot-
The former NFL receiver has scored on ball—he also had to keep up
football’s greatest stage. Now Greg Jennings with his distance-running
wife. “Out of the blue she ran a
hopes to score on the bodybuilding stage. marathon,” he says. “That was
another reason I was prompt-
n NFL wide receiver’s and -breaking 420th and 421st ed to try something else.”
career is predicated on career touchdown passes. Since he left the NFL in 2015,
speed, timing, precision, Then there was his signature Jennings’ training style has
and communication. performance at Super Bowl undergone changes. Seeking
A And for most of his XLV. Jennings and quarterback aesthetics—wider shoulders,
10-year career, Greg Jennings Aaron Rodgers hooked up for larger biceps, tighter abs—
held those attributes, which four receptions, 64 yards, and over performance, he quickly
helped him to 571 catches, two touchdowns in the Green ditched the CrossFit-type
8,291 yards, 64 TDs, two Pro Bay Packers 31–25 win over the workouts he did as a pro and
Bowl appearances, and one Pittsburgh Steelers. switched over to celebrity
Super Bowl ring. “That may be the only game trainer Jeff Cavaliere’s popu-
In 2007, Jennings was on the in which I can recite my entire lar Athlean-X program. S H U T T E R S T O C K
receiving end of Hall of Fame stat line off the top of my “Jeff made it look so simplis-
QB Brett Favre’s record-tying head,” Jennings says. tic,” Jennings says. “I was skep-
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