{"id":10964,"date":"2025-06-16T13:31:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/barkley-modifies-training-eagles-prioritize-rbs-health-in-his-prime\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T13:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T17:31:20","slug":"barkley-modifies-training-eagles-prioritize-rbs-health-in-his-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/barkley-modifies-training-eagles-prioritize-rbs-health-in-his-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"Barkley Modifies Training: Eagles Prioritize RB’s Health in His Prime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saquon Barkley Prioritizes Recovery to Optimize Performance<\/h2>\n\nPhiladelphia Eagles star running back Saquon Barkley has adopted a more strategic approach to his training this offseason. After an intense campaign in which he broke personal rushing records, Barkley is listening to advice from coaches, mentors, and American football legends to prioritize recovery and taking care of his body.\n\n\n

\u201cYou have to be smarter, right? You have your moments where you come in and you grind, you push it,\u201d Barkley said. \u201cBut most of those days it’s just mobility, conditioning, doing all the things to get your body in shape to perform at a high level. There was a lot of workload [last year], but my body feels great, so that’s the most important thing.\u201d<\/p>Saquon Barkley<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBarkley had an exceptional season in 2024, accumulating 2,504 rushing yards during the regular season and playoffs, setting a new record. In addition, he added 499 yards and five touchdowns in the postseason, contributing significantly to the Eagles’ success and the conquest of the second Lombardi trophy for the team.\n\nThe Eagles’ game strategy heavily relied on Barkley, who finished the regular season with 345 carries, surpassing his previous mark of 295 set in 2022. In the playoffs, he added 91 more carries.\n\nThe natural concern is how last year’s high volume of play will affect Barkley in his eighth season. The 28-year-old player has consulted his head coach, Nick Sirianni, running backs coach Jemal Singleton, and iconic figures in the sport like Marshall Faulk and Edgerrin James, who have given him similar advice.\n\n\n

\u201cIt wasn’t hard because everyone I trust basically told me to sit for a while,\u201d Barkley commented after the team’s only minicamp practice last week.<\/p>Saquon Barkley<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nSirianni has noted that each player on the team has a personalized training program, which considers various factors, including player feedback and the opinion of the coaching and strength staff.\n\n“We monitor everyone as we go,” Sirianni said. “We had a good workout, Saquon had a good workout and yes, I’m happy with how the offseason program has gone.”\n\nThe next few weeks will also be different for Barkley. He explained that, in previous years, he tried to arrive at training camp ready for Week 1. This time, he will be mindful of not overdoing it during the team’s break and will allow camp to get him in shape for the start of the season.\n\n\n

So far, this approach seems to be working for Barkley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI feel really good,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m entering my prime.\u201d<\/p>Saquon Barkley<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saquon Barkley Prioritizes Recovery to Optimize Performance Philadelphia Eagles star running back Saquon Barkley has adopted a more strategic approach to his training this offseason. After an intense campaign in which he broke personal rushing records, Barkley is listening to advice from coaches, mentors, and American football legends to prioritize recovery and taking care of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1103,1013,282,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-10964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-offseason","10":"tag-saquon-barkley","11":"tag-training"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}