It is no secret that Jack Grealishe enjoyed his holiday-filled holiday after Manchester City had won a sensational Treble in the 2022-23 campaign.
But when he was ready, he went to Dubai to get back to work before joining his teammates before the preseason. There was only one man he called to help him: Nike trainer Jamie Reynolds – the secret of the success of the biggest names of the sport.
Topless and bathing in sweat, Grealisk shared a video on Instagram and pledged the camera to concentrate on Reynolds on a sun-drenched astroturf-bone height.
Reynolds is perhaps best known as the man responsible for Anthony Joshua's supreme knockout power at his brutal peak, but he also worked with a large number of football players, his CV with Cristiano Ronaldo and Marcus Rashford.
He is a guru in the art of gymnastics, a form of exercise that uses body weight for resistance instead of external weights of equipment. As a result, Reynolds has proven that he is skilled in building the size of athletes, as well as their strength.
He simply leaves no stone undisturbed, and that is why sporting icons have used to him in their drunken to get the crucial lead over their competitors. It is also no coincidence that many of them often work with him again and again.
Grealisk is such an example. The playmaker, emitted by Pep Guardiola and given permission to train individually while waiting for a relocation of the city, has again connected Reynolds this summer. Highlights of their sessions are placed online.
Rashford, Phil Foden and Bruno Fernandes are just a few of the many athletes who have also joined Reynolds, who is known as Jamie 'Velocity' on social media.
His track record speaks volumes. Just ask Jose Mourinho, who revealed that he was left with Rashford with Rashford during the preseason in 2017.
A quick look at the Instagram page of Reynolds tells you everything.
The top three fixed messages are photos of him who work with Grealish, Ronaldo and Joshua. Earlier this week Reynolds shared a training assembly with Rashford, which he wrote pertinently: 'Hard Work Beats Talent'.
Two days earlier he uploaded a series of photos of a session with Grealisk and was lyrical about the attacker and said “What a player, what a man.”
His reputation precedes him and Reynolds quickly became the go-to-guy for athletes up and down through the country. It is clear that his methods have a remarkable effect.
There are countless other case studies that underline that exactly.
In July 2020, shortly after most Covid restrictions were lifted, Chelsea shared videos of home workouts with Mason Mount and Reynolds and placed them on YouTube.
Troy Deeney, who played in the top flight for Watford, saw a friend training with Reynolds and remembered that he was struck by the power of his advanced approach. He started working religiously with the trainer for Bootcamps for the preseason.
These sessions were mainly focused on his footwork and agility, while he also used Reynolds in sessions built around the brutal, packaged calendar of the Premier League.
Deeney spoke glowing about Reynolds and told Fourfourtwo: “He is the first trainer to tell me what physical attributes I needed as a striker, my strengths and weaknesses, and then said:” I want you to continue to work on your strengths. “
“I had never worked with anyone specifically on my game before – I had just done a training program that had been developed for a whole team of players.”
It is crucial that Reynolds says that his techniques are perfect for a variety of sports.
He told men's fitness: 'When it comes to the work that these guys do in the gym, the truth is that about 70 to 80 percent of them are the same, regardless of the sport.
'The principles that are used to make a football player stronger will not vary too much from those used to add strength to an NFL player, or a tennis player or a boxer.
“The differences come when we look at how we can transfer what we learn in the gym to the field/ring/court and also how we train the energy systems of the athletes for the specific requirements of their sports/position.”
Even now than ever before, athletes are willing to do something to extract an extra percentage of performance – possibly the difference between glory or defeat.
Trainers such as Reynolds will therefore become increasingly important and he will undoubtedly continue to turn the no. 1 trusted coach -athletes to the first.
The only problem is: they can better stand in line.