Oddly enough, I don't think Joe Thomas' transformation is anywhere near as shocking as the visual of it obviously is. That's not take anything away from the work he's put it in at both the gym and in the kitchen since hanging up his cleats as much as it is an even bigger credit to the work he had to put in on the field and in the cafeteria to do those cleats justice as one of the best tackles in all of football for over a decade. I guess I just can't be all-that-stunned that someone whose always had an astronomical amount of athletic ability now looks the part after being freed from having to eat small cattle daily just to satiate the size necessarily to protect NFL quarterbacks from gassed up goliaths. I definitely didn't foresee him looking like he'd be a major mismatch for almost any linebacker if asked to run a seam pattern after spending no more than a year removed from an NFL offensive line. However, it's not like there is anything natural, normal, or comfortable about consuming 10,000 calories a day and carrying around 300+ pounds of mostly muscle if you don't absolutely have to. Clearly Joe Thomas had to have himself on quite the regimen to go from a barrel-chested Paul Bunyan to a Bachelor contestant in the turn of one calender, but I think what's really being undersold here is the ruthless regimen he had to be on during his entire professional career to having him operating as a mobile brick wall to furious and fast freaks of nature.
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