Inside the bond of Bijan Robinson and Christian McCaffrey

The Falcons of Atlanta, the Ballon Ballon Bijan Robinson, got up at a press conference last spring and declared that his expectations were to be used in a similar way to the way the 49ers of San Francisco use the Polyvalent Ball Carrier Christian McCaffrey.

Robinson pushed this expectation further on this offseason.

The third year back spent almost a month with McCaffrey in the Los Angeles region in June and July. The two worked together and did recovery, which McCaffrey is known to take very seriously. McCaffrey’s brother Luke, a receiver of the Washington commanders, joined them. One of their main coaches was the highly praised athletics coach Randy Huntington.

“It was great, me and he, just giving us so much advice and only feeding knowledge of each other on the ground,” said Robinson. “And we worked throughout the month, so I could see how he worked, he could see how I worked, and we could bring it together and it was really cool.

“Two guys come together just by trying to improve, and he taught me a whole bunch of nuanced movements that I learned on the field, and I did the same with him.”

Robinson, 23, broke out last season, his second in the NFL. The native of Arizona finished fourth in the league in yards by melee (1,887) and third in yards on the ground (1,456). His 14 precipitated affected were the highest third total.

Christian McCaffrey, on the other hand, suffered injury backwards last season, first with the Achilles problems, then an injury to the right of the PCL. But he led the Yards league twice since Scummage (2019 and ’23) and four seasons with more than 1,000 yards on the ground. The 29 -year -old enters his ninth year as a pro.

Robinson said the greatest thing he had removed in McCaffrey was his recovery and how he made sure he felt 100% before each training.

“I mean, it’s just to want to make sure that your body is in the shape of a higher level before leaving in the field,” said Robinson. “No matter what it is – if it’s a light day or a difficult day – you always want to make sure you are ready to go.

“So his appearance of restoring his life is quite impressive.”

Robinson said he and McCaffrey used a new form of red light therapy in an altitude chamber called ATC Stratosphere.

“We were 18,000 feet in the air, but we were in a machine,” said Robinson. “It was just very good for my body.”

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The stratosphere is like elevation training without having to go to a high altitude. The room was created by the former Hollywood Bobby Williams stuntman with the advice of Dr. Bruce Johnson from the Mayo Clinic.

Training and recovery at altitude was a characteristic for athletes, especially in combat sports. Julio César Chávez Sr. was very successful in training in Mexico. Some of the most important MMA gymnasiums can be found in cities at altitude like Albuquerque, in New Mexico, which Jon Jones called in the house for many years.

Williams claims that training in the stratosphere can help raise the levels of the erythropoetine hormone (EPO) and VO2 Max, which concerns the production of red blood cells and pulmonary capacity, respectively. The room can also be used for recovery, as Robinson noted.

“He immediately gets rid of any inflammation,” said Williams. “I mean, think of your body to get a massage to get rid of inflammation. You get a cell massage. Each cell is expanding, and each cell contracts, and it’s incredible.”

The Williams stratosphere is based in the Pacific Palisades district of Los Angeles. He just started selling rooms last year. The first buyer was the UFC performance institute in Las Vegas. Williams thinks that the stratosphere will one day be in each NFL establishment across the country, and Robinson, he said, already wants the Falcons to have one.

“I have the impression that sometimes there are new gadgets and gadgets and there are rooms, hyperbaric, hypoxic training, breathing work,” said McCaffrey. “There are so many different things that we just try to take each little ounce, and if you can find an advantage or an edge, we do it.”

Finding an advantage is the reason why Robinson contacted the McCaffrey team to see working together at the Williams noted how competitive, but positively.

“They were just trying to outdo themselves on the power and speed of training,” said Williams. “But overall, they were there to support each other.

“They were pulling Michael Jordans, if you wanted it. They said to each other, so that would improve them. You know what I mean? It is not as if they were hiding anything, and they were trying to help each other and get up.”

McCaffrey described Robinson as “a special guy, a special person and a special player”.

“I was super limited that he joined us a little, and I have no bad things to say about it,” said McCaffrey.

Robinson and McCaffrey will be opposing teams on October 19 in week 7 for “Sunday Night Football”. But other than that, it seems that the two have formed a balloon carrier link.

“I think it’s really cool to have McCaffrey to be a brother for me too, and so I can learn all the nice things he has done on the ground, and vice versa,” said Robinson.

Additional reports from Nick Waggoner.