May 28, 2021 • 34 mins
Welcome to Getting Real with Grady Jarrett, a podcast in which Atlanta Falcons DL Grady Jarrett and co-host Kelsey Conway “get real” on anything from football, lifestyle, and beyond. Dr. Clayton Gibson III, a sports medicine specialist, joins us to discuss Grady’s journey, and the importance of preparing for sports holistically.
0:00 Intro
0:27 The Connection
5:02 Unique Challenges
7:31 How Does Grady Attack Training
10:39 Background of Dr. Gibson III
13:46 Setting Goals
23:56 How Have You Changed
26:38 Eating & Sleeping RightT
0:00 Intro
0:27 The Connection
5:02 Unique Challenges
7:31 How Does Grady Attack Training
10:39 Background of Dr. Gibson III
13:46 Setting Goals
23:56 How Have You Changed
26:38 Eating & Sleeping RightT
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to the Getting Real with Grady Jared podcast. We
have a special guest on today, doctor Clayton Gibson, the third,
who's a very special person in Grady's life. So Grady,
let's just start with how you know our guests today
and kick us off with that. Yeah. So, um, I
met doctor g well shot what is the duct about
(00:28):
nine years ago, going on ten years, and he's been
a somebody in my life, you know that's just been
a big mentor and just really opened my eyes to
relect what I really could be as far as the
potential that I you know, had to unlock within me.
And I met him at a time in my life
where you know, I was I was young in college
(00:48):
and uh really just you know, kind of after my
um freshman year and I was just really trying to
find my way, you know really and trying to find
my identity, wondering if I belong on the level that
which I was playing. And I remember he told me
even before you know, I became the start of Clinton
and we're going on to have success that I had
now you know, just you know basically great things was
(01:09):
great things in me. Um, he se see me being
the best you know, and that kind of scared me
as a as a young and you know what I'm saying,
I just I really didn't didn't understand at the time,
but um, you know, so, I mean he was interested
introduced to me by by Ed Reid, who I'm really
close with, and um, and so it had been with doctor.
(01:30):
I mean, I'm sure they can talk about it later
and you know, and all the stuff too. So I mean, um,
but yeah, so we've been we've been kicking it. We've
been kicking every ever since uh college. I was only
able to train with them full time when I got
to the league because the strict scheduling college. So things
as far as uh nutrition, you know, tips to things
to do, um, supplement wise or whatever it may be. Um.
(01:53):
And then just you know, um just counsel you know,
um as as a young kid up to now. And
so so yeah, we got some history, all right, Doctor Gibson,
do you want to just let us know about the
first time we met Grady and just you know how
much you've seen him grow over the last nine years
that you guys have known each other. Of course, first
(02:16):
of all, I just like to thank you all for
having me on your podcast is really truly a blessing
and a pleasure. So when I've met Grady, actually he
was with his mother, always with his mother, and they
came into the office and what happened was is that
I worked in specializing hormones, a dream was specifically. So
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what we did was we simply did a test he
it was, which was a food sensitivity test to find out,
you know, what he was doing and how we could
make him better because as mister Jared said, one thing
it was is that we just simply had to deal
with him on the nutrition side because he was already
training with one of the best trainers, I would say,
and strength and conditioning business, which is Joey Baston. His
(03:04):
strength coach was my college strength coach actually when I
was at Firman. So with that understanding, we knew he
had good a good foundation. So I met Grady and
how would I said, in an environment to help him
in a minimal way during his collegiate years, hoping that
(03:27):
we will see him again. And so it started with
the food sensitivity and it grew from food sensitivities to
you know, being all in working with his body, working
with his mind, and working with his soul called the
three threefold man, that's what it did. Wait, so you
talk about the food sensitivity tray. Are there specific foods
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that you can't eat or that you stopped eating after
that test? Yeah? Well yeah, so you know the food sensitivity.
You know, you may not have like an allergic reaction
like girl hows or anything, but as far as like
you know, doctor tell you know the way you react,
as far as recovery, you know, inflammation, things like that.
And probably the hardest thing that I always get back
(04:09):
on my food sensitivity testing, I have to give a
little bit anything like like stay, um, it's always on
mine for some reason. I love as you can see
my Instagram. You know what I'm saying. I love to
have me and stake of something. And uh, I'm trying
to think of us on the casing. So we do
a lot of plant base plate best things other than
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dairy products. And that's something that's been consistent over years
and over time things have change a little bit, but
we always know, um the boat the things what we
want to minimize or um, you know, try to totally
take out the diet so um and it gives you
a lot of good things that to add you know
to your diet as well. So the food sensitivity is
something that you you dive into that. Um, you know
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a lot of people don't really know about. And you
could just take your whole performance and um, you know
natural ability to get the most out yourself to the
next level. What is the most challenging, whether it be
injury or whatever, um, experience that the two of you
have had to come together and find a way to
get through. I know a good one. Um. Oh this
(05:16):
was a doctor remember um going to my contract year,
my fourth year last year on my deal, I got hurt.
I got hurt against them. What was the Bengals high
ankle spring high ankle sprain? I said, what dout four
to six weeks? Weeks week? Um on the high ankle spring. Um.
I was talking to coach Quinn at the time. You know,
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I couldn't practice, So I told him in between treatments
at the facility, can I drive down to Atlanta and
see my doctor? And whe was on it every day
whether we were you know things we do like um,
uh you know stem needles whatever you know, do certain
nutrients and things all natural and remedies and things, and uh,
(05:59):
doc got it. He got it all man. We shoot,
we only missed what two games, came back against UM,
only missed two games came back against UM, the Giants
on Monday Night football, UM, and then they finished the
season strong. And uh so I just you know, really
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was thankful and fortunate to have Doc right down the
street from me so I could go in, you know,
Coach Q at the time allowed me to go down
and and get that treatment. And that's something that I
that I one instance that I know. But I mean,
we didn't shoot every really everything. It's been times we
didn't play through UM injuries that we don't even you know,
talk about just trying to maintain throughout the throughout the season,
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and we don't avoid it, you know, certain surgeries you know,
through rehab and training and nutrition. So UM, that's that's
one that I can. That's that's one I that I
you know, forever thankful for that one because I was
an ugly spot to be hurt and miss crucial time
and you know for my team. So they only missed
two games on a six week diagnosis. So that's that
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was a goal. Wow, Doctor Gibson, you obviously get to
see Grady in a different light. Than any of us
do because of how much time you spend with him.
One of the first things you'll hear about Grady when
you ask his coaches or his teammates is just how
hard he works, and they commend him for that. You've
obviously been able to see that, So can you just
(07:27):
tell us a little bit about some behind the scene
stories about how Grady attacks his training process and really
how much that's helped him get to the level that
he's at now. Of course, one thing about mister Jared
is this, He's always want to work hard, He's always
want to be top, and if he doesn't finish a
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rap or anything, he wants to come back in and
accomplish it within a few minutes or so. So with us,
we have to simply slow him down. We have to
slow him down. Not slow him down so much as
in his performance, but slow him down in his mind. Why.
Because I'm a person of faith, and I have high
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beliefs and the things that I have faith in, but
I also know that faith and works. So we present
our body as a living sacrifice, and with that being
consented a living sacrifice, then we have to understand that
this body must be whole all one. So you can't
do anything with this physical body without the mind as
well as the soul. So he has great genes to
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work from, as his father played with the falcon. So
when we got Grady, Grady has a number fifty coming
from on the grad or basically from Clemson. I say
on the grad because of other than so many accolades
that I've been through, so you know, we usual to
call that. So when I see Grady, the one thing
that allow us Grady to be who he is is
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that in his first year, Grady got baptized. Many people
don't know that Greater at baptized. And by having this
baptize that he put a covering. So each and every year,
like he said, his recovery, his healing and all that,
it's simply by preparing to put it on the whole
armor onto him. So we simply prepare this young man
(09:14):
for war. So I've seen, like he said, certain aspects
of Greater that others don't see it. And then that
portion as his doctor, then something filolized him to speak
up because it's a battle. I tell anyone, it takes
me two years to get them able to even hear
what I'm saying, So you gotta understand. I had Greedy
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when he was nineteen years old from Afar and how
this this is. I gave him the results of someone
that was a female that was fifty and the result
of his results, and I asked him to be mind
if I showed him to someone else. And when I
showed him to someone else, I asked him was it theirs?
And they said yes? And I asked him was his?
(09:57):
And he said yes, but he wasn't. It was the
results of a fifty ye old female at nineteen years old.
He had the body and the hormones of a fifty
year old female. But he's a drug test athlete. What
should we do? So we approach him in a holistic manner.
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And the only way I can do is that can
first of all, get him to believe in what we
were doing and have faith, but not faith in me,
but faith in the higher power that rules and guys
all over. So that's the matter that I've seen, mister Deed.
That's so interesting. Well, I feel like we should give
the listeners a little bit more background on what you do,
who you've worked with, So can you guys fill the
(10:40):
listeners in on that yeah, that can go into his background,
and I'm sure everybody want to know and then beat
up to you know, that discretion on who we want
to talk about or not talk about, you know, for
who we work with. So for me, I I started
a South start Firming University, graduated in ninety five. I
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was headed to be actually to be an orthopedic surgeon.
Wanted to be that second choice because I hurt my
knee at ninety three. So the Houston clinic itself and
they offered me a position once graduating from medical school,
but get into medical school. That was a waiting list
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for the particular medical school that I wanted to go to,
and then I also looked at physicotherapy. There was another
waiting list for eighteen months for the particular medical school
in PP school that I wanted to go to. So
you know, they always have recruiters, they always have anything
at Bator. So I got invitation from the guys that
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from Chiropractice. I didn't know much about chiropractice. I didn't
know why, you know, I was going down there. But
they just simply told me one thing, with your mind
and the knowledge you can easily get through and the
next thing is after you finished, you don't have to
go work four to six thousand or fifty thousand dollars.
You can do what you needed to do. So I
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went to Kilro Practice School at Life. But once I
got out in the nineteen ninety nine, I didn't know
how to run a business. So I went and got
my master's Health Administration Health Science administration, and during that
time frame I also did what we call a postgraduate
work and where I became the first what we call
Ubian melon Knight or African American chiropractice sports trasition in
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the state of Georgia. While doing that, also everything was
running concurrent. So I have eight board certifications. Just to guys,
let you know, I have eight board certifications, I have
four doctor degrees, and also I have many different fellowships.
One of those, like mister Jarrek said, I'm a fellow
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at the International Academy of Medical Acricuncture. So we used
the art of kyra acupuncture as well as the art
science and everything oh chiropractic. And the reason why we're
doing that, we're just simply allowing the body to be
able to recognize and heal itself. So my main thing
is that work with something called approprio septis, insult and
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definitis through what we call the adrenal blame. Wow, that's
a that's a whole lot there. Yeah, that's better, right man.
People be like, you know, what may suggest somebody go
see doc. Man. They were like, all right, well what
do you do? What do ie? Like? Man? Look, you
just gotta usually gotta come find out for yourself or
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like you know, let let him tell it, because I
forget every time, and I've been knowing a long time.
So do you guys go through each year in the
off season, do you guys like meet and set a
plan for what you're trying to accomplish, because I assume
gravy every off season for you you have different goals, right, absolutely, absolutely,
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and um definitely meet, set up a plan and a reason.
And why I am you know, so you know tuned
in with doctor and you know and loyal to working
with him is because he know how far I can
go and and where how I can get better. You know.
It's like and I whenever I go in a new
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environment and work out, it's always like a like a
like a like a good job thing. I was like, oh, okay, Well,
I ain't know you could do. Okay, well, it's like enough,
it's enough for whoever I'm going to work, but for
me to be pushed through the new level. Um, he
knows where that new level is for me, you know.
And it's like like you said, you got to slow
me down sometime, but best believe. I mean he's slowed
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me down. But we had a point where it's it's far,
it's far, you know what I'm saying, far up, So
we got people to come in and you know, people
might come for a session. You know, maybe we might
not see him ever again, you know what I'm saying.
Or it's just something that you know, I've just um.
Over time, we've you know, developed our plan and and
you know, made adjustments, add add some things, taking some
things away. But we always trying to get better. Were
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always trying to get better and learning and um and
but I think the biggest thing we do is we
trust the process and the trust the process. And you know,
every time I come to count, you know, since I
you know, since I've been here, you know, I've always
gotten better. And that's how we that's our you know,
planned to continue going forward, just always improve and uh
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you know my number, tell it, my tape, tell it,
and uh we find out, you know, deficiencies, things we
can add and just try to hone in on that
and be better. Is there some tough love that happens there?
You did give you some tough love Grady? Oh yeah, Yeah,
we definitely got tough love. I think everybody knew that.
Come to doctor. Um goes through that, um and the
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and then it's like a uh, it's like a little bearer.
You got to go through with them, you know, especially
when you you know, not not not used to them,
you know. So UM, I definitely UM. If you got
a tough love story with doctor, I don't know if
you want to go going to it. We was just
talking about this the other day. Actually you could tell them,
Oh I love that. Yeah, man, So, I mean we
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out on I don't know if this is going to
my second year of rookie year. When was this on
the field rookie year, rookie year man. So you know,
young rook you know, out there training with another VET
VET has been in another game for like twelve years
at the time, twelve thirteen years at time, and we're
going through some pass rus stuff and and Uh, I'm thinking,
you know what I'm gonna do, you know, versus a
(16:28):
blocker or something like that, and you know, well, I'm
gonna just do it like That'm gonna do it like this.
And they both kind of broke it down to me,
showing me, you know, why that wouldn't work or why
why just this and that and and and as as
we're talking through it, I'm getting frustrated and I'm like,
I'm like, uh, you know, everything I said is just
wrong or this and that, and I just kind of
felt like they was picking on me, and I'm just like,
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you know what, I just kind of you know, you know,
young big bad d tackle. You know, I'm out there, man,
I kind of get shark, getting little emotional, like a
little frustrated, you know what I'm saying. And then that
put me to the side, and you know, he continued,
you know, talk to me. But it was just like,
you know, we had to go through this rough patch
for us to be able to make growth, you know,
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and and for things like just like you said in
the podcast earlier, it takes two years for somebody to
really hear what you gotta say. Because when you come
in new office, you know, off doing what you're doing.
It's kind of like reprogramming your whole form of thinking.
That's what I tell people about doc is. It's just
it's more than us just going in the weight room
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and lifting and running and drinking protein shaps and this
and that. Understanding why you're doing things, how you're doing things,
and taking the whole picture of the whole man and
applying it to your life and that's going to all
transfer over to your performance. So um, so yeah, we
had a we had a a rough out and and
but I think it made us so much stronger, our
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bond so much stronger, and uh my, you know, our
respect for each other, you know, even going up and
the force. It made me to be like like, shoot,
I ain't I can't go out let it. I gotta
I gotta be right now. I can't be you know,
crying in front of the bin, going ven here man
getting all in this feelings. So yeah, I mean it's
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all love, you know, y'all family, But um but yeah,
definitely take takes some take some rough passion. Good, that's
where you need to go. But I love that you said,
you know, only certain people can help get you to
that next level. And it sounds like you surround yourself
with the people who know the right balance of you,
know how to push you, but still being you know
you're in your comfort zone. So I think that's super important. Well,
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doctor Gibson, we are going to let you go. We
really really appreciate you coming on our podcasts. Grady was
really excited to have you on, so we appreciate you
taking some time to jump on and talk to us today. Yeah. Well,
I appreciate the opportunity. But before I go, let me
add to what mister Jared said, if you will, okay, Uh,
That key to what happened with Grady was simply this,
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he learned ability. He humbled himself and that's when at
that period of time, that's when he found something greater
than himself. And that's when he went and got baptized.
But he went back to Clemson. After he went back
to Clemson and to a church and a pastor that
he's been going through since his freshman year, greaty since
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the freshman year, and he got baptime. But that simply said,
it humbled him and allowed him to seek seek something
greater than himself, to find what was within now to
be honest with you, his anger and frustration was is
that he was drafted as a stiff farmer. He wasn't
happy with that, to be honest with you, whether they
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things I was saying as you're saying, I was working
with another VET that was there, and that vet would
had to teach him. And he even called me to
this day and text me and said, I can't believe
the gains and the improvement and the success over the
years that mister Jared has done if it wasn't for
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the conversations and the things that you do, Doctor Gibson,
I don't know if we appere, but I just have
to say, it's just the work that we do versus
what we think we should be doing. It's an assignment
these gentlemans and people that come into the offices, he said,
mister Reid. I work with mister Reid for probably about
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nine or ten years before he retired. It's our assignment,
and the thing that you assignment is that your give.
So my goal is to help these individuals to recover
from the work that they are doing so they'll be
prepared to go back to next day. That's how health
and healing works. We did talk much about the clinical side,
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because they like to keep that side a little pod
and personally talk more about that the workout, But the
workout is really what you call pre hab. It's prevented
work prehabilitation before we have to create something called rehabilitation.
We don't want to rehab them. Rehab them means that
they're sitting out somewhere and they're injured or either hurt
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and they can't be on the steel in one capacity.
But when they're in the prehab state, then we can
build and mold them and shape them into who they
are supposed to be. So about the out healthcare, we
simply say this, we are the vital link to health
and human performance. Now, by being the vital link, what
we use is advance healthcare. We use innovative methods of
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rehabilitation and scientific proven methods of performance enhancement to maximize
everyone's genetic potential. Now, what is your genetic potential? You
can say something that can help them reach a hot
level higher than I can, because you have a gift
for yourself. So my job here mind signment is the
pool outlets already within them. So when we're working in
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this office, we use nine different areas to work on
mystic grades. He only told y'all about it, trichen and
everything is the rehab on the training, but it's seven
of the factors that we have to get through and
on another day, invite me back and we'll give you
two more and if you back, I'll give you another few.
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Absolutely all right, doctor Gibson, thank you so much. Well,
I appreciate it. Thank you. Wow. Well, your doctor kind
of seems like the one stop shop, right, that's kind
of an impression that I got that you can just
you can't even explain all that he does for you. Yeah,
what I do. That's why I love it so much.
That one stuff shop hit every aspect of it, and
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you know it's tough nuts. Well, and I imagine like
people don't quite understand like the level of trust that
that's so lucky for you that a guy that you've
been working with since before your professional career, because you know,
it's your body, it's your temple, it's how you like,
that's how you make your money, so like you can't
just go to anyone. So I think that's really interesting
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that you've had the same god for a song as
you have. Yeah, without of doubt, what out of doubt
and then along the way, you know, um there's you know,
training facilities, different trainers, different people that always and the
more success you have, the more people want to get
their hands on you, you know, and so being able
to trust them having them in my corner has been
good for me. And um, you know, and I'm not
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spreading myself so thin between all these different philosophies and
things and what people may think to get get the
best out of someone, And like I say, it worked,
it worked. It worked for me, you know. And you
know everybody that I you know, kind of brought to
them or share them, they definitely love the experience and
you know, whether they stick for for a long stick
with them for a long time, or um, you know,
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just take something learn from it has always been you know,
really really good feedback and so so it's definitely He's
definitely a blessing to have. So I've always wanted to
ask you this and I find it so interesting. Okay,
so my first question is since you got into the league,
how much weight have you put on? And second, can
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you break down your training schedule and then we'll talk
about what you eat after that? Okay, Um, you know,
more than my weight that's changed. It's been my body composition. Um,
trying to think my first year because I mean if
you look at pictures of you from now, like you
look like the whole now. Yeah. Yeah, Like it's really
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like it's really just just the body comp changing, you know,
you know, less body fat, more and more muscle and
just muscle going to different places and you know, growing muscles.
I ain't know I had just that just come from
you know, just uh, just different training and stuff. And
I think also with uh, you know, maturity as well,
and always that's that's the thing I'll talk about, just
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never really getting cartable. It's always a different level you
can go through and um, and that's that's kind of
where where it comes from for me as far as
like my body composition and um, you know, being my
whatever may be. UM, but but like my my weight
usually being more consistent. I remember, like, um, I'm trying
to think, like what's the kind of the heaviest and
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lightest I've been Maybe like last season I was more like,
you know, above two ninety five throughout the whole season.
The season before that, after my deal, like a fifth year,
I was kind of like between like two ninety almost
two eighty eight, two ninety. I've been up to like
three hundred before, but it goes down up and down
different years, you know. But um, um, this year, I'm
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kind of like, I really don't. I really just get
them skilled, to be honest, you know, yes, like like
it's for me, how I'm feeling, you know what I'm saying,
how I'm moving in him. Thankfully, you know, the my
my coaches, training staff, string staff. Since I've been here,
you know, trusted me to be in shape because I've
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shown them every time I come back to work that
I'm in shape, ready to go. You know, I never
want to show up here to the facility out of shape.
And that's one of the big things I think God
should learn from. Like I don't. I don't think you
should come here to get in shape. You should show
up in shape. Everything that you do it because you
gotta do your your work, your job here at a high,
high level. You know what I'm saying. They add to
everything you should do is add to you know what
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I'm saying, And that's just being a professional. And I
think they I think they respect it more. Um when
the players show up here in shape versus not in shape.
It could tell they've been working or not. So, um,
I think that's definitely definitely something something big. Okay, So
let's talk about food. What does a defensive alignment like
yourself eat in a day? Okay, did you break it
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down to off season versus season, Like you have to
eat a certain amount during season? Yeah? You know what? Like, um, yeah,
so it's a little different. Like I'm a little I'm
a little looser in the in the in the in
the off season than I am in them in the season.
But I'll tell you this, I don't like indulge heavy
every day. Say like I might have like a I
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might instead in it in a um. During the season,
I might eat like bad quote unquote bad. You know
what I'm saying. Little looser after the game, you know
what I'm saying, Like, I know, after the game, I
can really eat what I want to eat. You know
what I'm saying. Monday, I could do a little bit,
but not too too much. But like from there on,
I'm trying to be like you know it just strict
on like the food sensitivity tests stuff that we talked about.
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You know what I'm saying, Like laying off the heavy meats,
you know, and laying off the dairy a little bit
for me, and but like saying, like during the season,
you know, I just do like, um, maybe like some
eggs like turkey, bacon, chicken, sausage type vibes, and then uh,
lunch I try to have like fish and grains or something,
and then dinner, um really really And the thing about
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my die too, This was cool for me When I
was wrestling back in high school as well. I never
the same thing I talked about like now. I never
was so concerned about my weight. It was about what
I was eating. You know what I'm saying, This two
ninety a fried chicken and macro and the gonna be
different from this two ninety of whole grain and you
know what I'm saying and lean meats, you know. R
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So basically that's the kind of thing I talk about,
like with like it's not about I think even I
think health period, Like it's more about like what you eat,
what you put in your body versus like you're just
trying to eat this amount of calories or just um,
you know, I want to lose five pounds or I
want to lose ten pounds it's like, are you losing
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good weight? You know what I'm saying, so like, or
can that good weight help you? You feel me so well?
The reason I ask this, as you always hear the
story is about offensive linemen like how much weight and
like Joe Thomas from the Browns lost like one hundred
pounds and it's like because they're saying, well, it's because
I'm not eating X amount of calories. But some people
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need that, you know, some people definitely need that to
keep that weight on. Everybody is different, and that's what
we talked about. The food sensitivity tests and things like that.
You get to know the individual. You know, you don't
give the same meal, playing same thing to the same
to the whole group, you know what I'm saying, whole
group of people. You know, it's just a good guideline.
But if you want to go to the next level
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and you do the sensitivity, that's something. UM. When the
white Freenie came here, he was big on that. I
heard I heard about that. He was big on um,
food sensitivities and things to eat. He the same, but
he took it all the way there though. You know
he he ate the same thing every day and I'm like,
I gotta switch it up down a little bit. So, Um,
I used like from from my sports doctor as I
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use what we do as a guideline. I stick to
as much as I can. But and he'll tell y'all
leave a little bit of room flexibility in there, you know,
just to you know, just to be able to enjoy
life a little bit. Can you tell right away if
you have like two during season, if you have like
two sloppy days of eating, can you tell you yeah,
you can feel one day one day. You know what
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I'm saying, Like, I know when I'm eating it if
I was gonna be about to be hurt. So I'll
be like, like like, I gotta hit that song. I gotta
run a mi before I show it to practice or something,
because I ain't trying to go through Wednesday Thursday practice. Um,
you know, lave got a whole bunch of bad stuff
in me and the sweated out of Wednesday. I'm trying
to work and prepare to get better. So it's like,
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if if you do that, you know what I'm saying,
If you indulge in you know, bad habits and you
know bad diet, you got to be willing to put
the work in to get it out of you or
you know, before it's time to go to work, don't
you use work to try to you know, get that
at you well? And yeah, especially like we're talking about earlier,
Like that's part of I mean, I don't know if
it's in your contract, but like you're like, that's part
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of some people's contracts, like to be to be at
a specific position, to be at a certain weight, Like
I've read about that. Um so, like, man, it's no joke,
Like what you what you put in your body for
you and what you do, it's like it's really like
that that important. Yeah, it's definitely that important and that's
serious with certain people. But you know, when you're somebody
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who show up, you know, in shape, you know, something
they don't have to worry about, then that's not you.
Don't you don't allow that to be a you know,
incentive of yours for you to get your bread, you
know what I'm saying. That's kind of just the small things.
They trust you enough to be in shape, be a pro,
you know what I'm saying. But when you are, you know,
when you're in that position, you know, whether it's hard
for you or not. I mean, you're making your weight consistently.
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That's important, you know, and that's what we talk about,
like being a professional. And so that's when you get
guys like that, you know, to reach out to somebody
like doctor to doct you know, to be like, yo,
it's this important for me, and they develop a plan
on how to keep you there and make it easier
for you, so you're not killing yourself every week? Right? Well, um,
what about sleep before we wrap it up? Do you
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have a sleep as stretch sleep schedule? I try to.
I try to. It's hard for me though, you know,
I like, uh, I remember one of the first things
Doc told me when I was met him around nineteen
years old. He was like, you know, you get your
most recovery, you know, going to sleep when you sleep
between ten and two two o'clock in the morning. And
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uh my mom always said it tended to tend to.
That's a little joke with me, she getting a bed
tended to. But I can't even something honestly and jaw transparentcly,
It's hard for me to fall asleep before eleven sometimes,
like even if I got to be up at five
or something like that. I like if I get like always,
if I get like five six hours, I'm good, you
know what I'm saying. But I feel great when I
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get able to get seven or eight though, I do
feel better. But um, I think that's something where I
could I could get better with the sleep, but I
just feel like, you know, I'm using my time wisely.
But um, once I'm up, I'm up like like one thing,
like one thing about me, like I never let anything
come between or before, like the work. You know what
I'm saying. So um, once I'm up, get get ready
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to go. And you're a coffee guy. I'm not a
coffee guy. I'm not a coffee guy. And as we're
the only time I drink like coffee or something is
just like I'm having like a late a late night
out after like dinner or something. I need an espresso
to stay up because I'm getting older. I know you
are getting over. I was actually had practiced the other
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day and you're one of the oldest players on the team.
Now aint they crazy? Ain't they crazy? But I feel
better than I ever. Did you know we still go
about ten fifteen years of the Okay, I love that.
Oh did you hear that? Guys, he said, we got
ten to fifteen years left with the podcast. Yea, yeah,
every year we're coming for you. We're gonna be like
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the Kardashians, Grady, We're they had like twenty seasons of
the Getting Real with Grady Jarrett podcast. But in all seriousness,
this is gonna be it for Grady Jarrett and I
on our first season of the Getting Real with Grady
Jarrett Podcasts. To our listeners, to everybody that's tuned in,
we appreciate you guys so much, and I really hope
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I'll let Grady close it out because it's his show,
but I really hope you guys were able to get
get more of a closer look at Grady and learn
some stuff and enjoyed some of our conversations with our guests. Absolutely, absolutely,
thank you to all the listeners. Kelsey, thank you for
bringing this idea to me and being able to bless
people with some of my insight and my conversation, and
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you know, thank for everybody listening. I hope everybody got
something from it, for from you know, every guest that
we had, for myself, from Kelsey and uh, you know,
hope to gain some more, you know, Atlanta Focus fans.
But you know, like at the end of the day,
you know, um, as long as we impacted you know,
one person off one of these listeners, so you know
we made an impact. So thank you guys. Hopeful to
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have you know, more success. So much love to you
and take care.
Welcome to the Getting Real with Grady Jared podcast. We
have a special guest on today, doctor Clayton Gibson, the third,
who's a very special person in Grady's life. So Grady,
let's just start with how you know our guests today
and kick us off with that. Yeah. So, um, I
met doctor g well shot what is the duct about
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nine years ago, going on ten years, and he's been
a somebody in my life, you know that's just been
a big mentor and just really opened my eyes to
relect what I really could be as far as the
potential that I you know, had to unlock within me.
And I met him at a time in my life
where you know, I was I was young in college
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and uh really just you know, kind of after my
um freshman year and I was just really trying to
find my way, you know really and trying to find
my identity, wondering if I belong on the level that
which I was playing. And I remember he told me
even before you know, I became the start of Clinton
and we're going on to have success that I had
now you know, just you know basically great things was
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great things in me. Um, he se see me being
the best you know, and that kind of scared me
as a as a young and you know what I'm saying,
I just I really didn't didn't understand at the time,
but um, you know, so, I mean he was interested
introduced to me by by Ed Reid, who I'm really
close with, and um, and so it had been with doctor.
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I mean, I'm sure they can talk about it later
and you know, and all the stuff too. So I mean, um,
but yeah, so we've been we've been kicking it. We've
been kicking every ever since uh college. I was only
able to train with them full time when I got
to the league because the strict scheduling college. So things
as far as uh nutrition, you know, tips to things
to do, um, supplement wise or whatever it may be. Um.
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And then just you know, um just counsel you know,
um as as a young kid up to now. And
so so yeah, we got some history, all right, Doctor Gibson,
do you want to just let us know about the
first time we met Grady and just you know how
much you've seen him grow over the last nine years
that you guys have known each other. Of course, first
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of all, I just like to thank you all for
having me on your podcast is really truly a blessing
and a pleasure. So when I've met Grady, actually he
was with his mother, always with his mother, and they
came into the office and what happened was is that
I worked in specializing hormones, a dream was specifically. So
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what we did was we simply did a test he
it was, which was a food sensitivity test to find out,
you know, what he was doing and how we could
make him better because as mister Jared said, one thing
it was is that we just simply had to deal
with him on the nutrition side because he was already
training with one of the best trainers, I would say,
and strength and conditioning business, which is Joey Baston. His
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strength coach was my college strength coach actually when I
was at Firman. So with that understanding, we knew he
had good a good foundation. So I met Grady and
how would I said, in an environment to help him
in a minimal way during his collegiate years, hoping that
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we will see him again. And so it started with
the food sensitivity and it grew from food sensitivities to
you know, being all in working with his body, working
with his mind, and working with his soul called the
three threefold man, that's what it did. Wait, so you
talk about the food sensitivity tray. Are there specific foods
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that you can't eat or that you stopped eating after
that test? Yeah? Well yeah, so you know the food sensitivity.
You know, you may not have like an allergic reaction
like girl hows or anything, but as far as like
you know, doctor tell you know the way you react,
as far as recovery, you know, inflammation, things like that.
And probably the hardest thing that I always get back
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on my food sensitivity testing, I have to give a
little bit anything like like stay, um, it's always on
mine for some reason. I love as you can see
my Instagram. You know what I'm saying. I love to
have me and stake of something. And uh, I'm trying
to think of us on the casing. So we do
a lot of plant base plate best things other than
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dairy products. And that's something that's been consistent over years
and over time things have change a little bit, but
we always know, um the boat the things what we
want to minimize or um, you know, try to totally
take out the diet so um and it gives you
a lot of good things that to add you know
to your diet as well. So the food sensitivity is
something that you you dive into that. Um, you know
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a lot of people don't really know about. And you
could just take your whole performance and um, you know
natural ability to get the most out yourself to the
next level. What is the most challenging, whether it be
injury or whatever, um, experience that the two of you
have had to come together and find a way to
get through. I know a good one. Um. Oh this
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was a doctor remember um going to my contract year,
my fourth year last year on my deal, I got hurt.
I got hurt against them. What was the Bengals high
ankle spring high ankle sprain? I said, what dout four
to six weeks? Weeks week? Um on the high ankle spring. Um.
I was talking to coach Quinn at the time. You know,
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I couldn't practice, So I told him in between treatments
at the facility, can I drive down to Atlanta and
see my doctor? And whe was on it every day
whether we were you know things we do like um,
uh you know stem needles whatever you know, do certain
nutrients and things all natural and remedies and things, and uh,
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doc got it. He got it all man. We shoot,
we only missed what two games, came back against UM,
only missed two games came back against UM, the Giants
on Monday Night football, UM, and then they finished the
season strong. And uh so I just you know, really
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was thankful and fortunate to have Doc right down the
street from me so I could go in, you know,
Coach Q at the time allowed me to go down
and and get that treatment. And that's something that I
that I one instance that I know. But I mean,
we didn't shoot every really everything. It's been times we
didn't play through UM injuries that we don't even you know,
talk about just trying to maintain throughout the throughout the season,
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and we don't avoid it, you know, certain surgeries you know,
through rehab and training and nutrition. So UM, that's that's
one that I can. That's that's one I that I
you know, forever thankful for that one because I was
an ugly spot to be hurt and miss crucial time
and you know for my team. So they only missed
two games on a six week diagnosis. So that's that
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was a goal. Wow, Doctor Gibson, you obviously get to
see Grady in a different light. Than any of us
do because of how much time you spend with him.
One of the first things you'll hear about Grady when
you ask his coaches or his teammates is just how
hard he works, and they commend him for that. You've
obviously been able to see that, So can you just
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tell us a little bit about some behind the scene
stories about how Grady attacks his training process and really
how much that's helped him get to the level that
he's at now. Of course, one thing about mister Jared
is this, He's always want to work hard, He's always
want to be top, and if he doesn't finish a
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rap or anything, he wants to come back in and
accomplish it within a few minutes or so. So with us,
we have to simply slow him down. We have to
slow him down. Not slow him down so much as
in his performance, but slow him down in his mind. Why.
Because I'm a person of faith, and I have high
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beliefs and the things that I have faith in, but
I also know that faith and works. So we present
our body as a living sacrifice, and with that being
consented a living sacrifice, then we have to understand that
this body must be whole all one. So you can't
do anything with this physical body without the mind as
well as the soul. So he has great genes to
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work from, as his father played with the falcon. So
when we got Grady, Grady has a number fifty coming
from on the grad or basically from Clemson. I say
on the grad because of other than so many accolades
that I've been through, so you know, we usual to
call that. So when I see Grady, the one thing
that allow us Grady to be who he is is
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that in his first year, Grady got baptized. Many people
don't know that Greater at baptized. And by having this
baptize that he put a covering. So each and every year,
like he said, his recovery, his healing and all that,
it's simply by preparing to put it on the whole
armor onto him. So we simply prepare this young man
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for war. So I've seen, like he said, certain aspects
of Greater that others don't see it. And then that
portion as his doctor, then something filolized him to speak
up because it's a battle. I tell anyone, it takes
me two years to get them able to even hear
what I'm saying, So you gotta understand. I had Greedy
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when he was nineteen years old from Afar and how
this this is. I gave him the results of someone
that was a female that was fifty and the result
of his results, and I asked him to be mind
if I showed him to someone else. And when I
showed him to someone else, I asked him was it theirs?
And they said yes? And I asked him was his?
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And he said yes, but he wasn't. It was the
results of a fifty ye old female at nineteen years old.
He had the body and the hormones of a fifty
year old female. But he's a drug test athlete. What
should we do? So we approach him in a holistic manner.
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And the only way I can do is that can
first of all, get him to believe in what we
were doing and have faith, but not faith in me,
but faith in the higher power that rules and guys
all over. So that's the matter that I've seen, mister Deed.
That's so interesting. Well, I feel like we should give
the listeners a little bit more background on what you do,
who you've worked with, So can you guys fill the
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listeners in on that yeah, that can go into his background,
and I'm sure everybody want to know and then beat
up to you know, that discretion on who we want
to talk about or not talk about, you know, for
who we work with. So for me, I I started
a South start Firming University, graduated in ninety five. I
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was headed to be actually to be an orthopedic surgeon.
Wanted to be that second choice because I hurt my
knee at ninety three. So the Houston clinic itself and
they offered me a position once graduating from medical school,
but get into medical school. That was a waiting list
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for the particular medical school that I wanted to go to,
and then I also looked at physicotherapy. There was another
waiting list for eighteen months for the particular medical school
in PP school that I wanted to go to. So
you know, they always have recruiters, they always have anything
at Bator. So I got invitation from the guys that
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from Chiropractice. I didn't know much about chiropractice. I didn't
know why, you know, I was going down there. But
they just simply told me one thing, with your mind
and the knowledge you can easily get through and the
next thing is after you finished, you don't have to
go work four to six thousand or fifty thousand dollars.
You can do what you needed to do. So I
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went to Kilro Practice School at Life. But once I
got out in the nineteen ninety nine, I didn't know
how to run a business. So I went and got
my master's Health Administration Health Science administration, and during that
time frame I also did what we call a postgraduate
work and where I became the first what we call
Ubian melon Knight or African American chiropractice sports trasition in
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the state of Georgia. While doing that, also everything was
running concurrent. So I have eight board certifications. Just to guys,
let you know, I have eight board certifications, I have
four doctor degrees, and also I have many different fellowships.
One of those, like mister Jarrek said, I'm a fellow
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at the International Academy of Medical Acricuncture. So we used
the art of kyra acupuncture as well as the art
science and everything oh chiropractic. And the reason why we're
doing that, we're just simply allowing the body to be
able to recognize and heal itself. So my main thing
is that work with something called approprio septis, insult and
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definitis through what we call the adrenal blame. Wow, that's
a that's a whole lot there. Yeah, that's better, right man.
People be like, you know, what may suggest somebody go
see doc. Man. They were like, all right, well what
do you do? What do ie? Like? Man? Look, you
just gotta usually gotta come find out for yourself or
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like you know, let let him tell it, because I
forget every time, and I've been knowing a long time.
So do you guys go through each year in the
off season, do you guys like meet and set a
plan for what you're trying to accomplish, because I assume
gravy every off season for you you have different goals, right, absolutely, absolutely,
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and um definitely meet, set up a plan and a reason.
And why I am you know, so you know tuned
in with doctor and you know and loyal to working
with him is because he know how far I can
go and and where how I can get better. You know.
It's like and I whenever I go in a new
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environment and work out, it's always like a like a
like a like a good job thing. I was like, oh, okay, Well,
I ain't know you could do. Okay, well, it's like enough,
it's enough for whoever I'm going to work, but for
me to be pushed through the new level. Um, he
knows where that new level is for me, you know.
And it's like like you said, you got to slow
me down sometime, but best believe. I mean he's slowed
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me down. But we had a point where it's it's far,
it's far, you know what I'm saying, far up, So
we got people to come in and you know, people
might come for a session. You know, maybe we might
not see him ever again, you know what I'm saying.
Or it's just something that you know, I've just um.
Over time, we've you know, developed our plan and and
you know, made adjustments, add add some things, taking some
things away. But we always trying to get better. Were
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always trying to get better and learning and um and
but I think the biggest thing we do is we
trust the process and the trust the process. And you know,
every time I come to count, you know, since I
you know, since I've been here, you know, I've always
gotten better. And that's how we that's our you know,
planned to continue going forward, just always improve and uh
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you know my number, tell it, my tape, tell it,
and uh we find out, you know, deficiencies, things we
can add and just try to hone in on that
and be better. Is there some tough love that happens there?
You did give you some tough love Grady? Oh yeah, Yeah,
we definitely got tough love. I think everybody knew that.
Come to doctor. Um goes through that, um and the
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and then it's like a uh, it's like a little bearer.
You got to go through with them, you know, especially
when you you know, not not not used to them,
you know. So UM, I definitely UM. If you got
a tough love story with doctor, I don't know if
you want to go going to it. We was just
talking about this the other day. Actually you could tell them,
Oh I love that. Yeah, man, So, I mean we
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out on I don't know if this is going to
my second year of rookie year. When was this on
the field rookie year, rookie year man. So you know,
young rook you know, out there training with another VET
VET has been in another game for like twelve years
at the time, twelve thirteen years at time, and we're
going through some pass rus stuff and and Uh, I'm thinking,
you know what I'm gonna do, you know, versus a
(16:28):
blocker or something like that, and you know, well, I'm
gonna just do it like That'm gonna do it like this.
And they both kind of broke it down to me,
showing me, you know, why that wouldn't work or why
why just this and that and and and as as
we're talking through it, I'm getting frustrated and I'm like,
I'm like, uh, you know, everything I said is just
wrong or this and that, and I just kind of
felt like they was picking on me, and I'm just like,
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you know what, I just kind of you know, you know,
young big bad d tackle. You know, I'm out there, man,
I kind of get shark, getting little emotional, like a
little frustrated, you know what I'm saying. And then that
put me to the side, and you know, he continued,
you know, talk to me. But it was just like,
you know, we had to go through this rough patch
for us to be able to make growth, you know,
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and and for things like just like you said in
the podcast earlier, it takes two years for somebody to
really hear what you gotta say. Because when you come
in new office, you know, off doing what you're doing.
It's kind of like reprogramming your whole form of thinking.
That's what I tell people about doc is. It's just
it's more than us just going in the weight room
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and lifting and running and drinking protein shaps and this
and that. Understanding why you're doing things, how you're doing things,
and taking the whole picture of the whole man and
applying it to your life and that's going to all
transfer over to your performance. So um, so yeah, we
had a we had a a rough out and and
but I think it made us so much stronger, our
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bond so much stronger, and uh my, you know, our
respect for each other, you know, even going up and
the force. It made me to be like like, shoot,
I ain't I can't go out let it. I gotta
I gotta be right now. I can't be you know,
crying in front of the bin, going ven here man
getting all in this feelings. So yeah, I mean it's
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all love, you know, y'all family, But um but yeah,
definitely take takes some take some rough passion. Good, that's
where you need to go. But I love that you said,
you know, only certain people can help get you to
that next level. And it sounds like you surround yourself
with the people who know the right balance of you,
know how to push you, but still being you know
you're in your comfort zone. So I think that's super important. Well,
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doctor Gibson, we are going to let you go. We
really really appreciate you coming on our podcasts. Grady was
really excited to have you on, so we appreciate you
taking some time to jump on and talk to us today. Yeah. Well,
I appreciate the opportunity. But before I go, let me
add to what mister Jared said, if you will, okay, Uh,
That key to what happened with Grady was simply this,
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he learned ability. He humbled himself and that's when at
that period of time, that's when he found something greater
than himself. And that's when he went and got baptized.
But he went back to Clemson. After he went back
to Clemson and to a church and a pastor that
he's been going through since his freshman year, greaty since
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the freshman year, and he got baptime. But that simply said,
it humbled him and allowed him to seek seek something
greater than himself, to find what was within now to
be honest with you, his anger and frustration was is
that he was drafted as a stiff farmer. He wasn't
happy with that, to be honest with you, whether they
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things I was saying as you're saying, I was working
with another VET that was there, and that vet would
had to teach him. And he even called me to
this day and text me and said, I can't believe
the gains and the improvement and the success over the
years that mister Jared has done if it wasn't for
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the conversations and the things that you do, Doctor Gibson,
I don't know if we appere, but I just have
to say, it's just the work that we do versus
what we think we should be doing. It's an assignment
these gentlemans and people that come into the offices, he said,
mister Reid. I work with mister Reid for probably about
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nine or ten years before he retired. It's our assignment,
and the thing that you assignment is that your give.
So my goal is to help these individuals to recover
from the work that they are doing so they'll be
prepared to go back to next day. That's how health
and healing works. We did talk much about the clinical side,
(20:44):
because they like to keep that side a little pod
and personally talk more about that the workout, But the
workout is really what you call pre hab. It's prevented
work prehabilitation before we have to create something called rehabilitation.
We don't want to rehab them. Rehab them means that
they're sitting out somewhere and they're injured or either hurt
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and they can't be on the steel in one capacity.
But when they're in the prehab state, then we can
build and mold them and shape them into who they
are supposed to be. So about the out healthcare, we
simply say this, we are the vital link to health
and human performance. Now, by being the vital link, what
we use is advance healthcare. We use innovative methods of
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rehabilitation and scientific proven methods of performance enhancement to maximize
everyone's genetic potential. Now, what is your genetic potential? You
can say something that can help them reach a hot
level higher than I can, because you have a gift
for yourself. So my job here mind signment is the
pool outlets already within them. So when we're working in
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this office, we use nine different areas to work on
mystic grades. He only told y'all about it, trichen and
everything is the rehab on the training, but it's seven
of the factors that we have to get through and
on another day, invite me back and we'll give you
two more and if you back, I'll give you another few.
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Absolutely all right, doctor Gibson, thank you so much. Well,
I appreciate it. Thank you. Wow. Well, your doctor kind
of seems like the one stop shop, right, that's kind
of an impression that I got that you can just
you can't even explain all that he does for you. Yeah,
what I do. That's why I love it so much.
That one stuff shop hit every aspect of it, and
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you know it's tough nuts. Well, and I imagine like
people don't quite understand like the level of trust that
that's so lucky for you that a guy that you've
been working with since before your professional career, because you know,
it's your body, it's your temple, it's how you like,
that's how you make your money, so like you can't
just go to anyone. So I think that's really interesting
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that you've had the same god for a song as
you have. Yeah, without of doubt, what out of doubt
and then along the way, you know, um there's you know,
training facilities, different trainers, different people that always and the
more success you have, the more people want to get
their hands on you, you know, and so being able
to trust them having them in my corner has been
good for me. And um, you know, and I'm not
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spreading myself so thin between all these different philosophies and
things and what people may think to get get the
best out of someone, And like I say, it worked,
it worked. It worked for me, you know. And you
know everybody that I you know, kind of brought to
them or share them, they definitely love the experience and
you know, whether they stick for for a long stick
with them for a long time, or um, you know,
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just take something learn from it has always been you know,
really really good feedback and so so it's definitely He's
definitely a blessing to have. So I've always wanted to
ask you this and I find it so interesting. Okay,
so my first question is since you got into the league,
how much weight have you put on? And second, can
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you break down your training schedule and then we'll talk
about what you eat after that? Okay, Um, you know,
more than my weight that's changed. It's been my body composition. Um,
trying to think my first year because I mean if
you look at pictures of you from now, like you
look like the whole now. Yeah. Yeah, Like it's really
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like it's really just just the body comp changing, you know,
you know, less body fat, more and more muscle and
just muscle going to different places and you know, growing muscles.
I ain't know I had just that just come from
you know, just uh, just different training and stuff. And
I think also with uh, you know, maturity as well,
and always that's that's the thing I'll talk about, just
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never really getting cartable. It's always a different level you
can go through and um, and that's that's kind of
where where it comes from for me as far as
like my body composition and um, you know, being my
whatever may be. UM, but but like my my weight
usually being more consistent. I remember, like, um, I'm trying
to think, like what's the kind of the heaviest and
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lightest I've been Maybe like last season I was more like,
you know, above two ninety five throughout the whole season.
The season before that, after my deal, like a fifth year,
I was kind of like between like two ninety almost
two eighty eight, two ninety. I've been up to like
three hundred before, but it goes down up and down
different years, you know. But um, um, this year, I'm
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kind of like, I really don't. I really just get
them skilled, to be honest, you know, yes, like like
it's for me, how I'm feeling, you know what I'm saying,
how I'm moving in him. Thankfully, you know, the my
my coaches, training staff, string staff. Since I've been here,
you know, trusted me to be in shape because I've
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shown them every time I come back to work that
I'm in shape, ready to go. You know, I never
want to show up here to the facility out of shape.
And that's one of the big things I think God
should learn from. Like I don't. I don't think you
should come here to get in shape. You should show
up in shape. Everything that you do it because you
gotta do your your work, your job here at a high,
high level. You know what I'm saying. They add to
everything you should do is add to you know what
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I'm saying, And that's just being a professional. And I
think they I think they respect it more. Um when
the players show up here in shape versus not in shape.
It could tell they've been working or not. So, um,
I think that's definitely definitely something something big. Okay, So
let's talk about food. What does a defensive alignment like
yourself eat in a day? Okay, did you break it
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down to off season versus season, Like you have to
eat a certain amount during season? Yeah? You know what? Like, um, yeah,
so it's a little different. Like I'm a little I'm
a little looser in the in the in the in
the off season than I am in them in the season.
But I'll tell you this, I don't like indulge heavy
every day. Say like I might have like a I
(26:58):
might instead in it in a um. During the season,
I might eat like bad quote unquote bad. You know
what I'm saying. Little looser after the game, you know
what I'm saying, Like, I know, after the game, I
can really eat what I want to eat. You know
what I'm saying. Monday, I could do a little bit,
but not too too much. But like from there on,
I'm trying to be like you know it just strict
on like the food sensitivity tests stuff that we talked about.
(27:21):
You know what I'm saying, Like laying off the heavy meats,
you know, and laying off the dairy a little bit
for me, and but like saying, like during the season,
you know, I just do like, um, maybe like some
eggs like turkey, bacon, chicken, sausage type vibes, and then uh,
lunch I try to have like fish and grains or something,
and then dinner, um really really And the thing about
(27:43):
my die too, This was cool for me When I
was wrestling back in high school as well. I never
the same thing I talked about like now. I never
was so concerned about my weight. It was about what
I was eating. You know what I'm saying, This two
ninety a fried chicken and macro and the gonna be
different from this two ninety of whole grain and you
know what I'm saying and lean meats, you know. R
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So basically that's the kind of thing I talk about,
like with like it's not about I think even I
think health period, Like it's more about like what you eat,
what you put in your body versus like you're just
trying to eat this amount of calories or just um,
you know, I want to lose five pounds or I
want to lose ten pounds it's like, are you losing
(28:26):
good weight? You know what I'm saying, so like, or
can that good weight help you? You feel me so well?
The reason I ask this, as you always hear the
story is about offensive linemen like how much weight and
like Joe Thomas from the Browns lost like one hundred
pounds and it's like because they're saying, well, it's because
I'm not eating X amount of calories. But some people
(28:47):
need that, you know, some people definitely need that to
keep that weight on. Everybody is different, and that's what
we talked about. The food sensitivity tests and things like that.
You get to know the individual. You know, you don't
give the same meal, playing same thing to the same
to the whole group, you know what I'm saying, whole
group of people. You know, it's just a good guideline.
But if you want to go to the next level
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and you do the sensitivity, that's something. UM. When the
white Freenie came here, he was big on that. I
heard I heard about that. He was big on um,
food sensitivities and things to eat. He the same, but
he took it all the way there though. You know
he he ate the same thing every day and I'm like,
I gotta switch it up down a little bit. So, Um,
I used like from from my sports doctor as I
(29:30):
use what we do as a guideline. I stick to
as much as I can. But and he'll tell y'all
leave a little bit of room flexibility in there, you know,
just to you know, just to be able to enjoy
life a little bit. Can you tell right away if
you have like two during season, if you have like
two sloppy days of eating, can you tell you yeah,
you can feel one day one day. You know what
(29:52):
I'm saying, Like, I know when I'm eating it if
I was gonna be about to be hurt. So I'll
be like, like like, I gotta hit that song. I gotta
run a mi before I show it to practice or something,
because I ain't trying to go through Wednesday Thursday practice. Um,
you know, lave got a whole bunch of bad stuff
in me and the sweated out of Wednesday. I'm trying
to work and prepare to get better. So it's like,
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if if you do that, you know what I'm saying,
If you indulge in you know, bad habits and you
know bad diet, you got to be willing to put
the work in to get it out of you or
you know, before it's time to go to work, don't
you use work to try to you know, get that
at you well? And yeah, especially like we're talking about earlier,
Like that's part of I mean, I don't know if
it's in your contract, but like you're like, that's part
(30:37):
of some people's contracts, like to be to be at
a specific position, to be at a certain weight, Like
I've read about that. Um so, like, man, it's no joke,
Like what you what you put in your body for
you and what you do, it's like it's really like
that that important. Yeah, it's definitely that important and that's
serious with certain people. But you know, when you're somebody
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who show up, you know, in shape, you know, something
they don't have to worry about, then that's not you.
Don't you don't allow that to be a you know,
incentive of yours for you to get your bread, you
know what I'm saying. That's kind of just the small things.
They trust you enough to be in shape, be a pro,
you know what I'm saying. But when you are, you know,
when you're in that position, you know, whether it's hard
for you or not. I mean, you're making your weight consistently.
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That's important, you know, and that's what we talk about,
like being a professional. And so that's when you get
guys like that, you know, to reach out to somebody
like doctor to doct you know, to be like, yo,
it's this important for me, and they develop a plan
on how to keep you there and make it easier
for you, so you're not killing yourself every week? Right? Well, um,
what about sleep before we wrap it up? Do you
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have a sleep as stretch sleep schedule? I try to.
I try to. It's hard for me though, you know,
I like, uh, I remember one of the first things
Doc told me when I was met him around nineteen
years old. He was like, you know, you get your
most recovery, you know, going to sleep when you sleep
between ten and two two o'clock in the morning. And
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uh my mom always said it tended to tend to.
That's a little joke with me, she getting a bed
tended to. But I can't even something honestly and jaw transparentcly,
It's hard for me to fall asleep before eleven sometimes,
like even if I got to be up at five
or something like that. I like if I get like always,
if I get like five six hours, I'm good, you
know what I'm saying. But I feel great when I
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get able to get seven or eight though, I do
feel better. But um, I think that's something where I
could I could get better with the sleep, but I
just feel like, you know, I'm using my time wisely.
But um, once I'm up, I'm up like like one thing,
like one thing about me, like I never let anything
come between or before, like the work. You know what
I'm saying. So um, once I'm up, get get ready
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to go. And you're a coffee guy. I'm not a
coffee guy. I'm not a coffee guy. And as we're
the only time I drink like coffee or something is
just like I'm having like a late a late night
out after like dinner or something. I need an espresso
to stay up because I'm getting older. I know you
are getting over. I was actually had practiced the other
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day and you're one of the oldest players on the team.
Now aint they crazy? Ain't they crazy? But I feel
better than I ever. Did you know we still go
about ten fifteen years of the Okay, I love that.
Oh did you hear that? Guys, he said, we got
ten to fifteen years left with the podcast. Yea, yeah,
every year we're coming for you. We're gonna be like
(33:28):
the Kardashians, Grady, We're they had like twenty seasons of
the Getting Real with Grady Jarrett podcast. But in all seriousness,
this is gonna be it for Grady Jarrett and I
on our first season of the Getting Real with Grady
Jarrett Podcasts. To our listeners, to everybody that's tuned in,
we appreciate you guys so much, and I really hope
(33:48):
I'll let Grady close it out because it's his show,
but I really hope you guys were able to get
get more of a closer look at Grady and learn
some stuff and enjoyed some of our conversations with our guests. Absolutely, absolutely,
thank you to all the listeners. Kelsey, thank you for
bringing this idea to me and being able to bless
people with some of my insight and my conversation, and
(34:09):
you know, thank for everybody listening. I hope everybody got
something from it, for from you know, every guest that
we had, for myself, from Kelsey and uh, you know,
hope to gain some more, you know, Atlanta Focus fans.
But you know, like at the end of the day,
you know, um, as long as we impacted you know,
one person off one of these listeners, so you know
we made an impact. So thank you guys. Hopeful to
(34:30):
have you know, more success. So much love to you
and take care.
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