{"id":749370,"date":"2026-06-20T11:34:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/749370\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T11:34:40","slug":"lions-rb-jahmyr-gibbs-added-mma-to-training-regimen-ahead-of-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/749370\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions RB Jahmyr Gibbs added MMA to training regimen ahead of 2026 season\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Year 4 for Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs<\/a> will be different.<\/p>\n

He’s set to take on Detroit’s bell-cow role<\/a> in his first season without running mate David Montgomery<\/a>, but he’s also been prepping in new ways ahead of the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n

Gibbs started incorporating mixed martial arts into his offseason training in March, per ESPN’s Eric Woodyard<\/a>, helping to change his body for the better.<\/p>\n

“It helps with body control. Your base and all that and faster hands,” Gibbs told Woodyard. “I would say with blocking, I get my hands up before they hit me.”<\/p>\n

“I feel like my body’s gotten in better shape, like physically it looks better. And conditioning-wise, that conditioning is way different from here because you use nonstop movement in every muscle of your body. Out here [in football], you get more breaks and [there is] much more using your legs. But there [in MMA], it’s just constant shoulders, knees, elbows, you go to the ground and all that so out here I barely get tired.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Year 4 for Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs will be different. He’s set to take on Detroit’s bell-cow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[10949,49,48,3163,41528,44,514,2208,10950,82],"class_list":["post-749370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-detroit-lions","tag-jahmyr-gibbs","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}