Watch: Tom Brady Get Super Bowl Pliable On Sidelines During Patriots-Giants Match

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady didn’t take part in the game against the New York Giants. However, he went full-TB12 at Gillette Stadium.

“I was like every other American kid,” Brady told Men’s Health. “I believed if you want to get good, you gotta go squat and bench, and it’s all I ever did.”

“If I can keep my muscles pliable, I can hopefully limit the intensity, or limit the injury altogether, if I do absorb some of these forces,” Brady told CBS, speaking about how the practice helps him on the field .

“The key is in complementing traditional strength and conditioning training with muscle pliability,” the TB12 website reads. “Pliable muscles are softer, longer, and more resilient: they help insulate the body against injury and accelerate post-injury of the muscle. “

According to the quarterback, the solution is to do workouts that “increase your strength while limiting the density of the muscle. The denser the muscle means the less pliable it is.”

“There are times when I release the ball and I know it’s perfect. I throw it with the exact pace and arc that I wanted, and to the exact location,” he says. “But when I throw it and it doesn’t do that, in my mind [I’m thinking,] 

Pliability is important.

“I had forearm muscles that were like rocks and a biceps muscle that was like a rock. I had my biceps pulling this way and my forearm muscle tugging that way, and the tendon was just on fire.” His coach Alex Guerrero, “said that what we’re going to do through pliability—although we didn’t even call it pliability then, because we had to come up with a word for it—is effectively lengthen the forearm muscle and lengthen the biceps and triceps through deep-force work. Alex did it one time, and I was like, ‘What? The last ten years of my life I’ve been in pain, and now, after he’s worked on my forearms, biceps, and triceps, there’s no more pain in my elbow?’ It clicked for me right away.”