Seth Rollins, once known as 'CrossFit Jesus,' is changing his entire approach to fitness. At 39, the WWE superstar revealed he's swapping heavy squats and deadlifts for a machine-focused routine.

Sitting down with MH Fitness Strong Talk Season 2, Seth Rollins was asked how his workouts have changed now that he is 39, and his answer was expected.

“Being able to squat 400 lb regularly, deadlift five, bench three, and snatch 230—like, those days I just don’t need. I don’t need a sub-4-minute Fran. I just don’t need it, you know. More machines now. Yes, more machines,” said Rollins.

Back when Rollins was in his 20s, he used to push his body to the limit, training five to six days a week with long, pushing cross fit workouts, even getting dubbed Cross Fit Jesus.

The idea behind it was to fit his style in the ring. "I'm 6-foot-1, 205 pounds. I have to move around in the ring a lot. I can't be like a Braun Strowman or an Andre the Giant. They kind of get to just stand there and throw bodies around. I'm the body that gets thrown around," he had once revealed.

However, when he turned 35, he soon understood that his recovery had slowed and that he would have to ease up before it began to impact his in-ring performance.

Moreover, severe injuries, like the blow his knee took back in 2015

“Lower reps and just squeezing. You know what I mean? Just lots of squeezing, lots of tension in the muscles. Lower sets, lower reps, so I’m not constantly sore,” Rollins concludes his statement.

That’s not all. Guess what? According to Rollins, performance inside the gym doesn’t matter that much.

According to Seth Rollins, There's So Much Chaos

“In the gym is so much different than being on the playing field, so to speak — or in this case, because the gym’s like the lab, right? It’s a very controlled setting,” said Rollins.

Rollins believes that you can fully lock in during workouts, but inside the ring, things are far too chaotic. “The problem is that that doesn’t translate great to what we do in the ring because there’s so much chaos and everything happens in an instant.”

Workouts do help inside the ring, but not nearly as much as fans believe. Given that reality, what are your thoughts?

Written by

Suryakant Das

Edited by

Siddharth Shirwadkar