Jaylen shares great insight into his unique underwater workouts

Jaylen Shares Great Insight Into His Unique Underwater Workouts, originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

Jaylen Brown has been going all out this summer, and we mean that in a good way.

For the third straight season, the Boston Celtics star underwent a series of underwater workouts, requiring him to hold his breath for extended periods of time while lifting weights at the bottom of a swimming pool.

Brown’s social media posts about the workouts went viral, but he wasn’t just in it for the likes. The 2024 NBA Finals MVP appeared on NBC Sports Boston’s Celtics Media Day live show on Tuesday to provide insight into how the workouts benefit him on multiple levels.

“We breathe every day, but we take it for granted,” Brown explained to co-hosts Marc D’Amico, Kayla Burton and Eddie House, as seen in the video player above. “Breathing is so essential to life, and being underwater helps you work on your breathing and expand it. And the better you breathe, the better you do everything — the clearer you think, the more you make decisions, you get faster, stronger, but it also has a lot of health benefits.

“So, working on that skill of being able to breathe better just makes you a better athlete, a better person, and your quality of life is just better. So, that’s something I’ve been working on.”

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Brown first shared clips of his underwater workouts during the 2022 offseason, and it seems they’ve become a regular part of his summer. The 27-year-old claims he can now hold his breath underwater for “three minutes or more” and insisted this past offseason was “probably the hardest I’ve ever worked” as he incorporated those pool workouts into his regimen.

That’s a testament to Brown’s work ethic after arguably the best season of his career, with Brown earning an All-Star nod and winning Eastern Conference MVP and Finals MVP en route to a Celtics championship. But it appears Brown still has plenty of motivation this season, in part because he’s not making Team USA’s Olympic squad.

“I’m extremely motivated for obvious reasons and I’m ready to go for it,” Brown added.

Watch Brown’s full exclusive interview with NBC Sports Boston’s Celtics Media Day panel below or on YouTube: