Chris Paul: Daily Routine

Chris Paul rebuilt his game with plant-based eating, daily lifting, and a mindset that recovery matters just as much as scoring.

NBA player and Phoenix Suns point guard Chris Paul had a health and fitness reawakening a few years ago. It was mid-way through the 2018 season and the 33-year old basketball player, who was still with the Houston Rockets at the time, had just suffered a hamstring injury — the fifth of his career — which caused him to miss 17 consecutive games.

The hamstring injury, plus the fact that Paul had only scored an average of 15.6 points per game — a career low for him — while logging just 58 games throughout the season — had everyone questioning how much he left in his career.

Paul strained his hamstring in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals last season, an injury that he has never seemed to fully recover from. It has been one issue after another over the past nine months. He dealt with elbow tendinitis and a sore left leg at the start of the season, and he missed almost a month with another hamstring injury. Paul has played in 44 of 67 games this season, which could end up as the fourth consecutive season in which he has played in fewer games than the one before.

But Paul was determined to fix up his game. Flying down to Miami, he linked up with Donnie Raimon, the owner of DBC Fitness, who began working extensively with the legendary point guard. The two hit it off and revamped Paul’s entire approach to training. “It’s just attention to detail as far as weight training, the way my body moves,” Paul explained to Men’s Health. “I think my body moves a lot more efficiently than it used to.”