Location: Pittsburgh, Pa. | Stadium: Heinz Field (64,350) | Chairman: Daniel M. Rooney | President: Arthur J. Rooney II Coach: Mike Tomlin | Super Bowls: 5
Troy Polamalu always has followed the beat of a different drummer, and this year it's taken him back to California.
Polamalu will again follow the non-traditional training methods of non-conformist guru Marv Marinovich in California, returning to the man he trusted with his body until the past few years.
Marinovich does not believe in the traditional NFL-style weight-lifting and Polamalu was one of his prized students. But for the past few years, Polamalu remained in Pittsburgh to train rather than going to the West Coast. After a disappointing season in which he sustained three separate injuries -- to his knee, his ribs and his oblique -- Polamalu has decided to skip all the voluntary workouts in Pittsburgh to rejoin his California guru.
"I kind of went away from what I did previously," said Polamalu, who attended but did not practice during the team's mandatory minicamp last weekend. "I'd been staying here the last two years and training here in Pittsburgh, other than going to California. I'm trying to spend a little more time out there with my trainer in California."
Polamalu has disdained the free weights and machines that football players traditionally use to train. He also believes certain aspects of training camp are unnecessary and he has criticized the NFL-sponsored consumption of Gatorade.
So, he's off to California, where he will remain much of the summer. He said he will not practice with his teammates until training camp opens.
"I have some of the stuff here, but you can't duplicate the facilities, the coaching that I have out there," Polamalu said. "So I'm trying to stay out there a little more."
Polamalu had surgery to clean out loose tissue in his knee, but his partially torn PCL went untouched because, he said, nothing could help it but rest. Coach Mike Tomlin did not publicly make an issue of Polamalu's absence the rest of the spring.
"The prize is what we need to do this fall," Tomlin said. "He needs to prepare himself to do that and he's doing it."
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