At first, when Jonny Bridgewater suggested his two millionaire clients play red light-green light, Troy Franklin and JL Skinner looked at the man like he was insane.
Bridgewater, a longtime movement specialist at Kula Sports Performance, is “cool,” Franklin said. But definitely interesting, the Broncos receiver added. The trainer is an enigma, a self-described neuroscientist who spends as much time explaining the brain’s gamma waves as he does the body’s muscle fibers.
He identified Franklin’s main issue right away, when they began working together this spring.
“He’s always been a cannon,” Bridgewater said. “But I felt like Troy was a cannon on a canoe.