Los Angeles Chargers running back Austin Ekeler is paying it forward by bringing renovated weight rooms and more resources to schools through his foundation.
While thousands of fans watch him play in person each week, he couldn’t have gotten to the NFL if not for his work behind the scenes. He follows a simple mantra, one he traces back to workouts in his high school weight room: “Do the right thing when no one is looking.”
wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster and five-time Pro Bowler Jurrell Casey partnered with the foundation to renovate the weight room at their alma mater, Long Beach Polytechnic High School. “The way you think matters. If you think it's like, oh, I will work out and get sweaty, it's going to be hard, then you're probably going to discourage yourself. And that's really deconstructive of the thoughts of the weight room,” he said. “I don't go to the weight room to do the physical things.
“So the reception's great at the very moment, but I know down the road it's all for generations going to be there helping these kids.”
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