Here’s a sentence that won’t surprise you: Nick Chubb is a beast.

His results as a freshman tell a good part of that story. Chubb started eight games, but still managed to carry the ball 219 times for 1,547 yards, both good for second most in the SEC, while piling up more than 7.0 yards per carry, easily the highest mark in the SEC of anyone with more than 150 carries.

To do that all as a freshman takes serious talent, both football-wise and physically. Chubb showed his football talent last fall while stepping up for injured and suspended teammates, and he’s not content to rest on that.

Instead, Chubb is crushing the offseason like it’s a defensive back trying to tackle him in the hole. In March, videos from Chubb’s workouts at his high school in Cedartown, Ga. hit the web. From doing sprints in a weighted vest to snapping the straps while running with a pull-behind sled (also in a weighted vest), Chubb is living up to his workhorse reputation away from the Bulldogs.

Marc Weiszer of DogbytesOnline.com recently gave some insight into the structure of Chubb’s workouts, which are led by his high school coach Scott Hendrix, as well as Cedartown’s track coach, Mike Worthington.

Here are some of the details of Chubb’s workout plan handled by Worthington, courtesy of Weiszer:

  • Workouts held five days per week, with Saturdays and Sundays off
  • Chubb works out for 2-3 hours each day, usually arriving for his workouts around 1 p.m.
  • Workouts consist mostly of weight training and running, of which Chubb says he is a big proponent
  • Resistance running training in the school’s sand pit and with sleds, as well as speed work, often done with weighted vests
  • Training using the VertiMax system, designed to improve explosiveness, speed and lower-body power
  • Weightlifting, including powercleaning for more lower body strength

“You don’t have to motivate Nick,” Hendrix told Weiszer of Chubb, who arrived at Georgia with a reputation for being a beast in training. “He’s obviously motivated. We just provide him with a little structure and a little opportunity to work.”

Chubb is going to have to continue to work his tail off if he wants to assume the SEC’s running back crown this year. His competition is certainly not letting up.

Over the weekend, Alabama running back Derrick Henry’s workout videos went viral, showing him pushing a big truck (in a weighted vest, no less) and flipping even bigger tires. Meanwhile, LSU head coach Les Miles has said this spring that Leonard Fournette is “lighter, faster and stronger” than he was as a freshman.

With the work Chubb is putting in during the summer months, he’ll be ready to handle everything the Bulldogs ask of him this fall. Durability was a major part of Chubb’s ascension as a freshman, and his offseason training will continue to play a big role in that.

One thing is for sure: if another running back tops Chubb’s performance in 2015, it certainly won’t be because they outworked him.