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          Tony Horton proud Eddie Lacy still doing P90X -- even at Packers camp

          • Rob Demovsky, ESPN Staff WriterAug 10, 2016, 11:00 AM
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              Rob Demovsky is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the Green Bay Packers. He has covered the Packers since 1997 and joined ESPN in 2013. Demovsky is a two-time Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year as selected by the NSSA. You can follow him on Twitter at @RobDemovsky.
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          GREEN BAY, Wis. – It sounds like Eddie Lacy’s tweet brought a smile to Tony Horton’s face. There was the Green Bay Packers running back, pictured on the floor in his training camp dorm room at St. Norbert College, holding a plank pose in front of his laptop with one of Horton’s P90X videos on the screen.

          “Yeah, I saw it,” Horton said proudly. “He doesn’t want to lose what he got. He understands that he’s got to keep doing all those same things that we were doing together. He’s got that little tiny room that he’s in and he’s feeling good and he’s fired up. He’s feeling so good, and I think he just wants to keep that mojo up.”

          Lacy, it would appear, remains committed to Horton’s plan. The two spent several months together this offseason – the first time shortly after Packers coach Mike McCarthy called him out for being overweight, the second time this summer before training camp began – and keep in regular contact.

          “He’s doing great,” Horton said from his office in Los Angeles. “He lost 22 pounds and all is great in his world.”

          Horton, the P90X founder, said he was reluctant to talk much more about Lacy’s workouts.

          “We’ve kind of covered everything, haven’t we?” he said.

          But he did say that he and Lacy followed much the same workout plan when they reunited this summer as they did in the spring, with the addition of boxing to their workouts.

          “A lot of what we were doing before; nothing really changed,” Horton said. “We were sticking to the plyometric routine. He was doing [boxing] glove work three days a week on top of it. So three days a week we were doing two-a-days. He was just really determined, man, and I think it’s obvious at this stage.

          “We didn’t want to change anything because it was working, but then he added the boxing. I went with him a couple of times time, too, and it’s a mother. It’s a brutal. There’s a lot of agility and a lot of speed work in the boxing class.”

          The Packers seem pleased with Lacy so far in camp, although McCarthy said early in camp that he was done talking about Lacy's weight.

          “I’m just waiting for the phone call from the Packers saying, ‘Thank you,’” Horton joked. “I’m here holding my breath.”