Football Drills with All American's Cody Christian

What's going on, guys? Hanging with me right now. I have Cody Christian. What's up, Cody?

Just hanging out, you know, enjoying life. About to come over here, get a workout. Have a nice little interview with you. Talk about the show.

We're clearly not in the Young Hollywood studio. We are at Muscle Farm. It's a huge gym with Cody and it's because of his new show, All American on the CW. You play Asher. Football player.

Asher Adams. 83. I love it. Doing some real technical stuff today. Just learning the ins and outs, the movements, the mindset, you know, of portraying this character who's been a superior athlete pretty much all of his life. Football is all that he knows. There's so much knowledge in here that I personally don't have that I need to acquire. So now we're working, you know, footwork, movement, just getting the body and the mind right to portray an athlete. This is my man, Omar. Omar, say hello to the people.

What's good, y'all?

Omar is a specialist when it comes to football. So he's going to take both of us through some drills. We're going to learn a little bit and and and and see if we can't become uh, you know, pro athletes.

That's it. One thing we want we like to do is warm up our glutes before we get started every day. Right? So That's why we have these bands, these beautiful bands around our knees. Yep. Um, and it's going to activate our glutes. Nine. 10. We're going to bring it right back.

I want to be a football player like Cody Christian. Okay.

Yeah, we're going to make that happen.

That's my goal.

We're going to make that happen. We're going to be a werewolf football player?

Yeah, exactly. For all the team wolf family.

Cool. We'll do the same thing now. Bent leg.

I feel that. Oh, yeah, yeah. I feel that. Mm-hm.

This is just a warm up. All right, bet. 20 squats. Body weight squats.

Damn. Young Hollywood, this is for you guys out there. I mean. You're actually such a trooper right now. I got a mic pack that bouncing up.

Seven, eight, two, three, four. High five on the warmups. Killing it.

The show honestly touches on some pretty tough but very real topics. Um, there's shootings, there's some gang conversation going on. So I want to know, how does it feel and what's your favorite part about being on a show that talks about such real things?

There's nothing really off limits here. I think this show does a very good job at encapsulating and exemplifying what life today is like. At the end of the day, we're all so much more alike than we like to think we are. And to be on a show that kind of reinforces that message to the younger demographic right now, I couldn't be more happy and more proud to stand behind that.

One thing about um, having quick feet and being a good athlete is being able to run in a phone booth. Being able to transition and change directions can only happen um in tight spaces.

I'm learning now how to keep everything very tight so that if I really want to cut this way, I'm like ready to go at any point.

We'll start with a one foot each ladder, then two feet and then we'll start to mix it up and get a little freaky with it. All right, so this is what we like to call our side to side. That's it. That's nice. That's all you're going to learn from me.

Nice. That's ball. Oh. Oh my goodness. I do want to talk to you about the talented actors in the show. I mean, insane. You, of course, because we're talking to you right now. But also, Mr. Tay Diggs, I do have to bring him up because he's awesome.

He's the man. I know. I I've said this time and time again. Tay is the man. Every time I know I'm working with Tay, I know it's going to be a good day. He has the best energy. He's so positive. Um, he walks on set, crazy professional. Knows what he's doing. He really does feel like, you know, a coach.

There's a big thing that I've learned um, in this sort of training too. Okay. Um, you always have to be alert because at any moment, somebody can catch this ball. And they're there at you. You know what I mean? And you see a big man running at you, what are you going to do? Just

Yeah. Freeze. Sir, stop it.

We'll start on a right leg or left leg, whatever we want to do. Okay. And we'll hop to each cone on the same leg. Nice. Wow, you really need the balance. You're landing nicely, right? You're getting from one cone to the next. Yeah. And you're landing, you're still

She's landing like a little cat, very cat-like. These are the little details that I'm talking about. For sure. You know what I mean? These are the details I want to bring to screen. Future teammates right here. Yeah. That's it. I got these guys teaching me.

Shooting in Los Angeles has been so awesome. I love those big, like epic shots of like the city like in a transitional period between scenes. I love that.

It's so iconic to be driving down like Mulholland and like to look look out the right side of your window and to see that. Or like going up Beverly Drive and to see the palm tree-lined streets. Like that is such a thing, you know what I mean? So I'm so happy that we can capture that.

Now we're going to get busy. We're going to show you some drills that we're working on, you know, some things that are prepping me physically and both mentally for the show. You ready to get some work done?

Absolutely. Let's get to it. Can't wait to watch, guys. There's so much good music on the show. Especially one of those moments where it is like the skyline, like you see like the night, like LA, and then like Sean Mendes comes on. So I want to know like, what are you listening to or what do you like to work out to?

I have a whole like playlist of like underground, Spotify, hip-hop rappers that I'm that I'm listening to when I work out. Outside the gym though, I've been working a lot on my own music. My whole team. We have a great plan behind it of how we're going to release it and I can't wait to share it with people.

Okay, can you tease me a little bit what the genre is going to be? Like what is it like the sound? Like is it like music? Yeah. Is it hip-hop?

It is hip-hop. Yeah, it's hip-hop.

Oh my gosh, I'm so excited, Cody.

I'm very excited to see where I can take it.

You're such a deep dude. That's your new nickname for us. Deep dude, you guys. Just like that.