10 Things San Francisco 49ers RB Christian McCaffrey Can't Live Without | GQ Sports

Intro - The Jura coffee machine is something I use when I wake up and I just broke it. And it's like, I want to fix that but... What's up GQ, this is Christian McCaffrey and these are my essentials. [upbeat music] Watching Film Watching film has been some I've been doing since I was a kid. My dad used to pull up clips of all the old games back when he was playing. Me and my brothers would sit on YouTube and watch film all the time, so it's just something that I'm used to, something that I find as refreshing as anything else, just to be able to watch football. It's the love of my life, so I get to come home and I get to watch film on the iPad. The good thing about this, it's portable, I can bring it wherever, and always do my job. Sauna [upbeat music] One of my favorite essentials is my sauna. It's an infrared sauna, but also it's meant for heat as well. Something that I use on the daily. I come home from practice, I come home from a workout, I hop in the sauna. If it's an off day, I wake up in the morning I hop in the sauna about 30 to 40 minutes, I can unwind. It's got speakers in there, I listen to music and get a good sweat, and it's the best thing for me for recovery, what it does to my body, how it makes my body feel, getting rid of all the toxins. I have a sauna at my parents' house as well, it gets to about 220 Fahrenheit so I like it hot and I like to really feel the benefits of it. I feel like I've mastered the art. I read a book on the finished people are the ones who kinda started the sauna and sauna therapy. They would be in the sauna for 15 minutes, then they would get a massage or flush massage or stretch for about 30 minutes and then get back in the sauna, use essential oils and do all that stuff, and then hop in a cold shower after and that's how they would finish the treatment. For me, I've been doing that, so it's about an hour long process or so, and it's changed the way I feel. Speaker [upbeat music] So the next essential would be my speaker, my Bose speaker. I have many of them. I love every single one of them. I'm a big music person, I listen to music constantly, all genres. I'm not picky at all, I have a very versatile playlist. Being able to come home, listen to music on this speaker, which is very good, fills up the whole condo so I don't gotta worry about setting up a whole big speaker system ever, I just plug it into this thing and it does the trick. So for me, big essential, I don't know what I would do without music. My go to warm up music is very different. Obviously, I like kind of that angry hip hop. I like old biggie, Tupac, Eminem, Lil Wayne. I'm kind of a late '90s, early 2000s rap fan. So that's my era, 50 cent and The Game and that era, but I also liked classical music. I play the piano and being able to kind of tune my mind out and be relaxed is something I find important, especially before games. Piano [piano music] My piano is probably my favorite thing that I own. I've been playing piano for a really long time now, and I think you talk about mental escapes it's definitely something that for me is essential. Music is a passion of mine, playing piano is a passion of mine and I take a lot of pride in it. I spent a good amount of money on it. It's not a low caliber piano, and so I do the best I can, when I look at it, it motivates me to play. I started playing piano my freshman year of high school. My neighbor, Mike man, when I was going into high school, he told me the best way to get girls is to learn how to play the piano. And me being a young young guy jumped on it like that, started playing, and actually learned that, I actually really did fall in love with it. And I can't read music, I just started listening to the sounds and trying to replicate it and watching the videos, and that's kind of how I played it, and I'm no expert at all but just the process of learning a song and the gratification you get when you do one of the songs is something that's important to me. Xbox [upbeat music] My friend Mr. Xbox. This is something I do a lot, maybe too much, that's okay. When I come home, being able to not just play games that I like, it's a mental escape from my work. So I love doing this, but also I get to stay in touch with some of my friends over a headset. I feel like a kid, but it's also a way to keep the kid in me as I grow old. So playing Xbox, my game right now, Fortnite. When Fortnite came out, I started playing it. I have not played another game since other than Madden and NHL, but I spend a lot of time on Fortnite. I love the Fortnite dances on the end zone celebrations. I think adding that aspect of it seems pretty fun. I know the older guys in the league can't stand it, they don't even know what for that is so they just think it's another dance, but for me, I really enjoy it. I don't know if I've perfected any enough to do one yet, but maybe one day will. [skateboard revving] Longboard [upbeat music] - Next item. This is a unique one, unique to myself, my boosted board, my electric skateboard. It's my baby right here, I love this thing. I live right in the city, so a lot of times going to work I just ride my skateboard. I have a little remote control, I just use that. I grew up actually when I was real little skateboarding, just with a couple of my buddies. Just kind of kept to it and at Stanford, Stanford has a massive campus. So a lot of people would ride bikes, but I'm not a walker. I cannot stand or walk, I don't like going on walks, I don't like jogging, I'm like either running or getting there efficiently, so that's why I have the long board. Matter of fact I'm so lazy that sometimes I will drive to practice and ride the long board into the door. So I refuse to walk. So this has become my best friend. It goes 22 miles an hour. Maybe even more than that. So probably a little too fast. I've never hit that top speed. There are things in my contract that encourage me not to go that fast. I keep a steady pace, but it's fun for me just to ride around the city a little bit, ride around through the parks and they're easy to ride. The best part about them too is you have breaks, so you can actually slow down. Once again just mental escapes for me and all my essentials are kind of mental escapes for me that when I'm not in the facility, when I'm not training and doing my job, I can come home and relax and unwind without physically taxing myself. [upbeat music] Grill My grill, I love my grill. That's definitely essential in my house. It's something that I use all the time. I love grilling up steaks, love grilling up and chicken, I grill bacon, I mean there's now one thing I don't grill. I got the grilling and my favorite is the green egg, specifically the big green egg. I got it parked out right on the deck and for me, eating well is important, and I like to learn how to cook myself. I have a lot of guys who come over and our grill master Jack Arnold's one specifically who just kind of taught me the ropes and how to grill. I don't have any specific formulas, I'm more of an eyeball guy. A lot of guys say, well, you know, six minutes [indistinct,] I don't do that. I ball the stakes, I ball the chicken, When I feel like it's ready, I take it off. And I'd like to say I'm a perfectionist on the grill as well. I need to have char marks on the steak, I need to have the checkered marks or else I'm not serving it up so very specific on how I grill it, and it's definitely something once again, just something to get my mind off of football, relax a little bit and unwind. Coffee Machine [upbeat music] Another one of my essentials, my Jura coffee machine. I love this thing. I'm a big coffee guy. I like it, I liked this black coffee. I'm not picky, if I'm gonna do a latte or some other sort of blend, I use almond milk or oatmeal, try to do the lower calorie one, but everyone once in a while, I get the vanilla sweetened one, equally delicious in fact, more delicious. So the Jura coffee machine is something I use when I wake up and I just broke and it's like, so I have to fix it up but... Just throw a little bit cup in, have it when I'm in the car, kind of sets my day up right. But there's nothing like enjoying a good mug of coffee in the morning. So for me, this thing means a lot me. Cars [upbeat music] My next essentials would be my cars. I love my cars, they're very new, but something I'm very protective of. The first two cars that I've bought in my life, I have this right here and Aston Martin, DB 11, all black, matte black, and to match it, I have Ford Raptor, 2020, also all black, matte black. These are my babies. I've never been a huge car guy, but when I bought my first two cars, they were very special. I don't plan on getting a whole lot more, I think two's a good number for me. I have kind of a street style car, and then I have the truck, which is more of my roots, back to where I grew up, being in Colorado. So this one kind of more the style street car, the Aston Martin, very fast. James Bond with somebody who I, I loved watching the bond movies growing up, I thought he was the coolest guy in the world, always drove an Aston Martin so I loved this car, and I still love it. And the Ford Raptor, something that's kinda more in my roots being in Colorado, kind of a mountain car. So whenever I go through any outdoor activity, I use this. So both of these cars, definitely the essentials that I have to have. PEMF [upbeat music] So next essential, very unique essential. It's a PEMF, machine. That's P-E-M-F, which is pulse electromagnetic field. And once again, I do a lot with my body to take care of my body constantly. Half my day, just getting treatment, someone's working on me. So I have to find tools that are also efficient in taking care of my body. So this machine is a machine that helps repair yourself. It's great for soreness, great for inflammation. Right after games, I'll put it on, whatever it is, they have multiple units, you can use different programs you can use, but it sends an electric current into your body, and it kind of runs over the inflamed or the damaged shells and it repairs them with an electric current. So it's a fancy term of saying it makes me feel a lot better. So definitely an essential that I have in my house and something that I'm very lucky that I have this, and that I've, works with a lot of great people when it comes to taking care of my body. [upbeat music] - Appreciate you guys watching my 10 essentials. Can't wait to see you this fall, keep pounding. [upbeat music]