Bo Nix peeled back the curtain on his offseason training.

The Broncos quarterback debuted his personal YouTube channel on Monday night with an almost 10-minute video — “The In Between: Bo Nix” — which documents two days of summer workouts before the 2025 NFL season.

The video opens with Nix training on July 9 at an unspecified football field and discussing his theory behind offseason training.

“So, in order to compete in season, you have to be willing to face difficult challenges in the offseason,” Nix said. “If I’ve been in that position before, I may react better, and that’s usually what good training is — getting ready for those reactionary states and putting yourself in those positions. So, when you get them in a game, it’s not your first time.”

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Nix opens with weighted mobility training on an outdoor field, similar to his pre-practice routine at training camp, and advances through an entire workout.

“Most of the time, in my position, you think you play in rhythm. You think you play on time,” Nix said. “But really, it’s not often that you actually take a normal drop, and just in rhythm hitch up and throw the football. So, in everything it’s going to be off platform or it’s going to be chaotic or it’s going to be spontaneous.”

The workout shifts to an indoor practice facility for weight training.

“They say all these cliche statements about who you are when nobody is watching,” Nix said. “But when you really actually think about it, what you do on a daily basis in the offseason is eventually how you’re going to train yourself and the habits that you’re going to form for the season. … My training is centered around being the best athlete that I can be. So, if I can train that in the offseason, then I can keep myself healthy and I just keep myself explosive.”

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The video jumps to July 10 with sprinting workouts on an outdoor track. Nix is clearly exhausted running in the heat but says afterward: “When I was in high school, my dad made me run with the track team. We have to run 100 meters. … I remember after track practice being so tired. But it’s also when I was the fastest I’ve ever been. So, every offseason, I like to train on a track. It makes me feel fast. But it also kills me at the same time.”

Nix later recalls an in-game conversation with wid receiver Courtland Sutton last season.

“It was kind of a tight game. We needed a drive. We needed to go score,” Nix said. “We were talking to each other, and I told him: ‘I may be a psychopath, but I love these kinds of moments.’ I love when you don’t have any other choice. You have to go down and score.”

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The video closes with Nix back in the gym.

“My coach at Oregon, coach (Dan) Lanning, he used to tell us: ‘It’s all about the illusion of choice,’” Nix said. “To where people think they have a choice in life. But they really don’t. There is no choice. You do it, or I guess you get left behind. So, it doesn’t matter if I want to be doing this or not. I’m doing it.”

Nix experience

Offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi discussed Tuesday what makes Nix impressive entering his second year with the Broncos.

“Things just slow down for him, and so he’s able to just play a little bit faster and recognize what he’s looking at a little bit more,” Lombardi said. “This is a heck of a defense we practice against every day, but he’s doing a good job just able to get to the second level of things. … The game isn’t too fast for him (and) not too big for him. He’s able to articulate what he’s seeing when we’re trying to make an adjustment. He gets it.

“I think he was exceptional with that as a rookie, and you just expected it to get better as his experience keeps going on.”

Defensive improvement

The Broncos finished last season leading the NFL in sacks (63), No. 7 in total defense (317.1 yards/game) and No. 3 in scoring defense (18.3 points/game).

How will they improve in 2025? Defensive coordinator Vance Joseph explained after practice Tuesday at Broncos Park.

“I think the next step is avoiding the awkward big plays (and) the awkward series,” Joseph said. “If you’re going to be a top defense in this league, just consistency (and) building depth to do that and over a long season is important for us. I’d say every defense’s goal is to always be consistent. And if you’re going to be dominant — that’s every down, every game (and) every quarter — that’s our goal.”

Lutz confidence

Kicker Will Lutz enters his third season with the Broncos having the full confidence of special teams coordinator Darren Rizzi. He called Lutz a “model of consistency.” 

“He still has a lot of pop in his leg. I think he does a great job in that,” Rizzi said. “There are a lot of young kickers who will kind of overdo it and overtrain. We kind of keep him on a pitch count on the days that he’s up, and so the quality is much more important than the quantity at this point in his career. As you guys have seen in these last two seasons and training camp, his quality has been really, really good.”