Photographed by Peter Yang, Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt goes shirtless for the October 2015 cover of Men’s Health. Connecting with the magazine for an interview, the 26 year-old star dishes on his plans for success, sharing, “My whole life has been a series of small goals to accomplish even bigger ones. Everybody sees the big checkpoints. But my life has been a series of small checkpoints. I wanted to be a starter on varsity. And then I wanted to be all-conference. And then I wanted to be all-state. It was never, when I was 15, ‘Okay, I want to play in the NFL and be the best.’ So I was defensive player of the year once. I wanted it again. I got it.” Read more at MensHealth.com.