WTF???
The one on the swiss ball looks to be YTWL’s which is great for the scapula. Where is Kobe during all of this?
Maybe that’s why he wants to be traded
Wow, how FUNctional!!
Incredible that guys get paid to implement gimmicks but that’s nothing new, unfortunately.
If it looks cool, innovative then it must be good must be the thinking-if there is any thinking.
Got all the necessary fluff- one foot stuff, balance balls, etc.
Kinda like someone’s baseball program that had them doing Irish stepdancing with their feet tied together with therabands. Functional for the party after the game, but that’s only for the winning team.
Reminds me of the story about the unfortunate S and C coach who finds out he needs a brain transplant. He goes to his local hospital for quotes. He’s offered a professor’s brain for 10,000, a scientist’s brain for 12,500… and a HIT coach’s brain for 100,000.
The guy asks: “Why so much for for the HIT brain??”
The doc replies: “Well hell! It’s never been used!”
As easy as it may be for me to rip on all of that, it may be taken out of context. Anyways, the worst thing a pro strength coach could do in hurt a player. If they do, they will be gone soon. At that level, keeping them healthy and letting them express their natural ability is what’s most important. Much to our dismay, I’m pretty sure no pro basketball team does a heavy does of squats, dead’s, hang cleans, etc.
With that being said, they sure do look funny:p
I hope there is a thread where we can achieve Charlie’s ramblings. This is my second favourite behind “starting is the opposite of sex…”.
Al Vermeil with the Bulls did. Charlie might be able to expand more.
i hope you are joking.
If this training sucks so much why does a multi-million dollar (valued at $568mil) franchise do it? Someone here should take their s&c guy’s job and make the big bucks.
i agree…
im sorry, it doesnt matter what they do in the off-season, they’re natural ability will rise in spite of the functional training.
Do you work in the NBA? If not, then your ideas are just ideas. The pressure of being there is totally different and would probably change how you did things.
Describe what you would do if you were hired as their strength coach starting today?
Flip the question, do you work with a NBA team? NO i am not SC for a NBA team but have worked with guys who went overaseas to play and would consider myself a friend to Jonas Sahratian who is a great friend to Al Vermeil. If I was a SC for a NBA team I would train them like I train all athletes, but as you know all athletes are different because if I had 7 footer that couldnt squat I may have him do trap bar dl, spilt squats, lunges, rev hypers, glut hams etc. The base of my program would include sprints, throws, low vol jumps early offseason, squats, ol’s, and overall conditioning in the form of tempo runs, circuits, med ball circuits and court conditioning. Just because you have them performing ol’s dont mean they have to be 85-95% range or so call dangerous. I have been around many pro athletes and the one’s that stay at the top of there game are the one’s that train the same way they did in college, for example darrell green, and joey galloway, an the ones who change stay injuried like Troy Polamalu.
Talk to anyone who works with pro teams, step 1 is to get them to workout in-season for NBA/baseball guys. If they even stay around in the off-season is another issue in itself.
There is great info on training pro teams on Number Two’s site for the “Panel” DVD, with Al, Charlie and others.
I have worked in pro football and pro baseball and worked with a college team that made it to the sweet 16. I train people similar to you (it sounds like), what i’m trying to get at is, you can’t just come in and make big changes right away. If you do, you will be hated and probably fired, usually. This year the new yankee’s guy told people they had to do certain lifts and he was fired before the all-star break.
The first thing the tell you working with pro athletes is “don’t get anyone hurt or you’re fired”.
I agree but if you working for a great head coach then getting the guys to workout inseason or offseason is not a problem, coaches like bill parcells demand for all players to stay around.
Yeah, but that’s very rare, it is there break after a long hard season. They do have to come around for mini-camps and such, but it’s spread out. Remember, the agents set these guys up at training facilities during the off-season. Look at how many guys go to places like Defrancos, Parisi, Athletes Performance, etc. Pre-season the are flooded with pro-athletes. This makes off-season team programs hard to in-force.
most pro guys that go to these places are only there for 4-6 weeks then they back with there teams for OTA’s etc.
I know, but the OTA’s are only a week usually.