The Push Toward Weightlifting in the NBA
T. explosive growth in strength training throughout the NBA the ing five teams have hired a consultant or a parttime coach. remarkable.
It is a revolution.
There are now 18 full time strength coaches in the NBA. within the last 24 months.
12 elite athletes?
Alec Kessler Averaged 20 Points and 10 Rebounds Per Game For Georgia $50,000.00 per year plus benefits. him the facts.
NBA and you should have one too. have to have?
1970's. thing. son just like it’s the off season. how to coach that lift.
The word is out. gutsy thing.
Clinician, Jim Brown, to teach him, which he did. because most people wouldn’t ask for help - - too much pride. You don’t have to have a tials a mile long to land an NBA job. What does a head basketball coach know about strength training or certification? reasonable and you come across well, you might get lucky. Coach Foran chuckles about how he got hired by the Heat.
Alec Can Easily Do 10 Reps With 225 On The Bench Press. 32 play. weren't even sure about themselves. played in two out of 29 games. me,” related Coach Foran. comes Wilt Chamberlain.” points per game along with a 10 plus rebounding average. That feat had been accomplished only one 'T lifted at Georgia.
Conference. Miami has put Alec in the center position and it has been a tough transition to always play so close to the basket. However, Alec did not have to make a weights from college. at Georgia. shooting touch. shooting touch" idated by weights but they shouldn't be. I don’t know anyone, who once they have gotten into it, that doesn’t like it,” bench. player should be lifting. Hire this man.” That was about five years “Alec is an athlete who has to lift to keep his body weight up,” revealed Coach Foran. coaches association. but not Alec.” reserve player at our BFS ofÏces.
We had a great time talking between sets and I found Alec to be an Upper Limit athlete. the University of Georgia and was an Academic All- America. man is amazing,” continued Coach Foran. “On the plane Alec studies medical journals. He wants to be a doctor. He told me that by studying the journals now it would give him an edge on grades when he starts taking his med classes. guy really studies them... marks them with a yellow highliter.” Coach Foran has had great success with some of the other players at Miami.
Seikaly, 6' 11" Miami Heat center, has increased is weight from 232 pounds to a lean 252 pounds.
Seikaly is only 7.5 percent bodyfat. Grant Long, a 6' 8" player, started out weighing 217 pounds and now weighs 248 pounds at only 8% bodyfat. The revolution is here. Lifting in the NBA is now serious business. Just ask Luther Wright our 7' 2" 300 pound backup center. He missed one of our weight workouts without a proper excuse and the Jazz fined him $8,000.00. Also, BFS Vice President Rick Anderson now travels with the team. We want quality workouts even on the road. High schools and colleges should join the revolution Coach Bill Foran on Left, Alec and Greg Shepard want an edge that i:
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From BFS Magazine — Spring 1994. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).
