You will make a better trainer if you do not use absolutes. To say something is useless is totally irresponsible. Everything has an application. As a trainer you should tailor your workout to the person you are dealing with.

Giving advice generally, like the Raptor trainer did is unprofessional. There are times that supporting muscles are weak, and individual groups must be isolated. The trainer may be right in JO’s case, but the way he expressed it will make others think that what applies to JO will apply to them and that is untrue.

Also when you work out, stop looking at others and pay attention to what you are doing. Even strength training can be a highly vein pursuit, does a bus driver need explosiveness? Does dropping numbers about what a 155 guy can bench really tell me about his overall strength? People have different proportions, and the same exercise can have various degrees of difficulty depending on the body type.

Fitness, is highly tailored and personal. I generally think that even an inefficient exercise is positive if it makes you like your routine and come back to the gym. Leave the judgments at home, people are allowed to have unique goals.

What do you tell a client that can’t do a single chin up? Or a dip? Do you really just send them to the squat rack if they tell you they need to get stronger?

Working out is not just about strength. Rookies in the NBA also want to gain size. Isolation exercises are a good way for focusing on what is weak and gaining size in that area.

Tall men with even longer arms are not going to do compromising pull ups and chin ups, dragging their long bodies up and stressing their joints from their fingers to their shoulders … they must carefully stress their joints with cautious isolation exercises on their long muscle bellies whether it’s the arms or legs.

It’s obvious you never helped train a taller athlete ..

I have watched Johnson play going on 5 years and Johnson is not a Reggies Evans type player. Never has been and never will be. The Pistons made that mistake of trying to make him into one. It was a disaster and took away his offense entirely.

Johnson is more of a Bosh type player on offense.

Comparing one stat, fouls shots taken vs FG taken

Johnson this preseason is at 50%
Last season
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Bosh 49%
Bargnani 28%
Nesterovic 7%
Evans 98%

The Pistons make a major mistake trying to make Johnson into a low post banger like Evans is. Hopefully Triano and the Raptors know better.

I had a classmate that learned that colds were the results of viruses. So he scoffed at the cold weather outside having any bearing on people getting sick. What he failed to realize is that cold weather forces your body to work harder and expend more energy taking resources away from less immediate dangers, making you more susceptible to a virus attack.

I would not recommend them as supplements though as they can really screw with your natural balances (this of course is debated… but usually by those that suplement). I like to do things naturally and do not want my athletes publicly admiting to using these factors.

Suplementing HGH while not knowing you have a tumours growth can be a death sentence… its not a hormone that should be played with.

The other aspect that is ignored in the above quote, is Physics. For the most part teams want their players to gain weight. This makes them difficult to deal with in physical situations. Biceps, may not weigh much, but you have to add the weight efficently somwhere. It all eventually adds up. Ignoring muscles is done on ones peril.

Psychological factors are also important in sports. If a player feels good, or intimidates another… that may might cause a split second hesitation in his opponent. Obviously this factor is small, but you have to us everything at your disposal.

Tall, slender men must physically train differently than stocky men … in repetitions, loads and frequency.

HGH and ‘roids help speed the process a lot too … believe it.

http://www.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=950615&sid=b28e0656bdf2deaaf9aff246585db0fd

Interesting discussion .. and I thought those dudes were dumbells … hey, sometimes I can be wrong, but I doubt it ….

I have to disagree with Keith D’Amelio about bicep curls being a pointless exercise. I know what he is trying to express, but I worry that not everyone will be able to read between the lines and simply will take his advice at face value.

Muscles have limiting factors, your body is well aware of that and will not develop a huge tricep when the bicep is weak. Muscles are more effective when they are proportional to other muscles. Such an athlete is also less injury prone.

You can think of a bicep and tricep as opposite muscles, the body always wants these in equilibrium. Working out one, will actually make the other stronger due to that relationship. However, this does not mean that exercising one over the other is ideal. You will receive faster results if you fatigue both.

That said, there really is something to be said for the vanity of biceps. Traditionally that is what a kid flexes to show his uncle his new found strength. The actual muscle, is not used that often in basketball or most sports. I could see a running back needing if for clutching the ball or a rower.

I also understand why its such an iconic symbol of strength. In the old days, a hard worker could be judged by his biceps. Pulling was a skill that was essential to someone working on boat, or hoisting materials up stories via a pulley. If you went down to the docs, you would see sailors with massive bisceps due to all the rope work they had to do. Now in a society where everything is mechanized, most trainers no longer see the muscle as the ultimate measure of strength.

However, nothing in the body is useless… and my contention in that quote is the wording.

Last chance to impress the fans at home.

Last chance to impress the coaches by going hard against a quality opponent.
(Minny without Love isn’t more than a scrimmage at best)

Jobs in the rotation should be at stake on Sunday afternoon. Hopefully the “boys” play like there is something at stake!