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I used to work out at the gym attached to San Francisco's Four Seasons. That's where a lot of visiting teams stayed and they'd also come down to the gym. The s
by tonystubblebine 7y ago
I used to work out at the gym attached to San Francisco's Four Seasons. That's where a lot of visiting teams stayed and they'd also come down to the gym.
The strangest thing I ever saw was a bunch of athletes and their trainers come down to the gym late at night, 9/10pm, and do an extremely easy workout. Like, one guy was just walking slowly on a treadmill while the trainer monitored him.
I'm assuming they'd just gotten in to town. I say this was strange just because it seemed like such a small detail for the trainers to be involved in. And it says something about the level of detail and discipline that NBA players are starting to adopt. I'm not even sure what the goal was--maybe just staying loose?
- nradov 7y agoThere's nothing strange about an active recovery workout. Elite athletes do stuff like that all the time.
- tonystubblebine 7y agoWith trainers though? That seems like the kind of thing that an athlete would be assigned to do on their own. They were walking soooo slow too.
- nradov 7y agoThe trainer is an insignificant additional expense relative to the cost of employing an NBA player. Left on their own, elite athletes have a tendency to overdo their workouts because they're constantly competing against their own teammates and even their own performance yesterday. So the trainer is sometimes there just to impose limits.