Basketball players should always be looking for new, innovative, and effective ways to train our bodies. Their training should be functional or focus on improving strength as it relates to their sport. Strongman training is an increasingly popular form of functional training. This is a direct result of these exercise’s ability to increase speed and explosive power through strength gains in the posterior chain and the core.
The Real Functional Training
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Late last spring I had the pleasure of connecting with a very reputable and reknowned trainer, The Underground Strength Coach, Zach Even-Esh. Zach’s no-nonsense style of training definitely goes against the grain of many of the current methods of weight training used in today’s gyms. Zach’s no rules philosophy encourages athletes to lift what they want when they want, and believe me, he gets results.
