Posted by BRIGGS:
Personally I highly doubt he was injured weight training. Unless the kid was doing one rep maxes doing deep squats wearing no WL belt with no spot[which I also highly doubt was the case]. He got jarred by the Tractor Traylor--that was the blunt force that jarred his back. Ive never heard of someone injuring themselves so severely with BASIC weight training. There is no doubt about it you can hurt your back WT--but Like I said it would be an unnatural movement with a good deal of resistance---squatting dead lifts with very heavy weights but why would a basketball player be doing those type s of exercises with too much weight--especially if they are novices? A bench press isnt going to give you a herniated disk. I think the kid got hit hard and it jarred something in his back. If we remember back we was fine until that hit--he looked smooth in that game. It was the Tractor Traylor hit that did it.
Gallinari has gone down harder on charges since the Traylor hit, and he has gotten up an continued with no problem.
Novices sometimes use too much weight, and they are also unaware that the "no pain, no gain" maxim, which is true in many ways, may not apply to certain pains and discomforts.
I go through this all the time with the HS kids I work with- they try to max out and push the limits, and they sometimes lift too much and injure themselves, although it is usually around their shoulder area. On the other hand, they frequently think that the muscle pains you experience when doing efficient lifting, are also a sign of injury.
You would really have to look at the Knicks conditioning workouts to know for sure if he might have been hurt lifting.
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3/18/2009 12:01 PM
