The Dangers of Weight Training for Basketball Players

[Guy Dudebro]

EVERY NBA player lift weights, quick, run, go tell them!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Swaggin916]

If you are a basketball player, you want to be as explosive as possible with the least amount of weight as possible... unless you want to be a grounded player who doesn't move quickly like a Randolph. That is disadvantageous outside of half court though there just aren't many players like that who make it. Not much resistance training in needed in basketball... mostly maintenance work, stretching, core work/stability, and overall body lifts like deadlifts and cleans which can be done explosively with light weight and produce results.

[Inactive]

Most basketball players will eventually end up with knee/ankle/foot problems. It's one of the dangers of basketball, not weight training.

[Cali Syndicate]

No, gaining muscle requires your body to be in an anabolic state. That means getting the proper macros. It's easy to hit target macros while bulking but it's a lazy method. Bulking will help you add muscle but then you have to do more work to burn the fat. A caloric deficit is how you lose weight. It's easier to not eat something than it is to burn the calories.

If you get your macros but eat under your your energy requirments to maintain body weight you will gain muscle and lose fat.

You need protein to build muscle. You need carbs to fuel your muscles. If you don't eat enough carbs, your body goes into a state of ketosis, burning fat for energy, but that's after it starts feeding off its muscle glycogen, catabolism. If this happens, yes you will end up burning fat but you will also end up losing muscle tissue. Furthermore, you don't enough carbs, the body will start breaking down the protein you intake into calories for energy, which means your muscles won't be getting enough protein to build.

First you bulk up, then you diet to maintain the muscle and work to burn the fat.

[iznogood]

You need protein to build muscle. You need carbs to fuel your muscles. If you don't eat enough carbs, your body goes into a state of ketosis, burning fat for energy, but that's after it starts feeding off its muscle glycogen, catabolism. If this happens, yes you will end up burning fat but you will also end up losing muscle tissue. Furthermore, you don't enough carbs, the body will start breaking down the protein you intake into calories for energy, which means your muscles won't be getting enough protein to build.

First you bulk up, then you diet to maintain the muscle and work to burn the fat.

For ketosis to actually happen you also need to limit the amount of proteins you eat since the body will transform the surplus to glucose. It also doesn't mean you're necessarily going to be burning more fat (or burning fat exclusively) - if you're not in a caloric deficit, you will not. As for loosing muscle tissue, you'll always loose some while cutting, no matter what your macros are.

[DoodleDa]

No, gaining muscle requires your body to be in an anabolic state. That means getting the proper macros. It's easy to hit target macros while bulking but it's a lazy method. Bulking will help you add muscle but then you have to do more work to burn the fat. A caloric deficit is how you lose weight. It's easier to not eat something than it is to burn the calories.

If you get your macros but eat under your your energy requirments to maintain body weight you will gain muscle and lose fat.

Dude you really don't know what you're talking about.

[ImKobe]

are u freaking serious? NVM you are since you asked the question. Dwights weight has nothing to do with his shoulders. He's not running and jumping on his shoulders for weight to be even a problem.

He had a pretty serious lower back injury.

Weight can certainly be a factor. Look how quickly Shaq declined after he stopped taking care of his body and how his career ended with achilles problems in 2011.

[SupermanOnSteroids]

Apparently, historically, for shooters at least, gaining muscle throws off their shot. So them avoiding it is understandable.

But that still shouldn't stop PFs (unless you're Dirk) and Cs from it.

[Soundwave]

There is some truth to this to an extent.

If you put on more mass, even if its the cleanest mass possible from a basketball POV your knees are going to take more of a pounding every time you jump and land.

[ImKobe]

Apparently, historically, for shooters at least, gaining muscle throws off their shot. So them avoiding it is understandable.

But that still shouldn't stop PFs (unless you're Dirk) and Cs from it.

Funny that Lebron had his best 3pt shooting seasons after bulking up (in Miami).

[SamuraiSWISH]

I never understood the need to gain so much upper body weight among modern basketball players. Being strong is one thing. But like many intelligent people in this thread have said ... it's better to be wirey strong, yet flexible, quick, and fast. Strong core is most important.

And as OP noticed, too much weight gain upper body wise creates unnecessary stress on the lower body in a game built on change of pace, constant movement, quick acceleration, etc.

The only reason Bron hasn't had some catastrophic lower body injury considering his size, and the type of PG perimeter game he plays is because unlike most of these guys who have STICK FIGURE thin lower bodies, and legs? Bron has strong, football player type lower legs.

But even for him it's important to lose weight. As he's done this summer, appropriately.

MJ gained too much upper body mass in '96, had knee and quickness issues by the end of the season. Dropped weight for the 1997 season, regained explosion, and lower body endurance.

In 2002 he had gotten even bigger with weight gain during retirement, and he saw his first major knee injury that season.

Kobe gained 15 pounds of upper body muscle in the summer of 2002. A season of playing on it gave him a rash of knee injuries. Same thing happened to him in 2005.

In basketball it's best to be sleek, strong, agile, with ample body dexterity if you're a perimeter based player. In the post? I can see being bigger, as there is lest torque on lower body given the style of play.

[ImKobe]

I never understood the need to gain so much upper body weight among modern basketball players. Being strong is one thing. But like many intelligent people in this thread have said ... it's better to be wirey strong, yet flexible, quick, and fast. Strong core is most important.

And as OP noticed, too much weight gain upper body wise creates unnecessary stress on the lower body in a game built on change of pace, constant movement, quick acceleration, etc.

The only reason Bron hasn't had some catastrophic lower body injury considering his size, and the type of PG perimeter game he plays is because unlike most of these guys who have STICK FIGURE thin lower bodies, and legs? Bron has strong, football player type lower legs.

But even for him it's important to lose weight. As he's done this summer, appropriately.

MJ gained too much upper body mass in '96, had knee and quickness issues by the end of the season. Dropped weight for the 1997 season, regained explosion, and lower body endurance.

In 2002 he had gotten even bigger with weight gain during retirement, and he saw his first major knee injury that season.

Kobe gained 15 pounds of upper body muscle in the summer of 2002. A season of playing on it gave him a rash of knee injuries. Same thing happened to him in 2005.

In basketball it's best to be sleek, strong, agile, with ample body dexterity if you're a perimeter based player. In the post? I can see being bigger, as there is lest torque on lower body given the style of play.

Look how much Duncan improved and prolonged his career by losing weight.

[AirFederer]

The effect of Winstrol...?

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[SpanishACB]

The dangers of jumping so much you simploid.

[theaussieguy]

this thread is completely ****ing stupid, the reason why i never get injured, literally have never sustained an injury since I was 17, is because of weights. While all my friends who dont lift get thrown around the court and are always falling over and hurting themselves because they have no lower strength foundation.