Recently, Lakers forward LeBron James' trainer Mike Mancias updated Instagram, posted a set of training photos of James, and wrote: "Labor Day at 6 a.m. ... James knows training doesn't stop, Season 20, Chase Great! ”
Since then, James himself has updated Instagram, posted a set of personal training photos, and captioned: "My friend asked me before if I was having a barbecue for the holiday (American Labor Day holiday). I said I was at the barbecue, ask those who were there! (Barbecue also means easy scoring in English slang), there are no days off, only training. ”
At the end of his career, James did not slow down his pace in the slightest, and even a little different from the past, James did not choose to take too much rest in this offseason, but began his personal training early, when he was young, James would give himself a month off, and then began to train wildly, but in recent seasons, James has completely become a training maniac, to know that his original training volume is very scary, and now it is even more terrible.
Many people say that James's training attitude is enough to make many young people in the NBA, and it is true, look at the super newcomers who have entered the NBA over the years, holding big contracts, making more and more money, but it seems to be becoming more and more squeamish and less professional, such as the Nets' Simmons, such as the Pelicans' Zion Williamson, especially Zion, who is as talented as James, but in terms of body management and self-discipline is simply a world of difference.
But Zion is by no means alone. Over the years, you will find that the NBA rookies like to eat and drink too much in the offseason, there are not many people who train hard, and when they return to the training camp in the new season, they are all out of shape, and it takes more than half a season to recover a more perfect body. For example, in the year of Wall, Wall recently said that he had encountered a lot of difficulties, but sometimes perhaps Wall himself also needs to reflect, in his years of wizarding, after the end of the offseason always came to the training camp with a big belly, such a professional attitude, but any team with a little temper will not be able to stand him.
Some people also say that it is not that the current NBA young people do not work hard, but that James' efforts are too perverted. But in fact, part of James's professional attitude is his own self-discipline, and the other part is actually forced out by the general environment of that year. At that time, the NBA was actually full of a group of training maniacs. It is worth mentioning that recently former NBA player Joe Johnson posted a set of yoga training photos on his social media, which can be seen in the photos that the 41-year-old former Eagle King is still full of explosive muscles, which is almost the end of most of today's NBA players.
At the same time, the recent free agent Carmelo Anthony tweeted a set of personal training photos today, even if he is 38 years old, even if he has not yet found a job, but this offseason Anthony has not slowed down the pace of training, and like James, he has also passed through the era full of training monsters.
When James and Anthony first entered the NBA, there were many players in the league who liked crazy training, such as Kobe Bryant, a famous training maniac; Garnett, for example, is self-disciplined to the point of being almost paranoid; For example, Ray Allen, even though he is almost 50 years old, he still insists on running and training to keep in shape... Although not everyone in the NBA loved to train at that time, most of the top stars knew that when other stars were training like crazy, they wanted to maintain long-term competitiveness, and they could not relax, and slack means being pulled down at any time.
It is worth mentioning that James once said in front of Kobe Bryant during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games that he has studied him for a long time, not only on the field performance, including Kobe Bryant's hard work, I believe James is also deeply an example, and people who grew up in that environment at that time, whether after retiring or still playing, seem to maintain that hard training heart.
But nowadays, there seem to be not many players who can train like James like those players in the past, and part of the reason may be because the growth environment of NBA players is not as bitter as the older generation, and many NBA players came out of the slums at the beginning, and if they don't work hard, they will go back to the streets without a future. But many of today's players, many of whom have happy families, and even the second generation of the rich, still need to work hard for them, but they don't need to be too crazy.