{"id":180,"date":"2015-10-13T17:25:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T17:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/hubershow\/?p=180"},"modified":"2019-01-31T15:21:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T15:21:17","slug":"07showblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthroughbasketball.com\/podcast\/07showblog\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHEY SKINNY!\u201d The INSULT that made a man out of \u201cMac\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Article is by “Coach Troy from The Jim Huber Show”<\/p>\n

On a recent Jim Huber Show Podcast, Jimmy and I had the great pleasure of speaking with Stronger Team\u2019s Alan Stein about strength and performance training. Every coach want\u2019s a stronger team, every player wants to be strong enough to allow their skills to dominate. Read on to find some answers to these desires.<\/p>\n

As a kid 30 years ago, I spent most of my time with my face buried in comic books. Fantastic Four, Spiderman, you name it. I can remember Mom scolding me occasionally to take my nose out of those comic books and go outside and do something! I was a skinny little runt, a late bloomer and probably the weakest kid in my class in seventh grade. Then I saw the advertisement that changed my life!<\/p>\n

Mac buys the \u201cCharles Atlas\u201d solo flex machine, and in a few short weeks he\u2019s back on the beach, beating up the bully and of course, getting the girl.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the most iconic advertisements in history. It was successful because it found my pain, and offered me hope, offered me a solution. I was being bullied on the football field, the basketball court, the lunch room, etc. Now fortunately for me I was a funny guy, and believe you me, I did my best to make people laugh as that was my coping mechanism. I got along, but I hated being skinny. Hated my ribs showing. Hated being, \u201cthe 98 LB weakling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now I didn\u2019t have enough money to buy the Charles Atlas \u201cSOLOFLEX\u201d machine, but I did scrape up enough to buy some weights, the cheap kind that were plastic and filled with concrete inside. I bought a bodybuilding book by Ah-Nold and went to work at home in my room. It took about a month to see real results (just as Ah-Nold told me it would). But from that first half inch on the ole bicep, I was hooked. I became dedicated, started eating better, was constantly reading anything I could find on the subject, and by high school I had caught and ran past most of those middle school bullies. In the old black and white ad, \u201cMac\u201d was THE HERO OF THE BEACH!\u201d I grew up in Kansas and we didn\u2019t have beaches, but I settled for surviving lunch and actually starting to excel on the court.<\/p>\n

We recently spoke to the maybe the greatest basketball strength and performance coach on planet Earth, Alan Stein. Alan coaches with one of the nation\u2019s top high school programs, DeMatha and has trained and strengthened thousands of players including Victor Olidipo and Kevin Durant. In high school at Montrose, KD looked like the kid in the ad. Alan who was at Montrose at the time, went to work on KD and together they began his journey to become the “HERO OF THE BEACH.\u201d Now KD doesn\u2019t look like Vin Diesel, but, he has gone from 180 LBS at Montrose to now 235 LBS for the Oklahoma Thunder.<\/p>\n

Alan laid out for us how he helped KD transform his body on the latest of our weekly podcast of \u201cThe Jim Huber Show\u201d I\u2019ll summarize in this blog, but I strongly encourage you to click this link and hear the entire podcast, as Alan gave fantastic info a variety of basketball and strength topics.<\/p>\n

Link to Alan Stein’s Interview on The Jim Huber Show<\/a><\/p>\n

Alan gave most of the credit to diet. \u201cI told Kevin, if you eat like a bird, you\u2019re going to look like a bird.\u201d He went on the say that eating more frequently helps, and that you want to look for calorically dense foods that kids want to eat. This is important, it needs to be things kids want to eat. He gave a great example, \u201cTake a Nature Valley Granola bar, load it up with a scoop of peanut butter and follow it with a glass of chocolate milk. Most kids would think that would taste pretty good. They won\u2019t have to \u201cmuscle\u201d it down.\u201d Bottom line, find the good calorie dense foods that your players want to eat. That\u2019s step one.<\/p>\n

THE POWER OF INCREMENTAL GAINS<\/strong><\/p>\n

My son is a late bloomer as well and has been trying to gain in strength and weight. We hired a personal trainer and who instantly upped his caloric intake (almost doubling it) in order to gain weight. What we ended up with was a guy who ate and drank so much that he ceased enjoying eating and drinking. The personal trainer I\u2019m sure was under pressure, \u201cHey I\u2019ve got blank number of sessions, this guy expects weight gain, so lets double this kid up calorie wise\u201d Terrible mistake, as Alan taught us.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to make incremental gains. If you can bench press 100 lbs ten times today, I don\u2019t put 150 on the next time you work out. I put 105 lbs on the make a small incremental change. Same with eating, if a player is eating 2000 calories a day now and you figure they should be eating 4000 calories in order to gain weight, going from 2000 to 4000 is not recommended. But if you could go from 2000 to 2200, that is one extra piece of fruit and greek yogurt. The next week add another 200. After 6 to 8 weeks, they are where they need to be.\u201d If only I had known that I could have saved a few hundred dollars and a few belly aches for my \u201cMac\u201d. We live in such an age of instant gratification that sometimes it hard for today\u2019s players to grasp the concept of increments and delaying gratification over time to reach our goals. I was guilty here for sure. If only someone had done a podcast to educate me!<\/p>\n

Link to Alan Stein’s Interview on The Jim Huber Show<\/a><\/p>\n

DO SUPPLEMENTS WORK?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alan was straightforward on supplements. \u201cI don\u2019t believe in using anything that claims to enhance your performance.\u201d A supplement like Creatine would fall in this category. A lot of high school and college players use Creatine because they think it allows them to workout longer and stronger and create bigger and faster gains. Alan said steer clear to any substance that claims to enhance performance. He did say that he sees no problem with using a natural whey protein powder, which is the similar to eating a piece of chicken. He then went on the define the word \u201csupplement\u201d, which means \u201cin addition to,\u201d and not recommend them unless a high school kid is already eating a perfect diet (which none of them are). The danger comes when kids believe the word supplement means, \u201cin place of\u201d and think that they can skip meals and drink a couple of shakes a day and be okay. \u201cThey won\u2019t be, because there is not enough calories in those shakes to gain weight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Click Here to View Stronger Team’s\u00a0Video for Smoothie Recipes<\/a><\/p>\n

Two Other Smoothie Recipes That Alan Stein Recommends:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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