Chapter 10 Gap_4

Even when completely healthy, such a warm-up was still too taxing.

Professional players are human too, they get tired, muscles ache, and joints hurt.

Starting this season, the Trail Blazers not only needed to change their training venue, but also their training time scheme.

In the past, they had two sessions a day, two hours in the morning, two hours in the afternoon, a total of four hours.

If you wanted to train extra, that was your own business, coaches and trainers would clock out on time.

Starting this season, Adelman and Beelman discussed and decided to have one practice a day.

Starting at nine in the morning, the practice would last around three hours, ending at noon, and if players wanted to train extra in the afternoon, that too was their own affair.

The reason for decreasing the frequency and increasing the duration of individual sessions was first to consider efficiency, as players would be more focused during a single three-hour training period.