Let's start with the facts that are visible to the naked eye. NBA stars can be roughly divided into three categories: slender, model and strong.
Slender type. Let's talk about slender type first. The model can refer to Durant, Ingram and other players. This kind of players rely entirely on the talent and skill of height and arm length to play basketball, but there are still fans who think Durant is actually very strong. In the offseason, a picture of Durant practicing dumbbell bending provided more arguments for these KD fans. In fact, as long as people who exercise know, the arm separation is only a little obvious under the state of exertion, and the arm dimension is simply "unbearable to look straight". If the skin color is dark, it can better set off the muscles. With the same muscle content, black athletes look more fit than white athletes.
There is a small bug here, that is, the letter brother, which is obviously as heavy as KD, but the separation of arms and shoulders is more obvious, but the play he takes is more "strong". This actually shows that basketball really has nothing to do with strength. If the strength is too great, you will lose the feel of shooting and dribbling. Therefore, the letter brother playing like this can only show that his basic skills were not good at first. After all, the basketball atmosphere of many NBA stars in America is still very good. For example, Durant and Thick Eyebrows both played point guards when they were young, but Brother Alphabet was different. When he first entered the league, he could only play by his physical talent and successfully gained a little muscle, so he fell into the trap of hitting his body. In fact, I often meet this type of people in other places. Physically, I have never been to the gym at all, but I always attack insiders. Generally, the basic skills of this student party are not solid.
In fact, there is a good indicator to measure this, that is, divide the weight by the square of the height to get the body mass index, so you will come to the conclusion that basketball players are much weaker than football players!
If we pass this conclusion, fans still think Durant and other players are better ... Don't forget Xiao Shuai's bench press performance in the draft!
The model NBA also has a star who looks like a model, and his figure ratio is very suitable, which is very common among defenders. Such players take off their jerseys and look like long-legged models, such as Curry, Shao Wei and Mitchell, who are perfect from the neck down. This kind of players' body muscles are much stronger than the first kind, but they can't be said to be "strong" in the traditional sense. Among these players, Shao Wei's body thickness is probably the thickest, the most saturated and the most powerful. However, judging by the same body mass index, we will find that they are ordinary people's bodies.
Moreover, their training does not exercise muscles in essence. Most strength training is mainly through functional training, and these functional training is also to meet the basketball game. For example, if they squat, they will only squat for a third or even a quarter, and rarely squat in a single strength training. This is because this training method is conducive to instant bouncing and rebounding (no squatting and taking off when rebounding). But this kind of training method can't give basketball players much strength in essence.
Moreover, the training they usually do is more aerobic exercise, and aerobic exercise will thin muscles. Running back and forth and shooting are typical aerobic exercises, which can exercise their endurance but can't give them "strength" But in fact, for the needs of professional sports, even if they have energy, they will not deliberately pursue strength. Instead, they will control the muscle groups that affect the feel, such as exercising their arms. You can refer to the player mike bibby, a former NBA player who likes fitness very much, but I also believe in his figure in the NBA, when you say that he has never been to the gym. That figure can be solved by self-weight training, but after retirement, it is a muscular man. Please refer to the following figure for your reference:
This is actually the essence of basketball, so except for being hit by the last strong player who may see the stretcher, other players don't have to myth how strong they are!
In fact, "strong" means giving consideration to both explosiveness and strength. Even this kind of basketball player is actually worse than weightlifters and rugby players. Players here include LeBron James, Howard of Warcraft and karl malone. These players have a typical feature, that is, their shoulders are particularly large, especially in the middle of their shoulders. This is because they have to have a pair of strong shoulders in the inside to have an advantage, and they can also play a good role in roll-and-roll. However, when they take off their jerseys and look at other parts of their bodies, you will find that the muscles in their back and chest are actually very thin, but because of their low body fat rate, they can still clearly see the traces of training. Of course, James still has a good back.
The back, chest and legs are the three major muscle groups of the human body, but as far as the upper body is concerned, the latissimus dorsi and pectoral muscles are too large to affect the hand feel. So you will find that even these strong players are not inverted triangles. James himself said that he never took time to exercise his chest muscles alone. James will spend a lot of time exercising yoga and so on, but he doesn't want to exercise his chest muscles, and the bench press corresponding to chest muscle strength is one of the three major tests of his strength (bench press, squat and hard pull), which proves once again that basketball itself is not a game for the strong. Therefore, it is suggested that the boys who play basketball go to the gym to exercise, exercise more abdominal muscles and erector spinae's corresponding core strength, squat hard and pull, shoulder-to-shoulder. Because these exercises will not affect the feel too much.
So we often see that the arm separation degree of NBA stars is very obvious. This is because they practice their shoulders more than their arms, and their body fat rate is low, but in fact their arm circumference is really small, which means they may not be particularly strong when moving things. Don't say I knocked you off the court. The player was knocked down and fouled, and he didn't want to lose his balance and hurt his ankle and knee. He jumped directly to the ground instead of keeping his balance with his feet!
Of course, being beaten by a player like James, who has a strong back and hips and a strong explosive shoulder, still ends badly. James did jump out of the stadium because he couldn't control his body, and directly carried a female fan away on a stretcher, but that was the peak of James, who was also a female fan.
Therefore, it is unrealistic to be directly hit by an NBA star and carried away on a stretcher. So in the end, do you want to know which NBA player is the best? Personally, I think it must be Zion Williamson of the Pelican team. His body thickness is really good. No wonder many universities offered him football scholarships before. However, this boy chose basketball, which is simply a nightmare for the inside of the league!