MJ Mondays | Hit the Weights
Michael Jordan and the Bulls used to get bullied and beaten up by the bigger, stronger, and tougher Detroit Pistons. What did MJ and the Bulls do to overcome them to become champions? They hit the weight room. Before his battles with the Pistons, MJ didn’t take lifting weights seriously, but he learned that if he wanted to become a champion, he was going to have to get in the weight room and get stronger. Michael said that he was tired of getting brutally beaten up, and he wanted to start fighting back and give some pain himself. He needed to get physically strong enough to go against Detroit, and he got to the point where he said. “Instead of them dishing it to me, I am going to dish it back to them.” He did that by hitting the weight room. His trainer Tim Grover had a plan for adding size and strength to MJ’s body. MJ started weight training at 200 pounds, and they added 5 pounds at a time until he hit 215. Tim said, “I would give him a certain amount of reps to do, and he would neve...