![]() ![]() I went back and played three more years professionally. I started training with him for a year and a half, and got to a level where I could go back overseas. My hip and right psoas were just so tight, I thought I was done. “When I met him, I thought I was done playing… my body was kind of broken. Knight, a graduate of Seattle University, enjoyed a professional basketball career in Europe and Asia before his body started “breaking down.” He sought out Manson’s help around 2011. Knight says about Manson, “He’s like Yoda to the performance training world out here.” R3BAR is based on “athletic performance enhancement” veteran Tim Manson’s expertise. It’s teaching you how to stabilize your shoulders, engage your core, and then manipulate your lower extremities, so there’s this connectivity, this balance of proprioception, working with agility through your strength and conditioning. “Rather than isolating parts, we’re focusing on the neurological components to coordination and movement. “The R3BAR AlphaPro puts the user at the center of core stability through coordinated and functional awareness heightening,” Knight said. R3BAR - pronounced “Rebar” - is an athletic training system that revolves around the R3BAR AlphaPro, a lightweight bar made from aluminum alloy that comes with a set of four bands of different tensile strengths. The new flooring provides a shock-absorbing quality, with enhanced technology, allowing less impact and more cushion when training.” “We put a plywood surface over the original floor, and then this group called Plae Athletics placed the new flooring in. The original court was as old as the 1912-built structure, Michael Knight, co-founder of R3BAR Training explained. While the building is slated for a massive overhaul including construction of the two new apartment buildings on either side, R3BAR, an athletic training company, has been quietly moving in since last August, taking over the old basketball court and adjoining rooms.Įntering through a key-coded door, trainers and trainees walk through a short hall that opens out to wide space overlooking a maple wood basketball court on the floor below. The court - one of many secrets inside the old Knights of Columbus building - is being put back into motion even as a major redevelopment planned to overhaul the l andmark-worthy building and surround it with new apartments looms. Most people don’t know this, but there’s a basketball court on the corner of Harvard and Union. ![]()
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