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Article: Weekend lockup Coach secures weight room to give Hawk break
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 13, 2009
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By TOM SILVERSTEIN
Green Bay -- There aren't many lifting techniques or workout
philosophies that linebacker A.J. Hawk won't consider when it comes
to readying himself to play in the National Football League.
But the new one where Green Bay Packers strength and conditioning
coach Dave Redding locks up the weight room and won't let him in on
the weekends -- he's had a little bit of trouble buying into that
one. Years of lifting weights only on days that end in "Y" have
gotten Hawk this far, so it will take more convincing before he's
willing to take off a whole weekend.
"I think when you get to this level, pretty much everyone is
working hard," Hawk said recently during a break in training ...