The Detroit Lions hadn’t renovated their weight room since moving into their Allen Park practice facility in 2002, so when new strength coach Harold Nash Jr. suggested a complete makeover earlier this winter, team president Rod Wood was quick to oblige.
The result is a gleaming new weight room that was outfitted with almost entirely new machines last month and will be ready for the start of off-season workouts April 18.
“We just thought it was definitely time,” Nash said. “Typically, in any weight room, wherever you are, after about 15 or so years, it’s sort of time to just change some things around according to whether it’s your philosophy or whatnot.