Foreword
After living through an injury-p~gued 3-12-1 season in my first year as
New York Giants Head Coach， I knew the club I inherited was \"slow and
friendly，\" and I had to set out to make changes in a hurry. I needed a strength
coach who could get the job done， and Johnny Parker certainly turned out to
be the right one for the Giants.
Choosing a strength coach was one of the hardest things I had to do as head
coach of the Giants. But in the end， of the twenty or so people I interviewed， I
chose the guy who my good friend Bob Knight recommended. It wasn t just
Knight s recommendation， but how Johnny related to the players when we
brought him in for the interview. And when I hired him， he had his work cut
out for him.
There was a weight room at Giants Stadium， but I m not sure what they
used it for. But Johnny took over， designed a new weight room that is the envy
of the NFL， and put his studies of weight lifting in the Soviet Union to work.
Now it s hard to argue with the results of our club s weight-training program.
For the last three years， the Giants have led the NFL in starters who ve been
able to start all sixteen games. Our players are stronger and healthier， and I
have to credit Parker s work in running our year-round strength program.
The weight room has unified our team， and the players believe in Johnny s
program.
And gaining a player s trust and confidence is no easy task. When we hired
Johnny and built a $200，000 weight room， it showed the players we were
taking a more year-round approach. The weight room also gave the players a
place to get away， to go lift and be by themselves where the coaches weren t
yelling at them and the media wasn t questioning them. And all the time the
players were escaping to this weight-lifting haven， they were getting strong-
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