Pete Hanna Center - Weight Room
PETE HANNA CENTER WEIGHT ROOM
When Samford moved into Pete Hanna Center in October 2007, the school’s student-athletes moved into a new weight room as well.
The new weight room is nearly triple the size of the previous weight room at nearly 5,000 square feet.
The room has been equipped by Hammer Strength at a cost of $159,000.
Head Strength and Conditioning Coach Tommy Rohling, who played football at Samford from 1985 to 1987, has been involved in the school’s strength and conditioning program since its inception.
“With the opening of the varsity weight room in Pete Hanna Center, I have been able to experience both the genesis and the progression of the Samford strength and conditioning program from the position of an athlete and now as an employee,” Rohling said. “The facility not only allows our entire body of student-athletes to meet their assigned tasks and goals, it is also a recruiting showcase for our entire athletics department.
“The facility has been designed and outfitted with the very finest strength equipment on the market today,” said Rohling.
Samford student-athletes previously trained in a weight room in the basement of Seibert Hall. That facility, which Samford had used since 1987, was expanded in 2001, using a portion of a $500,000 gift from Birmingham businessman Gene Blumely. The expansion made the facility three times as large as it previously was.
Samford began its first off-season workouts in 1985 in “the cage,” as student weight room on the lower level of Seibert Hall. The Bulldogs utilized the cage until the summer of 1987, when Terry Bowden was hired as Samford’s new football coach.
In the summer of 1987, Samford’s younger Bowden secured a donation to buy new weight room equipment before he coached his first game. The acquisition prompted the move of the varsity weight room to basement of Seibert Hall.
“The progression from the cage to the Pete Hanna facility is much like the progression of our athletics program as a whole,” Rohling said. “We started with a deliberate and methodical vision, and built step-by-step to the point where we are now in what many consider the finest facility, coupled with the finest overall conference in the country for a school our size.”
WEIGHT ROOM EQUIPMENT
When Samford moved into Pete Hanna Center in October 2007, the school’s student-athletes moved into a new weight room as well.
The new weight room is nearly triple the size of the previous weight room at nearly 5,000 square feet.
The room has been equipped by Hammer Strength at a cost of $159,000.
Head Strength and Conditioning Coach Tommy Rohling, who played football at Samford from 1985 to 1987, has been involved in the school’s strength and conditioning program since its inception.
“With the opening of the varsity weight room in Pete Hanna Center, I have been able to experience both the genesis and the progression of the Samford strength and conditioning program from the position of an athlete and now as an employee,” Rohling said. “The facility not only allows our entire body of student-athletes to meet their assigned tasks and goals, it is also a recruiting showcase for our entire athletics department.
“The facility has been designed and outfitted with the very finest strength equipment on the market today,” said Rohling.
Samford student-athletes previously trained in a weight room in the basement of Seibert Hall. That facility, which Samford had used since 1987, was expanded in 2001, using a portion of a $500,000 gift from Birmingham businessman Gene Blumely. The expansion made the facility three times as large as it previously was.
Samford began its first off-season workouts in 1985 in “the cage,” as student weight room on the lower level of Seibert Hall. The Bulldogs utilized the cage until the summer of 1987, when Terry Bowden was hired as Samford’s new football coach.
In the summer of 1987, Samford’s younger Bowden secured a donation to buy new weight room equipment before he coached his first game. The acquisition prompted the move of the varsity weight room to basement of Seibert Hall.
“The progression from the cage to the Pete Hanna facility is much like the progression of our athletics program as a whole,” Rohling said. “We started with a deliberate and methodical vision, and built step-by-step to the point where we are now in what many consider the finest facility, coupled with the finest overall conference in the country for a school our size.”
WEIGHT ROOM EQUIPMENT
- Eight Olympic Heavy-Duty Half Racks with
- Eight Loc ’n’ Doc Benches and Eight Dip Attachments
- Five Olympic Heavy-Duty Multi Racks with Resistance Peg Mounts
- Five Olympic Heavy-Duty 8" Racks with Resistance Peg Mounts
- One Hammer Strength Iso-Lateral Leg Extension
- One Hammer Strength Iso-Lateral Kneeling Leg Curl
- Four Hammer Strength Glute Ham Machines
- Two Hammer Strength Ground Base Jammers
- Two Hammer Strength Four-way Neck Machines
- One Hammer Strength Linear Leg Press
- Two Life Fitness Cable Motion Dual Pulldowns
- Two Life Fitness Cable Motion Dual Rowers
- Two Life Fitness Cable Motion Dual Adjustable Pulleys
- Three Hammer Strength Dumbbell Racks
- Six Hammer Strength Adjustable Benches
- Twelve Bumper Plate Storage Trays
- Ten 6" x 8" Custom Logo Platforms
