West Ham United boss Nuno Espirito Santo bans Adama Traore from lifting weights | OneFootball

West Ham United manager Nuno Espirito Santo has revealed that Adama Traore has been banned from lifting weights at the Hammers’ training ground in Rush Green.

The Spaniard joined the London Stadium club from Fulham in the winter transfer window and Nuno will hope he can play a big role in keeping them up.

Traore and the West Ham boss worked together at Wolverhampton Wanderers and were both keen to reunite.

His muscular frame continues to blow opponents out of the water in physical duels, but Nuno wants him to stop lifting weights.

“It’s incredible (his muscles), it’s genetics,” the West Ham manager said during Monday’s pre-match press conference.

“His genetics has been like this for some time now and he should avoid the gym. I’ve told him to stay out of the gym.

“It’s one of the things that I think he needs to realise. It’s enough weight that he carries. He’ll do prevention work (in the gym), but he’s not in there lifting weights.”

West Ham attacker Crysencio Summerville posted a video on social media of Traore sitting on a weight bench last week, but the Spanish forward insisted he was not lifting the weights.

He has been widely dubbed one of the strongest players in the Premier League due to his sheer muscles, but his boss believes he has enough.

Traore has played five games across all competitions for the Hammers so far, only starting the FA Cup game against Burton Albion.

He has featured for them in a total of 25 minutes in the Premier League and will hope to play more minutes going forward.

West Ham remain 18th in the league table ahead of the ten league fixtures of 2025-26, two points off safety, and they will fancy their chances of staying up.

They are back in action tomorrow, when they face Fulham at Craven Cottage, and a victory would move them out of the relegation zone if Nottingham Forest lose to Manchester City.