Jeff Cavaliere

Let the skill work be the skill work.

And if you want to focus that, there are certainly few things.

We mentioned a couple more at the gym yesterday, but a few things that specific athletes can do to improve their specific skill.

And that's fine.

And it was from a strength training perspective.

And that's fine.

Like maybe more forearm work if you're having to swing a racket or a bat, right?

That's fine.

That can be done in addition to your basic core lifting.

But to go back to the days where

the strength training was basically replicating the motions of the sport, especially nowadays where you've got athletes who never stop playing their sport.

It's young athletes.

They're playing baseball year round through all these fall leagues and winter leagues.

And there's way too much repetition of the same movement pattern.

And that doesn't end well because you can see what's happening these days with pitchers.

It's almost a rite of passage.

How many years are they going to be able to pitch before they have to have a Tommy John surgery?

What is the Tommy John surgery?

The ulnar collateral ligament basically being replaced or it tears in their elbow.

They're out for an entire season.