Jeff Cavaliere

But it's like some of these pitchers, it's like they want to get it done early so they can hopefully come back and then have a string of years where they can dominate.

It's crazy, but I think a lot of it is coming from a lot of overuse, a lot of repetition, not enough moving into other sports and movement patterns to balance off the strains and stresses that they're doing in that sport, their chosen sport.

And it's causing a lot of avoidable stress that, again, just fixing it through a more managed, well-balanced approach in the weight room is probably key number one.

really cool to hear that so doing the uh classic all-around weight training you know squats some deadlifts the goal should be to strengthen to strengthen your body to improve your flexibility everywhere to you know if you're talking about let's say a situation with a pitcher where you have hyper mobility of your shoulder because your your move your throwing requires a lot more range of motion than than a non-throwing shoulder

You don't have to say, well, I'm mobilizing my shoulders now, so I have to do a lot of mobility work on my throwing shoulder.

That might not be necessary.

In some cases, you might want to not do that because it's already mobile enough because of the skill work.

So it's not like a broad, you do everything you do here, you do there on each side.

You might want to actually steer away from some of the things that you're repetitively using in the sport itself.

But from a strengthening standpoint,

You'll never go wrong sticking to the core lifts, building up your strength in those core lifts, and bilaterally strengthening your body and your balance and your coordination and your explosivity and your power.

You're not going to go wrong.

That does transfer back over to the sport itself.

People think that it has to be in this sport-specific motion to transfer back over there.

That's not true.

I have a phrase, if you want to look like an athlete, you have to train like an athlete, right?

And what that really means is like, sure, people might want to look athletic.

They want to have an athletic physique.

They might want to have the six pack abs.

They want to have what they think is an athletic looking physique.