For those ladies saying that baseball will hurt this and that blah blah blah blah.......... You just making an excuse for why you don't like america's game. I graduated a few years ago ( 4 to be exact) and I played every sport including baseball and track and excelled at both along with the others. Yes it takes a little more time and work, but what else do most kids do now a days... play video games, get fat, get into trouble, cause face it homework really doesnt exist past 8 grade for most schools in texas. Playing all sports available allows for the student athlete to achieve optimal potential and enhance other sports performance by providing different stimuluses for both the neural and muscle development. Because of baseball I was able to go college and graduate with my degree in strength training and coming from a sixman school, just like getting respect of college coaches for playing sixman football, it wasnt easy, but nothing ever is. So, providing the students with more opportunities to excel and showcase their talents allows for a better chance to get seen, and isnt that what every parent and athlete should want.
As far as the weight lifting part, baseball training has some of the normal lifts found in football off season; squat, shoulder work, core training, grip strength, but less or no bench, but plyo pushups with high volume, so it makes it for the bench loss. Many ppl say dont lift during baseball bc of this theory or that theory but it all depends the specificity of the sport, You lift weights the work muscles to used for that sport, and more often or not, it cross over into training for other sports like football and track. You just got to step back and analyze what muscle specificity the sport requires and get after it. Oh yeah football offseason does include summer so those fat, lazy, video game playing bums can get in the weight and get better. Off season doesnt stop the when school does, so lift like what to be a champion, not just another number person that played sixman football.
