Why Most Baseball Players Train the Wrong Way

Most high school baseball players train completely wrong.

They spend hours in the weight room, but the exercises that they're doing are actually slowing down their development in the game of baseball.

A lot of young athletes will follow bodybuilding workouts, football workouts, or have the nerve to try creating their own programs themselves, coming from random lifts that they see on social media.

And the problem is some of those movements weren't ever designed for baseball players.

If your goal is to throw harder, swing faster, and move better as a baseball player, generic training won't get you there as quickly.

Before we get into today's episode, my name is Evan Mendoza.

I played seven years of professional baseball between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Diego Padres.

Even played in a World Baseball Classic representing Columbia.

Now I've helped over 200 high school baseball players through the college recruiting process.

I also landed multiple D1 offers and earned an opportunity to play at NC State University for three years.

And I've seen it firsthand.

The players that improve quickly train differently.

So in this video, I'm going to show you why generic lifting slows down baseball development, the biggest mistakes players will make trying to get stronger, why movement-specific training changes everything, and the types of exercises that actually transfer to performance on the field.

So let's start with what most athletes don't realize.

And by the way, before we really get into this, yes, I'm talking to you, the athlete, but also I'm talking to the parent as well, because the parent needs to be what I like to refer as the bumpers.

If you ever go bowling, obviously you need to ensure that you're paving the right path for your son to be able to see that success moving forward in his journey.

Most high school baseball players train completely wrong.

They spend hours in the weight room, but the exercises that they're doing are actually slowing down their development in the game of baseball.

A lot of young athletes will follow bodybuilding workouts, football workouts, or have the nerve to try creating their own programs themselves, coming from random lifts that they see on social media.

And the problem is some of those movements weren't ever designed for baseball players.

If your goal is to throw harder, swing faster, and move better as a baseball player, generic training won't get you there as quickly.

Before we get into today's episode, my name is Evan Mendoza.

I played seven years of professional baseball between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Diego Padres.

Even played in a World Baseball Classic representing Columbia.

Now I've helped over 200 high school baseball players through the college recruiting process.

I also landed multiple D1 offers and earned an opportunity to play at NC State University for three years.

And I've seen it firsthand.

The players that improve quickly train differently.

So in this video, I'm going to show you why generic lifting slows down baseball development, the biggest mistakes players will make trying to get stronger, why movement-specific training changes everything, and the types of exercises that actually transfer to performance on the field.

So let's start with what most athletes don't realize.

And by the way, before we really get into this, yes, I'm talking to you, the athlete, but also I'm talking to the parent as well, because the parent needs to be what I like to refer as the bumpers.

If you ever go bowling, obviously you need to ensure that you're paving the right path for your son to be able to see that success moving forward in his journey.