Olympic Lifting for Youth
by Brian Grasso
Date Released : 23 May 2006
Question:
I recently started training young baseball players (10 to 17 years old), and I have them doing mainly balance and core exercises, working on rotation and explosive strength, speed, etc. Yesterday, the coach who runs their hitting and pitching practice called me and said he wanted to see more Olympic-type lifting movements to increase their power through triple extension. While I can see that with older athletes, aren't the younger ones at risk for injury since they still have open epiphyses?
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