💥 200 lbs. Power Clean & Jerk at Almost 49… and 99% of Baseball Players Can’t Do It 😳⚾️
I’m almost 49, and I can power clean & jerk well over 200 lbs.
Here’s the crazy part…
99% of 16–20-year-old baseball players that walk into TopVelocity can’t even get close. Most can’t hit 185.
Why?
Because no one has shown them how or given them a real reason to train for it.
Yet this movement — explosive power through the kinetic chain — is exactly what throwing gas and hitting bombs require. 💣
Meanwhile… I’ve got 12-year-olds online doing this weight.
But when you look at most 15–16-year-olds in baseball? It’s embarrassing.
Baseball has become one of the weakest, least athletic sports in youth development.
🚫 We tell kids:
“Don’t lift, it’ll hurt your growth plates” —
…then we send them to play baseball year-round, which has a HIGH growth plate injury risk. 🤦♂️
✅ The truth:
They should be playing 1–2 seasons max per year and spending the rest of the time building strength, speed, and power.
Otherwise, we’re raising a generation of spectators instead of players.
👇 Drop “TRAIN” in the comments if you agree —
and tag a player who needs to stop hiding from the weight room 💪
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