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Mighty Oak Athletic · July 17 · 5 min

The Dumbest Exercise Your Kid Is Probably Doing

There's a trendy exercise sweeping weight rooms: trap bar jumps. Coach Mike thinks it's one of the dumbest ideas in sports — and when it showed up in his son's college program, it turned into something bigger. In this episode: why landing with weight in your hands is a problem, what weighted baseballs and donut bats already proved, and the ten-second sentence every young athlete needs to be able to say to a coach, a doctor, or any adult in charge. Get full access to Mighty Oak Athletic Free Newsletter at mightyoak.substack.com/subscribe

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There's a trendy exercise sweeping weight rooms: trap bar jumps. Coach Mike thinks it's one of the dumbest ideas in sports — and when it showed up in his son's college program, it turned into something bigger. In this episode: why landing with weight in your hands is a problem, what weighted baseballs and donut bats already proved, and the ten-second sentence every young athlete needs to be able to say to a coach, a doctor, or any adult in charge.



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