@adbono posted:I would take issue with your last sentence. I have been told by top in their field orthos that (for baseball players) all olympic lifts should be avoided. They are high risk - low reward. There are better ways to build strength that are less likely to cause injury.
I would tend to agree about olympic lifts, the whole risk vs. reward thing. My above response was a little flippant. I wrote it with bench press in mind.