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Age 15. We hired a personal trainer for 6 weeks to get good habits, form and understand limits.  Worked on understanding basic lifting vs baseball/pitching specific lifting.  The goal was to have our player understand his place in the gym so that he is not caught up in the high school stuff that can get out of control and lead to many of the injuries discussed.

Second we worked with the trainer to reinforce heavy core work and flexibility work and that if those two areas were neglected the weight lifting was a loss leader as far as time spent for a pitcher.  

Our player is a Senior in HS now and is very comfortable in his HS weight room and our family club.  He sees gains and has found his own routine and discipline...Does not take the place of bands, long toss...ect.  Primary physician and ortho were both fully onboard

In a look back we'd have been comfortable with him starting earlier but he wasn't ready to work with the discipline necessary to make it worth the risks.

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