Wow, we just took our last measurements (tests) for our baseball team. We have been very good at recording strength/flexibility gains this off-season. I am very proud of my young men. Every kid that came starting the second week of September to this point, has had signifcant gains in both strength and flexibility. Measuring the bench today one of our players has gain over 55 lbs on his bench since day one. Note, he was so weak that I didn't think he would make the team. On vertical leaps, no player that came on routine basis jumped less than 9'7." My assistant is going to do the math to see what the real gains are due to height measurements but again, based on those first test, this is significant. We had 5 from a squat, jump and slap 10 feet. Note, we only have 2 kids that are over 6'1". In fact, the majority of my team this year will be 5'8" or less. Our ss vertically slapped 10'5." Well, I know that they check on here from time to time and so, I wanted to throw some praise their way in this forum.
As far as the 4 or 5 that didn't come, not only did they not show increases from last year, but also, they showed a decline. One showed a significant decline. He didn't jump 8'8!"
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